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Title:  Relocation Failures in Sri Lanka:  A Short History of Internal Displacement and Resettlement

Author:  Robert Muggah

“This book is a welcome addition to the literature.  There are instructive similarities, but also important differences, among forced resettlements as a result of development projects, armed conflict or natural disasters.  Muggah brings insightful social science analysis to this subject, plus an incisive historical perspective.  His choice of Sri Lanka as a case study is apt, since this country offers relevant examples of all three kinds of internal displacement for us to learn from.” – Norman Uphoff, Cornell University

“Can one author concomitantly wield the analytical lenses of several disciplines?  This insightful study brilliantly conquers this daunting methodological challenge.  Muggah’s major book is the sharpest theoretical, political and sociological analysis of the conundrum of displacements and resettlement processes, which are integral not only to Sri Lanka’s social fabric but epitomize the status of today’s world at large.” – Michael M. Cernea, George Washington University

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“Relocation Failures explains how internal displacement and efforts to engineer resettlement are conceived and practiced by policy makers and practitioners.  The author argues that policies for internally displaced peoples are weak and diluted by narrow interpretations of state sovereignty and collective action dilemmas, and in the case of Sri Lanka, unintentionally intensified ethnic segregation and ultimately war.

This unique new book considers the origins and parameters of internal displacement and resettlement policy and practice and proposes and explanation for why it often fails.  In highlighting the ways that development assistance can exacerbate smoldering conflicts, the volume provides an important caution to the aid community.”

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Last Updated ( Monday, 26 January 2009 )

 

 

Editor Hari Mohan has assembled a great issue including:

  • The Editor’s interview with Michael Cernea
  • Susanna Price “15 years of Asian Development Bank Resettlement Policy”
  • India’s New Land Acquisition and Resettlement Policy
  • Beyond Compensation: Sharing profits with affected peoples
  • And more! Resettlement News Issue 23-24

 

