{"id":20002356,"date":"2012-05-29T17:48:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T17:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/184.172.177.95\/~chinad\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2012-05-29T17:48:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T17:48:15","slug":"donors-rediscover-large-scale-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/water\/donors-rediscover-large-scale-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Donors rediscover large-scale infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank, the G20 and other multilateral groups have renewed their focus on funding large-scale infrastructure, ignoring lessons of the past, a new report by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/weblogs\/4\/weblog_posts\/International%20Rivers%20warns\">International Rivers warns<\/a>.<br \/>\nMassive infrastructure projects largely went out of fashion among major donors after 1990, as global concern grew over local impacts. In the past, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/news.asp?idnews=107815\">World Bank itself has admitted<\/a>\u00a0that the benefits of mega-investment have largely failed to &#8220;trickle down&#8221; to local communities. But a new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.analisisinternacional.eu\/archivo\/nuevos\/doc291.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">policy paper\u00a0<\/a>released by multinational development banks in 2011 charted a wholesale return to large-scale infrastructure as a development strategy, showing that this lesson has failed to inform current policymaking.<br \/>\nWhile the World Bank highlights the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalrivers.org\/campaigns\/grand-inga-dam-dr-congo\">Inga dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the largest hydroelectric project in the world \u2013 as exemplary of its newfound approach, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalrivers.org\/files\/attached-files\/infrastructure_for_whom_report.pdf\">International Rivers report points out<\/a>\u00a0that billions of dollars spent on the project over the past 50 years has left 94% of the country without access to electricity. &#8220;Past energy, water and transport strategies have neglected the poorest population groups, and taken a heavy toll on affected people and the environment,&#8221; states the report.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, in a recent chinadialogue\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/4729\">article Jamie Skinne<\/a>r revealed that the World Bank and other major multilateral banks have recently renewed their support for large dams in the face of increasing energy and food demand. But Skinner argues that large dams\u00a0<em>could<\/em>\u00a0bring greater benefits to local populations if planners and donors pay much more attention and funding to safeguard the environment and people, and\u00a0put dams\u2019 local development objectives on an equal footing with national objectives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Infrastructure strategies will be a major focus of upcoming discussion in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/g20mexico.org\/en\/b20\">Mexico among the G20<\/a>\u00a0and at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthsummit2012.org\/\">Rio+20 Earth Summit<\/a>. InternationalRivers and others hope this will present an opportunity spark a rethink following new World Bank President Jim Yong Kim&#8217;s assumption of leadership in June.\u00a0They are calling on the Kim to replace the top-down approach to infrastructure with a strategy that prioritises the needs of the poor. Otherwise history may repeat itself.<\/p>\n<p>The debate on how the flash flood occurred will take a long time to settle. Even a Member of Nepal\u2019s Parliament, Chhimi Lama, believes the flood was caused by a GLOF. \u201cIt was probably GLOF and I don\u2019t believe the government\u2019s claim that the flood was caused by a landslide,\u201d he told The Third Pole.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever be the cause, the flood has shownNepal\u2019s lack of preparedness to handle disasters large or small. It took almost two days before relief workers reached the area, and then the army had to be called in to direct the rescue operations. With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change saying that climate change is going to cause more and more \u201cextreme events\u201d, the country needs to be far better prepared to handle them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank, the G20 and other multilateral groups have renewed their focus on funding large-scale infrastructure, ignoring lessons of the past, a new report by International Rivers warns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50039903],"tags":[17827,50040314,554,580,50040707],"hashtags":[],"country":[20000113],"class_list":["post-20002356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water","tag-climate-adaptation","tag-dams","tag-hydropower","tag-policy","tag-the-third-pole","country-nepal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is 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