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2008: ADB Loan No: TA-6262 (REG): ENHANCING THE DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS OF THE GREATER MEKONG SUBREGION ECONOMIC COOPERATION PROGRAM, GMS HIGHWAY EXPANSION PROJECT - THAILAND: FOUR-LANE HIGHWAY WIDENING PROJECT PHASE II. Resettlement Specialist. Review and assess the capacity of the executing agency (EA); Design and implement a consultation and participation program; Carry out a census of affected people, an asset inventory (or inventory of losses survey), landownership, usage and productivity assessments, and data on the existing economic and social condition of the affected people; Prepare a full Resettlement Plan. 2 person-months.
2008: WORLD BANK:NORTHERN DELTA TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (NDTDP). VIET NAM. Resettlement, Social Support Specialist. Compilation and finalization of census and inventory results; Review and finalization of Resettlement Policy Framework; Review and finalization of Ethnic Minority Policy Framework; Preparation and finalization of Resettlement Plans/Resettlement Action Plans for specified sub-projects; Review and finalization of Social Impact Assessment; Coordination of any additional required field studies; Coordination and management of inputs of local specialists; Liaison with Project Management Unit – Waterways and World Bank. 1.5 person-months.
2008: ADB: TA 7642-LAO, NABONG -UDON THANI 500 KV PROJECT. LAOS. Social Specialist. Due diligence on Nam Ngum 2, Thai portion of transmission line, Nam Mgum 3, Nam Ngiep 1 and Nam Theun 1; prepare social impact assessment to ADB social safeguards requirements; Prepare RP for substation; assess HIV/AIDs and STD awareness programs. 2 person-months.
2008: ADB: TA No. 7041-BAN, PARTICIPATORY SMALL SCALE WATER RESOURCES PROJECT. BANGLADESH. Safeguards Specialist. Overall responsibility for quality control and finalization of all safeguards related outputs prepared under the PPTA, assisting in synthesis of outpus prepared by relevant specialist staff to develop safeguards framework and related plans as required under ADB’s policies on involuntary resettlement (1995), indigenous peoples (1999), and the environment (2002), considering the gender aspects as well as Operations Manual (OM Section F2) on involuntary resettlement and Government’s policies. 1 person-month.
2007–2008: ADB: TA-34355-01 VIE, CENTRAL REGION URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (CRUEIP), VIET NAM. Resettlement Specialist. Black & Veatch (International) Ltd (BVI) Reviewing work done on Resettlement consulting and preparation of special report, including recommendations aimed at ensuring BVI’s performance in the area of resettlement consulting is adequate and in line with our Consulting Contract requirements. Working with Local Resettlement Specialist to set up a focused reporting system enabling Team Leader to monitor monthly progress on resettlement, prepared on a quantitative basis based on easily accessible data. Preparing and implementing further Training on Resettlement Monitoring: Objective of 2 day seminar, combined in Hue, making clear to Project Management Units (PMUs) requirements, particularly of the ADB, for resettlement monitoring, for resettlement staff from each PMU plus Project Coordinating Unit (PCU). 1.5 person-months.
2007: ADB: TA NO 4763-INO, METROPOLITAN SANITATION MANAGEMENT AND HEALTH PROJECT (MSMHP), INDONESIA. Resettlement Specialist. Black & Veatch (International) Ltd (BVI) Develop the MSMHP to a level of detail suitable for consideration by the ADB for funding, preparing city sanitation strategies (CSS) for up to five large cities and subproject appraisal reports (SPARS) for up to three of these cities, preparing implementation support and institutional development programs. Specific activities Assess the need for land acquisition in the Project and if required preparing resettlement framework RF) for project in accordance with ADB requirements. 1.5 person-months.
2006–2010. ADB Loan No: VIE 29296-01, PHUOC HOA WATER RESOURCES, VIET NAM. Resettlement Specialist, Team Leader; Social Support Specialist.. Black & Veatch (Overland Park, KS, USA). Providing Resettlement Planning and Implementation Support. Review the approved Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plans. Assist Project Management Units (PMUs) in implementing the Resettlement Plans, following ADB Resettlement Policy, with a focus on community consultation, entitlement review, compensation assessment, and grievance procedures. 12 person-months.
2006: ADB: TA-4690 VIE, STRENGTHENING INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY OF LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF SON LA LIVELIHOOD AND RESETTLEMENT PLAN, VIET NAM. Resettlement Specialist, Team Leader. ADB Staff Consultant. Reviewing Master Resettlement Plan and District Resettlement and Livelihood activities prepared by the Government and identifying areas for improvement; developing comprehensive resettlement and livelihood framework; conducting training need assessment at the commune, district, province and national level for government, mass organization and community leaders for collecting quality data for preparing social analysis, resettlement plan, and livelihood activities, implementation of resettlement plan and livelihood activities; preparing modules based on the needs assessment, preparing Master Training Plan in coordination with national consultants; developing mechanism effective consultation and grievance process. 4 person-months, Intermittent. (2 person-months).
