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Deal #2236 Version #57356

Gabon

Created at

2013-02-15

Last update

2019-01-30

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?

Community reaction

Mixed reaction

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

Health, Education, 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.