Released September 2013 Annual Report 2012 Growing the movement for healthy & human rights

Wrong Amazônia Save the Climate for Viva Damming Rivers Dear Lovers and Defenders,

In 2012, International Rivers continued to deftly navigate As Amazonian indigenous leader Valdenir Munduruku the struggles to defend rivers at risk around the world. recently said in Brazil: We strengthened our regional offices in dam-building hot They [the government] want to say that they will build spots and added staff and resources to better support our dams on our land and then see what we want in return. movement and local partners in Brazil, India, South And we do not want anything in return. We want our and Thailand. Highlights of our regional initiatives included: river free and our nature preserved. The Minister says • Fighting for food security for millions of people on the he wants to consult with indigenous peoples, but that the Mekong River in Southeast ; government’s decision to build the dams has already been made. What kind of consultation is that? • Creating awareness of the climate risks of dams on the Zambezi; International Rivers is working for a just and sustainable • Providing training workshops and policy advocacy future where local communities’ rights and aspirations – to advance environmental flows for healthy rivers in like those of the Munduruku in Brazil and the Turkana India; and people of Kenya – are fully part of the democratic process • Working in solidarity with indigenous people in of managing our shared river heritage. This past year, the Amazon to protect their rivers from destructive we added six new members to our Board of Directors, big dams. injecting new expertise and enthusiasm into building the financial strength and strategic effectiveness of Jason Rainey Deborah Moore At the heart of International Rivers’ work is our belief that International Rivers. Our collective success is only Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors the health and vitality of rivers and communities is inextricably possible with the crucial support of our community of connected. Part of what makes us unique is that we focus engaged river defenders. on protecting rivers and the rights of communities all over the world who are suffering from the same patterns of Thank you for all that you do! destructive development. We doggedly pursue solutions that will work for both people and the planet, working hand-in-hand with the vulnerable communities whose rights and livelihoods are most affected by the damaging consequences of mega-dams.

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2 International Rivers Mission How We Work

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights International Rivers protects rivers and rights while Stopping destructive projects and addressing of communities that depend on them. We work to stop promoting real solutions for meeting water, energy and legacy dams destructive dams and promote water and energy solutions flood management needs. We believe in the power of We discourage financial, government and industry support for a just and sustainable world. people to make change happen and to champion the of harmful river projects. We hold responsible parties movement for healthy rivers and human rights. To do accountable for the damages from dams by advocating this, we work towards the following: for social reparations and ecological restoration.

Empowering civil society Raising awareness Vision We have long played a key role in building the global Through social media, publications, presentations and river-protection movement and we continually strive to media work, we raise awareness about the deplorable Rivers are vital to sustaining all life on earth. We seek broaden and strengthen its reach. We foster grassroots environmental, economic and human rights impacts of a world where healthy rivers and the rights of local organizations in more than 60 countries and build the big dams and the viability of better options. By amplifying communities are valued and protected. We envision a capacity of our regional partners by providing technical the voices of the people directly affected by large projects, world where water and energy needs are met without and strategic advice to activists and affected people. we ensure that their opinions are included in the ongoing degrading nature or increasing poverty, and where public debates about alternative models of development. people have the right to participate in decisions that Changing the terms of the debate affect their lives. We work to reform the top-down, opaque decision- Promoting solutions making processes that accompany large dam projects. We promote efficient, decentralized and just solutions We seek to ensure that important social and to meeting our water and energy needs that will alleviate As you read this report, you will learn environmental issues are not swept under the rug and poverty and protect our planet. We help partners find more about our work from the global and local that all communities have the opportunity to viable alternatives to destructive big dams through in-depth research and then support them as they present lens, including our 2012 flagship campaigns: meaningfully and effectively participate in local decision-making processes. such analyses to decision makers. Amazônia Viva — Page 4 Save the Mekong — Page 6 Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers — Page 8

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Amazônia Viva

Ashaninka children watch the Ene River in the Peruvian Amazon in front of their village — Ashaninka women on the shores of the Ene River in the an area that would be flooded by a dam. Peruvian Amazon.

