EXPERIENCE IN EMPLOYMENT RESETTLEMENT FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES DUE TO HYDROPOWER CONSTRUCTION IN SOME SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES

Abstract

The construction and development of hydropower plant play an important and significant role in socio-economic, defense, and security system of each country. From the plan to actual operation, the resettlement of communities who affected strongly by the hydropower plant construction has remained unsolved. One reason of this situation is that employment policies for ethnic minorities who affected by hydropower construction have not been analyzed thoroughly in Vietnam as well as in other countries. Most of the key hydropower construction sites are home to ethnic minority communities who are the most vulnerable but are directly affected by the relocation process. By empirical research methods, summarizing the experience of Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia which are located in the Southeast Asian continent and have the same hydroelectricity development potential to Vietnam, the study draws lessons in formulating and completing job creation policies for ethnic minorities who are affected hydropower construction in Vietnam.