Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Management Action Plan: 44-Third Management Progress Report

...cash compensation, 300 households continued to use the cash to avail of agricultural programs (including inputs and market and group cooperatives); some 214 received, in addition to the cash support, some fisheries inputs (fishing gear, boats, fish nets distributed in 2011); and 100 households participated in 2011 in the livelihood training workshops. 24. The focus group meetings, held between February and October 2011, noted some of the problems faced by PAPs. These include, among others, c...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Management Action Plan: 44-Fourth Management Progress Report

...cash compensation, 300 households continued to use the cash to avail of agricultural programs (including inputs and market and group cooperatives); some 214 received, in addition to the cash support, some fishery inputs (fishing gear, boats, fish nets distributed in 2011); and 100 households participated in 2011 in the livelihood training workshops. 23. In terms of health care, BEL facilitated the community outreach programs of the two sub- county health departments (one each on the east and...

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 > Private Power Generation Project

Management Response: 44-Management Report and Recommendation

...compensation was US$9.6 million or 82 percent of the total budget. It represented an average cost of almost US$9,600 per household, which was equivalent in 2002 to four years of a household’s yearly income, and among fishing households, which had much lower income levels, it was equivalent to twelve years of income. In addition to the need to urgently resolve the compensation claims, the large infusion of cash did cause some problems. For example, around one-third of households spent their cash ...