DERAILED The Resettlement Process and Impacts of the Rehabilitation of the Cambodian Railway
Bridges Across Borders Cambodia has closely monitored the resettlement process and impacts of the GMS Rehabilitation of the Railways in Cambodia Project since early 2010. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is contributing $84 million in concessional loans and the Australian international aid agency AusAID is contributing $22.9 million in grants to this project, which stands to impact at more than 4000 families who live along the tracks. BABC has conducted in depth interviews with over 200 affected households throughout the country to ascertain the extent to which the Railway Project has complied with the ADB Policy on Involuntary Resettlement and international law. The research findings are presented in the report, DERAILED: A Study on the Resettlement Process and Impacts of the Rehabilitation of the Cambodian Railway, which was released in February 2012. BABC has also assisted affected people to access local grievance mechanisms and the ADB Accountability Mechanism in order to prevent harms that they anticipate or rectify harms that they have already experienced as a result of the Railways Project.
BABC hopes that our research and advocacy on this major development project will contribute to a better understanding of why resettlement should always be a last resort and, if absolutely necessary, implemented in a way that respects human rights and ensures that harm does not befall the very people who are most in need of development benefits and least equipped to shoulder its costs.
For more information, click on the links below: Background to the Project and Resettlement Impacts
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