2006. ASIA ENERGY, PCL (LONDON): PHULBARI COAL PROJECT: ESIA FOR COAL TRANSPORTATION, BANGLADESH. Resettlement/SIA Principal.. SMEC Services Pty Ltd, Australia. Responsible for ensuring the social aspects of the ESIA are prepared to Government of Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank standards; preparing a Resettlement Plan to Government of Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank Standards; overseeing the establishment and maintenance of socio-economic and resettlement databases. 2.5 person-months.
2005–2008. ADB: Loan No 1941-Ban (SF), JAMUNA-MEGHNA RIVER EROSION & MANAGEMENT PROJECT (JMREMP), BANGLADESH.International Resettlement Specialist. Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd. (nhc), Edmonton. (i) Supervision of Resettlement Plan (RP) implementation; (ii) Setting up and directing working committees assisting in the preparation of the Land Acquisition (LA) and RP; (iii) Ensuring that the LA and RP are consistent with ADB’s involuntary resettlement and other social safeguard policies; (iv) Clarifying and defining key issues related to land compensation as a guide to compensation payment; (v) Assisting in conducting information campaigns on the RP policy and framework, convening consultation meetings with the various stakeholders, and disclosure of the RP to the APs and communities; (vi) Preparation of RP in a form suitable to both ADB and the Government of Bangladesh (GOB); (vii) On the basis of external review report, devising specific measures to address any identified constraints on the resettlement issues; (viii) Reviewing and assessing the implementation of Social Development Program (SDP); (ix) Preparing progress reports and other documentation as required to keep ADB informed regarding the status of RP preparation and implementation. 3 person-months.
2005–2006. JICA: UPGRADING FEASIBILITY STUDY ON UPPER SETI (DAMAULI) STORAGE HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT, NEPAL. Social Environmental Expert. Nippon Koei, Tokyo. Review and updating of existing EIA for proposed 122 MW storage hydropower dam; preparing Resettlement Plan (RP) and Social Action Plan (SAP) through preparing TOR for and overseeing sub consultant field work. Six visits 2005–2006. 6 person-months.
2005: ADB GTA 6227-REG, GMS North-South Economic Corridor Bridge Project, Lao PDR, Thailand. Senior Resettlement Specialist. Oriental Consultants, Tokyo. Reviewing Resettlement Safeguard Policies of Laos & Thai Governments to be applied to Mekong River Bridge at Houayxai (Laos) and Chieng Khong (Thailand); Developing Suitable Environmental Mitigation Measures to Construction Impacts Based on Initial Environmental Evaluation (EIA); Assessing Need for Road Safety Measures & Identify Appropriate Measures; Identifying & Preparing Socioeconomic Profiles of Affected Communities in Project Area. 0.5 person-months. (2005)
2005: ADB PPTA: BAN36107-01 POWER SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM II, BANGLADESH, Thailand. Social and Resettlement Specialist. Nexant, Inc, San Francisco. Preparing Initial Poverty and Social Analysis (IPSA) to assess the direct and indirect effects on poor and vulnerable groups of the proposed reform policy, such as tariff increase, mandatory meter installation, and labor rationalization with recommended mitigation. Identifying impact on indigenous peoples, and preparing appropriate Indigenous Peoples Plan, as necessary. Preparing Resettlement Plans, as required. 2.5 person-months. (2005)
2005: ADB Loan No: 1941-Ban (SF), JAMUNA-MEGHNA RIVER EROSION & MANAGEMENT PROJECT (JMREMP), BANGLADESH. International Resettlement Specialist. Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd. (nhc), Edmonton. (i) Supervision of Resettlement Plan (RP) implementation; (ii) Setting up and directing working committees assisting in the preparation of the Land Acquisition (LA) and RP; (iii) Ensuring that the LA and RP are consistent with ADB's involuntary resettlement and other social safeguard policies; (iv) Clarifying and defining key issues related to land compensation as a guide to compensation payment; (v) Assisting in conducting information campaigns on the RP policy and framework, convening consultation meetings with the various stakeholders, and disclosure of the RP to the APs and communities; (vi) Preparation of RP in a form suitable to both ADB and the Government of Bangladesh (GOB); (vii) On the basis of external review report, devising specific measures to address any identified constraints on the resettlement issues; (viii) Reviewing and assessing the implementation of Social Development Program (SDP); (ix) Preparing progress reports and other documentation as required to keep ADB informed regarding the status of RP preparation and implementation. 3 person-months. (2005)
2004–2005: ADB LOAN NO: LAO 34231-01, GREATER MEKONG SUBREGION: NORTHERN ECONOMIC CORRIDOR PROJECT, LAO PDR. Social Specialist. Oriental Consultants, Tokyo. Preparation of Social Action Plan (SAP) and training 20-member field team in Resettlement Plan (RP) implementation. The project scope includes upgrading the existing 220 kilometer road between Houayxay to Boten, Lao PDR, capacity building for the provincial level officials in implementation and monitoring SAP and RP for nearly forty ethnic minorities in the region. 10.25 person-months. (2004–2005)
2004–2013: ADB LOAN NO.: NEP 31624-02, MELAMCHI WATER SUPPLY PROJECT, NEPAL. Social Specialist, Panel of Social and Environmental Experts. Melamchi Water Board, Kathmandu. Periodic, comprehensive and independent review of the Project's social mitigation and monitoring activities during the construction phase. The main objectives of the Project are to alleviate the chronic water shortage in Katmandu Valley on a sustainable, long-term basis, and to improve the health and well-being of its inhabitants. The Project also seeks to develop a comprehensive institutional framework for water resource management within the valley. It involves the transfer of water from the Melamchi Valley into Katmandu Valley through a diversion scheme with a 26 kilometer tunnel. The Project comprises (i) infrastructure development; (ii) social and environmental support; (iii) institutional reforms; and (iv) project implementation support. 6 person-months. (2004–2007)
