Dam Watch Group - DWG
Former overal objective
- Advance local indigenous peoples rights to land, resources and a safe environment through enriched knowledge, increased capacity and complementary action among NGOs and Pos on the issues of mining, plantation and dams in the Mekong.
Revised Goal
Advance IP rights to their traditional livelihood - culture, environment + land along the LANCANG - Mekong river
Objectives: Livelihood Rights
1. Culture: to preserve and assert IP culture, esp. housing, knowledge + land usage
2. Environment: to protect + promote IP access to use of environment
3. Land: to recognize + enforce IP access to and ownership IP of land, esp. for farming and fishing
Participation Rights
To advocate, achieve participate in transparent inclusive and effective consultation + negotiation process.
Resettlement Rights
To decide where to fulfill livelihood right, culture, environment and land.
Operation Rights
- To share in + benefit dams, esp. electricity, profits.
- To adopt legal right + provide adequate compensation.
- To remedy the harm caused by dams at national and regional levels against govt and business
Strategy
- Organizing rotational Mekong regional meeting
- Networking (e.g. customary law on natural resource management exchanging, ecological knowledge sharing on herbs, handicraft, natural dyeing and traditional farming, etc).
- Setting steering committees at national and regional levels.
- Inter-cooperation with national and regional NGOs, media, researchers, uni. INGOs, AIPP, TERRA, SERRIN, MRC, RCSD, SPERI, CODE, river networks, BIC, GMS Study Center – Yunann, China
- Bridging cooperation with, WWF, IUCN, Oxfarm, ICCO, etc.
- Website - information sharing center on local knowledge: htt://www.dwg.org
- Setting up a space for traditional education on Ips knowledge
