Complaint > Arun III Proposed Hydroelectric Project and Restructuring of IDA Credit

Compliance Report: Investigation Report (English)

...compensation, “Bank experience with compensation exclusively in money has been negative.... The need for forms of compensation other than cash is most apparent in the case of tribal or other minority populations whose ancestral lands are expropriated by the State.” From virtually all writings, it was essential for IDA to insist on adequate non- cash compensation in the Arun Valley, and yet when the land was acquired on the Hill route, the only compensation identified so far was cash -- no land, ...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Compliance Report: 40-Investigation Report (English)

...cash compensation, the ESAP also noted the necessity to analyze the reason that led to the overwhelming provision of cash compensation and recommended that “[f]uture cash compensation should be preceded by community meetings, in which the hazards are aired, and by provision of community training in clever cash handling.”198 It also noted that “[f]uture in-kind options should be spelled out in detail.”199 176. The Panel finds that a...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Compliance Report: 40-Investigation Report Executive Summary

...Cash Compensation The RAP states that landowners “are expected to be able to restore income streams without further assistance once they have received compensation for their land and assets.” Accordingly, the RAP transferred the burden for the restoration of livelihood onto the displaced persons, once they had obtained cash compensation, without providing additional assistance as called for in Bank Policy. The Panel finds that issues of livelihood restoration, resettlement assistance beyond comp...

Complaint > Electricity Expansion Project

Compliance Report: Inspection Panel Investigation Report (English)

...compensation. KenGen’s compensation list includes 126 heads of households, some of which are polygamous, having received 149 houses.73 A total of 179 heads of households were eventually compensated with a new house or cash compensation.74 It provides the names of each head of household but not the names of the different spouses in polygamous marriages. The Panel notes the “Master List” of people receiving houses also includes names of some who were not 71 Agence Française de Développement. 72...

Complaint > Reventazon HPP-01

Compliance Report: English

...compensation received, restore their standards of living. In case some landowners suffer difficulties due to the land acquisition and resettlement process, the company should provide additional compensation – either in cash or another form of assistance. (b) The notion of vulnerability should be applied in a broader sense to include households where there is a risk that cash compensation is not sufficient to restore pre-project living standards. 2.3.7 ...

Complaint > Smallholder Agriculture Development Project

Compliance Report: 62-Investigation Report (English)

...Cash Economy 108. The transition from a subsistence economy to a market economy is one of the key development challenges for the whole country, and is very much the context of the SADP. 109. Some observers believe that subsistence agriculture underpins the Papua New Guinea cash economy. They maintain that even though the production and sale of cash crops is an important source of income at both the national and household levels, cash crops should not 124 PAD, p. 18. 1...

Complaint > Third Power Project, Fourth Power Project, and proposed Bujagali Hydropower Project

Compliance Report: 24-Investigation Report (English)

...compensation package which ended up setting payment caps to limit exposure to fraud. Can one estimate the number of PAPs who lost compensation because they succumbed to offers of cash by speculators who purchased part or all of their holdings? Can one estimate the number of PAPs who allowed speculators to pose as tenants thereby foregoing the crop compensation they would otherwise have had? ...

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

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 > 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 > 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 > 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 > 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 > 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 > 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 > Vizhinjam-01/Kerala

Compliance Report: CAO Compliance Investigation Report, Vizhinjam 01, 02 & 03 - January 23, 2018

...cash compensation for certain groups of project affected fishermen, the ESIA included no discussion of compensation for impacts on tourism-based livelihoods. The ESIA did, however, include a direction that the Tourism Impact Assessment should evaluate the status of each resort under the CRZ notification requirements and specified that entitlements should be determined based on the legality of resorts. CAO Investigation Report: IFC Advisory Services Project with VISL ...

Complaint > Santa Fe Road Infrastructure Project and Provincial Road Infrastructure Project, 3rd Request

Compliance Report: 51-Investigation Report (English)

...compensation at full replacement cost for losses of assets and development assistance in addition to compensation – e.g. credit facilities, trainings etc. – “where necessary to achieve the objectives of the policy.” When livelihood is land-based, OP 4.12 states that preference should be given to land-based resettlement strategies, but considers payment of cash compensation appropriate when, for example, only a fraction of land is taken and the residual land ensures ...

Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project 2

Compliance Report: CRP’s Final Report in English, in Khmer [PDF] (Management's Response and Requester's Response to the CRP's Draft Report are attached)

...compensation rates to reflect price levels at the time of compensation payments; the continued use of an inaccurate DMS process that resulted in underpayment of compensation; and the use of the principle of replacement value for house compensation, which on the average provided AHs with a compensation amount that was only about half the cost of replacement housing of minimum standard. In addition, the 2006 entitlements were restrictively applied. When early resettlement practice departed from th...

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

Compliance Report: 37-Investigation Report (English)

...cash in the southern and eastern parts of the Ituri forest. The bushmeat hunted by the Mbuti were bartered with the traders for starchy food, such as rice and cassava flour, and for clothes and cooking pans; otherwise it was sold for cash in order to pay taxes, fines, for marriage, childbirth, funeral service and other social and cultural obligations. In the 1970s and 1980s, nearly a half (in weight) of their catch was traded, and the r...