2003: ADB TA 4078-CAM: Cambodia Rural Electrification & Transmission Project. Resettlement Expert. Australian Power and Water Pty Ltd, Updating socioeconomic profiles, project affected communities, including gender, ethnic minorities, preparing full RP, including full census and inventory (incorporated into GIS), resettlement effects, entitlements matrix, income restoration through sustainable development, regional development analysis, grievance mechanisms and appeal procedures, disclosure, stakeholder participation, and summary RP for ADB’s RRP. 3 person-months. (2003)
2003: ADB. Mekong Region Resettlement Management Traininng, Cambodia. Workshop Designer, Organizer and Presenter, Staff Consultant/Social Policy and Resettlement Specialist. Phnom Penh, Cambodia 20-22 October 2003. Organized and conducted 3 day Training Workshop for Cambodian officials and for ADB Resident Mission staff from Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Lao PDR. (2003)
2003: ADB TA NO 3755-BAN: Road Network Improvement & Maintenance II, Bangladesh, Poverty & Social Analysis & Resettlement Expert. Meritec (Maunsell), Developing Socioeconomic Profiles of districts along 300km of feeder roads and 200 km regional and national roads.Initial Social Impact Analysis including identification of land requirement, involuntary resettlement and the steps required to mitigate. Summary resettlement and rehabilitation action plan. Detailed investment plan in selected potential project areas to strengthen sub-national road networks and bottlenecks on national roads. 4 person-months. (2003)
2000–2003: ADB LOAN: PRC 31182-01: Zhejiang-Shanxi Water Supply Project (Phases I&II). International POE, Resettlement Expert. Shanxi Economic Development Company, Wenzhou, PRC, ADB-Financed. Resettlement – International Panel of Experts. Benefit, Monitoring and Evaluation of Resettlement Program. Preparation and analysis of benchmark or baseline information, including poverty alleviation, monitoring of benefits during implementation and after completion of the project and evaluation of benefits of the completed project, with stakeholder participation. Two dams with major inundation areas involving Resettlement of 37,000 primarily Han population. 3 person-months. (2000–2003)
2001–2002: ADB RSC C20347-PHI: Social Safeguard Compliance Support and Capacity Building, Manila, Social Safeguard Specialist. Provided, as an ADB staff consultant, involuntary resettlement and indigenous peoples project support and policy compliance review for Asia/Pacific. Carried out involuntary resettlement and indigenous peoples policy compliance review of RPs, including Entitlement Matrix, Budgets and technical assistance in Project preparation and implementation of social analysis for proposed ADB Projects in Greater Mekong Sub-Region, including for Lao PDR with field visit for evaluation of Secondary Towns development project September 2001. Drafted indigenous peoples chapter for ADB’s Atlas of the Greater Mekong Subregion, assisted in drafting ADB’s new Operational Manual on Resettlement (OMF2). 7 person-months.
January – May 2000: ADB financed feasibility study Se San 3 Hydropower Project, Vietnam. For Worley Engineers, New Zealand. Preparation of Social Impact Assessment (SIA) and Minority Peoples Development Plan (MPDP).
2002: Staff Consultancy, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines for
Involuntary Resettlement Project Support and Capacity Building.
July – October 2002. Staff Consultancy, Asian Development Bank,
Manila, Philippines for Involuntary Resettlement Project Support and Capacity
Building. Including ADB involuntary resettlement and indigenous peoples
policy compliance review; upgrading ADB’s section 50 on involuntary
resettlement in the Operations Manual, Bank Policy (OP), Operational Procedures
(OP), and Guidelines on Operational Procedures (GP), still in process;
and preparation of indigenous peoples chapters in ADB’s upcoming
Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Environmental Atlas; July 25th Workshop
on Indigenous Peoples/Ethnic Minorities and Poverty Reduction in the Philippines.
August – November 2001. Including Review and On-Site Supervision
of resettlement plans Laos, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Philippines and other
Asian countries. Ongoing, W. Bengal Corridor Project, Sri Lanka Southern
Transport desk reviews. Aug-Sept – Field visit review of Secondary
towns Urban Development Project, ADB Loan 1525-Lao (SF).
2001–2002: JICA-Financed Kulekhani III Hydropower Project Feasibility Upgrading, Nepal. Social EnvironmentSpecialist. For Nippon Koei Engineers, design and carrying out (preparation of TOR, hiring and supervision of domestic consultant) of rapid assessment and detailed socioeconomic survey and census of affected community, largely ethnic minority Tamang but also high caste Brahmin/Chetri and Newar. Prepared RP, social action plan, and stakeholder analysis/public consultation program based on extensive fieldwork and regional and village level public consultation workshops, for updating of existing Nepal Electricity Authority Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), preparing program for detailed design studies. Prepared socioeconomic profiles project affected communities using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including gender, ethnic minorities, preparing full RP, including full census and inventory, resettlement effects, entitlements matrix, regional development analysis, income restoration, sustainable development, grievance mechanisms and appeal procedures, disclosure, stakeholder participation, and summary RP. 6 person-months.
