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| Scope of land acquisition and resettlement |
- Describe, with the aid of maps, scope of land acquisition and why it is necessary for main investment project.
- Describe alternative options, if any, considered to minimize land acquisition and its effects, and why remaining effects are unavoidable.
- Summarize key effects in terms of land acquired, assets lost, and people displaced from homes or livelihoods.
- Specify primary responsibilities for land acquisition and resettlement.
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| Socioeconomic information |
- Define, identify and enumerate people to be affected.
- Describe likely impact of land acquisition on people affected, taking into account social, cultural, and economic parameters.
- Identify all losses for people affected by land acquisition.
- Provide details of any common property resources.
- Specify how project will impact on the poor, indigenous people, ethnic minorities, and other vulnerable groups, including women, and any special measures needed to restore fully, or enhance, their economic and social base.
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| Objectives, policy framework, and entitlements |
- Describe purpose and objectives of land acquisition and resettlement.
- Describe key national and local land, compensation and resettlement policies, laws, and guidelines that apply to project.
- Explain how Bank Policy on Involuntary Resettlement will be achieved.
- State principles, legal and policy commitments from borrower executing agency for different categories of project impacts.
- Prepare an eligibility policy and entitlement matrix for all categories of loss, including compensation rates.
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| Consultation, and grievance redress participation |
- Identify project stakeholders.
- Describe mechanisms for stakeholder participation in planning, management, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Identify local institutions or organizations to support people affected.
- Review potential role of nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs).
- Establish procedures for redress of grievances by people affected.
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| Relocation of housing and settlements |
- Identify options for relocation of housing and other structures, including replacement housing, replacement cash compensation, and self selection.
- Specify measures to assist with transfer and establishment at new sites.
- Review options for developing relocation sites, if required, in terms of location, quality of site, and development needs.
- Provide a plan for layout, design, and social infrastructure for each site.
- Specify means for safeguarding income and livelihoods.
- Specify measures for planned integration with host communities.
- Identify special measures for addressing gender issues and those related to vulnerable groups.
- Identify any environmental risks and show how these will be managed and monitored.
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| Income restoration strategy |
- Identify livelihoods at risk.
- Develop an income restoration strategy with options to restore all types of livelihoods.
- Specify job opportunities in a job creation plan, including provisions for income substitution, retraining, self-employment and pensions, where required.
- Prepare a plan to relocate and restore businesses, including income substitution, where required.
- Identify any environmental risks and show how these will be managed and monitored.
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| Institutional framework |
- Identify main tasks and responsibilities in planning, negotiating, consulting, approving, coordinating, implementing, financing, monitoring and evaluating land acquisition and resettlement.
- Review the mandate of the land acquisition and resettlement agencies and their capacity to plan and manage these tasks.
- Provide for capacity building, including technical assistance, if required.
- Specify role of NGOs, if involved, and organizations of affected persons in resettlement planning and management.
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| Resettlement budget and financing |
- Identify land acquisition and resettlement costs.
- Prepare an annual budget and specify timing for release of funds.
- Specify sources of funding for all land acquisition and resettlement activities.
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| Implementation schedule |
- Provide a time schedule showing start and finish dates for major resettlement tasks.
- Show how people affected will be provided for before demolition begins.
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| Monitoring and evaluation |
- Prepare a plan for internal monitoring of resettlement targets, specifying key indicators of progress, mechanisms for reporting, and resource requirements.
- Prepare an evaluation plan, with provision for external, independent evaluation of extent to which policy objectives have been achieved.
- Specify participation for people affected in M&E.
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