From our office in Brazil, International Rivers has been working for nearly 20 years to protect What are we campaigning for in the Amazon? threatened rivers, biodiversity and indigenous communities. Our Amazon Program aims to • To halt construction of the most destructive dams in strengthen grassroots mobilization, support innovative communications and advocacy strategies, the Amazon, particularly in the Xingu, Tapajós and Marañón river basins and increase the accountability of Brazilian public and private institutions. • To shift Brazil’s energy plans to reduce hydropower From the headwater rivers in the to the forest plains of Brazil, there are more than dependency and to capitalize on abundant wind and 150 dams planned for the , including 60 large dams. Brazil’s industrial growth solar resources model is driving this new dam boom, which would electrify the extractive industries in the • To increase transparency and accountability of key and threaten the livelihoods and cultures of the thousands of indigenous financial institutions and the Brazilian government people who rely on healthy rivers. • To strengthen and connect regional movements to effectively resist on-river energy projects, advance the rights of indigenous people and other The Amazon Basin: river-dependent communities, and protect the • Is home to 60% of the planet’s remaining tropical rainforests and the source of the Earth’s greatest biodiversity biodiversity of the Amazon • Drains an area nearly the size of the continental US • Is the world’s largest source of freshwater, contributing 20% of global river flows into our oceans • Is threatened by 60 new large dams including the Belo Monte Dam, which would divert the flow of the Xingu River, devastate an extensive area of the Brazilian rainforest, and displace over 20,000 people

4 International Rivers On June 15, 2012, demonstrators opened a channel across an earthen coffer dam to symbolically free the Xingu River. , Chile, Rio Baker Sin Represas.

2012: The State of the Campaign In June, we helped organize Xingu+23, a large gathering Other Program Highlights of indigenous people and other affected groups – International Rivers continued to work closely with In 2012, our Latin America team worked closely with along with activists from Brazil and around the world – indigenous people, social movements and NGOs to raise dam-affected communities in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, to protest the Belo Monte project. The gathering included awareness and public pressure for accountability of the Guatemala and Chile to raise awareness about threats the symbolic breaching of a coffer dam and freeing of the Brazilian government. Despite gross violations of domestic to their rivers and support community resistance to Xingu River 23 years after the historic first meeting of and international legislation on human rights and destructive projects. In Peru, we supported a legal indigenous people in 1989. The action was carried out environmental protection, the government forged ahead injunction by the Ashanika people of the Ene River on the eve of the UN Conference on Sustainable with the Belo Monte Dam and a series of other against the Peru-Brazil Energy Agreement.We released Development (also known as Rio+20). Days later in Rio destructive dam projects in the Amazon. Our work an alternative power development plan for Guatemala de Janeiro, a series of public events and protests with local partners focused largely on strengthening that focuses on energy efficiency and renewables while denounced attempts to market Belo Monte and other grassroots education and organizing, support for legal maintaining the health of the country’s rivers, and worked destructive dams as “clean energy” for a green economy. strategies in defense of human rights, and calling for closely with Chixoy Dam-affected communities seeking transparency and effective safeguards of the Brazilian justice and reparations. National Development Bank. Working with partners in the Patagonia Sin Represas campaign, we continued to stall the HidroAysén project in Chile through legal challenges, public scrutiny and widespread opposition. In May, Chilean company Colbún indefinitely suspended work on the transmission line EIA due to a lack of public and political agreement, leaving HidroAysén’s future uncertain.

Annual Report 2012 5 Save the Mekong

Thai villagers protest against the Thai government buying electricity from the Xayaburi Dam Most villagers near the Xayaburi Dam site fish daily, and in Laos. Laos continues to build the dam, despite the lack of an agreement between the four consider fish to be a central part of their diets. There are over Mekong River Commission countries of Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia. 50 migratory species at risk of extinction because of the dam.

