Complaint > Electricity Expansion Project

Registration: Notice of Registration (English)

...Cash Compensation The Requesters add that some households received a newly built house and cash compensation of"not less than Ksh. 195,000." 1 They state that this is based on "corruption, nepotism, ethnicity and religious ground." Retaliation Finally, they note that on October 23, 2014, the RAP Implementation Committee (RAPIC) had a meeting and tried by all means possible to stop the complaining process. The Requesters assert that there are several correspondences and letters ex...

Complaint > Power Development Project

Registration: 87-Notice of Registration (English)

...cash compensation." According to the Request, complainants want the transmission line to be realigned or that they be offered substitute land or ''fair and adequate compensation." Moreover, the Request states that land-based resettlement options should be preferred for persons whose livelihoods are land-based, and cash compensation may not be an appropriate compensation strategy in such cases. Inadequate Study ofAlternatives The Request states that complainants have repeatedly requested ...

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 > Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project

Registration: 91-Annexes to the Notice of Non-Registration - Request for Inspection, Management Action Plan, related documents (English)

...cash compensation is all that is offered, the government needs to ensure that affected people are provided with appropriate sustainable livelihood assistance, such as skills training, micro-credit, and employment opportunities.”165 It is essential that people who are unable to provide for themselves are offered adequate alternative housing. The UN Basic Principles provide that “[c]ash compensation should under no circumstances replace real compensation in the form of land and common property res...