Socio-economic Consequences of Displacement and Resettlement: A Case on the Planned Oil-refinery-development Project in the Albertine Region of Uganda

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Aboda ◽  
Paul Vedeld ◽  
Patrick Byakagaba ◽  
Frank Mugagga ◽  
Goretti Nabanoga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Oil Refinery ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
The Government ◽  
Productive Assets

Abstract Millions of people are every year forcefully displaced from their places of residence and alienated from access to livelihood assets through large-scale development projects. This article examines different socio-economic consequences of displacement and resettlement caused by the planned oil-refinery site in Uganda. Household survey and interviews were employed to elicit the necessary data, analysed through descriptive statistics, logistic-regression and content analysis. Although the resettlement process exposed households to some benefits, most households were exposed to substantial risks. Over 81 per cent of households experiencing displacement lost their land and experienced reduced resource access. The results also showed significant relationships between consequences and socio-economic characteristics of respondents in that both male and female respondents had access to more and productive assets; and larger land sizes and incomes were reported to have been more affected. Also vulnerable groups including females and those with low or no education levels were more risk-prone than before the resettlement. In future development projects, the government should take into consideration the effect of the displacement and resettlement on asset access.

scholarly journals Maladies of Development in India - Protest against Large Scale Dams: A Case of Hirakud Dam

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Kishor Kumar Podh
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Earthen Dam ◽  
Common People ◽  
Successful Case ◽  
The Government ◽  
Draw Conclusion ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Right ◽  
Development Discourses

Development for whom, who get the benefits etc. became principal agenda in the present development discourses. It not limited to the development practitioners, politicians but also among the intellectuals. Major developmental projects which required larger areas of land such as dams projects, unable to provide proper rehabilitation to the effected people. The case of Hirakud Dam stands as an example of malady development in India. Numbers of big dams were constructed in the country, but, even till date no successful case of rehabilitation and resettlement comes to front. The questions deserve the right to ask the government and development practitioners, decision makers of the country. Who get the benefit? For whom you made such projects? If the common people (at least the affected people) should enjoy the benefit from the development project. The paper tends to highlight development scenario of the country with reference to big dams, and tries to draw conclusion from the Hirakud Dam project in Odisha, retain the position of longest earthen dam of world. The milieu of successful, failure of resettlement causes of the rebellion against the dam. The affected people have no got their compensation till today. On the other hand government of Indian planned more numbers of hydro-projects (Dams), industrial set up. Can, new projects escape from the malady?

scholarly journals Development and Culture in the Context of Chittagong Hill Tracts (Cht), Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Sabiha Yeasmin Rosy
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Chittagong Hill Tracts ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government

This paper aims to understand the background of development and draws a link to culture in the context of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) - a post conflict region – to explore how the dispossession and commercialisation of culture in development planning is processing tension between different actors by reviewing secondary literature. The Indigenous people of Bangladesh have a longstanding history of struggle to achieve self-determination due to their institutional reference as ‘tribes’ or ‘ethnic minorities’. Denial of Indigenous peoples’ identity contributes to their discrimination and violation within the existing development concerns. The specific structural regulations and resource mobilization activities resulting from institutions – government, military, and powerful individuals - in areas inhabited by Indigenous people reflect the asymmetrical relations between Indigenous peoples and Bangalee actors. The conflict started in this region with the mobilization of ethnic majority Bangalee through the settlement programs in 1970s as a part of ‘development’ project, which later created tensions in this region due to the exploitation of people, land, and culture. As the government and ongoing military presence greatly shape ‘development’ for local people, the power relations between different actors facilitate the various forms of exploitative development projects. In addition, the ignorance towards integration of culture in development projects results in imposing threats to Indigenous peoples’ lives, livelihoods, and access to resources. This paper focuses on the economic expansions in this region from modernist perspectives drawing the example of tourism development in the CHT, which can marginalize and exploit Indigenous people in the making of ‘development’, Social Science Review, Vol. 37(2), Dec 2020 Page 87-103

scholarly journals Definition of Socio-Economic Impacts of Large-Scale Development Projects within Urban Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 1203 (2) ◽  
pp. 022091
Author(s):  
Svatopluk Pelčák ◽  
Jana Korytárová
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
The Public ◽  
Incremental Capacity

