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Dams and Development E-Paper Contents

p. 26 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 Resettlement - compensation or development? Upstream and downstream impacts Gender design - ADB case studies What do ADB Policies and strategies say 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

Gender design - ADB case studies

Social impacts of dam projects are felt differently between men and women and provisions to mitigate them need to be designed to accommodate gender considerations. The following case studies provide a window on some of ADB's experience in gender sensitive project design.

• Bangladesh - Small Scale Water Resources Project

• Bangladesh Flood Protection Project

• Nepal - Irrigation Management Transfer Project

• Nepal - Community Managed Irrigation Project

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