Natural resource management

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Large-scale dams

29 entries

Cranes tower over the construction of a dam, with a body of water in the foreground

Chinese hydropower starting to adopt social and environmental safeguarding norms, but with limitations

News, 17 March 2022

Preview of 20711iied

Sharing the benefits of hydropower to improve displaced people’s livelihoods

Publication, 21 January 2022

Dam filling up a half empty reservoir

New archive restores knowledge produced by the World Commission on Dams

News, 21 December 2021

View of a river

IIED calls on climate funds to help reframe hydropower

News, 03 February 2020

A dam

FutureDAMS

Active Project

One man in a small boat on a reservoir, in front of a large dam

Resettlement from large dams – what have we learned?

Insight, 30 October 2019

Kaleta Dam under construction in Guinea (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)

Who should carry the financial risks in large private sector financed hydropower projects?

Insight, 17 December 2018

Guinea's Kaleta dam was completed by a Chinese company in 2015, ending chronic power shortages in the capital city, Conakry (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)

How a new ECOWAS directive could change the way dams are built and managed in West Africa

Insight, 08 August 2017

An excerpt from an animation on how governments and communities affected by large dams can both benefit (Image: IIED/Hands Up)

Deals that keep large dam building fair

News, 13 July 2017

An image from new animation Securing the land rights of people affected by dams in West Africa (Image: Hands Up/IIED)

GWI animation: how to secure land rights of people affected by dams

News, 09 February 2017

Construction of a dam and hydropower plant on the Konkouré River at Kaléta in Guinea. The new plant came on line in September 2015 (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)

Should the Green Climate Fund flow to hydropower?

Insight, 31 October 2016

A woman farmer

Women pay heavier price for big dams

Insight, 08 March 2016

Delegates at the 4th Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in West Africa (Photo: GWI West Africa)

ECOWAS water ministers agree to build fairer dams

News, 16 December 2015

Women smallholders replanting rice in the irrigated area around the Bagré dam in Burkina Faso (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)

Water and land rights – hand-in-hand for sustainable development

Insight, 25 September 2015

GWI West Africa at World Water Week 2015 (Photo: Lucile Robinson/GWI)

Towards socially just and economically viable dams in West Africa: World Water Week 2015

Event on 23 August 2015

A farmer on his motorbike on the bank between irrigated fields. In the background, pylons carry hydroelectric power from the Sélingué dam (Photo: Mike Goldwater/GWI)

For smallholders and dams, one size doesn't fit all

Insight, 06 August 2015

Family farmers growing rice on their plot of land in the irrigated perimeter of Sélingué dam in Mali (Photo: Mike Goldwater/GWI West Africa)

IIED at World Water Week 2015

Event on 23 August 2015

Consultation of local communities affected by the Kandadji dam about long-term leases to secure land tenure (Photo: GWI West Africa)

From traditional land rights to long-term leases: fair compensation?

Insight, 02 June 2015

Women walking along Sélingué dam in Mali, June 2014 (Photo: Lucile Robinson/GWI West Africa)

ECOWAS encourages states to learn from returns on investment of large dams in West Africa

News, 25 March 2015

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

News, 03 March 2015

The GWI website (Photo: IIED)

New website focuses on dams and family farming in West Africa

News, 15 January 2015

Manantali dam in Mali (Photo: OMVS/SOGEM via Google license)

Dams in Africa: Combining national and local development

Insight, 09 December 2014

Smallholders threshing rice in irrigated agricultural perimeter of Sélingué dam in Mali (Photo: Moustapha Diallo/GWI West Africa)

GWI West Africa: project background

Archived Project

People from Kandadji village, which is due to be flooded, meet to discuss resettlement plans (Photo: Jamie Skinner)

Niger hosts forum on securing land rights in irrigated areas

News, 07 May 2014

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