The project has three main components:
1.) Litigation
- Negotiation.
- Preparing a group of strategic test cases on behalf of the adversely affected communities.
- Legal training of young lawyers on the project.
- Building up a public interest law capacity in Lesotho.
2.) Community legal education
- Conducting focussed workshops in selected communities on the legal issues affecting them, aiming to empower communities with the knowledge required to assert their environmental, cultural and economic rights.
3.) Setting a precedent
- Setting an international precedent with regard to the appropriate treatment and compensation of communities affected by the LHWP and other major dams and infrastructure projects.
- Communicating the outcomes of the project to the international development community.
- Encouraging best practice.
- Building up a body of development lawyers.