Complaint > Coal Sector Mitigation Project and Coal Sector Rehabitation Project

Compliance Report: 23-Investigation Report (English)

...compensation is open to abuse and raises serious questions, as in the case of compensation for land noted above. 19. In April 2000, Coal India Ltd. made a major change that gives the PAPs an additional option. They may take a one time cash grant of Rs50,000 in lieu of a house plot in the resettlement site. This grant is in addition to the above-noted compensation for loss of homestead land and house. Since then, as Management notes, 82 Project-affected families (PAFs) have ch...

Complaint > Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, Management of the Petroleum Economy Project, and Petroleum Sector Management Capacity Building Project

Eligibility: 22-Eligibility Report (English)

...compensation with the beneficiaries; • Cash compensation payments; • Post-payment survey of beneficiaries of cash compensation and explanation of grievance procedures; and • In-kind compensation payments. 97. There are two categories of project affected people. The first category comprises those who are affected by land acquisition and require compensation, but cannot be considered as economically displaced and eligible for resettlement (Co...

Complaint > Power Development Project

Management Response: 87-Management Response (English)

...cash compensation for lost assets may be ap- percent of those affected requested cash compensation and propriate in certain limited circumstances. The self-relocation. ARAP claims that, “76 percent of the relocates prefer cash compensation considering that In addition to compensation, the Project includes the fol- such mode of payment will be easy in han- lowing ong...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Management Action Plan: 60-Second Management Progress Report (English)

...compensation directly with the developer or the MPP and have left the BKL area. The remaining 78 households have refused offers of cash compensation and continue to demand higher levels of compensation or land titles within the 12.44 hectares. Negotiations between the MPP and these remaining residents are ongoing. 9. Update on former BKL residents who have already been resettled: The Bank has repeatedly offered the RGC technical and financial support to help improve the living conditions an...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Response: 40-Management Response (English)

...compensation: The Bank and WAPCo are committed to compensation at full replacement costs. The Bank has begun reviewing compensation rates for the northern part of the Nigerian ROW (the June 2005 mission undertook to review those rates but this has not yet been completed) but the Bank has not yet received compensation data from the southern portion of the Nigerian ROW. The Otta section report on individual compensation paymen...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Eligibility: 40-Eligibility Report Annex II Management Response

...compensation: The Bank and WAPCo are committed to compensation at full replacement costs. The Bank has begun reviewing compensation rates for the northern part of the Nigerian ROW (the June 2005 mission undertook to review those rates but this has not yet been completed) but the Bank has not yet received compensation data from the southern portion of the Nigerian ROW. The Otta section report on individual compensation paymen...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Registration: 60-Notice of Registration (English)

...compensation options. These options were: cash compensation, relocation in a site many kilometers away, and, finally, onsite housing coupled with temporary relocation while waiting for the construction of the houses to be completed in about four years. According to the Requesters, residents of the community “regard themselves as owners of the land” and have documents that recognize their ownership under customary tenure. The Requesters argue that the Project, which aims at creating a cen...

Complaint > Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, Management of the Petroleum Economy Project, and Petroleum Sector Management Capacity Building Project

Compliance Report: 22-Investigation Report (English)

...compensation with the beneficiaries; (x) Cash compensation payments; (xi) Post-payment survey of beneficiaries of cash compensation and explanation of grievance procedures; and (xii) In-kind compensation payments.158 The Panel found that these procedures were properly carried out. 176. Baseline surveys, compensation valuation, and payment receipts were complete and accessible for all individuals affected by the Project. Individuals were s...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Response: Management Report and Recommendation

...compensation amounts are appropriate and in line with national laws and regulations. The Bank will procure an independent technical advisor (Action 4) to assist UNRA in reviewing compensation amounts and calculating any additional compensation that may be required, by January 1, 2017. If it is determined that additional compensation needs to be paid by the Contractor, UNRA...

Complaint > Power Development Project

Filing: 87-Request for Inspection (English)

...compensation, noting that, “[h]ouses(...) are evaluated at replacement value considering construction materials used” rather than productive potential and locational advantages.196 According to OP 4.12, payment of cash compensation for lost assets may be appropriate in certain limited circumstances.197 The ARAP claims that, “76 percent of the relocates prefer cash compensation considering that such mode of payment will be easy in handling.”198 However, Complainants have never mentioned cash comp...

