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p. 52 of 79 BACK | NEXT Foreword Abbreviations Glossary 1. Introduction 2. The Resettlement Plan in the Project Cycle 3. Resettlement: Key Planning Concepts 4. Consultation and Participation 5. Socioeconomic Information 6. Relocation 7. Income Restoration 7.1 Issues in Income Restoration 7.2 Income Restoration Programs 7.3 Income Restoration in the Project Cycle: Key Action Points 7.4 Checklist: Income Restoration 8. Institutional Framework 9. Monitoring and Evaluation Selected Reading List Appendix 1: The Bank's Policy on Involuntary Resettlement Appendix 2: Sample Terms of Reference for Full Resettlement Plan Appendix 3: Resettlement Policies in Selected DMCs Appendix 4: Resettlement Monitoring: Sample Formats for Monthly Progress Reports

Handbook on Resettlement: A Guide to Good Practice

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7. Income Restoration

Income restoration is an important component of resettlement where APs have lost their productive base, businesses, jobs, or other income sources, regardless of whether they have also lost their houses. However, APs who lose housing as well as income sources may be most at risk. When displaced people are worse-off, they risk impoverishment and alienation, which may result in landlessness, joblessness, homelessness, marginalization, morbidity, food insecurity, loss of access to common property assets, and social disorganization including crime and substance abuse.¹

Planners need to take account of the links between relocation and income generation activities. For example, the standard of living and quality of life for APs in the new sites will be linked to good access to and control over resources (e.g., land) or income-generating sources (e.g., employment, businesses). A recent review of the World Bank resettlement portfolio found that displaced families with good access to sufficient productive resources were able to recreate, and sometimes improve, lost productive systems and livelihoods.²

According to the same report:

"Projects that resettle people productively on land and in jobs restore income more effectively, after a transition period, than projects which hand out compensation only, without institutional assistance for resettlement.

Successful income restoration was achieved primarily when projects allowed resettlers to share in the immediate benefits created by the very project that caused displacement, by: (i) moving resettlers into the newly irrigated command areas; (ii) helping them develop reservoir aquaculture; (iii) favoring resettlers to exploit commercial opportunities around the newly constructed infrastructure; or (iv) assisting them in building more durable houses."

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¹ Michael Cernea, The Risk and Reconstruction Model for Resettling Displaced Population. Oxford Refugee Studies Programme, UK, 1996.

² Resettlement and Development, The World Bank, March 1996.

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