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… The Fomi dam project is located on the Niandan tributary of the Niger in Guinea, 30 km upstream of the Niandan-Niger confluence, near Kankan (region of Upper Guinea). … of an Environmental and Social Management Plan, Involuntary Resettlement Plan and a Local Development Plan, was completed in 2010. …

… generation, hydropower is once again in the spotlight. Hundreds of new dams are due to be built this decade. The hydropower industry … successful examples remain rare. Benefit sharing should be thought of as a ‘sustainability intervention’, which has additional and long-term positive impacts on project-affected people, well beyond compensation for lost …

… A new generation of dam schemes are being built to meet growing demands for energy and … institute is mainly involved in two areas of research work: Social impacts of large dams: understanding good resettlement approaches – how the post-project benefit sharing streams …

… Large dams are displacing thousands of people in West Africa in societies where women traditionally have few … delay [in compensation] is too much for us." --  Woman from the Jamah resettlement area near the Bui dam. Women at Kandadji  In Kandadji in … affected by dams, with those who have already experienced adverse impacts sharing what they have learnt with their peers prior to …

… a few years, when compensation measures linked to the construction of the dam come to an end. But it points to examples where river basin … because too many have brought serious environmental and social impacts," says the report’s author Jamie Skinner. "But large dams are … 'good dams', where the benefits are widely shared and the harmful impacts are minimised." The report says mechanisms that engage and …