International Rivers has been at the frontline of efforts to protect the Mekong River Basin, 2012: The State of the Campaign the lifeblood for millions of people who rely on this river for their livelihoods and food security. In March of 2012, after years of advocating for robust and transparent scientific evaluation of the impacts of the Working closely with partners on the ground, International Rivers helps coordinate the Save the proposed Xayaburi Dam, our campaign reached a major Mekong campaign, mobilizing regional and international responses to the threat posed by large milestone: the downstream nations of Cambodia and dam schemes on the mainstream and tributary rivers. Vietnam called for a five-year moratorium on dam construction until further studies could be completed. Months later, International Rivers conducted a fact- Our vision for success in the Mekong: finding visit to the dam site and exposed that Laos was continuing to build the dam despite the lack of a regional • Xayaburi Dam construction is cancelled, which would create a precedent of protection agreement. Subsequently, this led to high-level statements • Mekong River Commission member governments work together to protect the Mekong River – by concerned governments – including US Secretary including needs of the people – and to cancel plans to build mainstream dams of State Hillary Clinton – urging Laos to postpone construction on the project.

6 International Rivers Thai villagers protest Laos’ illegal construction of the Xayaburi Dam during the Asia Summit. 60 million people’s livelihoods and cultures are connected with the Mekong The Xayaburi Dam site, taken during a field visit in River’s natural cycles. October 2012.

The Mekong River is the main Other Highlights from lifeline for past and future generations in Thailand. In addition to our Save the Mekong campaign, In an era when countries are International Rivers expanded our support for civil opening up to free trade and trying society partners who are working to protect the Irrawaddy to boost trans-border investment, and Salween rivers in Burma and an indigenous people’s corporate giants in the movement that is campaigning against a cascade of dams scramble to reap benefits from smaller, resource-rich countries like in Sarawak, Malaysia. Laos, Cambodia and Burma. We documented testimonials of villagers who have been As investors – with support from negatively impacted by Mekong tributary projects in Pianporn Deetes their governments – seek only southern Laos and are using these cases to pressure the International Rivers’ Thailand to maximize profits, they pay Campaign Coordinator little attention to the impacts on regional decision-makers and international financial local villagers and river ecology. institutions responsible for these dams. Our role is They forget that environmental especially important as hydropower issues inside Laos problems have no boundaries and remain politically sensitive. This prevents Lao civil society that they, too, cannot avoid the negative consequences of their and citizens from holding project developers accountable own projects. for the far-reaching social and environmental consequences The Save the Mekong campaign has inspired actions I hope Thais can show a “big of destructive dam projects. throughout the region, including on the in Burma. heart” and help protect the natural resources of the region as if they were ours. Environmental protection has no boundaries after all.

Annual Report 2012 7 ASAMCHI Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers

The Mekong River near the construction site for the Xayaburi Dam. Protesting the Barro Blanco Dam, Panama.

Climate change is often used as a justification for the new global dam-building boom. Hundreds Why is it the wrong climate for big dams? of large dams are proposed in areas likely to face great hydrological uncertainty, including in the • Big dams are at huge risk from climate change’s impacts , Africa, the Amazon, the Mekong and . Dams also profoundly harm the ecological on river flows services provided by the world’s major rivers, making it harder for societies to adapt to a changing • Healthy rivers are key to successful climate adaptation – especially for the world’s poorest, who are at greatest risk climate. Large dams – especially in the tropics – are also a major source of greenhouse gas from climate change emissions, which is often not factored into their impact assessments. While there is uncertainty • Large reservoirs can be significant sources of greenhouse in hydrological forecasts, one this is clear: it’s the wrong climate for damming our rivers. gases

That’s why International Rivers advocates for national and international strategies that promote innovative approaches to meeting energy, water and poverty reduction goals without sacrificing the health of rivers and river-dependent communities. We counter the dam industry’s greenwashing of destructive dams and encourage more sustainable river basin management practices and policies.