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Country Project Name (hyperlinked) RAP Date
Turkey IFC-BTC Oil Pipeline Jun-06
Turkey Yusufeli Resettlement Action Plan – Stage 1 Report, Chapter 1 Jul-10
China China – Chongqing Urban Environment Project : resettlement action É Aug-03
China Pingtan Changjiang ‘ ao Wind Power Farm Project – resettlement É Jul-07
Ethiopia ESTABLISHMENT OF 5,600 TPD GREENFIELD CEMENT PROJECT
AND OPERATION OF CAPTIVE MINES NEAR DERBA VILLAGE,
OROMIYA REGIONAL STATE,
FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA
Jul-09
Vietnam Nui Phoa Mining Prject, Dai Tu District, Thai Nguyen Province Jul-10
China Harbin Water Supply Project Jul-06
India India – Rajasthan State Power Sector Restructuring Project … Jul-04
India India – Third Chennai Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project – resettlement action plan (English) Nov-02
India India – Third National Highway Project : resettlement action plan (Vol. 3) (English) Apr-04
India India – Karnataka State Highways Improvement Project : resettlement action plan (Vol. 4 of 5) : Updated resettlement action plan – rehabilitation of roads (English) Dec-08
India India – Uttar Pradesh States Roads Project : resettlement action … Aug-07
India India – Emergency Tsunami Reconstruction Project : resettlement … Sep-11
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Sustainable Natural Resources Management and Productivity Enhancement Project [PDF] Sep 2008
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project Sep 2008
China, People’s Republic of Proposed Equity Investment and Loan: Small Hydropower Development Project Sep 2008
Solomon Islands Domestic Maritime Support Project Sep 2008
China, People’s Republic of Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project Sep 2008
Sri Lanka National Highways Sector Project Sep 2008
Sri Lanka Road A005 – Nuwara Eliya-Badulla Highway Sep 2008
Sri Lanka Road A005 – Central & Uva Provinces Sep 2008
Sri Lanka Road A006 – Habarana-Kanthale Section Sep 2008
Sri Lanka Road A012 – Puttalam-Anuradhapura Section Sep 2008
Sri Lanka Road A012 – Puttalam–Nochchiyagama Section Sep 2008
Sri Lanka Road A026 – Udatena-Mahiyangana Highway Sep 2008
Sri Lanka Road B435 – Western Province Sep 2008
India Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project Sep 2008
Indonesia Integrated Citarum Water Resources Management Project Aug 2008
Nepal Melamchi Water Supply Project Aug 2008
Pakistan Sindh Cities Improvement Investment Program Aug 2008
Pakistan Khairpur Sanitary Landfill Aug 2008
Pakistan Shikarpur Sanitary Landfill Aug 2008
Pakistan Sukkur Area Sanitary Landfill at Rohr Aug 2008
China, People’s Republic of Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project Aug 2008
China, People’s Republic of Pingminchong Geohazard Resettlement and Prevention Project Aug 2008
India Bihar State Highways Project Aug 2008
India SH-69 (Dumaria – Ranitalab) Aug 2008
India SH-70 (Gaya to Rajauli) Aug 2008
India SH-71 (Jahanabad – Parwatipur) Aug 2008
India SH-73 (Siwan – Shitalpur) Aug 2008
India SH-74 (Hajipur – Areraj) Aug 2008
India SH-75 (Darbhanga – Madhwapur) Aug 2008
India SH-76 (Araria – Bhaptiyahi) Aug 2008
India SH-77 (Kursela – Forbisgunj) Aug 2008
Philippines Support for the Sustainable Health Care Investment Project Aug 2008
Sri Lanka Clean Energy and Access Improvement Project Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Songhua River Basin Water Pollution Control and Management Project Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Dehui Wastewater Treatment Project Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Fangzheng County Wastewater Treatment Plant and Sewerage Networks Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Fusong County Urban Wastewater Treatment Project & Fusong County Sanitary Landfill Project Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Fuyu County Wastewater Treatment Project Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Gongzhuling City Fanjiatun Urban Wastewater Treatment Project Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Gongzhuling City Lingdong District Wastewater Interception Trunk and Wastewater Pipeline Network Rehabilitation Project Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Harbin City Xinyigou District Wastewater Treatment Plant Prepared Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Huadian Municipal Waste Treatment Project Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Huinan County Sanitary Landfill Project Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Jiaohe City Environment Sound Sanitary Landfill Project Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Jingyu County Urban Wastewater Treatment Project and Jingyu County Environment Sound Landfill Project Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Liuhe County Wastewater Treatment and Solidwaste Treatment Project Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Meihekou City Sanitary Landfill Project Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Qitaihe City Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent Reuse Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Shuangyashan City Wastewater Treatment Project Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Songhua River Upstream Water Pollution Treatment Project
China, People’s Republic of Tangyuan County Wastewater Treatment Plant Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Tonghe County Water Supply Expansion Prepared Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Tonghua County Wastewater Treatment Project Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Tongyu County Hecheng Sanitary Landfill Plant Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Yanshou County Water Supply Expansion Prepared Jul 2008
China, People’s Republic of Yushu City Wastewater and Solidwaste Treatment Project Jul 2008
Kazakhstan Proposed Multitranche Financing Facility for the CAREC Transport Corridor I (Zhambyl Oblast Section) Investment Program Jul 2008
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project Jul 2008
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Huoixai Subproject Jul 2009
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Songkhone Subproject Jul 2010
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Viengphouka Subproject Jul 2011
Sri Lanka Dry Zone Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project Jun 2008
Sri Lanka Mannar Subprojects Jun 2009
Sri Lanka Puttalam Subprojects Jun 2010
Sri Lanka Vavuniya Subprojects Jun 2011
Bhutan Green Power Development Project Jun 2008
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Sustainable Tourism Development Project Jun 2008
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project Jun 2008
China, People’s Republic of Proposed Loan and Global Environment Facility Grant for Shaanxi Qinling Biodiversity Conservation and Demonstration Project May 2008
Samoa Sanitation and Drainage Project May 2008
Indonesia Road Rehabilitation II May 2008
Bangladesh Public-Private Infrastructure Development Facility May 2008
India Uttarakhand State Road Investment Program (Subproject 2) May 2008
India Chamoli-Sartoli Road Subproject May 2008
India Chamoli-Guptkashi Road Subproject May 2008
India Chhatiyara-Kepars Road Subproject May 2008
India Kirti Nagar – New Tehri Road Subproject May 2008
India Kirti Nagar – Sorakhal Road Subproject May 2008
India Malla-Talla Nathuakhan Road Subproject May 2008
India New Tehri-Ghanshali-Tilwara Road Subproject May 2008
India Pangot-Bagartalla Road Subproject May 2008
India Pokhri-Karanprayag Road Subproject May 2008
India Pratap Nagar – New Tehri Road Subproject May 2008
Indonesia Rural Infrastructure Support for PNPM Mandiri May 2008
Cambodia Full Resettlement Audit Report for Phase 2 of Resettlement Audit: Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City Highway (Loan 1659-CAM) May 2008
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Ho Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway Construction Project May 2008
China, People’s Republic of Municipal District Energy Infrastructure Development Project Apr 2008
Bangladesh Second Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project Apr 2008
Bangladesh Bhanga Bus Terminal Sub-project Apr 2008
Bangladesh Bhanga Roads Improvement Sub-project Apr 2008
Bangladesh CoxÕs Bazar Roads Improvement Sub-project Apr 2008
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Health Care in the South Central Coast Region Apr 2008
China, People’s Republic of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Environment Improvement Project Phase II Apr 2008
China, People’s Republic of Zhalaite Yindeer Town District Heating Subproject Apr 2008
Bangladesh Road Network Improvement and Maintenance Project II Apr 2008
Bangladesh Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan Apr 2008
Philippines Metro Manila Urban Services for the Poor Investment Program Mar 2008
Philippines Community Action and Resettlement Plan (CARP) Mar 2008
Philippines Agrarian Reform Communities II Feb 2008
Bangladesh Emergency Disaster Damage Rehabilitation (Sector) Project Jan 2008
India Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Development Investment Program Jan 2008
India Short Resettlement Plan for Kashang-Stage-1 Sub Project Jan 2008
India Full Resettlement Plan for Sawra Kuddu Sub Project Jan 2008
India Private Sector Infrastructure Facility at State Level (IL&FS) Dec 2007
China, People’s Republic of Provincial Boundary Dike Project on the Right Bank of Nen River (Zhatai Dike-Banlashan Dike) Dec 2007
Pakistan Southern Punjab Basic Urban Services Project Dec 2007
Pakistan Landfill Site at Tehsil Municipal Administration Alipur Dec 2007
Pakistan Landfill Site at Tehsil Municipal Administration Jampur Dec 2007
Pakistan Landfill Site at Tehsil Municipal Administration Kabirwala Dec 2007
Pakistan Landfill Site at Tehsil Municipal Administration Multan Saddar Dec 2007
Pakistan Landfill Site at Tehsil Municipal Administration Taunsa Dec 2007
Pakistan Slaughter House at Tehsil Municipal Administration Jampur Dec 2007
Pakistan Slaughter House at Tehsil Municipal Administration Qadirpur Ran Dec 2007
Pakistan Slaughter House at Tehsil Municipal Administration Rojhan Dec 2007
Pakistan Waste Water Treatment Plant at Tehsil Municipal Administration Dera Ghazi Khan Dec 2007
Pakistan Waste Water Treatment Plant at Tehsil Municipal Administration Shujaabad Dec 2007
Pakistan Waste Water Treatment Plant at Tehsil Municipal Administration Taunsa Dec 2007
Pakistan Waste Water Treatment Plant at Mouza Akbar Pur (Suraj Miani), Multan City Dec 2007
China, People’s Republic of
Gansu Roads Development Project (Jingyuan-Huining Local Road Component)
Dec 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Northern Community Managed Irrigation Sector Project Dec 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Houay Hit Dec 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Houay Mouang Dec 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Houay Xeun Dec 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Houay Yang Noi Dec 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Nam Hom 1 Dec 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Nam Khao Dec 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Nam Maet I Dec 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Nam Ngiou Dec 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Nam Pa Dec 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Nam Phouthat Dec 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Nam Pone Dec 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Nam Soy 3 Dec 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Nam Ten Dec 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Road Component: Houay Khan and Nam Pone Subprojects
Timor-Leste Dili Urban Water Supply Sector Project Nov 2007
India MFF – Orissa Integrated Irrigated Agriculture and Water Management Investment Program (Facility Concept) Nov 2007
Regional GMS Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project Nov 2007
Regional Addendum to the Approved Resettlement Plan Nov 2007
India Chhatisgarh State Roads Development Sector Project Nov 2007
