ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to reflects the roughly even split between dams built for hydropower and those built for irrigation. Shuikou and Yantan set new standards in preparing for income restoration; Pak Mun set new standards in minimizing impacts through redesign and in maximizing compensation rates. Lack of follow-up and little if any attention to income restoration mars performance that is satisfactory in many other regards. The Pak Mun and Kedung Ombo cases, where resettlers were picked up and carried along by tidal changes in the regional economy even without planning, confirm that planners can be more aggressive in designing compensation packages linked to non-land-based diversification strategies to put displacees back to work. Country performance on each of the three main activities of resettlement shows the following: on compensation, ratings vary but are generally good, and poor performers appear to be improving.