In the face of an uncertain climate, healthy rivers are more important than ever before for the health of our planet.

8 International Rivers KAREN RETIEF

Kariba Dam left Tonga communities in upheaval; the Kariba Dam-displaced people are some of the poorest in Southern Africa. Inga Station 1 on the great Congo River.

2012: The State of the Campaign Other Policy Program Highlights In 2012, International Rivers worked globally to draw attention to the risks of dam building and greenwashing. Our international network of climate champions put International Rivers’ Policy Program works to strengthen At the 6th World Water Forum in France, we worked with out a call for major policy reforms within the Clean the social and environmental policies of institutions, partners to protest greenwashing from the dam industry’s Development Mechanism, identifying why destructive corporations and banks responsible for funding and Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol, and dams in the Amazon and Southeast Asia should not building destructive dams. participated in high-level debates on the role of water receive carbon offsets. We also produced a strong We advocate for transformations in infrastructure storage in climate resilience. At the G20 Summit in analysis of the climate risks of dams on the Zambezi development strategies of institutions with an emphasis Mexico, we drew media attention to the folly of the entitled A Risky Climate for Southern African Hydro, on poverty reduction, climate change mitigation and world’s major economies promoting the Grand Inga which included a short video about the key risks. Further, adaptation, and environmental protection. We support Dam as a singular solution to energy poverty in Africa. our Climate Team worked with our regional programs to our regional programs, civil society and dam-threatened At the Rio+20 conference in Brazil, we partnered with raise awareness at the local and national levels about the communities through policy analysis and capacity-building. local activists to protest the government and corporations wrong climate for damming rivers. ramming through construction of destructive hydropower dams on the Amazon’s key rivers.

Annual Report 2012 9 Other Program Highlights

Africa Program International Rivers’ Africa Program works to encourage African governments to diversify their energy sources to avoid becoming excessively hydropower-dependent, IKAL ANGELEI

to reduce energy poverty, and to develop decentralized ALLISON M. JONES clean energy where possible. Working within our Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers campaign in 2012, the Africa Program published a comprehensive report on the hydrological and financial risks of building more large dams on the Zambezi River in the face of climate change (see page 6 for more details). This report continues to be used in our campaigns against the Mphanda Nkuwa and Batoka Gorge dams. If built, these dams would fail to meet long-term electricity production goals, while irreversibly impacting the people For the International Day of Action for Rivers 2011, Friends and wildlife of the Zambezi Delta and flooding the of Lake Turkana held public meetings along the lake in Kenya magnificent gorges and river habitat below Victor ia Falls. where they worked with partners to create awareness about Nyangatom herdsmen leading their cattle to drink from the the destructive Gibe III Dam. Omo River in Ethiopia.

Ikal Angelei, founder of Friends In East Africa, International Rivers worked in partnership On the upper Nile River, we monitored Ethiopia’s plans of Lake Turkana (FoLT) in Kenya, with the Kenyan organization Friends of Lake Turkana to to build the largest dam on the – the Grand received the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in April 2012. apply pressure on the Ethiopian government for pushing Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. These dam developments A long-time partner of International ahead with construction of the Gibe III Dam. This project are shrouded in secrecy and linked to poor human rights Rivers, FoLT led the successful would dam the Omo River, choking the lifeline of Lake records. Working with our partner organizations in Africa campaign to halt international Turkana, a World Heritage Site in Kenya that supports and our Policy Program, we have put the US government – funding for the Gibe III Dam, which a quarter of a million people. as one of Ethiopia’s major financial aid sources – and would choke the Omo River and dry up Lake Turkana. the World Bank on notice for their roles in abetting non-compliant dam developments that are intensifying regional conflicts in the Nile Basin.

