Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Response: 40-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...cash compensation in re-establishing assets and livelihoods” (ESAP Mission Report, November 2007). This could be accomplished through the existing RAP implementation monitoring process or during the updating of the socio-economic survey (see paragraphs 45 and 46). The Bank will follow up through field visits and missions from July to December 2008 to assist WAPCo in better understanding the dynamics behind the PAPs’ preferences for cash. 40. Cash Compensation for Land. In determining cash co...

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 > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Response: 40-Management Response (English)

...compensation: The Bank and WAPCo are committed to compensation at full replacement costs. The Bank has begun reviewing compensation rates for the northern part of the Nigerian ROW (the June 2005 mission undertook to review those rates but this has not yet been completed) but the Bank has not yet received compensation data from the southern portion of the Nigerian ROW. The Otta section report on individual compensation paymen...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Eligibility: 40-Eligibility Report Annex II Management Response

...compensation: The Bank and WAPCo are committed to compensation at full replacement costs. The Bank has begun reviewing compensation rates for the northern part of the Nigerian ROW (the June 2005 mission undertook to review those rates but this has not yet been completed) but the Bank has not yet received compensation data from the southern portion of the Nigerian ROW. The Otta section report on individual compensation paymen...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Action Plan: 40-Fourth Management Progress Report

...compensation for crops and trees based on fair market value and adjusted prices; (c) updates of the socio-economic survey of Project affected persons; (d) assignment of a Project staff for targeted vulnerable groups during the compensation period; (e) provision of the livelihood restoration program; (f) full disclosure of compensation process; (g) engagement of an independent monitor to witness the payment process; (h) establishment of an adequate grievance mechanism that incorporates the use of...