Understanding Community Harm Part 5: Livelihoods

In this month's edition of the Console Newsletter, Research Associate Lama Almoayed continues our series in understanding community harm by writing about livelihoods issues. 17% of all complaints to IAMs raise livelihoods issues, claiming harm to the means by which a community makes a living. Projects in Senegal and Gujarat serve as two examples of recent complaints where IAMs found non-compliance but where communities face challenges regarding implementation of appropriate remedy from harm for livelihoods impacts. IFIs bear a responsibility to engage and consult local communities about development projects that affect their land or livelihoods during the due diligence phase and throughout the development of management action plans where IAMs find non-compliance.