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South Asia Program China Program The Himalaya are the tallest in the world and A Snapshot of China’s Dam Boom China has emerged as the world’s biggest dam builder host the greatest biodiversity on the Indian sub-continent. 300+ Number of overseas dam projects that China’s and financier – both domestically and internationally. There are more than 500 dams planned or under state-owned companies, like Sinohydro Corporation, Since the government lacks strong commitments to construction in the Ganges and Brahmaputra river basins, and banks are currently involved in. environmental and social protection, the Chinese which threaten freshwater environments and the cultural 70 Number of countries in which the above dams are being dam-building industry is one of the largest threats to survival of indigenous people in the region. planned, financed or built. sustaining freshwater ecosystems. 6 Number of the world’s great rivers that are at risk, With so many threats to river health, International Rivers including the Amur, , Lower Mekong International Rivers plays a catalyzing role for policy has been organizing with local partners on upstream Mainstream, Salween, Nile, and Magdalena rivers. reform and strategic advice to grassroots organizations policy reforms. With a strategic focus on improving the campaigning against destructive overseas dam projects by laws in India that sanction new dams – and by integrating Chinese corporations. the leading science and best practices on environmental As a result of several years of policy dialogue between our flows and coordinated river basin management throughout China Program and Sinohydro Corporation, the world’s the region – International Rivers has shifted the public largest dam builder adopted company-wide environmental policy dialogue in the region. and social standards in late 2011. The new policy meets In 2012 we commissioned a ground-breaking report the highest international standards, including a commitment on environmental flows for , characterizing to the World Bank safeguard standards. International the negative impacts of dam operations on downstream Rivers published a report in 2012 called The New Great aquatic communities and identifying key policy Walls: A Guide to China’s Overseas Dam Industry, which recommendations for the operation of existing and new summarizes key aspects of Sinohydro’s environmental • Mobilize opposition to destructive dam projects on the dams. Through workshops with national partners and policy for communities impacted by Sinohydro projects. Teesta River – a key biologicial and cultural diversity public officials in India, some key recommendations from hotspot in northeast India and Bangladesh Our China Program also supports communities the report have been accepted and implemented by the throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America advocating • Document unique natural and cultural sites threatened Ministry of Environment and Forests. for alternatives to destructive dams on their home rivers. by new dams and advocate for declaring reaches of Further utilizing our grassroots approach to river The suspension of Burma’s destructive Myitsone Dam in the Teesta River in the Indian state of Sikkim as a protection, we worked closely with local partners to: late 2011 prompted the Chinese overseas dam industry to UNESCO World Heritage Site • Advance public-interest legal actions against high-profile reassess their practices in 2012 and marked a shift in that • Coordinate civil society groups and other stakeholders hydropower schemes that violate existing laws and country’s path toward more inclusive governance. We to advance their strategies in advocating for trans-boundary procedures to bring scrutiny to India’s fast-tracking of also assessed impacts to communities and their local water sharing on the in Pakistan and India large hydro dams without adequate consultation and environments threatened by proposed Chinese-backed and for protecting rivers in Nepal; and for engaging environmental review dams in Laos, Ethiopia and Colombia. government officials in Bhutan, which is rapidly developing hydropower projects for exporting electricity to India

Annual Report 2012 11 2012 Donors

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Revenue Expenses

74.4% 74.5% Grants Program Activities Starting Balance: $3,013,339 $952,783 19.6% $1,736,330 14.0% Total Revenue: $1,280,203 Contributions Administration Total Expenses: ($2,330,035) $251,478 $327,131 4.1% Ending Balance: $1,963,507 Events 1.9% $51,828 11.5% Other Fundraising $24,114 $266,574

TOTAL INCOME: $1,280,203 TOTAL EXPENSES: $2,330,035 To obtain a copy of International Rivers’ most recent audited financial statement or IRS 990 form, please contact [email protected].