India Kumhari-Mungeli Road Subproject Nov 2007
India Rajnandgaon-Kawardha Road Subproject Nov 2007
India Wadrafnagar-Ramanujganj Road Subproject Nov 2007
India Ambikapur – Dhanwar – SH2A (Up to UP Border) Road Subproject Nov 2007
India Pondi – Bilaspur Road Subproject Nov 2007
India Ambikapur-Ramanujganj-SH1A (Up to Jharkhand Border) Road Subproject Nov 2007
India Maharashtra Border-Manpur-Mohla-Dongargaon-Rajnandgaon Road Subproject Nov 2007
India Abhanpur-Rajim Road Subproject Nov 2007
India Balodabazar-Simga Road Subproject Nov 2007
India Basna to Bilaigarh Road Subproject Nov 2007
India Dhamtari-Nagri Road Subproject Nov 2007
India Funda to Amleshwar Road Subproject Nov 2007
India Gunderdehi-Dhamtari Road Subproject Nov 2007
India Nandghat-Mungeli Road Subproject Nov 2007
India Rajim-Fingeshwar-Mahasamund Road Subproject Nov 2007
India Saraipali to Hasaud Road Subproject Nov 2007
China, People’s Republic of Lanzhou–Chongqing Railway Development Project Nov 2007
India Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project Oct 2007
India Package 1008 B: Water Treatment Plant, Mangalore Oct 2007
India Package 1009 and 1010: Mangalore Water Supply Pipeline Project Oct 2007
India Package 1013: UGD for Mangalore City Oct 2007
India Package 1014 A: UGD for Mangalore City Oct 2007
India Package 1014 B: UGD for Mangalore City Oct 2007
India Package 1015 A1: UGD for Mangalore City Oct 2007
India Package 1015 A2 : UGD for Mangalore City Oct 2007
India Package 1015 A3: UGD for Mangalore City Oct 2007
India Package 1015 B: UGD for Mangalore City Oct 2007
India Package 1016: UGD for Mangalore City Oct 2007
India Package 1017 A: Under ground drainage system I for Udupi Oct 2007
India Package 1017 B: Under ground drainage system II for Udupi Oct 2007
India Package 1018 A: Urban Transport (improvement to roads), Puttur Oct 2007
India Package 1102 B: Intake works and Water Treatment Plant for Kundapura Oct 2007
India Package 1104: UGD for Mangalore City Oct 2007
India Package 1105 B: Sewerage Treatment Plant for Mangalore City Oct 2007
India Package 1106 A: Sewerage Treatment Plant for Mangalore City Oct 2007
India Package 1106 B: Sewerage Treatment Plant for Mangalore City Oct 2007
India Package 1106 C: UGD for Mangalore City Oct 2007
India Package 1206: Solid Waste Management at Mangalore Oct 2007
India Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement in Madhya Pradesh Oct 2007
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of The Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction: Thanh Hoa Province Small Scale Infrastructure Investments and Services in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas Oct 2007
China, People’s Republic of Hunan Roads Development II Project Oct 2007
China, People’s Republic of Local Road Component Oct 2007
China, People’s Republic of Central and Western Airports Development Project [PDF] Oct 2007
China, People’s Republic of Xinjiang Municipal Infrastructure and Environmental Improvement Project Oct 2007
China, People’s Republic of Yining City Roads and Municipal Services Component Oct 2007
India Multi-sector Project for Infrastructure Rehabilitation in Jammu and Kashmir Sep 2007
India Batmaloo-Tengpora-Jahangir Chowk SKIMS Road Sep 2007
India Bijbehara-Langanbal Road Sep 2007
India Bonchak Bridge Sep 2007
India Dachinpora Bridge Sep 2007
India Gundtal Dara Bridge Sep 2007
India Handwara-Zachaldara-Wadur Road Sep 2007
India Kani Kadal Bridge Sep 2007
India Kralgund-Ashpora-Qaziabad Road Sep 2007
India Laktipora Bridge Sep 2007
India Natipora-Chadoora-Charar-i-Sharief Road Sep 2007
India Natipora-Newa-Pulwama Road Sep 2007
India Popchan Bridge Sep 2007
India Qazigund-Kulgam Road Sep 2007
India Sail Bridge Sep 2007
India Sharda-Kamalkote Road Sep 2007
India Singhpora-Kanihama road via Gund Khawaja Qasim Sep 2007
India Soafshali Bridge Sep 2007
India Sopore-Bandipora Road Sep 2007
India Sumbal-Markundal-Hajin-Madwan Road Sep 2007
India Teilbal Bridge Sep 2007
India Watergam Behrampora Hib Dangerpora Rebbon Road Sep 2007
Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Support Sep 2007
Indonesia Reformatted Community Action Plan for the Housing Sector Sites Sep 2007
Indonesia Subproject No. 3: East Coast Road (Km 0 – Km 150) Sep 2007
Indonesia Subproject No. 4: Ulee Lheue Road – Bridges Component Sep 2007
Indonesia Subproject No. 4: Ulee Lheue Road Land Acquisition and Resettlement Action Plan (Final) Sep 2007
Indonesia Subproject No. 5: Ulee Lheue Island Road Land Acquisition and Resettlement Action Plan (Revised) Sep 2007
Indonesia Abbreviated Resettlement Plan Sep 2007
Indonesia Final Abbreviated Resettlement Plan Sep 2007
Indonesia Final Abbreviated Resettlement Plan (Reformatted Community Action Plans) Sep 2007
China, People’s Republic of Chongqing–Lichuan Railway and Railway Safety Enhancement Project Sep 2007
Papua New Guinea Lae Port Development Project Sep 2007
Papua New Guinea Tidal Basin Phase I Sep 2007
Cambodia Tonle Sap Lowland Stabilization Sector Project Sep 2007
China, People’s Republic of Henan Ecological Agriculture and Rural Productivity Improvement Project Sep 2007
China, People’s Republic of Sanmenxia Yuanfen Fruit Juice Company (Yuanfen Co.) Project Sep 2007
China, People’s Republic of Henan Zhixian Industry Group (Zhixian) Project Sep 2007
Nepal Rural Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program Sep 2007
Nepal Bhojpur-Manebhanjyang Subproject Sep 2007
Nepal Kamidanda-Taldhunga Subproject Sep 2007
Nepal Beni-Pakhapani Subproject Sep 2007
Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Support Project (ETESP) – Road and Bridges [PDF] 12 Sep 2007
India Tsunami Emergency Assistance (Sector) Project 31 Aug 2007
India High Level Bridge across Paravanar River km. 1/4 of Pachayankuppam and Sothikuppam road (ODR) in Cuddalore District 31 Aug 2007
India High Level Bridge across Vellar River km. 11/4 of Killai Road (MDR) in Cuddalore District 31 Aug 2007
India Kallummoottil Kadavu Bridge 31 Aug 2007
India Kochide Jetty Bridge 31 Aug 2007
India Kodiyampalayam Bridge 31 Aug 2007
India Pulicat Bridge 31 Aug 2007
India Vettaikaraniruppu Bridge 31 Aug 2007
India National Power Grid Development Investment Program (Facility Concept) Aug 2007
Pakistan Barani Integrated Water Resources Sector Project Aug 2007
Pakistan Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan Aug 2007
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Greater Mekong Subregion: Kunming-Haiphong Transport Corridor-Noi Bai-Lao Cai Highway Project Aug 2007
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Resettlement and Ethnic Minority Development Plan Aug 2007
India India Infrastructure Project Financing Facility Aug 2007
Indonesia West Jakarta Water Supply Development Project Aug 2007
India Uttarakhand Urban Sector Development Investment Program Jul 2007
India Dehradun Rehabilitation of Sewerage System Sub-project Jul 2007
India Dehardun Water Supply Optimization Sub-project Jul 2007
India Haridwar Water Supply Optimization Sub-project Jul 2007
India Nainital Water Supply Optimization Sub-project Jul 2007
Nepal Decentralised Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project Jul 2007
Nepal Beni-Darbang Road Sub-project Jul 2007
Nepal Dunai–Supani Road Sub-project Jul 2007
Nepal Manthali-Pakarbas Sub-project Jul 2007
Nepal Salme-Jantardhap Section of Phaplu-Jantardhap Sub-project Jul 2007
Nepal Sudar Bazaar-Kuncha Sub-project Jul 2007
Nepal Udhindhunga-Jantardhap of Okhaldhunga District Sub-project Jul 2007
Nepal Vopur-Rupatola Sub-project Jul 2007
China, People’s Republic of Multitranche Financing Facility and a Loan for Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development Investment Program (Project 2: Dagushan Hydropower Project) Jul 2007
China, People’s Republic of Xinjiang Regional Road Improvement Project Jul 2007
China, People’s Republic of Kuche County Local Road Jul 2007
Tajikistan, Republic of Khatlon Province Flood Risk Management Project [PDF] Jul 2007
Tonga Integrated Urban Development Project Jul 2007
Tonga Short Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan Jul 2007
Pakistan National Trade Corridor Highway Investment Program Jul 2007
Pakistan Land Acquisition, Resettlement, and Tribal Peoples Plan for Peshawar-Torkham Expressway (E-1) Section-1 Jul 2007
Pakistan Land Acquisition, and Resettlement Plan for Faisalabad-Khanewal Expressway (E-4) Jul 2007
Armenia Rural Roads Rehabilitation Sector Project Jul 2007
Pakistan Land Acquisition, Resettlement, and Tribal Peoples Plan for Peshawar-Torkham Expressway (E-1) Section-1 [PDF] Jul 2007
Samoa Power Sector Expansion Project Jun 2007
Samoa Draft for Consultation Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Jilin Urban Environmental Improvement Project Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Changchun Jingyue Wastewater Treatment Plant Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Changchun No. 5 WTP and Distribution Main Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Yanji Effluent Reuse and Sewerage Upgrade and Expansion Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Yanji Thermal Power Plant Heating Networks and Yanji Central Heating Secondary Networks Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Yanji WTP and Network Upgrade and Expansion Jun 2007
Solomon Islands Emergency Assistance Project Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Gansu Baiyin Urban Development Project Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Southern Baiyin Infrastructure Project Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Pingchuan Road Improvement Project Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Baiyin District Heating Service Project Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Kunming Qingshuihai Water Supply Project [PDF] Jun 2007
Bangladesh Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Program Jun 2007
Bangladesh Draft Short Resettlement Plan for Mirpur Sub-Zone Jun 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Northern Area Rural Power Distribution Project Jun 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Short Resettlement Plan Jun 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Resettlement Plan for the 115 kV Transmission Line: Namgnum – Thalath Jun 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Annex 1 – Inventory Household Database Jun 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Annex 2 – Affected Person (AP) Questionnaire Jun 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Annex 3 – Village Questionnaire for the Village Head Jun 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Annex 4 – Information Guide to the Consultation Phase of the ADB Accountability Mechanism Jun 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Annex 5 – Compensation Committees, Articles of Agreement Jun 2007
Azerbaijan Road Network Development Program Jun 2007
Azerbaijan Masalli-Astara Motorway (Project 1), Masalli-Girdani Section (Section A) Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Hunan Flood Management Sector Project Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Cili County Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Jishou City Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Lengshuijiang City Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Shimen County Jun 2007
China, People’s Republic of Youxian County Jun 2007
Regional Northern Greater Mekong Subregion Transport Network Improvement Project Jun 2007
Regional Final Resettlement Plan Jun 2007
Afghanistan Road Network Development Program Multi-Tranche Financial Facility 2 Jun 2007
Afghanistan Resettlement Framework 2 Jun 2007
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Secondary Education for the Most Disadvantaged Regions Project May 2007
China, People’s Republic of Central Yunnan Roads Development Project May 2007
China, People’s Republic of Local Roads and Passenger Transport Stations Component May 2007
Cambodia GMS: Mekong Tourism Development Project May 2007
India Proposed North Eastern State Roads Investment Program May 2007
India AR06 Road Section from Passighat to Pangin in the State of Arunachal Pradesh May 2007
India AS37c Road Section from Jania to Kalitakuchi in the State of Assam May 2007
