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Manantali dam in Mali (Photo: OMVS/SOGEM via Google license)
Dams in Africa: Combining national and local development
… three years and $10 million USD trying to quantify the contribution of large dams to development, debate still rages. While recent research … Oxford University's African Studies Centre highlighted the expected impacts of the 243m high Gibe III dam in Ethiopia on the 100,000 … Where dams force relocation of tens of thousands of people, can resettlement ever re-establish livelihoods? Or are resettled and …
Insight, 09 December 2014
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Tricky questions and frank discussions: a participatory forum on protracted displacement in Afghanistan
… Setting up a municipal dialogue is not the usual way of working with officials in Afghanistan – conversations about how to … countries in the world and its people are increasingly fleeing the impacts. Coupled with escalating tensions, uncertainty and instability … evict IDPs and returnees from their places of refuge. On the other, resettlement plans are set to provide them with other options – outside …
Insight, 10 June 2021
MMSD – regional reports
… del Sur – Anexo 2 MMSD– América del Sur – Anexo 3 MMSD: Documentation of information about small and artisanal mining – Brazilian report MMSD: … e mineracao artesanal North America Industry in transition: a profile of the North American mining sector Learning from the future alternative … – recommendations summary table Research Topic 3: Involuntary resettlement Research Topic 3: Involuntary resettlement – …
Article, 03 March 2009
Lebanon is hosting one million Syrian refugees, and around half of them are children. Most families live in makeshift shelters; some rent half-built apartments, sharing with two or three families (Photo: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities
… resilience often focus on making cities better able to withstand the impacts of climate change. But there are other shocks and stresses affecting … before quantity, which may mean a longer period of transition before resettlement. Sometimes, local authorities need to have the confidence …
Insight, 11 May 2017
Young man on an empty street looking back.
Displacement and the pandemic
… Beyond COVID-19: grassroots visions of change This article is part of a new IIED series that offers … has “indefinitely” effectively sealed the country to refugee resettlement citing “risks of infection from foreigners”. Across Africa, … Our  collection about coronavirus  examines some of the emerging impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the people and places where we work. …
Article, 19 August 2020
An audience gathers to listen to a presentation as information on land is shared by Open Data Myanmar (Photo: Open Data Myanmar)
IIED webinar: using web platforms to promote transparency and strengthen land rights
… are happening, and working to protect the environment and the rights of citizens. Unfortunately, information about natural resource … conflicts?  How can civil society organisations (CSOs) make use of web platforms to protect the rights of citizens, and with what … relating to mineral exploration, ancestral land claims and forced resettlement. He has also worked with various human rights and public …
Event, 06 July 2016
Group photo Guinea
Global Water Initiative: Guinea
… Context Agriculture accounts for 25% of GDP Large-scale irrigation is not currently widely used; rain-fed … countries to see how benefit-sharing mechanisms and improved security of land tenure can be incorporated into the planning of Fomi. Fomi dam The Niger Basin Authority (NBA) is an international …
Project, 16 February 2018
A GWI consultation with local communities in Kankan, eastern Guinea, in July 2014 looked at how to secure agricultural land tenure for those affected by the proposed Fomi dam (Photo: GWI West Africa)
Fomi dam: catalysing land tenure reform in Guinea
… The two-day workshop, organised by the Ministry of Energy and Water with the support of the Global Water Initiative's … a result of the Conakry workshop will not only consider the immediate impacts on those people displaced by the Fomi dam, but also how land … guarantee their success. Good compensation and secure land tenure in resettlement areas is vital for the effective re-establishment of …
News, 03 March 2015
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IIED and partner events at COP25
… negotiators gathered in Madrid in December for the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP25) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). … reading:   How climate finance can help repurpose hydropower  |  Resettlement from large dams – what have we learned?  |  Who should …
Event, 02 December 2019
An Ethiopian government delegation learns about energy innovations in a climate smart village in Kenya. Ethiopia's government hopes to combine climate resilience with economic growth (Photo: CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
What's happening to aid to the Least Developed Countries?
… in 2013 to just under $41bn in 2014 ( see table 31 ). The proportion of total OECD aid going to LDCs has dropped from 33 per cent in 2013 to 30 per cent in 2014. The LDCs are a special category of poor countries that face special challenges, recognised by the United … Nations in 1971. The criteria for inclusion are based on measures of national income, human development and economic vulnerability. There …
Insight, 18 January 2016