2000: ADB PPTA 3222-VIE Phase II - Environmental, Social and Technical Analysis for Se San 3 Hydropower Project, Vietnam. Team Leader, Sociologist. Feasibility Study, Worley (Meritec, Maunsell) Engineers, New Zealand. Prepared Socioeconomic profile using both participatory rapid assessment and socioeconomic survey methodologies, including dis-aggregation by gender, and census, as well as prepared Minority Peoples Development Plan. 4 person-months.
2001: World Bank-Financed Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project Preparation Studies.
July 2001. Resettlement Specialist. Updating Resettlement Action
Plan (RAP). Meritec Engineers (New Zealand). [Postponed]
ADB-Financed, Zhejiang Shanxi Water Supply Project (Phase I).
July 2000 – 2002. Resettlement Panel, Resettlement Expert.
SEDC, Wenzhou, PRC. Reviewing implementation of 70,000 Person Resettlement
Action Plan (RAP) in Zhejiang Province, as member of experts' panel, through
field visits and survey of documentation.
2000: TA-3207-TAJ Power Sector Development Study. June – July
2000. ADB, Tajikistan, Electrowatt Engineers. Preparation of Social
Impact Assessment (SIA) and Poverty Alleviation Action Plan.
2000: ADB financed feasibility study Se San 3 Hydropower Project, Vietnam.
January – May 2000. For Worley Engineers, New Zealand. Preparation
of Social Impact Assessment (SIA) and Minority Peoples Development Plan
(MPDP).
1999: International Resources Group (IRG), Washington, DC. April
1999 to Present. Task Leader for Environmental and Social Assessments
of the Private Sector Hydropower Development Project of the Electricity
Develop Centre, Ministry of Water Resources, Nepal. Preparing Social Impact
Assessment (SAP) guidelines for private hydropower development in Nepal.
1999: Worley Engineers, New Zealand. April 1999 to Present. Sociologist
for the World Bank-funded Lao Hydropower Development Strategy Study in
the Lao PDR. Development of Social Impact Criteria for Ranking of Hydropower
Projects and Preparation of National Guidelines For Hydropower Development
Related Resettlement, Social Participation, Social Action Plans.
1999: Harza Engineers, Chicago, IL. January 1999 to Present.
R Resettlement Consultant for the ADB Feasibility Study of the Zhanghewan
Pumped Storage Project, Shirjiazhuang, Hebei Province, Peoples Republic
of China. Preparation of Resettlement Action Plan (RAP).
1998: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). August 1998-Present.
Social and Environment Expert Study Team for Nam Ngiep-1 Hydroelectric
Power Project in the LAO PDR. Preparation of Social Impact Assessment
(SIA), Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) and Indigenous Peoples Development
Plan (IPDP).
1998: Asian Development Bank, Sociological Advisor, Yunnan Dachaoshan Power
Transmission Project (Yunnan Province). January/June, 1998.
Prepared and supervised socio-economic survey and assisted in development
of Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) for Dachaoshan Hydrelectric Power Station,
China.
1997: PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP, Principal Consultant, for Management Consulting
Services (MCS). 1997-Present. Dr. Ragsdale has prepared the
Environmental and Social Framework for the World Bank-financed Private
Sector Infrastructure Development Company (PSIDC) in Sri Lanka and will
advise PSIDC on social assessment processing of its infrastructure projects
through the year 2002; and supervised preparation of Draft Environmental
and Social Assessment Guidelines Manual for Bangladesh Infrastructure
Development Company (BIDC).
1997–2000: Independent Panel of Experts, Nam Leuk Hydropower Project, Vientiane,
Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Social Development Specialist member
of the Panel of Experts. Dr. Ragsdale's assignment
is to oversee on behalf of the Lao PDR Government and the Asian Development
Bank the social impacts of the project and the implementation of social
development programs, including a conservation and development program
in the Phuo Khao Khouay National Biodiversity Conservation Area, where
the project is located, through a fund set up from electricity sales. Provided oversight for Electricite du Laos (EdL) and ADB during Project construction of social impacts, including involuntary resettlement. Carried out social analysis to determine unforeseen direct or indirect social impacts and coordinating public participation and information dissemination to promote meaningful input from all stakeholders, especially local residents, to assure that issues they raised were appropriately addressed. Included introduction of HIV Aids program on POE’s recommendation, through Lao Women’s Union, as part of Social Action Plan. The POE reports are posted at ADB’s Internet webpage at: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Profiles/LOAN/namleuk/namleuk/namleuk.htm
6 person-months.
