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Deal #2236 Version #57347

Gabon
Created at
2013-02-15
Last update
2016-12-12
Last full update
2021-04-28

Consultation of local community

Community consultation
Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)
Comment on consultation of local community
FPIC was obtained.

How did the community react?

Comment on community reaction
Across our palm plantations in Gabon (and also for rubber), Olam now has social contracts with 46 villages which include commitments to improve the lives of local people, based on their choices

Promised or received compensation

Promised compensation (e.g. for damages or resettlements)
If a proposed development is initially accepted, community representatives and Olam adopt procedures for consultation and identifying individuals or groups entitled to compensation.

Promised benefits for local communities

Promised benefits for local communities
Health, Education, Productive infrastructure (e.g. irrigation, tractors, machinery...), Roads, Capacity building, Other
Comment on promised benefits for local communities
Aside from giving priority to local employment, our engagement and management plans cover health, education, lighting, transport and village farming. For example, since 2012 we have built or refurbished 14 schools and handed out 5,000 school kits; set up worker health centres and organised HIV awareness training at all our sites; drilled 60 village wells; and installed over 2,200 solar lamps for streets and homes. We have built two village cassava mills and trained small farmers to produce better yields with improved planting stock of banana, cassava and palm.