The SEP is a tool for managing dialogue between the project and its stakeholders and aims to ensure that the project, throughout its life cycle, has collaborative and neighborly relations with the communities and the active involvement of the other concerned parties in one way or another.

More specifically, the Plan aims to:

• Systematically and exhaustively identify all the stakeholders affected by the project, concerned by the project, or likely to have an influence on the project.
• Establish and maintain a constructive dialogue between the project and its stakeholders during the stages of its lifecycle, building on and learning from the information and consultation activities information and consultation activities carried out to date.
• Design and plan the implementation of the project’s information and consultation activities with its stakeholders in an appropriate, effective, and accessible manner.
• ensure social inclusion by identifying vulnerable groups likely to be excluded or marginalized in the consultation process and designing tools to ensure that they are fully included in the process, with their views genuinely listened to and taken into account. their points of view.
• Share information and engage in dialogue about the Project, its impacts, and its benefits to create and maintain a climate of trust between stakeholders and the Project.
• Ensure a process that is transparent, open, accessible, inclusive, and fair, in a spirit of respect, free from manipulation, interference, coercion, and intimidation, and with no participation fees.
• Set up a complaints management mechanism to enable the expression and handling of grievances and complaints from people affected by and interested in the project or who suffer gender-based violence (GBV).

The primary anticipated outcome resulting from the Stakeholders’ Engagement Plan (SEP) application is an enhanced public awareness of the Ruzizi III Project across various stakeholders. This encompasses host communities within the Project Area of Influence, authorities, non-governmental bodies, mass media, and other institutions.

Below is the Stakeholders Engagement Plan Document