The social impact of the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline: How industrial development affects gender relations, land tenure and local culture

摘要

This book reports on the findings of an IDRC-sponsored study on the impact of the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project on women's access to land and land use practices in two provinces in Cameroon. The context for the study is a major oil pipeline that doubles as an experiment in development. The World Bank, a consortium of oil companies and the governments of Chad and Cameroon agreed to implement the pipeline project as a policy package that was both market-promoting and attentive to social objectives including poverty reduction. The project was launched with much fanfare in 2000; since that time, the World Bank has become less optimistic in its assessment of the project's potential to achieve development aims.