Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Response: Management Report and Recommendation

...compensation amounts are appropriate and in line with national laws and regulations. The Bank will procure an independent technical advisor (Action 4) to assist UNRA in reviewing compensation amounts and calculating any additional compensation that may be required, by January 1, 2017. If it is determined that additional compensation needs to be paid by the Contractor, UNRA...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Filing: Request for Inspection

...compensation mechanism. Many land owners along this road axis and in trading centers have not been adequately compensated and others not attended to. It is quit unfair where structures exist at the same axis/ location sometimes following each other but the compensation differs greatly, and others not compensated at all. On 08th, August 2015 the affected complainants a round Bigodi area had a meeting and resolved to register their complaints into an inventory that can be accessed ...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Response: Management Response

...compensation continued to be slow. The existing grievance redress mechanism appeared to be working on issues of compensation complaint registration but the communication feedback loop from UNRA/compensation service provider on the resolution of claims was not working well. The grievance redress mechanism had also not been used to address other social issues apart from compensation; some communities did 28 Previous engagements indicated the time, place and purpose of the community meetings but...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Action Plan: First Management Progress Report

...compensation amounts were appropriate and in line with national laws and regulations. The Bank would procure an independent technical advisor to assist UNRA in reviewing compensation amounts and calculating any additional compensation required, by January 1, 2017. If it was determined that additional compensation needed to be paid by the Contractor, UNRA would insist on Contractor compliance with this obligation. If any required payment was not made, the GoU committed to ...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Action Plan: Third Management Progress Report

...compensation victims except one had been compensated in accordance with the amounts and calculating any recommendations of the insurance expert. The family of the additional compensation that may be remaining victim (a fatal accident) had engaged a private lawyer required, by January 1, 2017. If it is and was claiming additional c...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Compliance Report: Inspection Panel Investigation Report

...compensation is covered by the Workman’s Compensation Act, and in the case of accidental death such compensation is limited to 60 times the worker’s monthly wage at the time of death.127 Disability compensation paid to an accident victim is determined by a district medical officer and not by the insurance company. The company further told the Panel that although Ugandan law limits worker’s compensation insurance payments, no such limits would apply to an additional and separate death and disabil...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Action Plan: Second Management Progress Report

...compensation The GoU has committed to complete RAP implementation on the Fort Portal – Kamwenge Road is close land acquisition and compensation to conclusion. As of February 22, 2018, 98 percent of claimants payments to Project-affected people, (2,949) had received all compensation due (4 percent more than in in line with national laws and Bank the previous reporting period). UNRA is working on compensating policy requirements, by no later than the remaining 2 percent of cla...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Action Plan: Lessons Learned and Agenda for Action

...Compensation Process for Land Acquisition along Right of Way. The compensation of the more than 2,800 affected people was poorly managed by the Government and UNRA (as well as by its consultant, SURVECO) and was a primary reason for serious and persistent grievances among the communities and individual households affected. By December 2014, some 15 months after the Contractor had mobilized, the right of way had yet to be finalized. There were also other unresolved issues, including inadequate co...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Other: Guidance Note on Labor Influx

...compensation or land acquisition). An effective GRM should be able to refer complainants to police and other service providers where appropriate (e.g., in case of gender-based violence complaints). 17 Table 4. Suggested Due Diligence for Social and Environmental Mitigation Measures in Contracts Stage of Contractual Suggested Due Diligence (Bank Staff) Process • Ensure that the terms o...