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来源类型	Article and other Publication
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	International and local benefit sharing in hydropower projects on shared rivers: the Ruzizi III and Rusumo Falls cases
	Dombrowsky, Ines; Julia Bastian; Daniel Däschle; Simon Heisig; Johannes Peters; Christian Vosseler
出版年	2014
摘要	It has been argued that dam projects on shared rivers may provide opportunities for cooperation and the sharing of benefits among co-riparian states (discourse on international benefit sharing). In parallel, a discourse on local benefit sharing emphasizes that the population affected by dams should benefit from the projects in the long-term. This raises the question of how international and local benefit sharing can be combined and whether these concepts are taken up in recent hydropower projects on shared rivers. This question was studied using the cases of the Ruzizi III and Rusumo Falls border-river hydropower projects in Africa’s Great Lakes region. The paper finds that the two projects indeed foresee both international and local benefit-sharing mechanisms, even if the actors involved hardly refer to international and local benefit sharing as concepts or link the two. At international level, the infrastructure will be jointly owned and electricity equally shared by the countries involved which can be considered good practice for border river projects. At local level, compensation processes are planned according to World Bank policies and various benefit-sharing mechanisms are envisioned. However, so far no revenue-based benefit sharing is foreseen that would ensure that the project-affected population will benefit in the long-term.
URL	https://www.die-gdi.de/en/others-publications/article/international-and-local-benefit-sharing-in-hydropower-projects-on-shared-rivers-the-ruzizi-iii-and-rusumo-falls-cases/
来源智库	German Development Institute (Germany)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/498410
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dombrowsky, Ines,Julia Bastian,Daniel Däschle,et al. International and local benefit sharing in hydropower projects on shared rivers: the Ruzizi III and Rusumo Falls cases.