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

Compliance Report: 26-Investigation Report (English)

...compensation option for small artisan brick makers was to receive cash compensation based on their “production capacity” together with a house and plot. The Resettlement Plan did not recommend this option, and it was expected that few would opt for it. However, the number of families who elected cash compensation was substantial. The option encouraged more people to settle in the area and to begin small brickworks in the hope of additional cash compensation, since the raising of the water level ...

Complaint > Southern Transport Development Project (STDP)

Compliance Report: CRP Final Report [PDF] (Management Response and Requester Response to CRP Draft Report are attached)

...compensation start with their concern that some farmers had not received land-for-land compensation. ADB's Handbook on Resettlement: A Guide to Good Practice dated 1998 is clear on this issue: "Cash for land acquisition has never been a satisfactory mode of compensation if it is not paid at replacement values. There is also the risk that the APs might spend their cash quickly and become impoverished, or that women’s and children’s subsistence needs might not be met if cash compensation is paid t...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Management Response: 16-Management Response (English)

...compensation areas. Response: Creation of environmental offsets and compensation areas is one of a series of alternative “Appropriate conservation and mitigation measures…” defined in Annex A of OP 4.04 (paragraph e). The measures selected “… depend on the ecological characteristics of the Management Response - Page 73 given site…” The creation of offsets or compensation areas is not appropriate to the proposed ...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Eligibility: 60-Final Eligibility Report (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. The Requesters argued that the Project, which aimed at creating a centralized and formal land registration process, in fact weakened and degraded the land tenure of the customary land...

Complaint > Bujagali Energy-05/Bujagali

Closing Report: Dispute Resolution Conclusion Report Bujagali-05, July 2018 - English

...Cash payments completed compensation. Twenty claims brought by 131 17 individuals were withdrawn or resolved and confirmed by CAO as a result of this information-sharing Zero compensation accepted 7 process. The individual complaints were then narrowed down to 16. Compensation rejected ...

Complaint > Santa Fe Infrastructure Project and Provincial Road Infrastructure Project, 1st Request

Management Response: 42-Management Response (English)

...compensation legislation. Ministry of Education of the PSF. 10. The implementation of resettlement activi- The RAP will be implemented prior to any ties is linked to the implementation of the in- physical works. vestment component of the project to ensure that displacement or restriction of access does not occur before necessary measures for re- settlement are in place. 12. Payment of cash compensation for lost as- Cash compensation will correspond to re- set...

Complaint > Bujagali Energy-07/Bujagali

Compliance Report: English

...cash compensation based on 2006 rates would not enable affected people to acquire replacement land. Following a site visit in October 2011, the PoE noted that a number of disputes over compensation remained and raised the question as to “whether the compensation rates offered actually represent full replacement value.” The PoE noted the need for UETCL to demonstrate that “compensation offered represents full replacement value.” 60 CAO attempted to verify a sample of the compensation payments and...

Complaint > Power Development Project

Eligibility: 87-Management Report and Recommendation - Nepal Power Development Project

...compensation package proposed by the Government (compensation at 100 percent of land value, provision of a local road, and uninterrupted power supply) responds to community demands, as well as expectations recorded in the Project’s Social Assessment. Since the valuation of the land in July 2013, 96 out of 159 landowners have accepted the new compensation package and received cash compensation; the remaining landowners refused the compensation and continued to ask that the short section of the tr...

Complaint > Maritsa East Mines (BEH Bond Issue)

Filing: Complaint

...compensation – we are offered either cash or like-for-like buildings that are more than 15 km from the municipal center center, close to TPP2. On the method of assessing compensation - there is no such method yet apart from the regular sale at the moment, where assessors evaluate and their assessment is further examined and accepted by the Maritsa East Mines. The company decides whether they will lower or increase the values given in the evaluation without clear methodology. Additional infrastru...

Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project

Filing: Request for compliance review [PDF]

...compensation and rehabilitation measures.”9 ADB has failed to ensure that: “In preparing the resettlement planning documents,…the borrower… take into account the views of affected groups and civil society groups where relevant, including nongovernment organizations.”10 The ADB has failed to ensure “a revised resettlement plan resulting from a detailed technical design or change in scope of the project” has been made available to AHs11 and/or it has failed to assist in the preparation of resettle...

Complaint > Reventazon Hydroelectric Power Project

Timeline: Preparation of Draft Recommendation and ToRs due date

...cash compensation at full replacement cost following laws and regulations applicable in Costa Rica.”21 It adds that the criteria for land valuation are described in the strategic framework and that the land expropriation process and corresponding compensation are under judicial review in the national courts. IV. THE MICI PROCESS TO DATE 4.1 The Request was received by the MICI on 16 September 2016. In accordance with the ...