Complaint > Power Development Project

Management Action Plan: 87-Second Management Progress Report-29 August 2017

...Compensation amounting to NPR 207.8 million (92 percent of the total compensation for this section) has been paid. This represents compensation for 132 2 land plots out of 159. Funds for compensation (plus 10 percent contingency) for the remaining 27 plots have been deposited in Special Purpose Accounts. This compensation has not been claimed, but will be ...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Filing: Request for Inspection

...compensation mechanism. Many land owners along this road axis and in trading centers have not been adequately compensated and others not attended to. It is quit unfair where structures exist at the same axis/ location sometimes following each other but the compensation differs greatly, and others not compensated at all. On 08th, August 2015 the affected complainants a round Bigodi area had a meeting and resolved to register their complaints into an inventory that can be accessed ...

Complaint > Land Reform and Poverty Alleviation Project, 1st Request

Management Response: 14-Management Response (English)

...cash payments to owners under the Project. Employing an estimated medium- to long-term interest rate of 16%, the cost of expropriated land in the Northeast in 1998 was R$249/ha and R$6,578/family – still well above the unit costs under the Project. Moreover, in many cases expropriated owners later obtain additional compensation through judicial actions. A recent study shows that the final cost, after judicial action, of expropriated land in the Northeast has averaged three times the initial comp...

Complaint > Smallholder Agriculture Development Project

Filing: 62-Request for Inspection (English)

...cash crop which no rich industria!lsed nation In the worid wants to have In Its own backyard. It is obvious that rich nations are merely pushing 011 palm growing In countries like PNG because It Is a labour Intensive, nutrient hungry and polluting crop, so that their Industry can have access to cheap palm 011. • 011 palm Increases balance of payments problem for PNG: Growers become too rellanl upon a monocultural cash crop. What 1$ left of their hard earned cash Income from oU...

Complaint > Jute Sector Adjustment Credit Project

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...compensation and shall either fur the amount of compensation or specify the principles on which, and the manner in which, the compensation is to be assessed and paid, but no such law shall be called in question in any court on the ground that any provision in respect of such compensation is not adequate. The rise in the water level in Jamuna river will displace thousands of people fì-om their forefathers’ land. This is the direct violation of the fundamental right of the people , especially when...

Complaint > South-West Roads: Western Europe-Western China International Transit Corridor (CAREC-1b & 6b) (Second Request)

Eligibility: 74-Eligibility Report (English)

...compensation. Project officials in Shymkent informed the Panel team that all but one of the eight Requesters had agreed on the compensation, and were paid accordingly. The compensation for the eighth owner was pending verification of the valuation of the assets that would be acquired. During its visit to Sairam, the Panel team confirmed that seven of the Requesters had received compensation and were satisfied. As for the eighth Requester, he informed the Panel team ...

Complaint > Paraguay/Argentina Reform Project for the Water and Telecommunication Sectors, SEGBA V Power Distribution Project (Yacyreta)

Management Response: 26-Management Response (English)

...Compensation 334 3,607,760 Compensation for loss of clay 94 611,000 deposit (paid to brick makers above 84 masl) Sub Total 525 7,004,410 Roof Tile Makers Cash compensation for self 54 4,545,981 relocation Compensation for loss of clay 4...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Compliance Report: 44-Investigation Report (English)

...Cash compensation is not a policy objective.471 Cash compensation alone is insufficient to restore livelihoods. Leading social research has established that cash compensation fails to perform the restorative function that economics and development policies ascribe to it; the number of resettlers who, after compensation is paid, remain worse off and do not recover are the majority in many projects.472 Policy preference is given to land-based resettlement strateg...

Complaint > Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project

Filing: Additional Request for Inspection (English)

...cash compensation, but the cash compensation would not be paid for a year or two and the assessment upon which the level of compensation was based undervalued their homes. 28. The Banks have failed in their duty to ensure that persons resettled by the project, including the claimants, improve or at least maintain their standards of living. In fact, resettled persons have suffered financial losses and the destruction of their way of life. They have not participated in the developm...

Complaint > Itaparica Resettlement and Irrigation Project

Management Response: Management Response

...cash for their loss; also families preferring not to move to agrovilas and imgated plots were fully compensated in cash; * The 3,486 landless farriiing families (60% of total) living m the area gained access to L a new house of 45m2 with running water and electrícil;, and an imgated plot of at least 1S hectares, assets that most of them probably could not have imagined owning without this project. Baseline data co...