Publication: Enhancing Development Benefits to Local Communities from Hydropower Projects : A Literature Review
Date
2009-05
ISSN
Published
2009-05
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The World Bank began a three-year pilot
initiative to develop a framework for enhancing development
benefits to local communities in hydropower projects. There
has been a wide array of approaches in the past two decades
that all have in common the objective of designing and
implementing means and mechanisms to ensure local
communities a more equitable share of project benefits. The
World Bank intends to design and test a framework of
enhancing development benefits that can be applied to
hydropower projects and that can be tailored, at the same
time, to the particular circumstances and characteristics of
individual projects. This initiative is based on the
hypothesis that hydropower projects planned in
environmentally and socially sustainable manner can provide
a large range of development benefits to local communities.
Structure of this report: chapter one provides an
introductory background to the literature review briefly
explaining the current context of hydropower projects, the
scope of the assignment and the structure of this report.
Chapter two offers the core of the intellectual discussion
by describing the approach and methodology utilized for the
literature review, by describing the existing literature on
benefit sharing in hydropower projects, by stating the
constraints in enhancing development benefits and the
existent gap in the literature. Finally, chapter three
offers the main conclusions on the outcome of the literature
review on enhancing development benefits to local communities.
Citation
“World Bank. 2009. Enhancing Development Benefits to Local Communities from Hydropower Projects : A Literature Review. © Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/d915a5a4-2c8e-57fd-bc17-fb4d4e4a74cb License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”