1995–2000: ADB: PPTA PRC28212-03 AND TA 2477-PRC, HEBEI ZHANGHEWAN PUMPED STORAGE PROJECT, PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC). Resettlement Specialist. As consultant for Harza Engineers, provided technical assistance to Hebei Electric Power Corporation (HEPC) for social analysis in preparation of RP to international standards and in compliance with ADB policies and guidelines for relocation of seven villages under three townships, Prepared socioeconomic profiles, project affected communities, including gender, ethnic minorities, preparing full RP, including full census and inventory, resettlement effects, entitlements matrix, grievance mechanisms and appeal procedures, disclosure, stakeholder participation, and summary RP for ADB RRP. 5.5 person-months.
Multinational Environment and Social Assessment Services (MESAS), Principal. July 1995-present.
- Dr. Ragsdale carried out the social assessment for the Power Sector Environmental Impact Assessment for the World Bank Power Rehabilitation Project, including initiating a resettlement rehabilitation program for the over 50,000 Gwembe Tonga tribals displaced by the Kariba Hydropower Dam built in the late 1950s.
- In China, Dr. Ragsdale made initial impact assessments for the Asian Development Bank of social impacts of the Hongjiadu Hydroelectric (Guizhou Province) and Zhanghewan Pumped Storage (Hebei Province) Projects and for Harza Engineering (Chicago) and Electricitie de France supervised resettlement planning for the latter project.
- In India, Dr. Ragsdale supervised World Bank projects, including the National Thermal Power Corporation's (NTPC) Power Generation Project (PGP); the Hyderabad Water Supply and Sanitation Project (Andhra Pradesh), the Upper Krishna II Irrigation Project (Karnataka), Nathpa Jakhri Hydroelectric Power Project (Himichal Pradesh);,Lower Periyar Hydroelectric Project (Kerala), the Coal Sector Rehabilitation Project; and the Tamil Nadu Urban Development Project. Dr. Ragsdale's NTPC oversight assignments included project preparation and supervision missions for: Farakka (W. Bengal), Talcher (Orissa), Dhadri (Uttar Pradesh), Korba (Madhya Pradesh), Ramagundam (Andhra Pradesh), Singrauli (Uttar Pradesh), Rihand (Uttar Pradesh), and Vindhyachal (Madhya Pradesh) Super Thermal Power Stations.
- Dr. Ragsdale participated in the ADB's fact finding mission for the Kali Gandaki ‘A' Hydropower Project in Nepal, where he participated in the Pre-Board Preparation Mission for the Arun III Hydroelectric Dam and prepared the draft management response to the World Bank Inspectorate comments on the Arun III. Dr. Ragsdale has also prepared bids for social assessment and resettlement work for Harza Consulting Engineers, on the Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project in Laos, where he made an in-country visit as bid finalists for preparing Environmental Assessment and Management Plan (EAMP), and for the Langtan Hydropower Project (70,000 resettlement) in Guangzhou, Guangdong Provinces, China.
- World Bank, Resident Mission at New Delhi, India, Resettlement And Rehabilitation (R&R) Team Leader, July 1993-July 1994 in India, supervising and training a staff for managing the country portfolio of some sixteen projects affecting about a million villagers throughout India. The assignment included, inter alia, identification of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) and other agencies for Resettlement Action Plan (RAPs) surveys, design, and implementation; institutional strengthening for preparing RAPs; establishment of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and Geographic Information System (GIS)-based RAP information management systems; public participation strategies; and review of land acquisition, compensation, and income generation programs across India. The assignment concluded with preparation of a comprehensive World Bank review, Resettlement and Rehabilitation in India: A Status Update of Projects Involving Resettlement, 2 Vols. (Apr 1994).
Ragsdale Associates, Social Assessment Consultant. September 1990 through June 1993.
- Dr. Ragsdale participated in a Pre-appraisal mission for NTPC which included recommendations and TOR for establishing an Environment and Social Unit in NTPC and for meeting World Bank guidelines for resettlement, including a comprehensive 'retrofitting' R&R program for population displacement occurring prior to the loan period. Extensive supervision missions included, inter alia, identification of NGOs for R&R implementation; institutional strengthening and training recommendations; implementation of a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based computerized Acquisition and Resettlement Management System (ARMS); assessment of income generating and livelihood schemes; technical assistance for preparation of socioeconomic surveys and public participation strategies; identification of appropriate research institutions for carrying out socioeconomic surveys; and review of socioeconomic surveys and of R&R programs for each Super Thermal Power Project (STTP) site.
- Dr. Ragsdale was involved in the planning, supervision and evaluation of virtually all of the social impact assessment and planning for Nepal's major hydroelectric schemes, including the Kulekhani, Marsyangdi, Karnali-Chisopani, Upper Arun, Arun III, Pancheswar and Kali Gandaki; and he co-authored Nepal: Land Acquisition and Resettlement Profile. Background Report. Washington, DC: World Bank (1991). As the Resettlement Specialist for the Arun III Hydroelectric project preparation, Dr. Ragsdale participated in the project appraisal, the project pre-appraisal, and the project preparation missions, included preparing Global Environmental Facility (GEF) proposal for Makalu-Barun National Park and Conservation Area in upper Arun Valley and terms of reference for and supervision of King Mahendra Trust Arun III Basinwide Environmental and Socioeconomic Impacts Study.
