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 p...

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

Eligibility: 14-Eligibility Report (English)

...cashew and others). The resulting net cash flow would range from R$1,000 after two years of Project implementation, to R$3,300 after five years. It bears repeating that these are the expected results in the least favorable areas; results in areas with better agro-climatic conditions would be considerably higher. 4.12 Case Studies and Supervision Findings of Actual Results. In 1998, FAO conducted case studies of several CdaT community associations in the States of Ceara and Bahia, where Pr...

Complaint > Integrated Citarum Water Resources Management Investment Program 2

Monitoring: Final Monitoring Report (English)

...compensation entitlements and did not ensure a firm commitment to the cash compensation mechanism in Bekasi district. The resettlement plan could have provided stronger assurances that the provisions of ADB’s resettlement policy would be complied with. (iii) The ADB-approved 2008 resettlement plan did not ensure adequate compensation for lost assets at replacement cost and appropriate livelihood restoration measures to prevent impoverishment. It did not include a thorough analysis of viab...

Complaint > Punjab Intermediate Cities Improvement Investment Project

Dispute Resolution: Review and Assessment & Problem-Solving Report (English)

...compensation of the project GRM were successfully resolved and the affected households received their compensation payments. The unresolved complaint was from a group of 18 households who refused to accept the enhanced compensation offer based on the additional IVS study and subsequently reached out to OSPF. 20. The 18 households explained that the compensation amount determined was insufficient to purchase land of similar quality and size in the same locality. In addition, the complainant...

Complaint > Punjab Intermediate Cities Improvement Investment Project

Dispute Resolution: Review and Assessment & Problem-Solving Report (English)

...compensation of the project GRM were successfully resolved and the affected households received their compensation payments. The unresolved complaint was from a group of 18 households who refused to accept the enhanced compensation offer based on the additional IVS study and subsequently reached out to OSPF. 20. The 18 households explained that the compensation amount determined was insufficient to purchase land of similar quality and size in the same locality. In addition, the complainant...

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

Project Document: Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project Implementation Completion Report

...compensations Le plan de compensation pr�voyait des compensations individuelles, communautaires et r�gionales. Les r�alisations en mati�re de compensations sont les suivantes : Compensations individuelles : Au premier trimestre de l'ann�e 2005, le montant des compensations individuelles vers�es � 4 130 exploitants est �valu� � 9,7 millions de Dollars US (5,4 Milliards FCFA). Compensations communautaires et r�gionales : Ces compensations avaient quasiment toutes �t� ex�cut�es au 31 mai ...

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 > BTC Pipeline-20/Atskuri

Dispute Resolution: Problem Solving Completion Report

...Cash compensation for standing crop, regardless of the stage in their growth cycle Cash compensation for lost crops on orphaned land decided on a case by case basis Return land for use, with restrictions, post construction Replace or compensate at full replacement value all non-movable assets (sheds etc) Private land/ 58 meters (use restrictions) Cash compensation where the landowner can demonstrate that the restriction imposes a loss Table 1 Compensation for Private Land reprodu...

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 t...

Complaint > Integrated Citarum Water Resources Management Investment Program 2

Monitoring: 1st Annual Monitoring Report (English)

...compensation entitlements and did not ensure a firm commitment to the cash compensation mechanism in Bekasi district. The resettlement plan could have provided stronger assurances that the provisions of ADB’s resettlement policy would be complied with. (iii) The ADB-approved 2008 resettlement plan did not ensure adequate compensation for lost assets at replacement cost and appropriate livelihood restoration measures to prevent impoverishment. It did not include a thorough analysis of viab...

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 > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project

Filing: Request for compliance review

...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 re...

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 > 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 > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project

Filing: Request for compliance review

...compensation for their lost or partly lost structures and/or assets based on the Detailed Measurement Survey (DMS). According to the RPs totally affected households required to relocate were to be provided with three options: (1) relocation to project-sponsored sites with security of tenure, (2) re-organization onsite in the ROW with a guarantee of being able to remain there for at least the next 5 years, and (3) cash compensation for lost assets and self-arranged relocation. Vulnerable hou...

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 > 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 > Strominvest II-01/Minsk

Appraisal: CAO Compliance Appraisal Report Strominvest - March 2018 - English

...compensation, in cash or in-kind, provided to the local residents.6 The complainants submitted a YouTube video from September 2015, in which they raise these issues with the city authorities and the client during an information session on the Timiriazeva project.7 According to the complainants and the company 150-200 people would be displaced if the project goes ahead. 1 IFC. Summary of Proposed Investment, Strominvest/Erilin (#26107). See https://goo.gl/RpiyYa 2 Tvoya Stolitsa. Company...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Management Action Plan: First Progress Report on Management Action Plan

...compensation and R&R assistance. However, Hatsari rejected the package. THDC put forward several enhanced relocation and compensation options, but these too were rejected by the Hatsari households (17 families). As a consequence, THDC changed the location of the switchyard, the alignment of the adit to the tail race tunnel, and the approach road to the surge shaft so that the Hatsari land would not be required for the Project. However, concerned about the impacts of construction nearby, THDC has...

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...