Abstract The article focuses on the socio-economic impacts of large-scale urban development projects in cities. Both in Czech cities and large cities around the world, there is increasing pressure on converting previously unused areas (“greenfields”) as well as the areas that no longer serve their original purpose and are inefficiently used (“brownfields”) to new use purposes. As a result, public administration representatives face a difficult decision on how to change the use of these areas to be consistent with the current zoning plan. The resulting decision has to be explained to the public in such a way that they feel they meet the public needs and interests. Decision-makers need valid and accurate inputs to make the right decisions. Therefore, it is necessary to clearly define and describe the procedure for assessing the benefits of these important revitalization or regeneration projects for various segments of the public. Only a small part of the urban development project impacts is of a purely financial character. Therefore, the evaluation process uses modelling of socio-economic impacts, which are evaluated financially, so that the decision-makers are able to compare the most valid impacts to the initial investment costs necessary for converting the territory into the area with new functional use. The research sample consists of important urban development projects in the largest cities in the Czech Republic. Most of these projects consist have a territorial study, which was established as the main source of relevant information for the analyses. The outputs of the research described in the article build on the previous research of the authors, where they defined 3 basic variables - Incremental capacity of jobs, Incremental capacity of the population and Incremental capacity of visitors as the carriers of following project socio-economic impacts on the territory. The research article presents a list of socio-economic impacts defined on the basis of incremental capacities.

scholarly journals Organizational and technological genesis as a tool for strategic planning of large-scale real estate development projects

2018 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 01015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Gusakova
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Full Life Cycle ◽  
Adaptive Capabilities ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Construction Organization

Conceptual planning and implementation of large-scale real estate development projects is one of the most difficult tasks in the organization of construction. In the Russian practice, a large experience of development, complex reorganization and redevelopment of large development areas is accumulated. The methodological basis for solving similar problems is the organizational and technological genesis, which considers the development of the project during the full life cycle. An analysis of this experience allows us to talk about the formation of new and effective approaches and methods within the organizational and technological genesis. Among them, the most significant and universal approaches should be highlighted: The concept of real estate development, which explains the reasons and objective needs for project transformations during its life cycle, as well as to increase the adaptive capabilities of design decisions and the project's suitability for the most likely future changes; Development project of joint action, which is based on the balance of interests of project participants; Master planning of the life cycle stages of the project and subprojects, based on the rethinking of the theory and methods of the construction organization, and allowing rationally localized construction sites and related subprojects, while retaining the remaining development and development area beyond of the negative effect of construction for comfortable living and work.

Capital Expenditure, Recurring Expenditure, and Development Planning Comments on Dr. Huda's Address

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-364
Author(s):  
M. Akhlaqur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Financial Planning ◽  
Capital Expenditure ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Capital Costs ◽  
Operation And Maintenance ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this note is to discuss the nature of the problems created -by the "impact of the capital expenditure on the subsequent liabilities of re¬curring expenditure"1 of the government and to suggest certain remedies for either eliminating or reducing such problems. The problem, as stated below, basically relates to the financial planning of development projects. The installation of a development project involves capital costs. The running of the project, after its completion, involves the costs of operation and maintenance, i.e., the recurring costs. The purpose of * financial planning is to maximize the surplus of returns over the costs of opera¬tion, including the maintenance and replacement costs.

scholarly journals The Development Impact on Communities in Chenang Beach, Langkawi Island/ Impak Pembangunan Terhadap Masyarakat di Pantai Chenang, Pulau Langkawi

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khofizhoah Mohd Karim ◽  
Zuraida Mohamad Nizar ◽  
Sezali Md Darit ◽  
Mohd Fo’ad Sakdan
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Significant Finding ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Local Agencies ◽  
The Impact

