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

17 March 2022

20711iied.pdf

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

21 January 2022

Dam filling up a half empty reservoir

New archive restores knowledge produced by the World Commission on Dams

21 December 2021

View of a river

IIED calls on climate funds to help reframe hydropower

03 February 2020

A dam

FutureDAMS

January 2020 - ongoing

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

Resettlement from large dams – what have we learned?

Jamie Skinner
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?

Jamie Skinner and Judith Plummer Braeckman
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

Jérôme Koundouno
08 August 2017

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

20711iied.pdf

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?

Blog, 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?

Blog, 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

Blog, 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