Oxfam and FIDH have developed a training manual directed at community-based organizations, NGOs, and support organizations to improve awareness and use of Getting it Right, a powerful tool that aims at empowering communities at the forefront of investment projects. The publication of the training manual is a call for NGOs to take on the tool as well as a call for States and companies to give a voice to those most affected by investment projects, starting by ensuring their direct participation in assessment processes...If communities come with their own evidence-based analysis, it contributes to empower rights-holders and re-balance power relationships between duty-bearers and rights holders and can generate a dialogue amongst stakeholders to effectively prevent human rights abuses...

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