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leading role. However, company-Government cooperation or at least companycompany cooperation is also essential. The SWIA identifies potential areas or
activities that may lead to cumulative impacts and identifies options for collective
sectoral action to address the impacts observed in, and predicted for, Myanmar.
• Operational level: The SWIA looks across a range of existing operations in the ICT
sector in Myanmar. The findings represent common operational-level impacts that
are relevant to the ICT sector, recognising that impacts are often very contextspecific and importantly can be avoided or shaped by (good and bad) company
practices. In addition to looking at actual and potential negative impacts from
operations in the sector, the SWIA also catalogues positive impacts observed in
Myanmar during the SWIA desk and field research, so that stakeholders can learn
from these examples.
Pillar III. Access to Effective Remedy: This includes a review of the options for
remedy of negative human rights impacts by companies or the Government, looking at
the current ecosystem of potential judicial and non-judicial remedies available in the
country.
See Annex A for a more detailed description of the SWIA methodology and the scope and
coverage of the field research carried out.
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
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