India MLN1 Road Section from Garobadda to Delu in the State of Meghalaya May 2007
India SK01 Road Section from Melli to Nayabazar in the State of Sikkim May 2007
Bangladesh Jamuna Meghna Dhonagoda Irrigation Project (MDIP) 2007-2008 Bank Protection Work Apr 2007
Bangladesh Full Resettlement Plan for the Pabna Irrigation and Rural Development Project (PIRDP) Apr 2007
Bangladesh Full Resettlement Plan for the Meghna Dhonagoda Irrigation Project (MDIP) Apr 2007
Bangladesh Short Resettlement Plan for the Jamuna-Meghna Dhonagoda Irrigation Project (MDIP) 2007-2008 Bank Protection Work Apr 2007
China, People’s Republic of Ningxia Integrated Ecosystem Management and Agricultural Development Project Apr 2007
China, People’s Republic of Final Draft Resettlement Plan Apr 2007
China, People’s Republic of Western Guangxi Roads Development Project Apr 2007
China, People’s Republic of DeÕe to Shali Road Apr 2007
China, People’s Republic of Jingxi to Longbang Class II Road Apr 2007
China, People’s Republic of Napo to Dingye Class II Road Apr 2007
China, People’s Republic of Project Expressway and Connector Roads Apr 2007
China, People’s Republic of Tianlin to Leye Road [ Apr 2007
China, People's Republic of Rural Passenger Stations and Village Access Roads Components Apr 2007
China, People's Republic of Fujian Soil Conservation and Rural Development II [PDF] Apr 2007
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Integrated Rural Development Project in Central Provinces Apr 2007
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Resettlement Plan Apr 2007
Bhutan Road Network Project Mar 2007
Bhutan Autsho – Garbagtang Feeder Road Mar 2007
Bhutan Kharthungla – Kangpara Feeder Road Mar 2007
Bhutan Mirchim – Bongo Feeder Road Mar 2007
Bhutan Tekizam – Bjena Feeder Road Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Liaoning Environmental Improvement Project Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin Project Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Dingxing County Wastewater Treatment Plant Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Dingzhou City Wastewater Treatment Plant Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Huanghuagou Valley Environment Comprehensive Treatmenet Project Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Li County Wastewater Treatment Plant Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Liushi Town Wastewater Treatment Plant Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Mancheng County Wastewater Treatment Plant Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Tang County Wastewater Treatment Plant Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Urban Anxin County Flood and Emergency Control Project Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Xinxing Town Wastewater Treatment Plant Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Xiong County New Energy Development Utilization Project Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Xiong County Wastewater Treatment Plant Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Xiong County Water Supply Project Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Xushui County Wastewater Treatment Plant Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Yi County Wastewater Treatment Plant Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Yi County Water Supply Project Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Summary Draft Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Dingxing County WWTP Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Li County WWTP Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Xinxing Town WWTP Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Tang County WWTP Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Xiong County Water Supply Project Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Xiong County WWTP Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Xiong County New Energy Development Utilization Project Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People’s Republic of Baigou Town WWTP Resettlement Plan [ Mar 2007
China, People's Republic of Urban Anxin County Flood and Emergency Control Project Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People's Republic of Yi County Water Supply Project Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People's Republic of Yi County WWTP Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People's Republic of Dingzhou City WWTP Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People's Republic of Mancheng County WWTP Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People's Republic of Xushui County WWTP Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People's Republic of Huanghuagou Valley Environment Comprehensive Treatment Project Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People's Republic of Liushi Town WWTP Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
China, People's Republic of Wangkuai-Xidayang Reservoir Connection Project Resettlement Plan Mar 2007
Regional Subregional Transport Facilitation Project Mar 2007
Nepal Urban Environment Improvement Project [PDF] Feb 2007
India Proposed Madhya Pradesh State Roads Sector Project II [PDF] Feb 2007
India Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program Jan 2007
India Resettlement Plan Jan 2007
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Health Sector Development Project Jan 2007
Regional GMS Southern Coastal Corridor Project Jan 2007
Regional Viet Nam Component – Kien Giang Province Jan 2007
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China, People’s Republic of Tianjin Wastewater Treatment and Water Resources Protection Project 30 Jan 2007
China, People’s Republic of Hunan Roads Development III Project Dec 2006
Tajikistan, Republic of Rural Development Dec 2006
India Madhya Pradesh State Roads Sector Development Program Dec 2006
India Package II: Satna – Amarpatan & Rewa – Semariya Road Dec 2006
India Package III: Seoni – Chhindwara & Chhindwara – Maharashtra Border Road Dec 2006
India Package IV: Tikamgarh – Orchha, Tikamgarh – Malhera & TikamGarh – Shahgarh Road Dec 2006
India Package V: Vidisha – Korwai Road Dec 2006
India Package VI: Porsa-Mehgaon-Mau-Seondha Road Dec 2006
India Package VII: Jabalpur – Amarkantak Road Dec 2006
India Package IX: Sagar – Rehli Road Dec 2006
India Package XI: Gun – Fatahgarh – Paron & Bioara – Maksudangarh – Sironj Road Dec 2006
Regional Greater Mekong Subregion Kunming-Hai Phong Transport Corridor: Yen Vien–Lao Cai Railway Upgrading Project [PDF] Nov 2006
China, People’s Republic of Hefei Urban Environment Improvement Project Nov 2006
China, People’s Republic of Comprehensive Ecological and Environmental Control Along Chao Lake Component Nov 2006
China, People’s Republic of Ershibu River Comprehensive Treatment Component Nov 2006
China, People’s Republic of Hefei Urban Sewerage Network Improvement Component Nov 2006
China, People’s Republic of Qingxi Road Landfill Component Nov 2006
China, People’s Republic of Shiwuli River Wastewater Treatment Plant and Sewer Network Component Nov 2006
China, People’s Republic of Sili River Rehabilitation and Flood Control Improvement Component Nov 2006
China, People’s Republic of Xinzhan Road Infrastructure and Traffic Management Improvement Component Nov 2006
China, People’s Republic of Fujian Soil Conservation and Rural Development II Nov 2006
China, People’s Republic of Tingzhou Hydropower Subproject Nov 2006
Cambodia Stung Chinit Irrigation and Rural Infrastructure Project 30 Nov 2006
Cambodia Resettlement Plan Phase II – Stung Chinit Reservoir 30 Nov 2006
Cambodia Resettlement Plan Phase III – Ochork Tributary 30 Nov 2006
China, People’s Republic of Nanjing Qinhuai River Environmental Improvement Project Nov 2006
China, People’s Republic of Inner Qinhuai River Sewerage and Water Replenishing Component Nov 2006
China, People’s Republic of Sludge Treatment and Disposal Component Nov 2006
China, People’s Republic of Songhua River Flood Control Management Sector Project Oct 2006
Regional Regional Power Transmission Interconnection Project Oct 2006
Regional Short Resettlement Plan: Tajikistan Oct 2006
Fiji Islands, Republic of the The Western and Central Networks Reinforcement and Extension Project Oct 2006
Indonesia Road Rehabilitation (Sector) Project Oct 2006
Indonesia INO: Road Rehabilitation Sector Project LARP for Construction of Srandakan Bridge Intersection (BN-01) Subproject Oct 2006
Pakistan Power Transmission Enhancement Oct 2006
Pakistan Subproject No. 1 New Okara 220 kV Sub-Station Transmission Line Oct 2006
Pakistan Subproject No. 5 New D.G. Khan 500kV Sub-station and Transmission Line Oct 2006
Pakistan Subproject No. 7 New Rohri 220kV Sub-Station and Associated Transmission Lines Oct 2006
Pakistan Subproject No. 8 Dispersal of Power from Jarwar IPP Jarwar – Sadiqabad 132kV Double Circuit Transmission Line Oct 2006
Pakistan Bandala Grid Station Extension Oct 2006
Pakistan Mardan Line Bay Extension Oct 2006
Mongolia Urban Development Sector Project Oct 2006
Mongolia Resettlement Plan Oct 2006
India Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Project Oct 2006
India Improvements to B.C Road from Shakuntala Crossing to Children’s Hospital Including pedestrian subway Oct 2006
India Municipal Solid Waste Collection and Disposal Site Development, Srinagar [ Oct 2006
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Mong Duong Thermal Power Project Sep 2006
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Calamity Damage Rehabilitation Project Sep 2006
Cambodia CPTL Power Transmission Project Sep 2006
India Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Project Sep 2006
India Short Resettlement Plan Sep 2006
India Full Resettlement Plan Sep 2006
China, People's Republic of Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development Investment Program Sep 2006
China, People's Republic of Draft Resettlement Framework Sep 2006
China, People's Republic of Due Diligence Report Sep 2006
China, People's Republic of Short Resettlement Plan Sep 2006
India Uttaranchal State-Road Investment Program (Subproject 1) Aug 2006
India Almora–Bageshwar Road Section Aug 2006
India Dhakia–Gulabo–Paiga–Mukundpur Road Section Aug 2006
India Kakrali–Tuligarh Road Section Aug 2006
India Ranikhet–Mohan Road Section Aug 2006
China, People's Republic of Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management Project Aug 2006
China, People's Republic of Jinlong Reservoir Water Supply Subproject Aug 2006
China, People's Republic of Wudang Medium-sized Irrigation Zone Core Subproject [ Aug 2006
China, People's Republic of Xifeng County Liaojiuzhai Reservoir Subproject Aug 2006
China, People's Republic of Yudongxia Reservoir and No.2 Dongjiao Waterworks Subproject Aug 2006
India North Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Sector Development Program Aug 2006
India Short Resettlement Plan for Hospet Subproject Aug 2006
India Short Resettlement Plan for Raichur Subproject Aug 2006
Indonesia Metro Medan Urban Development Aug 2006
Uzbekistan, Republic of Proposed Rural Renewable Energy Development Project Aug 2006
Uzbekistan, Republic of Short Resettlement Plan Aug 2006
Bangladesh Sustainable Power Sector Development Program II Aug 2006
China, People's Republic of Municipal Natural Gas Infrastructure Development Project Aug 2006
India Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project (Supplementary Financing) Jul 2006
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Central Region Small and Medium Towns Development Project Jul 2006
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Binh Thuan Province Jul 2006
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Dac Nong Province Jul 2006
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Khanh Hoa Province Jul 2006
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Ninh Thuan Province Jul 2006
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Phu Yen Province Jul 2006
Indonesia South Sumatra - West Java Phase II Gas Pipeline Project [PDF] Jul 2006
India Power Grid Transmission (Sector) Project Jul 2006
Bangladesh Railway Sector Investment Program Jun 2006
Pakistan Renewable Energy Development Jun 2006
