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INDR President Ted Downing appointed and chaired a blue ribbon panel of forced displacement experts to review the draft protocol of the International Hydropower Association (IHA). This protocol is proposed to be used to assess the sustainability of future hydropower projects. The Panel members - Michael Cernea, Thayer Scudder, Shi Guoquig, Carmen Garcia-Downing, Susanna Price, Barbara Rose Johnson, Anthony Oliver-Smith, Scott Robinson, Susan Tamondong, Kai Schmidt-Soltau, and Inga-Lill Aronsson - found significant shortcomings and technical errors in the proposed protocol. So severe were these shortcomings, omissions and errors that any hydropower project using them, as they currently stand, would be unacceptable by international forced displacement standards. The full INDR review is linked here .
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Last Updated ( Monday, 14 December 2009 )
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After considerable debate with NGOs and some members of the INDR, the Asian Development Bank's Board approved of its revised Safeguard Policy Statement, which includes the first revision of its involuntary resettlement policies since internal and external reviews found them woefully incapable of avoiding development-induced impoverishment. Earlier on, Ted Downing and Thayer Scudder had asked the Board to revise their policy in light of the research and previous Bank findings on involuntary displacement. See the revised policy and prepare to share your comments with the INDR group.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 24 July 2009 )
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 Germany, Austria and Switzerland have withdrawn their export credit guarantees for the highly controversial Ilisu dam project in Turkey.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 28 July 2009 )
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Edited: Anthony Oliver-Smith Featuring many INDR authors: Michael Cernea, Dana Clark, Theodore Downing, Carmen Garcia-Downing, Barbara Rose Johnston, Dolores Koenig, Thayer Scudder
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 28 July 2009 )
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Fair deal for displaced families? The government will set a humane precedence with the Punatsangchhu hydroproject displaced 10 June, 2009 - The 89 families that will have to make way for the 1200 MW Punatsangchhu dam, the largest number of people ever displaced in such circumstances in Bhutan, may just get the compensation they desire. The minister of economic affairs, Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk, said...
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 29 July 2009 )
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The World Bank Inspection Panel using the investigative skills of Michael Cernea, an INDR founder, to uncover flagrant violations of involuntary resettlement polices and a cover up by World Bank Managers. Issue being covered in The Economist, Fox news, and other media covering the story.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 13 March 2009 )
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