Our advocacy work around international policy must be grounded in and informed by project-specific cases.
We prioritize spending time on the ground working directly with partner communities. We work in solidarity with affected peoples to directly challenge the projects that threaten them with involuntary resettlement, loss of livelihood and loss of community. Read
personal reflections from IAP staff, fellows and volunteers during
their travels to communities where international finance of destructive
development projects is having devastating impacts on the ground.
Our project campaigns are chosen based on our strategic objectives and how the project will impact communities’ rights in the context of potential forced displacement. IAP strives to work with local, national and international partners in each of our project campaigns and to draw policy messages that can be used in broader advocacy efforts.
Current project advocacy initiatives:
 Cambodia Airports Project, Cambodia
The Cambodia Airports II project is an IFC-financed initiative to expand airports from international tourism and private-sector-led development in Cambodia. Communities living along the site for proposed expansion of the airport in Sihanoukville have faced injustices related to forced resettlement, compensation and participation.
Maple Gas Project, Peru
The Maple Gas project is...
 Phulbari Coal Mine, Bangladesh
The Phulbari Coal Project is a planned open pit coal mine in Bangladesh, which, if implemented, would displace 220,000 people. In addition to possible financing from the ADB, the project continues to receive support through equity investments of several major financial institutions.
Past project advocacy initiatives:
 Highway One, Cambodia
IAP and regional partners presented a photo slideshow on involuntary resettlement along Cambodia's Highway One at a panel during the Asian Development Bank annual meetings in Kyoto, Japan, May 2007.
 National Thermal Power Corporation, Singrauli, India
In April 1997, a claim was filed to the World Bank Inspection Panel requesting an investigation into the Bank’s role in the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Power Generation Project.
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