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Handbook on Resettlement: A Guide to Good Practice : 2. The Resettlement Plan in the Project Cycle
2.2. Requirements for Resettlement Plans
Full Resettlement Plan - Significant Resettlement
| Severity |
Number of Affected Persons |
Requirement |
| Loss of productive and other assets (including land), incomes, and livelihoods |
200 plus |
Compensation at replacement costs, transfer and income substitution for down time, income restoration measures |
| Loss of housing, community structures, systems, and services |
200 plus |
Compensation at replacement rates, transfer assistance and relocation plans, measures to restore living standards |
| Loss of household or community resources, habitat, sites |
200 plus |
Replacement if possible, restoration, compensation |
| APs are indigenous people or in some other way vulnerable, e.g., the poorest, isolated communities, households headed by women, those without legal title to assets, pastoralists |
100 plus |
Social preparation phase - special measures might be required to ensure full rehabilitation |
| Cases of "insignificant" resettlement having special target group or other sensitivities |
50 plus |
For example, 50 hunter-gatherers require a full RP
Social preparation phase - special measures might be required to ensure full rehabilitation |
For projects in this category:
- Inform government and other project sponsors on Bank's resettlement policy
- Assist government in implementing Bank's resettlement policy within their own legal and institutional framework.
- Strengthen capacity of government and other project sponsors to plan and implement resettlement.
- Help strengthen national macro framework for resettlement.
- Resolve any outstanding differences with Bank's policy.
- Assist government or other project sponsors to prepare a RP before loan appraisal.
- Prepare a summary RP for draft RRP for MRM and for RRP for Board circulation, based on Full RP
- Include information on resettlement in the project profile.
Short Resettlement - Insignificant Resettlement
| Severity |
Number of Affected Persons |
Requirement |
| Loss of productive and other assets (including land), incomes, and livelihoods |
below 200 |
Compensation at replacement costs, transfer and income substitution for down time, income restoration measures |
| Loss of housing, community structures, systems, and services |
below 200 |
Compensation at replacement rates, transfer assistance and relocation plans, measures to restore living standards |
| Loss of household or community resources, habitat, sites |
below 200 |
Replacement if possible, restoration, compensation |
| APs are indigenous people or in some other way vulnerable, e.g., the poorest, isolated communities, households headed by women, those without legal title to assets, pastoralists |
below 100 |
Social preparation phase - special measures might be required to ensure full rehabilitation |
| APs have special sensitivities or are particularly vulnerable |
below 50 |
Social preparation phase - special measures might be required to ensure full rehabilitation. |
For projects in this category:
- Prepare summary RP for draft RRP for MRM and for RRP for Board circulation, based on short RP
Sector Projects
| Severity |
Number of Affected Persons |
Requirements for Resettlement Plan |
| Project as a whole is expected to have significant resettlement effects as described above in full RP |
As for full RP |
Above requirements apply for appraisal of at least one subproject involving resettlement effects under full RP |
For selected subproject(s):
- Prepare summary RP for draft RRP for MRM and for RRP for Board circulation, based on short RP
For remaining subproject(s):
- Confirm policies and entitlements to be applied: confirm procedure for preparing RPs for subprojects.
- Describe criteria and outline of RP for draft RRP for MRM and Board circulation.
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