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Central Region Small and Medium Towns [PDF] Jun 2006
China, People’s Republic of Eastern Sichuan Roads Development Project Jun 2006
India Madhya Pradesh Roads Sector Development Project Jun 2006
Bhutan Bhutan Urban Infrastructure Development Project Jun 2006
Pakistan Balochistan Water Resources and Rural Infrastructure Development Project [PDF] May 2006
Sri Lanka Secondary Towns and Rural Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Project (Supplementary Financing) May 2006
India Uttaranchal Power Sector Development Plan May 2006
China, People’s Republic of Southern Gansu Roads Development Project May 2006
Cambodia Second Power Transmission and Distribution Project Apr 2006
China, People’s Republic of West Henan Agriculture Development Project Mar 2006
China, People’s Republic of Heilongjiang Road Network Development Project Mar 2006
China, People’s Republic of Wuhan Wastewater and Stormwater Management Project Mar 2006
China, People’s Republic of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Environmental [PDF] Mar 2006
India Assam Power Sector Development Project Mar 2006
Nepal Proposed Road Connectivity Sector I Project Mar 2006
China, People’s Republic of Taiyuan-Zhongwei Railway Project 28 Feb 2006
China, People’s Republic of Guangxi Nanning Urban Environmental Upgrading Project Feb 2006
Bangladesh Secondary Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project Feb 2006
Cambodia Provincial Towns Improvement Project Jan 2006
Philippines Angat Water Utilization and Aqueduct Improvement [PDF] Jan 2006
India Proposed Equity Investment IDFC Private Equity Fund II Jan 2006
Philippines Angat Water Utilization and Aqueduct Improvement [PDF] Jan 2006
Pakistan Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project [PDF] Dec 2005
India West Bengal Corridor Development Dec 2005
India Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project – Resettlement Framework and Resettlement Plan Dec 2005
India Rural Roads Sector II Investment Program Dec 2005
Bangladesh Gas Transmission and Development Project Nov 2005
Bangladesh Second Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project Nov 2005
China, People’s Republic of Tsinghua Water Infrastructure Development Project [PDF] Nov 2005
Uzbekistan, Republic of Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project Oct 2005
Pakistan Rawalpindi Environmental Improvement Project [PDF] Oct 2005
Indonesia Sustainable Aquaculture Development for Food Security and Poverty Reduction Project [PDF] Oct 2005
Indonesia Land Acquisition and Resettlement Action Plan [PDF] Oct 2005
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Central Region Water Resources Project Oct 2005
Cambodia Tonle Sap Sustainable Livelihoods [PDF] Oct 2005
Fiji Islands, Republic of the Fourth Road Upgrading (Sector) Project Sep 2005
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Northern Power Transmission Expansion Sector Project Sep 2005
China, People’s Republic of Shandong Hai River Basin Pollution Control Project Aug 2005
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Resettlement Framework for Forest Plantation Development Project [PDF] Aug 2005
Sri Lanka Local Government Infrastructure Improvement Project Aug 2005
China, People’s Republic of Updated Resettlement Plan For Tangshan City Sewage Treatment Project [PDF] Aug 2005
Pakistan Resettlement Plan – N25 Subproject, Hub-Uthal [PDF] Jul 2005
Pakistan Resettlement Plan – N50 Subproject, Kuchlak-Zhob [PDF] Jul 2005
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Northern Power Transmission Sector Project Jul 2005
Pakistan National Highway Development Sector Investment Program Jul 2005
Pakistan Resettlement Plan – N70 Subproject, Multan-Muzaffargarh [PDF] Jul 2005
Tajikistan, Republic of Dushanbe–Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project (Phase II) Jul 2005
Azerbaijan East–West Highway Improvement Project Jun 2005
Afghanistan Qaisar-Bala Murghab Road Project [PDF] Jun 2005
China, People’s Republic of Hunan Flood Management Sector Project Jun 2005
Regional Flagship Capital Corporation Jun 2005
Bangladesh Southwest Area Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management Jun 2005
India National Highway Sector II Project Apr 2005
China, People’s Republic of Central Sichuan Roads Development Project Mar 2005
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Central Region Transport Networks Sector Project Jan 2005
China, People’s Republic of Site Relocation Supplementary Report of Wastewater Treatment Project of Chengde City [PDF] Jan 2005
China, People’s Republic of Henan Wastewater Management and Water Supply Sector Project 2005
China, People’s Republic of Jilin Water Supply and Sewerage Development Project 2005
India Power Grid Transmission (Sector) Project Nov 2004
Bangladesh Secondary Towns Integrated Flood Protection Project (Phase 2) [PDF] Nov 2004
Nepal Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project [PDF] Nov 2004
Bangladesh Chittagong Port Trade Facilitation Project [PDF] Nov 2004
Bangladesh Second Urban Primary Health Care Project Oct 2004
India Proposed Equity Investment Baring India Private Equity Fund II Limited [PDF] Oct 2004
Afghanistan Power Transmission and Distribution Project [PDF] Oct 2004
Afghanistan Regional Airports Rehabilitation Project Phase I [PDF] Oct 2004
Pakistan North-West Frontier Province Road Development Sector and Subregional Connectivity Project Oct 2004
China, People’s Republic of Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project 7 Oct 2004
China, People’s Republic of Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project Sep 2004
China, People’s Republic of Coal Mine Methane (CMM) Development Project Sep 2004
China, People’s Republic of Gansu Roads Development Project Sep 2004
China, People’s Republic of Dali-Lijiang Railway Project Sep 2004
Philippines Health Sector Development Program Sep 2004
Lao People’s Democratic Republic LAO: Greater Mekong Subregion-Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Development Project Aug 2004
Nepal Subregional Transport Facilitation Project Aug 2004
Pakistan Multisector Rehabilitation and Improvement Project in Azad Jammu and Kashmir Jul 2004
China, People’s Republic of Guangxi Roads Development II Project 30 Jun 2004
Nepal Rural Electrification, Distribution, and Transmission Project [PDF] May 2004
India Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project – Bisalpur Water Supply Project Feb 2004
Philippines Development of Poor Urban Communities Sector Project 2004
Pakistan Southern Punjab Basic Urban Services Project Dec 2003
India Rural Roads Sector I Project Dec 2003
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Roads for Rural Development Project Dec 2003
Indonesia Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter Sector Project in Indonesia Dec 2003
India National Highway Corridor (Sector) I Project 23 Dec 2003
India Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement in Madhya Pradesh Project 12 Dec 2003
China, People’s Republic of Gansu Clean Energy Development Project 5 Dec 2003
India Rural Roads Sector I Project Nov 2003
Indonesia Second Decentralized Health Services Nov 2003
Cambodia Greater Mekong Subregion Transmission Project Nov 2003
Sri Lanka Northeast Coastal Community Development Project Nov 2003
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project 11 Nov 2003
Sri Lanka Conflict-Affected Areas Rehabilitation Project – Resettlement Framework 7 Nov 2003
Nepal Community-Managed Irrigated Agriculture Sector Oct 2003
Cambodia Agricultural Sector Development Program [PDF] Oct 2003
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Health Care in the Central Highlands Project 22 Oct 2003
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Phuoc Hua Water Resources Project 6 Oct 2003
China, People’s Republic of Xi’an Urban Transport Project Sep 2003
China, People’s Republic of Xi’an Urban Transport Project Sep 2003
China, People’s Republic of Yichang-Wanzhou Railway Project 15 Aug 2003
China, People’s Republic of Ningxia Road Development Project Mar 2003
China, People’s Republic of Fujian Soil Conservation II Project Mar 2003
Indonesia South Java Flood Control Project Jan 2003
Pakistan Balochistan Road Development Sector Project 2003
Bangladesh Jamuna-Meghna River Erosion Mitigation Project 2003
Cambodia Greater Mekong Subregion: Cambodia Road Improvement Project Nov 2002
China, People’s Republic of Shanxi Road Development II Nov 2002
Greater Mekong Subregion Greater Mekong Subregion-Northern Economic Corridor Nov 2002
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Greater Mekong Subregion-Northern Economic Corridor Nov 2002
Sri Lanka Southern Transport Development Project Oct 2002
Bangladesh Dhaka Clean Fuel Project – Summary Resettlement Plan Oct 2002
Bangladesh Dhaka Clean Fuel Project Oct 2002
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Greater Mekong Subregion-Mekong Tourism Development Project Oct 2002
Greater Mekong Subregion Greater Mekong Subregion-Mekong Tourism Development Project Oct 2002
Bangladesh Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project Sep 2002
India East West Corridor Project – Resettlement Plan Sep 2002
Indonesia Power Transmission Improvement Sector Project – Compensation Policy Framework and Procedural Guidelines Sep 2002
Indonesia Power Transmission Improvement Sector Project Sep 2002
Philippines Electricity Market and Transmission Development Project – Resettlement Plan Sep 2002
Indonesia Renewable Energy Development Sector Project Sep 2002
India East West Corridor Project Sep 2002
Philippines Electricity Market and Transmission Development Project Sep 2002
China, People’s Republic of Harbin Water Supply Project – Resettlement Plan Aug 2002
Bangladesh Road Network Improvement and Maintenance Project I – Summary Resettlement Plan Jul 2002
Pakistan Punjab Road Sector Development Project – Summary Resettlement Framework and Resettlement Plan Jul 2002
China, People’s Republic of Harbin Water Supply Project Jul 2002
Pakistan Punjab Road Sector Development Project Jul 2002
Bangladesh Road Network Improvement and Maintenance Project I Jul 2002
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Provincial Roads Improvement Sector Project – Resettlement Framework and Resettlement and Ethnic Minority Development Plan Jun 2002
China, People’s Republic of Western Yunnan Roads Development Jun 2002
Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Provincial Roads Improvement Project Jun 2002
Sri Lanka Secondary Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project – Resettlement Plan and Draft Compensation Plan Jun 2002
Cambodia Greater Mekong Subregion Jun 2002
Sri Lanka Secondary Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project Jun 2002
China, People’s Republic of Hebei Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Project May 2002
China, People’s Republic of Wuhan Wastewater Management Project May 2002
China, People’s Republic of Hebei Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Project – Resettlement Action Plan May 2002
China, People’s Republic of Southern Sichuan Roads Development Project – Resettlement Plan Apr 2002
China, People’s Republic of Southern Sichuan Roads Development Project Apr 2002
China, People’s Republic of Hebei Wastewater Treatment Project Mar 2002
China, People’s Republic of Hebei Wastewater Treatment Project – Composite Resettlement Plan Mar 2002
China, People’s Republic of Songhua River Flood Management Sector Project Feb 2002
Bangladesh Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project – Resettlement Framework and Resettlement Plan 2002
India Railway Sector Improvement Project – Resettlement Framework 2002
India Railway Sector Improvement Project 2002
China, People’s Republic of Shen-Da Power Transmission and Grid Rehabilitation Project Jun 2001
China, People’s Republic of Shen-Da Power Transmission and Grid Rehabilitation Project Jun 2001
Indonesia Renewable Energy Development Sector Project – Compensation Policy Framework and Procedural Guidelines Sep 2000
China, People’s Republic of Tianjin Wastewater Treatment and Water Resources Protection 2000
Last Updated ( Sunday, 08 March 2009 )

