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| Member Since | 10/28/2007 |
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| Occupation: | International Independent Consultant |
| Company: | Independent |
| Country: | FRANCE |
| Phone #: | 33(0)561 861 224 |
| Short Statement: | One of the most critical challenges in addressing resettlement issues, which has pervaded throughout my carrier, is related to the need to re-establish or reorganize the local connections (physical and social networks) after the displacement of population. This would require adequate information and high-quality communication to reduce conflicts and reaction to poor governance. Considering that the restoration of livelihood may take long, up to ten years when one consider poor and vulnerable people which have lost their social networks, projects dealing with resettlement should be adequately designed and funded (budgeted). This assesment is based on my experience with rural people deprived from adequate water, land and forest caused by dam and other infrastructure construction, or development of national parks, and biological conservation. In this respect, I would recommend that a balance should be found between urban dwellers’ and rural people’s needs. Meanwhile, comparing the experience of displacement caused by the construction of Large Dams in France along the XXth c. and today shows that the international social norms give an opportunity to improve the life of rural people when a Resettlement Action Plan is adequately prepared and implemented. |
| Displacement Experience: | Anthropologist. Consultant to the World Bank (since 1993) and other international organizations. Over 30 missions in Africa and South-East and East Asia, mainly on infrastructure, and natural resources management. Currently, member of the World Bank ESAP Panel (Environmental and Social Advisory Panel) to the PIC/IG2P Project in Madagascar, related to the construction of the largest port in the Indian Ocean (on going since 2004). Infrastructure: Appraisal and supervision of the Ziga dam (Burkina Faso - WB 1994-95 and 2003); Preparation of a WB-Sourcebook focused on the El Mina slum in Mauritania - resettlement of 12 000 among 40 000 dwellers as part of the WB Urban Planning project ; Appraisal of rural infrastructure projects in Senegal and Guinea (WB 2000 and 2003); Monitoring of part of the Highway Project in China (WB 1994); Monitoring critical social issues of the Bagre dam (Burkina Faso - AFD 1991, European cooperation 1996) ; Natural resources management: Evaluation of a traditional energy project (Senegal - WB 2004, awarded); Evaluation of the Gourma Project (Mali – WB 2002) ; Appraisal and evaluation of a wildlife project (Burkina Faso - WB 1994, 2001) ; Evaluation and monitoring of the National Land Management Programme (Burkina Faso - WB 1991, 1993, 2000). Assessment of Forest and Land Allocation issues in Vietnam (under consideration). Reorganizing communication and building consensus around the socio-economic impacts of large dams on the Dordogne river (Ministere de l’Environnement, France - 2000, 2002). These projects have had displacement and resettlement issues. I have also studied the history of displacement caused by Large Dams in France in the XXth c. I have analysed the data in the local Archives and interviewd the witnesses, in order to make a retrospective assesment, sixty years later (see articles). |
| Publications: | A book : Le Pays Bissa avant le barrage de Bagre. Paris/Ouagadougou, SEPIA, 1996 Articles (selection on displacement and resettlement) -« Displacement along the rivers of France: Affected People Looking Back» in Renu Modi Beyond Relocation: The Imperative of Sustainable Resettlement. An agenda for restoring livelihoods, mitigating poverty, Sage Publications India, 2009. - (With R. Gouvéia, illustrator) « Mémoires de la vie dans la Vallée de la Dordogne avant le Barrage de Bort-les-Orgues », Revue ARKHEIA, november 2008. - “Ecouter les voix de la Vallée : les riverains des Gorges de la Dordogne”, in S. Bonin et N. Blanc (eds.) Grands barrages et habitants Ed. Quae, Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2008, pp. 101-124. - “Social norms for population displacements caused by large dams. France, 20th century: the example of the Tignes and Serre-Ponçon dams in the Alps and the Aigle and Bort-les-Orgues dams in Haute-Dordogne”. “Des normes sociales pour les déplacements de population causés par les grands barrages”. La Revue de Géographie alpine – Journal of Alpine Research, 2008 n° 1, p.15-28 et 29-44. - “Improving public information about large hydroelectric dams: Case studies in France and West Africa”, Natural Resources Forum. A United Nations Journal published by Blackwell Pub, Oxford, NRF: 27:1, February 2003, pp. 32-41. - "Land Tenure and Settlement in the Onchocerciasis-Freed Zones of Burkina Faso", (for OECD/Club du Sahel) in Sustainable Settlement and Developpement of the Onchocerciasis Control Programme Area (J.Elder & L. Cooley ed.), Washington, World Bank, 1995 (World Bank Technical Paper n° 310) pp. 44-48. - « Le barrage de Tignes, questions sociales”. in S. Bonin et N. Blanc (eds.) Grands barrages et habitants , Ed. Quae, Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2008, pp.27-29. |
| Accomplishments: | I have always considered keeping long lasting relationship at national and local level after research and studies critical for assessing the long term impact of my work as an anthropologist. |
| Highest Degree: | Doctorate, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris 1990 (trained at Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, College de France, 7 years) |
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