In its support for the local school,
local families and continuing education, the Chiphat project likewise
has contributed needed infrastructure for the development of
civil society, with the potential for the betterment of human rights.
However, it is also fair to say that Chiphat project could do more to
recruit indigenous borechin people, who appear to remain mostly outsiders to the project and its economic benefits, but are nonetheless
pressured to restrict traditional livelihood activities in
hunting, logging, harvest of forest products and agricultural practice,
and to give up their traditional rights to land and forest.