Implementing Public Participation in African Development Bank Operations (Fall, Aboubacar)

This chapter focuses on experiences in developing and implementing mechanisms to ensure public access to information, decisionmaking processes, and justice in AFDB operations. Section II examines public involvement in AFDB strategies, and section III analyzes how public involvement has been incorporated into AFDB projects, with a case study on the Bani Plains development project in Mali. However, before addressing implementation of public participation in AFDB development strategies and funded-projects, it is useful to define two concepts which are often used interchangeably: ?consultation? and ?participation.?

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