- As Resettlement Specialist for Sardar Sarovar Dam and Power Project, Water Delivery and Drainage Project in India, Dr. Ragsdale led a team monitoring World Bank benchmarks to avoid Project suspension, was a member of a post-Independent Review (the Sardar Sarover Morse Report of 1992) team to India to map World Bank strategy for the project, and reviewed Canal Affected People (CAP) Issues. Dr. Ragsdale's assignments included policy and legislation review; field work for monitoring ongoing R&R programs; and regular reports to World Bank management appraising them of progress in meeting established R&R benchmarks.
- As Resettlement Specialist for the Upper Arun Hydroelectric Project, in Nepal for World Bank and Morrison Knudsen Corporation, Dr. Ragsdale conducted field research to make EIA recommendations for social impacts and population displacement mitigation measures, including design changes of access road to minimize agricultural land take. As the Resettlement Specialist for the Pancheswar Multipurpose Project Resettlement Study in Nepal for the World Bank and Morrison Knutsen Corporation, Dr. Ragsdale made a two week trekking reconnaissance field survey and report up the inaccessible Mahakali River in Far Western Nepal. His report included still photography and video that illustrated potential social and population displacement impacts from helicopter flyover and from ground perspective within the reservoir communities. Dr. Ragsdale's team of two Nepalese anthropologists quantified assets losses as well as community and population displacement within the 110 km long reservoir area, on the Nepalese side of the border. The final report recommended measures for a future socioeconomic survey including TOR.
- Dr. Ragsdale was the Team Leader and Institutions Specialist for the UNDP/ILO Special Public Works Programs (SPWP) and Capacity Building Project in Department of Irrigation in Nepal, making extensive field visit across Nepal to assess the ILO's hill irrigation programs in Nepal and of traditional institutions managing hill irrigation and to make recommendations for institutional strengthening and future policy initiatives.
- Dr. Ragsdale was also the Team Leader and Institutions Specialist for the Community Forestry Evaluation Mission in Nepal for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Dr. Ragsdale carried out an evaluative review of the UNDP program for community forestry in Nepal, including extensive field visits across Nepal, interviews with forestry officials at all levels and with other agencies involved in forestry programs in Nepal, a country-wide review of forestry institutions, and extensive recommendations for institutional strengthening and legal and policy changes to improve community forestry in Nepal.
- World Bank, Washington, DC, Long-term Social Assessment Consultant, April 1987 through July 1990, in the Environment Assessments and Programs Division (ENVAP), participating in various projects in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, India for resettlement/rehabilitation components of Bank projects on preparation, supervision, evaluation missions. Researching and writing comprehensive review of resettlement in Bank-financed projects.
Pre-1987
Consultant for Demographic and Socio-economic Context of Planned Population
Redistribution of Nomads, Somalia for International Labour Organization
(ILO), Geneva, Switzerland, Dr. Ragsdale researched and co-authored book
chapter reviewing the demographic and socioeconomic context of planned
population redistribution of nomads to agricultural and fishing resettlement
schemes in Somalia following the 1974 Sahel drought. Co-author with Abdullahi
Scek Ali. "A Case Study of the Somalia Resettlement Program for Nomads,"
in A.S. Oberai, ed, Land Settlement Policies and Population Redistribution
in Developing Countries: Achievements, Problems, and Prospects. NY: Praeger
(1988).
Research Associate conducting Demographic Research for Carolina Population
Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from 1983 through
1984. Dr. Ragsdale managed a USAID-funded field survey and co-authored
the final project report examining the demographic, social and economic
impact of agricultural and fishing resettlement schemes for Somalia's
nomadic population, designing socioeconomic survey questionnaire and sampling
and field methodologies, recruiting and leading a 20 member survey team
in four former-Nomad resettlement sites of nearly 100,000 population across
Somalia, data processing and analysis, review of secondary and primary
source materials, and final report writing, over a three year period.
Dr. Ragsdale authored the Demographic and Socio-economic Context of Planned
Population Redistribution of Nomads, Somalia for USAID and the Carolina
Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Research
Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA (1984).
Dr. Ragsdale has held teaching positions at Duke University, and North
Carolina State University, Raleigh, was a Research Scholar, conducting
Ph.D. ethnographic fieldwork and dissertation research of a tribal (Gurung)
village in Western (published as Once a Hermit Kingdom: Ethnicity, Education,
and National Integration in Nepal, New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 1989)
and was a community development American Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal,
where he established a town planning and community development program
in urban community in Eastern Nepal, supervised road construction for
an access road to town and established a public health campaign.
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Publications |
Select Publications and Papers Delivered
2001–1995 Minority People's Development Plan for Proposed Se San
3 Hydropower Project, Vietnam. Panel of Expert Reports for ADB-Financed,
Zhejiang Shanxi Water Supply Project (Phase I). Environment and Social
Framework for the World Bank-financed Private Sector Infrastructure Development
Company (PSIDC) of Sri Lanka, October; Social Development Specialist,
Panel of Experts Reports for Asian Development Bank-financed Nam Leuk
Hydropower Project, Lao PDR; Resettlement Issues in China for WaterPower
97, August 1997 in Atlanta, Georgia, with John Bizer of Harza Engineering.
