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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

World Commission on Dams on cultural impacts

The World Commission on Dams included cultural impact assessment into its recommendations for Strategic Impact Assessment and Project-Level Impact Assessment

Proposals for cultural heritage impact assessment were based on a working paper on Dams and Cultural Heritage Management The paper prepared following an International Workshop on Cultural Heritage Management and Dams in 2000 proposed that the following procedural aspects need to be considered:

• financial resources should be specifically allocated to CHIA;
• the assessment team should include archaeologists and, if necessary architects and anthropologists; where cultural assets have significant spiritual or religious significance all activities should be planned with the consent of relevant communities;
• assessments should culminate in a mitigation plan to address the cultural heritage issues identified through minimising impacts, or through curation, preservation, relocation, collection or recording; and
• a separate report should be produced as a component of the overall IA process.

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