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BY: JOE McDONALD and CHARLES J. HANLEY, Associated Press Writers Joe Mcdonald And Charles J. Hanley, Associated Press Writers Sun Jan 25, 2:11 pm ET

XIAOXI, China – The hydroelectric dam, a low wall of concrete slicing across an old farming valley, is supposed to help a power company in distant Germany contribute to saving the climate — while putting lucrative “carbon credits” into the pockets of Chinese developers.  But in the end the new Xiaoxi dam may do nothing to lower global-warming emissions as advertised….

…..And many of the 7,500 people displaced by the project still seethe over losing their homes and farmland.

“Nobody asked if we wanted to move,” said a 38-year-old man whose family lost a small brick house. “The government just posted a notice that said, ‘Your home will be demolished.’”

The dam will shortchange German consumers, Chinese villagers and the climate itself, if critics are right. And Xiaoxi is not alone.

Similar stories are repeated across China and elsewhere around the world, as hundreds of hydro projects line up for carbon credits, at a potential cost of billions to Europeans, Japanese and soon perhaps Americans, in a trading system a new U.S. government review concludes has “uncertain effects” on greenhouse-gas emissions.

One American expert is more blunt.

“The CDM” — the 4-year-old, U.N.-managed Clean Development Mechanism — “is an excessive subsidy that represents a massive waste of developed world resources,” says Stanford University’s Michael Wara.

Forced relocations have become common in China as people in hundreds of communities are moved to clear land for factories and other projects, provoking anger and occasionally violent protests. But what happened here is unusual in highlighting not just the human costs, but also the awkward fit between China’s authoritarian system, in which complaints of official abuse abound, and Western environmental ideals.

Those ideals produced the Clean Development Mechanism as a market-based tool under the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 agreement to combat climate change. The CDM allows industrial nations, required by Kyoto to reduce emissions of gases blamed for global warming, to comply by paying developing nations to cut their emissions instead.

Companies thousands of miles away, such as Germany’s coal-burning, carbon dioxide-spewing RWE electric utility, accomplish this by buying carbon credits the U.N. issues to clean-energy projects like Xiaoxi’s. The proceeds are meant to make such projects more financially feasible.

As critics point out, however, if those projects were going to be built anyway, the climate doesn’t gain, but loses.

Such projects “may allow covered entities” — such as RWE — “to increase their emissions without a corresponding reduction in a developing country,” the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in its December review.

The system’s defenders call it essential for hard-pressed industrialized nations to meet their Kyoto quotas, and say the CDM’s standards are being tightened.

“It’s not as if we’re printing money in a garage,” Yvo de Boer, U.N. climate chief, said of the credits. “Lots of legitimate questions are being asked,” he acknowledged to The Associated Press, but “that’s why I’m happy we have a transparent process.”

That transparency — online project documents and a U.N. database — allowed the AP to analyze in detail this exploding market, which attracts projects ranging from small solar-power efforts in Africa, to emissions controls on giant chemical plants in India and China.

The AP has found that hydroelectric projects, whose climate impact is most widely questioned, have quickly become the No. 1 technology in the CDM, and China in particular is rushing in to capitalize.

The Chinese now have at least 763 hydro projects in the CDM approval pipeline and are adding an average of 25 a month. By 2012, those projects alone are expected to generate more than 300 million “certified emission reductions,” each supposedly representing reduction of one ton of carbon dioxide. Even at recent depressed market prices, those credits would be worth $4 billion.

If the United States enters the Kyoto system, as proposed by President-elect Barack Obama, it would be the biggest player in a market expected to be worth hundreds of billions a year by 2030.

Here in central China’s mist-shrouded Zishui River valley, evicted farmers worry not about carbon-market billions, but about the thousands of Chinese yuan doled out to compensate them for lost homes and farmland.

Xiaoxi residents said that when they were evicted in 2005 to make way for the dam and its 4-square-mile reservoir, officials paid too little for condemned homes and forcibly removed owners who held out for more.

They said payments for losing their rights to state-owned land, where they grew beans and squash, were far below China’s legally required minimum, which they said requires payment of the value of at least five years’ harvests.

Residents spoke with the AP on condition their names not be used, to avoid trouble with authorities.

The dam’s state-owned builder, Hunan Xinshao Xiaoxi Hydropower Development Co., defended its dealings with the people of Xiaoxi.

“The compensation standard we adopted was relatively high compared with similar projects and was in accord with government regulations,” said Wang Yi, assistant to the company’s general manager.

For their homes, people said they were paid government-set prices of $4.60 to $5.70 per square foot. But such payments didn’t go far, even in this remote town surrounded by small tin mines and steep, wooded hills.

“What I got certainly was not enough to buy a new place. We had to borrow more,” said a man who stood holding his 1-year-old grandson in a street lined with new apartment buildings where some relocated families have moved.

He said officials refused to discuss compensation for thousands of yuan he had spent to fix up his family’s house. “I refused their offer, but they forced us out and demolished it,” he said.

The dam company says local surveys found overwhelming support for the project, with 97 percent of 212 respondents saying they were satisfied with their compensation. But people interviewed in Xiaoxi said they were not contacted for such surveys.

The CDM money has spawned an industry of consultants who help Chinese companies assemble bids for emissions credits, and of U.N.-certified “validators,” firms that then attest that projects meet U.N. standards.