14 International Rivers Board of Advisory Intern and Directors Boards Volunteer Program

Jane Baldwin Leslie Leslie US ADVISORY BOARD In 2012 International Rivers welcomed 14 interns and volunteers in our Brent Blackwelder Milan Momirov Berkeley and regional offices. They helped create useful translations, more Margo Blair Deborah Moore Marilyn Bancel Patrick McCully accessible communication tools and thoughtful research projects, and Gary Cook Cymie Payne Martha Belcher Nion McEvoy provided infrastructure support. Our 2012 interns and volunteers included: André Carothers Sylvia McLaughlin Ken Greenstein Leonard Sklar • Sabine Johnson-Reiser, who helped to produce an accurate and timely Robert Hass (Honorary) Scott Spann Patricia W. Chang Mutombo Mpanya bilingual spreadsheet of major dam projects in China Jen Kalafut Rebecca Tarbotton Gigi Coe Mayumi Oda • Jenny Binstock, a public policy Masters candidate, who conducted Peter Coyote Drummond Pike Susan Kopman research on climate adaptation and then led a group of UCLA students Christina L. Desser Paul Polak to produce a report on assessing the climate resilience of dams and Huey D. Johnson Gary Snyder dam-affected communities Barbara Rose Johnston Paul Strasburg In Memoriam Dorka Keehn Lara Truppelli 2012 Interns and Volunteers: Simone Adler, Jenny Binstock, Katherine Lauren Klein Hayes Lori Udall Brousseau, Sinan Chu, Colleen Cowles, Charlie Dubbe, Laney Ennis, Annette Fay, Xin Guo, Carly Patterson, Dan Ruan, Sebastian Thisted, Juliet Majot Stephanie Thorne, and Yang Yang.

INTERNATIONAL SOUTH ASIA ADVISORY BOARD ADVISORY BOARD

Célio Bermann Latha Anantha Lila Buckley Shripad Dharmadhikary Joan Carling Dipak Gyawali Gustavo Castro Soto Naeem Iqbal Nga Dao K. J. Joy Rebecca Tarbotton Philip Fearnside Aimal Khan Liane Greeff Mohammad Abdul Matin July 30,1973 — Nicholas Hildyard Janaka Ratnasiri December 26, 2012 Carl Middleton Ravindranath Executive Director of Frank Muramuzi Himanshu Thakkar Rainforest Action Network Astrid Puentes Neeraj Vagholikar Lúcia Schild Ortiz International Rivers Board Member

Annual Report 2012 15 2150 Allston Way, Suite 300 Monti Aguirre Inanna Hazel Grace Mang Rudo Angela Sanyanga Berkeley, CA 94704 Latin America Program Coordinator Director of Finance and Operations China Program Director Africa Program Director USA Vickie Bell Kirk Herbertson Samir Mehta Ame Trandem +1 510 848 1155 Development Director Southeast Asia Policy Coordinator South Asia Program Director Southeast Asia Program Director internationalrivers.org Peter Bosshard Zachary Hurwitz Brent Millikan Quinn Van Valer-Campbell [email protected] Policy Director Policy Program Coordinator Amazon Program Director Administrative Assistant twitter.com/IntlRivers Elizabeth Brink Aviva Imhof Lori Pottinger Katy Yan facebook.com/International Rivers Digital Director/Day of Action for Campaigns Director World Rivers Review, Editor/ China Program Coordinator/ Rivers Coordinator Africa Campaigner Intern and Volunteer Coordinator Chuck Johnsom Sandy Cappelli Digital Administrator Jason Rainey Bookkeeper/Office Manager Executive Director Tania Lee Pianporn Deetes Lao Program Coordinator Kate Ross Thailand Campaign Coordinator Campaigns Assistant Berklee Lowrey-Evans Chochoe Devaporihartakula Community Engagement Manager/ Elizabeth Sabel Southeast Asia Administrative Patagonia Campaign Coordinator Foundations Director Assistant