Women organise to negotiate for land compensation for hydel plant’s impacts

For indigenous women’s group Masto Lafa Bheja, money as compensation for leaving their homeland is not enough.

Indigenous women in Tanahun have formed an advocacy group—Masto Lafa Bheja (literally, ‘women’s friends group’ in Magar language)—on behalf of their community, which will likely be forced to relocate due to the Tanahu Hydropower Project’s plan to build a 140-metre tall dam that will submerge their land.