For Xiaoxi, the developer hired Germany’s TUEV-SUED as validator, and then commissioned it again later to confirm that the project complied with European Union and German government requirements on “stakeholder consultation” — that local people approve of the project beforehand.

The TUEV-SUED report acknowledged that “the concerned villagers and their leaders were not involved in the decision process.” But it contended the guidelines’ “essence” was fulfilled because those affected “have improved their living environment.”

The German Emissions Trading Authority approved Xiaoxi credits early last year, but that government agency’s Wolfgang Seidel now tells the AP it is investigating questions newly raised about Xiaoxi. Julia Scharlemann, spokeswoman for beneficiary utility RWE, said it also was “making our own inquiries” regarding Xiaoxi.

A key question from environmentalists, led by the U.S.-based group International Rivers, is whether projects meet the CDM test of “additionality” — that they contribute to making real reductions of greenhouses gases rather than be business-as-usual projects capitalizing belatedly on the CDM bonanza.

At Xiaoxi, where the dam should be operating by 2010, construction began in 2004, two years before the developers applied for CDM credits, suggesting it would have been built without CDM money.

Company official Wang counters that CDM money will help pay retroactively for expensive Italian technology needed to cope with the site’s complex geology. “Without the money from trading emissions credits, the project would be unprofitable,” he said.

Environmentalists also point out that hydro power has long been a national priority in China. Since the 1990s — long before the CDM — the Chinese have added an average 7.7 gigawatts a year of hydro power, equivalent to six Hoover Dams annually, International Rivers reports.

In other words, Chinese planners aren’t suddenly replacing emissions-heavy coal-fired power plants with emissions-free dams.

The Xiaoxi project design document, in fact, says Chinese regulations would block the building of such a relatively low-output coal plant here. But that’s how planners determined the “emissions reductions” from the $183-million, 135-megawatt dam — by calculating how much carbon dioxide a 135-megawatt conventional power plant would produce instead.

That bottom line — some 450,000 tons of global-warming gases each year — would be added to RWE’s permitted emissions if it buys the Xiaoxi credits, at a current annual cost of $8 million. And such calculations will be repeated at 37 other Chinese hydro projects where RWE will buy credits.

All told, the 38 are expected to produce more than 16 million CDM credits by 2012, legitimizing 16 million tons of emissions in Germany, equivalent to more than 1 percent of annual German emissions.

At today’s low market prices, those credits would be worth some $300 million, paid to Chinese developers and presumably billed to German electricity customers, who by 2007 were already paying more than double the U.S. average rate per kilowatt-hour.

Utilities from Italy’s Edison to Tokyo Electric are making similar deals for hydro-project credits in a dozen other countries, from Peru to India to Vietnam.

Rather than reduce their own emissions, “firms in developed countries are buying offsets that don’t represent real behavioral change, real reductions in emissions,” said Wara, the environmental law professor.

The U.S. GAO investigators said they learned that middlemen sometimes manipulate project paperwork to show a need for CDM financing, and they believe “a substantial number” of projects have undeservedly received credits.

The CDM system “can be ‘gamed’ fairly easily,” said German expert Axel Michaelowa, both a critic and a CDM insider, as a member of the U.N. team that registers CDM projects.

But Michaelowa said the CDM remains “a crucial bridge between industrialized and developing countries.” It has problems but they can be solved, he said.

Christiana Figueres, a Costa Rican ex-member of the board overseeing the CDM, echoed Michaelowa’s view. She said it’s crucial to encourage China in particular, whose coal power plants make it the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, to build clean-energy facilities. And she counters critics who oppose dams in general because of their environmental impact.

“We cannot continue to demonize hydro,” Figueres told the AP.

She and R.K. Sethi, the CDM Executive Board’s Indian chairman, both pointed to reforms since 2007: A reinforced U.N. oversight staff, a validators’ manual with stringent standards, and a growing number of board reappraisals of validator findings.

In two recent dramatic steps, the board suspended the CDM’s most active validator, the Norwegian firm DNV, questioning its project assessments, and it rejected its first Chinese hydro project — after registering 139 others for credits. The project wasn’t “additional,” the board said, rejecting DNV’s validation that it was.

But environmentalists say a total overhaul is needed, shifting from project-by-project assessments that invite “gaming,” to a negotiated regime whereby the developed world, through aid funds, subsidizes emissions cuts in the developing world more broadly, industrial sector by sector.

As atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to reach record levels, threatening disruptive warming this century, the CDM pipeline continues to swell, with 4,364 projects worldwide approved or awaiting approval, one-quarter of them hydroelectric.

Here in Xiaoxi, meanwhile, where project credits await U.N. approval, dam construction jobs have produced an economic boomlet, but it’s only temporary and people’s grievances are not.

One group, hopeful still for a hearing, has written to authorities with their plea for more yuan for farmers’ lost way of life.

“We strongly request that they give us an explanation and a satisfactory resolution,” they wrote.

___

Joe McDonald reported from China, and Charles J. Hanley from New York. Associated Press Writer Patrick McGroarty in Berlin contributed. Last Updated ( Friday, 06 February 2009 )

IN a report of the Social Impact Assessment Programme on the Alutrint smelter project in La Brea there is a series of statements about losses to the residents.

This document was prepared by a company called Foster Solutions for Sustainable Ecosystem Development Ltd…..

….One reference is made to a Mr Ramnarine, who asked at a meeting in January 2006, about possible loss of beaches. A certain Dr Khan explained that access to the Vessigny Beach would be cut off and that the extension of the Brighton Port would most likely result in the loss of the other nearby beach. Dr Khan stated that it was the National Energy Corporation’s intention to upgrade the Vessigny Dam in order to compensate for these losses.Another exchange listed Mr Ramnarine as saying that Trinidad is a beach-bathing country and that the Government taking away beaches from the people could cause them to become bitter. Dr Khan stated that this had already taken place.It is being alleged that information such as this was never communicated to the people concerned, whether they lived in the communities constituting what has been dubbed the “buffer zone” in the area immediately bordering the smelter site, or in the villages further away.

Row Services Ltd is a company which wrote to some residents of the Square Deal community saying it had been retained by the NEC to rrelocate them.

The letter is dated December 6, 2008. It told the residents that there was an offer on the table for them to consider for the proposed relocation. It said the residents had five days in which to consider the offer, that the NEC could change its mind about the offer for any reason and further that whether they decided to accept the offer or not, the residents were prohibited from discussing it with any third party, individual, company or organisation.

Two weeks later, Frederick Cornwall, President of the Square Deal Development Committee, replied to the Row letter, taking strong offence at its contents and what the residents saw as confusion, inconsistency and duplicity the proposed arrangements for the relocation.

“We do not agree that relocation should take place unless a relocation plan is presented to the community which includes all of the terms and conditions given and negotiations are carried out,” the response from Mr Cornwall said. It had been drawn up with the assistance of some of the professionals working with these residents.

This series of correspondence has been taking place contrary to what these residents say was their understanding of the conditions laid down in the Certificate of Environmnetal Clearance, a critical component of which is that the NEC was expected to “pursue resident relocation and resettlement utilising best industry practices” such as recommended by a World Bank Operational Policy on Involuntary Resettlement.

Such was the culture of mistrust, distrust, fear and frustration which had been building up among the residents and around the Alutrint project as the company was pressing ahead with the work to begin the plant.

Going back to 2005, from meetings involving the NEC and officials from agencies as the Institute of Marine Affairs and the Fisheries Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, disclosures were made about environmental losses which would have resulted from this project. There is the record of at least one meeting with a company known as Rapid Environmental Assessment Ltd (REAL), consultants for the NEC on this project, and involving the Forestry Division.

In one case it was declared that access to the Vessigny Beach would have to be restricted for security reasons. This beach, it was decided, would suffer the same fate of the Clifton Hill beach following the construction of the Atlantic LNG plant in Pt Fortin. It was decided that the NEC intended to develop a recreational site to compensate for the loss or destruction to the beach at Vessigny.

There is more. A Ms Forte is listed as telling REAL’s Dr Khan she did not see any benefits to the fisheries by the development of the Union Industrial Estate, where the Alutrint plant is being located. Ms Forte was representing the Fisheries Division at that meeting in August, 2005.

“Her response was that there are major social impacts such as the loss of the beach, landing sites and fishing access … she was unable to state any expected benefits at this point in time. She suggested, however, that the stakeholders affected be compensated for their losses.”

This is what lies at the heart of the opposition to the project. They were stunned to begin hearing, late in the day, about disclosures contained in a medical monitoring plan, a version of which the company had nevertheless prepared, but which contained frightening disclosures of potential health hazards. The company’s version is said to have been sanitised.

