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p. -1 of 74 BACK | NEXT Home Page of Dams and Development Foreword I. Why an e-paper on dams and development? II. Assessing options III. Participatory processes IV. Social impacts V. Environmental impacts VI. Benefit distribution VII. Dam safety and sustainability VIII. Existing projects IX. Improving governance X. What other organizations say XI. ADB, Dams, and Development XII. References Contact Us

Examples of in-country dialogues on dams and development
Indonesia

On March 25 2004, the Indonesian Committee on Large Dams, Indonesia Water Partnership, and Indonesian Directorate General of Water Resources hosted the first multi-stakeholder meeting on dams and development in Indonesia, which was supported and facilitated by UNEP-DDP. One hundred people representing government, the private sector, NGOs, indigenous people and the press attended the meeting.

It was recommended by the Indonesian Water Partnership, the Directorate General of Water Resources and the Indonesian Water Partnership that the following suggestions from the dams and development dialogue be incorporated into Indonesia's draft policy for development and management of dams:

• Public Consultation Meeting process should be defined and agreed by multi-stakeholders and standardized.
• Decision making processes on each step of dam development should be clearly defined and agreed by multi-stakeholders.
• Needs assessment should be integrated with the available or existing regional development plan and a spatial planning of region.
• Need to consider social system and natural system in planning stage.
• Need to involve community at all stages of dam development and management.
• A greater attention and concern from stakeholders should be given to condition of catchments area of dams (existing and future). A partnership with concerned NGOs would be necessary to maintain sustainability of catchments area.
• Socio-cultural approach in gaining public acceptance should be considered in the process.
• Improvement human resources in term of quality and quantity is required for managing existing and future dams.

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