Lesson Learned From Public Participation in the Urban Infrastructure Projects for Engineering

Raising public awareness and participation of the local communities can have an important input for public involvement in the project design and implementation process, and it has become a major objective of sound development programs. This chapter focuses on (1) public participation in the design and adjust boundary of the underground station of the Metro line 2 in Ho Chi Minh City and (2) public awareness and participation in canal environmental protection. Research is mainly based on the results of community meetings on project information, communication to raise public awareness on environmental protection, and survey questionnaires. The study will add to several recent studies on the roles of public participation in infrastructure projects for sustainable development. There are three important lessons that stand out from the experiences using public consultants in infrastructure projects.