A large group of West Africa, Europe, and North American academics and social scientists, many of whom are students of population displacement, have signed onto an editorial written and circulated by a group of West African academics and social scientists.  They argue that the former President of Cote d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, is abusively clinging to power after having blatantly tried to falsifiy the recent elections. The point out that international bodies have confirmed that the opposition candidate, Alassane Ouattara, has defeated Gbagbo. Nonetheless, the Gbagbo and his military supporters prevent the access to power of the newly-elected President. The likelihood of renewed violent conflict, civil war, and bloodshed in Cote d’Ivoire is high and increasing, involving obvious risks of renewed massive uprooting and population displacement.  Côte d’Ivoire: the war against civilians – an Editorial “The Gbagbo mafia is struggling first and foremost for power,” affirms a group of experts on West Africa, who are concerned about the “risk that the situation will escalate into a civil war” Laurent Gbagbo is clinging to power after rejecting the results of the presidential elections, as declared by the Independent Electoral Commission, certified by the UN, and recognized by the international community, designating Alassane Ouattara as the clear winner. There is now a real risk that the situation will escalate into civil war. In pro-opposition neighborhoods of Abidjan, numerous individuals have disappeared in the wake of operations by security forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo. News reports have shown corpses lying in the streets, while morgues have refused to release the bodies of those killed to their families. Converging accounts have led the UN to suspect the existence of mass graves and the incineration of bodies, but Gbabgo’s security forces have prevented investigations of the alleged sites. Outside Abidjan, particularly in the western region, NGOs are reporting incidents of serious violence against the civilian population. As scholars professionally committed to a rigorous analysis of the situation, we must insist that there is no evidence for any primal hatred between supposedly rival ethnic groups, nor for that matter between local populations and foreigners, between northerners and southerners, much less between Muslims and Christians. This is not to deny the existence of sharp, long-lasting tensions, particularly over access to land. However, the interplay of intersecting interests has generally allowed Ivoirians to implement negotiated solutions to such recurrent disputes. Moreover, Côte d’Ivoire, a country with a long history of mixing, remains a trans-ethnic, cosmopolitan, multi-religious “melting pot.” In any “civil” war, who would fight against whom? The answer is anything but obvious. In the past few weeks, accumulated fears, resentment, and greed have fuelled violent clashes among different segments of the population in the west of the country. However, it is essential to stress the resilience of the overwhelming majority of Ivoirians on all sides of the political spectrum who are confronting the crisis without resorting to violence. On the national scale, Laurent Gbagbo’s supporters are just a vociferous and agitated minority who monopolize the state media they have hijacked. We should not overestimate their numbers. Laurent Gbagbo has justified his actions in terms of the defense of national sovereignty, brandishing the specter of the country falling prey to foreign influences. This is a diversionary tactic. His political opponents are just as patriotic and just as concerned with developing the national economy in a more equal partnership with Western (or other) powers. Whatever its claims, the Gbagbo regime has hardly turned its back on the “predatory foreigners” it purports to ward off. Over the past ten years, it has depended on extensive politico-commercial networks in France and elsewhere. Not to mention the recourse to Liberian and other international mercenaries for controlling the Ivorian population. To the extent that there is any real ideological difference between the two camps, it centers on their conception of citizenship. The Gbagbo regime promotes an ethno-nationalist vision: only members of indigenous ethnic groups from the south of Côte d’Ivoire may claim a fully legitimate, or ‘natural’, right to civic participation – a citizenship ‘by blood’. In this conception, electors from the northern regions, assimilated to ‘foreigners’, are relegated to the status of second-class citizens. Annulling the votes of districts in the north and the center of the country is thus consistent with this logic. The opposition claims a republican conception of citizenship, founded on the principal of equality and according civic rights to all those born in the Côte d’Ivoire, a far remove from the ‘divine right’ claimed by Gbagbo. But ideology is undoubtedly not the key to understanding the ongoing crisis. The Gbagbo mafia is struggling first and foremost for power; for an exclusive hold on power, for the very enjoyment of power, with all its attendant material benefits. How, one might ask, can civilians freely and openly express dissent when the thugs of the outgoing regime exact merciless reprisals against anyone expressing overt opposition or who is even suspected of voting for the wrong candidate? A group of scientists and researchers of Cote d’Ivoire and West Africa: Michel Agier (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales or EHESS, Paris), Emmanuel Akyeampong (Harvard), Jean Allman (Washington University in St. Louis), Jean-Loup Amselle (EHESS), Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton), Karel Arnaut (Ghent University, Belgium), Ralph Austen (University of Chicago), Cheikh Anta Babou (University of Pennsylvania), Georges Balandier (EHESS), Issaka Bagayogo (ISFRA- Université de Bamako), Richard Banégas (Université de Paris 1), Thomas Bassett (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jean-François Bayart (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique or CNRS, France), Laurent Bazin (CNRS), Laurence Becker (Oregon State University), Sara Berry (Johns Hopkins University), Chantal Blanc-Pamard (CNRS), Pierre Boilley (Université de Paris 1), Catherine Boone (University of Texas at Austin), Christian Bouquet (Université de Bordeaux, France), Sylvie Bredeloup (Institut Recherche Développement or IRD, France), William Gervase Clarence-Smith (School of Oriental and African Studies or SOAS, University of London), Jean-Paul Colleyn (EHESS), Barbara Cooper (Rutgers University), Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia University), Mamadou Diouf (Columbia University), Jean-Pierre Dozon (EHESS), Stephen Ellis (Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden), Sandra Fancello (CNRS), Boris Gobille (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France), Alma Gottlieb (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Sean Hanretta (The University of Florida), Joseph Hellweg (Florida State University), Gilles Holder (CNRS), Paulin Hountondji (Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Benin), Anne Hugon (Université de Paris 1), Sharon Hutchinson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Biodun Jeyifo (Harvard), Bennetta Jules-Rosette (University of California San Diego), Ousmane Kane (Columbia), Ousman Kobo (Ohio State University), Eric Lanoue (ARES, France), Robert Launay (Northwestern University), Marie Nathalie Le Blanc (Université du Québec à Montréal), Marc Le Pape (CNRS), Barbara Lewis (Rutgers University), Bruno Losch (Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement ou CIRAD, France), Ruth Marshall (University of Toronto), André Mary (CNRS), Achille Mbembe (University of Wittwatersrand, South Africa), Elikia M’Bokolo (EHESS), Michael McGovern (Yale), Marie Miran-Guyon (EHESS), Richard Moncrieff, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan (EHESS), Jacob Olupona (Harvard University), J.D.Y. Peel (SOAS, University of London), Claude-Hélène Perrot (Université de Paris 1), Ato Quayson (University of Toronto), David Robinson (Michigan State University), Ruediger Seesemann (Northwestern University), Benjamin Soares (Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden), Emmanuel Terray (EHESS), Jean-Louis Triaud (Université de Provence, France), Claudine Vidal (CNRS), Laurent Vidal (IRD), Leonardo Villalon (The University of Florida). N.B. Colleagues living or having family in Côte d’Ivoire have not been included for reasons of security.

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On behalf of INDR, Theodore (Ted) Downing helped prepared an overview of human rights issues to be considered in the revision of the International Finance Corporation’s Performance Standard on Involuntary Resettlement and Land Acquistion (PS5).  INDR joined with the International Accountabiity Project (Jennifer Kalafut) and the Housing and Land Rights Network (Shivani Chaudhry) to prepare a brief on key Issues for Upholding Housing Land and Property Rights in the International Finance Corporation’s Review of Environmental and Social Policy Standards (Jan 2010).

Their findings highlighted 1) minimizing displacement and ensuring that displaced persons are project beneficiaries, 2) inclusion of individuals and communities who lose their livelihoods because of polluted fisheries, diminished water supplies, air pollution and other project impacts who face the full gamut of potential human rights violations and risks associated with unmitigated displacement, 3) inclusion of full risk assessment and livelihood restoration measures,  4)  ensurance that there are specific requirements for providing information and training about rights and processes options (including IFC policies and accountability mechanisms) by a third party prior to negotiations to help balance the bargaining power, and 5) strengthening of free, prior and informed consent in compliance with other international standards.

In celebration of its 10th Anniversary, INDR convened an International Resettlement Conference at The Hague 5-7 October 2010.   Entitled Economics, Social Justice and Ethnics in Development-Caused Involuntary Migration, the conference brings together forced displacement specialists from throughout the world who will deliver over 50 valuable presentations.   Conveners are two INDR Board members and supporters, Michael Cernea and Susanna Price.  See the full program – very interesting.