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Previous experience with dams shows that the local population carry a high proportion of the burden related to such projects. This paper intends to investigate the risks of impoverishment among the project-affected people in the resettled and downstream settlements in the Bujagali area, Uganda. The data is analysed through Cernea s Impoverishment Risks and Reconstruction model and the Sustainable Livelihoods approach. The first one provided the research with concrete indicators of impoverishment. The latter allowed a broad analysis incorporating several elements which constitute a livelihood situation. The analysis found that the resettled population have experienced a relatively high degree of impoverishment, and that it is mainly caused by the adverse effects on their assets. The downstream settlements face a moderate risk of impoverishment by the dam. However, the research suggests that impoverishment can be reversed, mainly by expanding the options of the project-affected people by crating opportunities for alternative livelihood activities. Measures can also be taken to ensure the access to basic needs, especially water and health care.

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• Full title: Local Livelihoods and the Bujagali Hydro-Power Dam, Uganda
• Subtitle: The Risk of Impoverishment
• Author: Karianne Hansen Heien
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88
• EAN: 9783639216080
• ISBN: 3639216083
• ID: 06829487
• Publisher: VDM Verlag
• Weight: 141 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 5 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. December 2009

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