International Rivers’s Mphanda Nkuwa Campaign Materials

Fact Sheets

• Damning the Zambezi: Risks Outweigh Benefits of Proposed Mphanda Nkuwa Dam
  Fact sheet on the project produced in October 2006. Also available in Condenando o Zambeze.

• Mphanda Nkuwa Dam: A Risky Proposition
  Read International Rivers’s fact sheet February 2004. Also available in Portuguese.

PowerPoint Presentations

• Integrated Water Management in the Zambezi - An Option for Poverty Reduction?
  By Lucia Scodanibbio, Justiça Ambiental, 2004, (5MB!).

• Projecto de capacitação sobre desenvolvimentos hídricos e a Comissão Mundial das Barragens
  em Português: "Projecto de capacitação sobre desenvolvimentos hídricos e a Comissão Mundial das Barragens", by Justiça Ambiental, 2004, (3MB!).

Press Releases:

• Civil Society Responds to Chinese Funding for Mozambique Mega–Dam Mphanda Nkuwa
  International Rivers, JA! Justiça Press Release (Mega–Barragem Moçambicana vai agravar a pobreza e a subsistência), April 28, 2006.

• Livaningo Desires National Dialogue Regarding Mphanda Nkuwa
  Livaningo Press Release, 2003.

• Proposed Developments Along the Zambezi River
  em Português: Livaningo Press Release, October 16, 2002.

Reports & Statements:

• Livelihoods at Risk: The Case of The Mphanda Nkuwa Dam
  A risk assessment reveals that Mphanda Nkuwa Dam, proposed for the Zambezi River in Mozambique, could leave thousands worse off. The study, by a geographer with expertise in disaster mitigation, reveals how the risks of this large hydro dam would be borne disproportionately by those with the least power to influence how the project is developed. Download a 10 page summary English / Portuguese (PDF, 1.5MB). Download the (PDF, 1MB), July 21, 2006.

• Why are Prawns in the Sofala Bank Declining?
  By Gustavo Manez and Lucia Scodanibbio, prepared for Justiça Ambiental, March 2004.

• Mepanda Nkuwa Dam: A Risky Proposition
  A International Rivers fact sheet (em Português), February 2004.

• Mepanda Nkuwa: A Bad Deal for Mozambique?
  A pamphlet from Mozambique NGO, Livaningo, (Adobe PDF) August 9, 2002.

• An Analysis of the Mphanda Nkuwa Dam Project Against the World Commission on Dams Guidelines
  By Daniel Ribiero, Justiça Ambiental, January 2004.