Complaint > Transitional Support for Economic Recovery Credit and Emergency Economic and Social Reunification Support Project

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 25

...Cash and Diamond/Gold Smuggling The DRC has not implemented feasible measures to detect or monitor the physical cross-border transportation of cash or diamonds. Similar to other war-torn countries with porous borders, smuggling bulk capital figures as an important component of illicit finance schemes. With numerous, poorly policed border checkpoints and airport facilities, the DRC offers enormous opportunities for bulk cash and 96 Interview with owner of unregistered money transfer shop, 19 ...

Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project 2

Filing: Request for compliance review [PDF](attachments are available upon request from Chair, CRP at crp@adb.org)

...cash compensation for lost assets and self-arranged relocation. Vulnerable households are entitled to additional support. AHs are also entitled to compensation for transition costs, lost income due to resttlement and income restoration support. The overriding objective of these entitlements is to ensure that AHs receive assistance so that they would be at least as well-off as they w...

Complaint > Productive Infrastructure Program - Request II: Caracol Industrial Park (MICI)

Dispute Resolution: Consultation Phase Report Public Disclosure

...compensation payments were not commensurate with the losses they incurred as a result of their displacement. They point out that the provision of cash compensation was not sustainable and did not enable them to restore their livelihoods. In particular, they assert that the compensation failed to take account of the increased cost of living stemming from the PIC’s location in the area and the value of the investments made in the land they had been f...

Complaint > Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, and Petroleum Environment Capacity Enhancement Project

Compliance Report: 27-Investigation Report (English)

...compensation) topped with COTCO’s additional compensation for improvements on the land including houses, crops, and wells. Also, compensation can be paid for fields owned collectively by a social group, a situation that exists mainly in the north of Cameroon. According to a COTCO official, the individual compensations have already amounted to the sum of FCFA4.0G (about US$5,700,000), paid in cash and in-kind; • Supplemental compensa...

Complaint > Oyu Tolgoi-02/Khanbogd

Agreement: MDT/IEP Final Report - January 2017 - English

...Compensation!Claims!Committee!(CCC)!to!opine!on!claims!to!be! retrospectively!included!in!2004!or!2011!compensation.! • !Herders!in!the!groups!listed!in!‘Recommendations:!Compensation’!should!be!entitled!to! present!claims!for!compensation!to!the!Compensation!Claims!Committee.!!! ! In!order!to!ensure!that!compensation!is!capable!of!assisting!herders!move!to!sustainable!livelihoods:! • Those!households!compensated!in!2004!that!no!longer!have!a!household!member...

Complaint > Oyu Tolgoi-01/Khanbogd

Agreement: MDT/IEP Final Report - January 2017 - English

...Compensation!Claims!Committee!(CCC)!to!opine!on!claims!to!be! retrospectively!included!in!2004!or!2011!compensation.! • !Herders!in!the!groups!listed!in!‘Recommendations:!Compensation’!should!be!entitled!to! present!claims!for!compensation!to!the!Compensation!Claims!Committee.!!! ! In!order!to!ensure!that!compensation!is!capable!of!assisting!herders!move!to!sustainable!livelihoods:! • Those!households!compensated!in!2004!that!no!longer!have!a!household!member...

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

Eligibility: 26-Eligibility Report (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 48 ...

Complaint > India Infrastructure Fund-01/Dhenkanal District

Filing: Letter of Complaint from Odisha Chas Parivesh Surekhsa Parishad and the Delhi Forum, April 15, 2011

...compensation of INR 500,000 per acre which are below the price of non-irrigated land in Angul district acquired by Jindal Steel and Power (they paid INR 700,000 per acre) Occupants/owners of the irrigated land still have not received land compensation. Around eighteen percent (18%) of the families listed by the Land Acquisition Office of Dhenkanal as families whose agricultural land was acquired have not received their compensation. 2.4.5 The company also forc...

Complaint > Mumbai Urban Transport Project

Compliance Review: 32-Investigation Report (English)

...compensation, cash has also been paid to the developers. 330 The Requesters have expressed concerns with regard to the use of TDRs in the MUTP, and have questioned why the developers received not only TDRs but also cash compensation. 331 The Requesters are concerned about alleged corruption. 388. The PAD states that land for the rail component will be acquired under the Land Acquisition Act, while land for roads and resettlement will b...