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 > Southern Transport Development Project (STDP)

Monitoring: Annual Monitoring Report [PDF] Report sent to Requesters

...compensation payment; delays in providing new land titles; lack of information to invest the compensation proceeds wisely; the refusal to recognize specific claims on items such as trees and other crops; and invidious comparisons of compensation rates for apparently same plots of land. Affectees are unclear as to what constitutes "full compensation"; basic compensation; the additional compensation awarded at Land Acquisit...