ABSTRACT
Each year millions of people are displaced from their homes and lands. While international environmental and social performance standards on land access and involuntary resettlement exist, no framework supporting livelihood restoration has been developed. This book provides a framework that will help improve practice for those who are involved in resettlement projects and, crucially, improve the outcomes for the resettlement-affected households and communities.
Evidence from the implementation of public- and private-sector-led resettlement projects indicates that livelihood restoration is a persistent shortcoming, if not failure, across these projects. This book addresses this issue by re-characterising the ‘livelihood restoration’ objective as ‘livelihood re-establishment and development’ and proposes a framework for the entire resettlement process that puts livelihood considerations first. The framework enables proactive identification of the potential livelihood challenges associated with each step of the resettlement process (design, planning, execution, monitoring and evaluation), as well as the opportunities that resettlement, project development and induced economic growth create.
This book is essential reading for experts in social impact assessment, resettlement specialists, planners, administrators, non-governmental and civil society organisations and students of development studies and social policy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|54 pages
FRaming
part II|54 pages
Assessment of the Rural Environment and Natural Resource-Based Livelihoods
part III|54 pages
Application of a Livelihood Model to the Resettlement Process
part IV|52 pages
Re-establishment and Development of Livelihood Activities
part V|26 pages
Monitoring and Evaluation of Livelihood Re-establishment and Development
part VI|14 pages
Conclusion