Less controlled development at Chenang Beach created an unhealthy environment in the area. In fact, most of the built buildings are not approved by the local agencies. Hence, the purpose of this study is to identify the impact of development received by the community based on the effectiveness of development at Chenang Beach. Using stratified and systematic random sampling methods, this study was conducted in five villages within Chenang Beach area. Questionnaire were set up and distributed to 368 respondents. The findings show that there is a significant and negative relationship between the location of development and the impact of development. Whereas, in terms of planned development projects, the findings show that there is no relationship between the development project and the impact of development. However, the study also revealed significant finding, that is, when more areas are being developed, the acceptance among the local community are declining. In addition, this study also shows that development projects undertaken by the government or the private sector do not affect the society as a whole. Therefore, the need for planning and development begins from the aspirations of the local community so that the development implemented has a positive impact on society.

scholarly journals The Rapid Growth of Coconut Estates in Indragiri Hilir 1980s – 1990s

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-134
Author(s):  
Atqo Akmal ◽  
Warto Warto ◽  
Sariyatun Sariyatun
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Industry Cluster ◽  
Economic Market ◽  
The Past ◽  
Major Producer ◽  
The Government ◽  
Increasing Demand

Coconut estate is one of the vital agriculture sub-sectors in Indonesia because it has an important role in absorbing employment. In the early 20th century, Netherland Indies was one of the major copra exporters globally, and the eastern region of Nusantara contributed as the leading producer. However, in the 1930s – 1950s, the coconut-based economy's contraction phase in the eastern region had weakened the whole production. The Indonesian government tried to recover coconut estates and its economic market through several efforts, such as rehabilitating smallholder coconut estates, recovering copra trading, and starting coconut industrialization. Used historical research methods, this article described the shifting of Indonesia coconut-based economy from the past center of trade and production, in the eastern region of Indonesia, to a recent major producer and industry cluster in the Indragiri Hilir, Riau Province. In the 1980s – 1990s, the government efforts to improve coconut commodities have led to shifting the Indonesian coconut-based economy to Indragiri Hilir. Several policies issued by the government such as Smallholder Coconut Development Project, Proyek Peremajaan Rehabilitasi dan Perluasan Tanaman Ekspor (PRPTE), Nucleus Estate Smallholder (NES), Nucleus Estate Smallholder Transmigration (NES-Trans), and the local government funding, as well as the liberalization of coconut trading regulation, had stimulated rapid growth of coconut estates in Indragiri Hilir. Even though several schemes and governments attempt to develop smallholder coconut estates, the expansion rate was mostly dominated by self-funded smallholder coconut estates. During the 1980s – 1990s, the increasing demand for coconut from large-scale processing industries had attracted the smallholder to cultivate coconut.

scholarly journals Flood Of 1954: The Beginning of a Developmental State

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-48
Author(s):  
Sharad Ghimire
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
The Political ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Government

Development projects evolve with reference to particular framings of the need and imperatives of developing country. Once development projects get legitimated in this way, the aid agencies deepen their presence to move in a direction of their choice. This is evident from an examination of the 1954 flood in Nepal which devastated a significant part of the hills and Tarai in the eastern, central and western areas. This paper looks into the disaster caused by that flood; into how the government of Nepal, the civil society and donors responded to it; and into the way the crisis stirred conflict and contestation among political parties within and outside the government. This paper is based primarily on the review of newspaper coverage around the flood, the political processes and the inauguration of development project in Nepal in the 1950s. It shows the extraordinary power of how the crisis caused by flood stirs up political contestation and helps legitimize actions of one or the other actor, including the donors. These insights on the power of a big disaster to command response from a wide range of domestic actors and donors help us question the largely technocratic framing of the ongoing debate around disaster risk reduction.  

Disrupted Landscapes

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-116
Author(s):  
Sarah Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Government Agency ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Photographic Essay ◽  
The Government

This chapter examines a photographic essay created by the renowned photojournalist and filmmaker Raymond Depardon about the farm on which he grew up. In 1963, the government expropriated part of the Depardon family’s farm in order to build a superhighway. Twenty years later Depardon photographed what remained as part of a landmark public photographic enterprise commissioned in 1983 by the DATAR, the government agency that oversaw the large-scale postwar regional development projects. This chapter explores Depardon’s photography within the larger project of the Mission photographique de la DATAR. It illuminates the role of photographs in shaping perceptions of the postwar upending of rural life and landscapes.

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