Local Livelihoods and the Bujagali Hydro-Power Dam, Uganda

2007

Master's Thesis in Development Management - Agder University College, 2007 Previous experience with dams shows that the local population carry a high proportion of the burden related to such projects. This paper intends to investigate the risks of impoverishment among the project-affected people in the resettled and downstream settlements who are in the fishing or agriculture sectors. Earlier empirical research provided the paper with a framework to build the data collection and to analyse the findings together with the following two models: The Impoverishment Risks and Reconstruction model and the Sustainable Livelihoods approach. The first one provided the research with concrete indicator…