Indigenous Peoples

Features

• Improving Resettled Lives (May 2008)


When Vang Thi Bich and her family were relocated to the Huoi Long resettlement site in Lai Chau province in Viet Nam in 2005 to make way for the Son La hydropower project, much of their way of life changed. Read the full story



• Lao PDR Hydro Project Improves Families' Standard of Living, Health (September 2007)



• Special Evaluation Study on Indigenous Peoples Safeguards
  
  This study evaluates ADB's 1998 Policy on Indigenous Peoples (IP). The study acknowledges the good work done by ADB regarding the development of IP, and does not suspect that ADB-funded infrastructure projects since 1994 have regularly caused serious collateral damage for IP, although some projects were identified where ADB-supported projects have caused harm. The evaluation recommends that the safeguard policy update clarify the areas in the 1998 IP Policy that are misunderstood and address the policy drift in the current Operations Manual and IP practice in ADB.



• Pathways Out of Rural Poverty and the Effectiveness of Poverty Targeting
• Bangladesh Poverty Reduction Strategy Feature, April 2005
• Indigenous Peoples Planning Documents and the New Public Communications Policy