World Bank, "Land Tenure Insecurity and Urban Electrification in Zambia,"
paper for AF1EI; August (1997);
Proposal for Development of Environmental and Social Assessment Capability
for Community Power Corporation's Solar Power Operations in Indonesia
(November 1996) "Discussion Paper Towards a Social and Environmental
Mitigation Action Program For the Coal-Based Industrial and Energy Development
of Singrauli Region, India," World Bank, SA2EG; (March 1996); "Training
Material Based on Hyderabad Water Supply and Sanitation Project" for
World Bank, Economic Development Institute (EDI), (February 1995). "Japanese
Policy and Human Resources Development Fund Technical Assistance Funding
Proposal," (April 1995).
1994 Contributing Author of Resettlement and Rehabilitation in
India, A Status Update of Projects Involving Involuntary Resettlement.
2 Vols. India Department, South Asia Region, April 22.
1991 Co-author with Augusta Molnar, Land Acquisition and
Resettlement: Issues and Procedures in Nepal. Draft Working Paper. Washington,
DC: World Bank. February. Nepal: Resettlement Experience. Background report.
Washington, DC: World Bank. January. "Socioeconomic Impacts of Upper Arun
Hydroelectric Project, Nepal," for Morrison Knudsen Engineers, Feasibility
Study. April. Book Review of Nanda R. Shrestha, Landlessness and Migration
in Nepal. (Westview Press, 1990) for American Anthropologist. April. "Gurungs,
Gorkhalis, Gurkhas: A Speculative Ethnohistory in Nepal," Contributions
to Nepalese Studies. August. "Field Methods Seminar: Use of the Camcorder
in Development Fieldwork," Abt Associates, Thursday, September 19.
1990 Nepal: Land Acquisition and Resettlement Profile.
Background report. Washington, DC: World Bank. October. "Socioeconomic
and Cultural Issues of the Pancheswar Multipurpose Project, Far Western
Nepal," in Pancheswar Multipurpose Project Seminar of July 1989, Kathmandu,
Nepal. Convened by Morrison Knudsen Corporation. "The Evaluation of Resettlement
Planning and Implementation: Lessons of Experience from OED Reports,"
Draft Document. World Bank. Co-author with Amy O. Tsui, Aden I Shirwa,
"The Settlement of Somali Nomads," Genus, June.
1990 "Gurungs, Goorkhalis, Gurkhas: Speculations on a Nepalese Ethno-History". Contributions To Nepalese Studies CNAS, Tribhuvan University, January 1990.
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1989 Once a Hermit Kingdom: Ethnicity, Education and National
Integration in Nepal. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers: New Delhi.
1988 Co-author with Abdullahi Scek Ali. "A Case Study of the Somalia
Resettlement Program for Nomads," in A.S. Oberai, ed., Land Settlement
Policies and Population Redistribution in Developing Countries: Achievements,
Problems, and Prospects. NY: Praeger.
1984 "The Demographic and Socioeconomic Aspects of the Resettlement
of Nomads in Somalia, Project Report," Carolina Population Center, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Research Triangle Institute, Research
Triangle Park, NC.
1981 "The American Peace Corps and Public Health Education
in Nepal," presented at the seminar on Comparative Studies in Rural Health,
Center for International Studies, Duke University; 1979 "Ethnicity and
Educational Change: The Gurungs of Nepal and the New Education Plan,"
Dissertation Abstracts, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 1977 "Military Education
and Social Change Among the Gurungs of Nepal," presented at the Comparative
and International Education Society annual meeting, New Orleans; 1975
"Patterns of Education and Literacy in a Village Panchayat of Central
Nepal," Contributions to Nepalese Studies, Special Coronation Issue, vol.
2, no. 1, February.
Reports
2008. "Involuntary Meets Disaster Mitigation Resettlement: A Case Study from Erosion Mitigation on the Lower Brahmaputra/Jamuna River in Bangladesh"; RAGSDALE, Tod (MESAS, LLC); OBERHAGEMANN, Knut (nhc); and FAISAL, M. Amir (BWDB, Chief Resettlement Officer). Presented at the Expanding the Borders of Disaster-caused Displacement Research (INDR) Session of the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Memphis, TN (The Public Sphere and Engaged Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities for Applied Anthropology). March 28, 2008.
1997. "The Development of Resettlement Policy in China: Two Case Studies in Sichuan and Hebei Provinces"; RAGSDALE, Tod (Mesas, LLC) and BIZER, John (Harza Engineering). "Resettlement Issues in China". Presented at WaterPower 97 Conference, August 1997 in Atlanta, Georgia.
1996. "Nepal: Kali Gandaki "A" Hydropower Project (Proposed)
Fact Finding Mission Completion Report," February. "China: Longtan Proposal
Resettlement: Technical Proposal," March. "China: Detailed Outline of
Resettlement Planning Report (1996) for Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Power
Plant (ZPSPP)," July. "Laos: Proposal for Nam Theun 2 Preparation of Environmental
Assessment and Management Plan," December.
1996. "Nepal: Kali Gandaki "A" Hydropower Project (Proposed)
Fact Finding Mission Completion Report," February. "China: Longtan Proposal
Resettlement: Technical Proposal," March. "China: Detailed Outline of
Resettlement Planning Report (1996) for Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Power
Plant (ZPSPP)," July. "Laos: Proposal for Nam Theun 2 Preparation of Environmental
Assessment and Management Plan," December.
