Opportunities in Dam Planning and Management: A Communication Practitioner's Handbook for Large Water Infrastructure

Leonardo Mazzei, Lawrence J. M. Haas and Donal T. O'Leary

No 2311 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: Communication for development is a comparatively new field that offers new tools and techniques to support inclusive and informed decisions in the planning and management of large water and energy infrastructure projects, including dams. Rethinking the approach to communication on dam projects is also timely in today's policy context. A window of opportunity has opened to tie in governance reform (including fighting corruption), poverty reduction, and communication with today's challenges in sustainable infrastructure development. Progress on any one of these aspects requires effective communication with stakeholders and interests. This handbook aims to help foster a 'communication culture' that will accommodate the wide range of stakeholder interests in dam planning and management in ways appropriate to the development context of today and the need to promote solutions to sustainability challenges. It seeks to create awareness among practitioners of the benefits and costs of improving the role of communication in infrastructure development. It also demonstrates how communication helps to improve governments' capacities to address corruption issues in infrastructure. Finally, this handbook is aimed at building the capacity of project teams and government officials to effectively adopt and adapt modern communication principles and tools to cover all stages of the dam project cycle.

Keywords: Private; Sector; Development-E-Business; Education-Knowledge; for; Development; Finance; and; Financial; Sector; Development-Banks; &; Banking; Reform; Private; Sector; Development-Emerging; Markets; Public; Sector; Corruption; and; Anticorruption; Measures; Public; Sector; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8213-8216-5
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