Complaint > Bujagali Energy-07/Bujagali

Compliance Review: English

...compensation rates that varied along the transmission line route. Unexpected high inflation levels also potentially undermined compensation values in the lead up to payment, affecting those who agreed to compensation only later in the process. Most significantly, unprecedented levels of speculation, involving a range of strategies aimed at making false claims for crop damages to gain cash compensation, challenged UETCL's efforts to fairly compensate legitimately affected people. Widespread specu...

Complaint > Ulaanbaatar Urban Services and Ger Areas Development Investment Program - Tranche 1

Monitoring: English

...compensation. Template of the minutes of the negotiation meeting with complainants is presented in Appendix 2.6 Cash compensation for one complainant is in progress. Three complainants have inadequate documentation and requested the OSPF’s support in communicating and handling the existing issues with MUB, Land Agency, and PMO. Replacement land for 35 nontitle holders (complainants) have been allocated and a formal ordinance by the Mayor issuing the land title to them is pending. OSPF is followi...

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 > BTC Pipeline-13/Tsalka

Eligibility: English

...compensation to Complainants on 6 June 2004 of treatment facilities and by enforcing the discharge household items damaged in flooding, in lieu of cash payment. standards. Complainants accepted in-kind compensation. Lack of consistency in logging grievances by SPJV has SPJV assisted ...

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 > Altain Khuder debt & equity

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...cash instead of land compensation is inherently inadequate because herders cannot use cash to obtain replacement land. On the one hand, accepting cash compensation for land is seen as wrongfully selling communally owned land to the company, and on the other hand, herders cannot simply purchase new land, both because land is allocated at periodic bagh meetings where other herders may object, and because suitable land may be unavailable. 69. An interpretation of pastoral rights to land has been of...

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 > CBG-01/Sangaredi

Filing: CAO Complaint - Guinea / CBG-01 - English

...compensation for losses Where economic displacement (i.e. from productive land) cannot be avoided, PS 5 requires IFC’s client to offer affected persons with legally recognizable rights under national law replacement property (e.g. agricultural sites) of equal or greater value, or where appropriate, cash compensation at full replacement cost and other assistance to help them restore their livelihoods. 28 The issue of replacement property and cash compensation is discussed here. Livelihood impacts...

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 > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project 2

Monitoring: 1st Annual Monitoring Report in English, in Khmer [PDF]

...compensation deficits; and (iii) appeal’s mechanism under the improved Grievance Redress Mechanism5 (GRM) regarding computation and payment of compensation deficits. d. IRC prepares amended contracts for AHs reflecting compensation deficits. e. IRC conducts house-to-house consultations. f. IRC provides payments to AHs. g. Computation and payment of compensation for income losses6 for relocated AHs. (For full text, see Appendix 2.) ...

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...

Complaint > EPS Emergency Power Sector Reconstruction Loan, EPS Power II and EPS Kolubara Environmental Improvement

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...Cash Compensation or Replacement Housing Violates PR 5(34) The Bank has been on notice that the cash compensation scheme for the expropriated properties and for residents subject to forced resettlement fails to comply with PR 5’s insistence that “adequate… cash compensation be made available to physically displaced community members prior to relocation.”256 In August 2011, when EBRD officials visited the Vreoci mining region and met with community members, the Bank recorded “allegations ...

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

Eligibility: 14-Eligibility Report (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 > Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project

Management Response: Management Response (English)

...compensation paid. The Commission compensation amounts based on the market rcplaccmmt value. Records show that less than 5% of compensation awards have been disputed. No property has been without fair compensation being first paid owners. In some cases, owners of property have disputed the compensation - to mounts, iFn which cases the amount offered but rejected by the awardee was deposited i n...

Complaint > Power Development Project

Compliance Report: 87-Investigation Report-Nepal Power Development Project

...Compensation. On the issue of relocation and compensation, Management states that the main dispute relates to compensation of land holders in the ROW whose land is not being acquired but would be impacted by the passing of the power lines over their land. These landowners are demanding compensation at 100% for land not acquired but impacted by the ROW. Management notes that the Government announced a compensation package which approved “compensation at 100 percent of land value, provision of a l...

Complaint > CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Bishkek-Torugart Road) Project 1

Timeline: Terms of Reference in English, in Russian [PDF]

...compensation. In summer of 2010 we have built a new store at the back of existing one that was to be demolished. Demolished store cost we are estimating at 130 000 (one hundred and thirty thousand) Som plus 10 000 (ten thousand) Som for the labor. We would like that ADB will cover the losses as follows: First, by paying the cash compensation for store demolition. Second, by providing assistance in preparing registration of new store permits and by paying the costs in relation to registration of ...