Involuntary Resettlement

Risk Analysis and the Risks and Reconstruction Model in Population Resettlement: Training Course Syllabus, Training Modules and Supporting Materials
Publication Date: November 2005

Available in online version only

Prepared by Professor Michael Cernea

The Training Course aims to describe, explain and facilitate the use of a specific and important tool for risk analysis, the Impoverishment Risks and Reconstruction (IRR) model for adressing adverse social impacts resulting from involuntary resettlement. It is designed and targeted to guide specifically policy and planning including resettlement managers, who are familiar with the issues and challenges of addressing involuntary resettlement.

This Training Course was prepared as one of the key activities and outputs of the Regional Technical Assistance on Capacity Building for Resettlement Risk Management.

In posting the Training Course's Syllabus, contents, and supporting materials on the web, we invite comments from trainers and resettlement specialists on this preliminary/draft version, with a view to taking these comments into account in preparing the revised and final version. The final version will be web-posted after the conclusion of the RETA program, in the first part of 2006.

Please e-mail your comments to Professor Michael M. Cernea.

Contents

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Acknowledgment [ PDF: 51kb | 1 page ]

Introduction: Course Objectives and Structure [ PDF: 73kb | 5 pages ]

User’s Guide [ PDF: 48kb | 2 pages ]

The Seven Modules of the Training Course: Risk Analysis and the Risks and Reconstruction Model in Population Resettlement

Part One

Module I: Social Assessment and Risk Analysis in Development Investment Projects

Introductory Note [ PDF: 53kb | 2 pages ]

Module 1 Slides [ PDF: 145kb | 11 pages ]

Module II: Typologies of Displacement and Resettlement as Processes in Development: Causes, Types, Concepts, Size, and Frequency

Introductory Note [ PDF: 60kb | 2 pages ]

Module 2 Slides [ PDF: 258kb | 23 pages ]

Module III: Improving the Management of Resettlement’s Risks: Options for Effective Project Design for Resettlement with Development

Introductory Note [ PDF: 62kb | 2 pages ]

Module 3 Slides [ PDF: 65kb | 20 pages ]

Part Two

Module IV: The Impoverishment Risk and Reconstruction Model
Part I: Basic Concepts and the Model’s Function. Managers’ Attitudes about Risks

Introductory Note [ PDF: 64kb | 2 pages ]

Module 4 Slides [ PDF: 92kb | 27 pages ]

Module V: IRR
Part II: Resettlers’ Risks: De-Capitalization and Impoverishment

Introductory Note [ PDF: 23.4kb | 2 pages ]

Module 5 Slides [ PDF: 58kb | 26 pages ]

Module VI: IRR
Part III: Risk Reversals and Reconstruction of Resettlers’ Incomes and Livelihoods

Introductory Note [ PDF: 54kb | 3 pages ]

Module 6 Slides [ PDF: 53kb | 19 pages ]

Part Three

Module VII: Valuation, Compensation, Investment in Resettlers’ Development, and Benefit Sharing

Introductory Note [ PDF: 34.8kb | 4 pages ]

Module 7 Slides [ PDF: 101kb | 41 pages ]

Bibliography [ PDF: 37.6kb | 4 pages ]