Complaint > Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project

Filing: 91-Notice of Receipt of a Request for Inspection (English)

...cash compensation. The Government representatives further agreed to ensure that the PAPs were provided with skills training, micro-credit, and employment opportunities since cash compensation only was being offered. All of these points as well as a schedule of activities and a budget will be in the addendum to the RAP. 9. The Bank team also stressed the need to have a strong complaints handling mechanism and that people would have recourse to go to co...

Complaint > Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project

Registration: 91-Annexes to the Notice of Non-Registration - Request for Inspection, Management Action Plan, related documents (English)

...cash compensation is all that is offered, the government needs to ensure that affected people are provided with appropriate sustainable livelihood assistance, such as skills training, micro-credit, and employment opportunities.”165 It is essential that people who are unable to provide for themselves are offered adequate alternative housing. The UN Basic Principles provide that “[c]ash compensation should under no circumstances replace real compensation in the form of land and common property res...