[kictanet] Wayleave storm threatens clean energy projects (add ICT Projects to that list)

Tue Mar 1 00:26:00 EAT 2016

Warm Leap Year Greetings!

To back your citizens engagement thoughts.

In the event you are part of the Lenten Campaigns, as we head towards Easter Celebrations, the Jumuiya groups which are prayer groups in our villages, estates have the Lenten booklet. This week 2 , the topic has been "Caring for Our Common Home" in line with Pope Francis message on the environment. Millions of Kenyan families are enlisted through this much broader campaign by the Church.

What this boils down to is citizens who are more aware of their environment and relationships, the breakdown and implications for self and future. More so the responsibility now in caring for their environment. Abraham was promised land by God and this explains why land would be dear to most people by default. 

There are many other campaigns by other institutions including NGOs/CBOs and Government Agencies  with themes of the host organisation's interests.

This means even when we remove covert or even at times legit political motives, the local citizens have a strong unified voice.

The capitalist mentality normally overlooks this element of citizen ownership in the name of - the project is good for the country or for the said people. Yet the affected people do not share in that picture. 

Some of the drivers include:
1. - Disregard for the local ways "viewed as analogue in this digital age"
2. - View that "They don't get it", "can not get it" and will slow us down
3. - Not having a share in the full information
4. - Too many information sources with different versions
5. - Lack of trust
6. - No recourse in the event things go wrong
7. - Inconsiderate compensation

We have numerous successful ventures and they take a lot of time to integrate with the community and extend true benefits as partners.

While the investments may be necessary, wayleave using and ICT projects would be paying a heavy price especially due to point 1 & 2.

Have a blessed day.

Regards/Wangari

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Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth".

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On Mon, 29/2/16, Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Wayleave storm threatens clean energy projects (add ICT Projects to that list)
 To: wangarikabiru at yahoo.co.uk
 Cc: "Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu" <chemukoechk at gmail.com>
 Date: Monday, 29 February, 2016, 11:37

 The main
 problem here is poor stakeholder engagements, and here
 i'm not talking about the governors and other local
 leaders, it's about the ordinary citizens who are not
 being adequately engaged in regards to the developments that
  occur in their land and which ultimately affect their
 livelihoods.
 If a proper
 stakeholder engagement is done with the citizens affected,
 these agencies carrying out projects may receive a deserving
 welcome. When huge corporations and government engage
 through PPP's they ought to have the affected citizens
 involved and should offer well structured incentives and the
 story may get a complete turn around whereby the citizens
 will be excited to have the projects done in their
 properties. 
 Take the
 example of telecommunication masts by  Safaricom et al. I
 have not heard anyone complain about having a mast in their
 compound because they properly engages and well compensated.
 It is possible to have peacefully executed processes as long
 as we stop focusing on leaders but focus more on the
 citizens.
 Rosemary
 Koech-KimwatuTwitter:@TechWakiliTel:+254
 718181644/771632344

 On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at
 10:44 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
 wrote:
 Dear listers
 This issue of Wayleaves is becoming a serious
 impediment to rolling out critical infrastructure in our
 country. 
 Could using the Multi-Stakeholder Engagement Strategy
 work towards ensuring that communities and county
 governments become strong partners in these
 projects? 
 Why are communities becoming an impediment to the
 very projects that may well uplift their
 lives? 
 What are we missing?
 When Electricity
 Transmission Company (Ketraco) decided to sue some 561
 Kajiado landowners last week, its executives were walking
 down a familiar path.

 Investors and government agencies working on
 multi-million shilling energy projects have found themselves
 in the eye of a wayleave storm.Residents have
 generally rejected compensation offers and at times resorted
 to civil protests that have grounded work at the
 sites.
 Read
 on:-
 http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Wayleave-storm-threatens-clean-energy-prospects/-/539546/3096014/-/dfukifz/-/index.html

 Ali
 Hussein
 PrincipalHussein & Associates

  Tel: +254 713 601113
 Twitter:
 @AliHKassim

 Skype: abu-jomoLinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim

 Any information of a personal nature expressed in
 this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect
 the official positions of the organizations that I work
 with.

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