IAP provides accessible and empowering materials for community partners and regional networks that are requesting information about communities’ rights in the context of forced displacement and other risks associated with development projects. Visit our Research and Popular Education Program page to learn more.
We also produce research papers, books and articles examining issues of forced displacement and development justice, to shape policy and current academic research in forced displacement.
Below is a collection of IAP publications to date.
Newsletters
September 2009 Newsletter
Fall 2008 Newsletter
Fall 2007 Newsletter
Publications on Development-Induced Displacement
People's Guide to Understanding Forced Displacement: Rights, Risks and Resistance. IAP is currently drafting this popular education manual for communities fighting to defend their rights against unjust displacement and involuntary resettlement.
Briefing Series on Forced Displacement and Resettlement.
Coming soon ...
Publications on the Asian Development Bank
Development at what cost? An examination of the politics and pitfalls behind the revision of the Involuntary Resettlement Policy at the Asian Development Bank. (Acrobat 304 KB)
This paper was prepared by Jennifer Kalafut and Joanna Levitt and presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee, March 2008.
Concerns Regarding the ADB's Draft Safeguard Policy Statement, (Acrobat 255 KB) submitted by International Accountability Project to the ADB, 19 February 2008.
IAP comments on the ADB Draft Energy Strategy, (Word 157 KB) Molly Clinehens, 27 July 2007.
Summary of Concerns and Recommendations Regarding the Review of Asian Development Bank’s Safeguard Policy on Involuntary Resettlement, (Acrobat 436 KB) Joanna Levitt, 25 February 2007.
IAP comments on the OED Special Evaluation Study on Involuntary Resettlement, (Acrobat 207 KB) Joanna Levitt, 26 January 2007.
Publications on Project-specific Case Studies
Preliminary Assessment on the Phulbari Coal Mine Draft Resettlement Plan, prepared by Jennifer Kalafut, March 2008.
Clark,
Dana L. The Impact of the 2002 Submergence on Housing and Land Rights
in the Narmada Valley. Delhi: Habitat International Coalition, 2003.
PDF Version available: Cover (Acrobat 212 KB) | Text (Acrobat 1.75MB)
Publications on the World Bank and Inspection Panel
Bank Information Center, Center for International Environmental Law, and International Accountability Project. Bringing Human Rights Claims to the World Bank Inspection Panel. October 2009.
Clark, Dana L., Fox, Jonathan, and Kay Treakle, eds. Demanding Accountability: Civil Society Claims and the World Bank Inspection Panel. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
Clark, Dana L. The World Bank and Human Rights: The Need for Greater Accountability. Harvard Human Rights Journal 15. Spring (2002): 205-226.
Clark, Dana L. A Citizen's Guide to the World Bank Inspection Panel (Acrobat 231 KB) Washington DC: Center for International Environmental Law, 1999.
Clark, Dana L. The Strategic Guide to the Inspection Panel (Acrobat 516 KB) Friends of the Earth International and IAP 2004. The Strategic Guide
is complementary to the Citizen’s Guide to the World Bank Inspection
Panel, listed above. The Strategic Guide is designed to help give
concrete strategic advice to claimants and their allies on how to
maximize the potential impact of an Inspection Panel claim.
Clark,
Dana L. An Overview of Revisions to the World Bank Resettlement Policy.
Prepared for the Workshop on Engendering Resettlement and
Rehabilitation Policies and Programmes in India. (New Delhi: September
12, 2002); to be published in L. Mehta (ed), Gender and the Politics of
Forced Displacement (forthcoming, Sage).
Clark, Dana L. Resettlement: The World Bank's Assault on the Poor (Acrobat 118 KB) CIEL Brief, May 2000. (edited by André Carothers).
Publications on the IFC
One
Step Forward, One Step Back: An Analysis of the International Finance
Corporation’s Sustainability Policy, Performance Standards, and
Disclosure Policy (Halifax Initiative, with contributions from the
International Accountability Project, Bank Information Center, and
others). May 2006. A comprehensive assessment of civil society’s concerns with the IFC’s influential new policy framework.
Check back soon for new publications!
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