1995. "Japanese Policy and Human Resources Development Fund
Technical Assistance Funding Proposal," April. Zambia: "Social Analysis
section of Sectoral Environmental Assessment (SEA) and paper "Land Tenure
Insecurity and Urban Electrification in Zambia." June-August, October.
India: Training Material based on Hyderabad Water Supply and Sanitation
Project and Midterm Project Review Mission progress report on the resettlement
and rehabilitation planning process, January-March; December, September.
China: "Preliminary Review of Resettlement Plans for Guizhou Hongjiadu
Hydropower Project for ADB," June. China: "Preliminary Review of Resettlement
Plans for Hebei Zhanghewan Pumped-Storage Project, for ADB, May. Washington,
DC: Japanese Policy and Human Resources Development Fund Technical Assistance
Funding Proposal; Discussion Paper "Towards a Social and Environmental
Mitigation Action Program For the Coal-Based Industrial and Energy Development
of Singrauli Region, India, March-April.
1994. R&R sections of Project Completion Report for Sardar
Sarovar (Narmada) Dam and Power. Field trip, back to office, supervision
reports for, inter alia, Upper Krishna II Irrigation Project; Hyderabad
Water and Sanitation Project; six National Thermal Power Generation Project
Thermal Power Plants (Farakka, Talcher, Rihand, Vindhyachal, Singrauli,
Ramagundam); Kerala (Lower Periyar) Hydropower Project; Nathpa Jhakri
Hydropower Project; and proposed Coal Sector Rehabilitation Project.
1992–93. Aide-Memoire, Arun III Appraisal Mission, Nepal,
June 1993; Monitoring Report, Sardar Sarovar, Narmada, April 1993. Back-to-Office
Report, September 22, Sardar Sarovar Dam and Power Project (Cr. 1552/Ln.
2497-IN) and Water Delivery and Drainage Project (Cr. 1553-IN) Supervision
Mission; Back-to-Office Report, May 9: World Bank Supervision and Pre-Appraisal
Resettlement under Thermal Power Projects Ramagundam, Farakka, Korba and
Talcher and Pre-appraisal of Electric Power Systems Project, March 16
to April 19, 1992; Mission Evaluation Mission Report on Special Public
Works Programs (SPWP), NEP/85/009 and Capacity Building in the Department
of Irrigation, NEP/90/034 for UNDP, March.
1991. Aide Memoire socioeconomic & environment components
for IDA Power Subsector Missions to Nepal, February-April; July-August
-- continuation of work from 1988-90; Aide Memoire, preparation of Global
Environment Facility for creation of Makalu-Barun National Park in Nepal,
November- December; "Narmada River Development (Gujarat) Sardar Sarovar
Projects: Review of Canal Affected People (CAP) Issues," India, December.
1990. Aide Memoire socioeconomic & environment components
for IDA Power Subsector Missions to Nepal, February-April and July; Team
leader, Evaluation Report UNDP/FAO mission, Community Forestry, Nepal,
November-December; Team leader, fieldwork and preparation for Marsyangdi
Watershed Management Plan component of Yellow Cover Appraisal of Power
Sector Efficiency Project, Nepal. World Bank; Team leader, Socioeconomic
and Resettlement Reconnaissance Field Survey, Pancheswar Multipurpose
Project, Pre-feasibility Studies. Morrison Knudsen Corporation; Biosystems
Analysis, Inc., San Francisco and Tiburon, CA.
1989. Aide Memoire components for IDA Power Subsector Missions
to Nepal, April-May. Supervision Marsyangdi, Karnali, Arun III. Participated
in negotiations and writing TOR for King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation
contract for Arun III: Management of Basinwide Environmental Impacts Study;
Inception Report, June, components on socioeconomics and resettlement,
Pancheswar Multipurpose Project, pre-feasibility. Morrison Knudsen Corporation;
Biosystems Analysis, Inc. San Francisco and Tiburon, CA.
1988. Report for IDA Power Subsector Mission to Nepal, January
- February. Reviewing status of resettlement covenants of DCA for Marsyangdi
Hydroelectric Project; Karnali Preparation Project resettlement baseline
study; Arun-3, Upper Arun Hydroelectric Projects, and Arun-3 Access Road
resettlement, land acquisition/compensation components (detailed engineering/feasibility
studies); Back-to-Office Report, India: States Road Project, Appraisal
Mission, June - July. Assessing resettlement/rehabilitation provisions
for land acquisition under proposed States Road Project. Visited Uttar
Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat. Back-to-Office Report for IDA Mission to Sri
Lanka, October. To review progress made on the environmental and resettlement
aspects of the pre-feasibility (phase 1) studies of the Kalu Ganga Multipurpose
Project; Back-to-Office Report for IDA Mission to Nepal, October - November.
Resettlement aspects of preparation of the Arun III Hydroelectric Project;
input into TOR of Arun III Management of Basinwide Environmental Impacts
Study; supervision of the Marsyangdi Hydroelectric Project; supervision
of the Karnali Multipurpose Project.
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