"AIIB Mandalika Tourism Project: Filling Gender-Ecological Gaps" November 2024

This case study adds new insights to existing strong critiques of the AIIB Mandalika Urban Tourism Infrastructure Project (MUTIP). Previous critics have highlighted issues such as land dispossession, undemocratic decision-making, militarization, repression, and undermined livelihoods affecting project-affected peoples, most of whom are Indigenous Peoples (IPs). This study spotlights additional intertwined gender, biodiversity, and climate-related harms of MUTIP...

While the AIIB measures success through private capital mobilized, tourist numbers, and local residents employed in tourism, our fieldwork shows a lack of attention to gender, human rights, biodiversity, and climate impacts. Although MUTIP’s Environmental and Social Management Plan commits to addressing social and ecological issues, including avoiding involuntary resettlement, improving livelihoods, recognizing women as a vulnerable group, and minimizing vegetation clearing – our fieldwork found little adherence to these commitments.