LAO: Roads for Rural Development Project
Resettlement Framework and Resettlement, Community Development
and Social Action Plans
The Roads for Rural Development project aims to induce economic
development and social integration connecting remote rural areas
with district and provincial centers. The project will improve and
maintain a network of all-weather rural access roads in a number
of provinces throughout Laos.
The rural roads development component will be implemented in three
phases in Attapu, Bolikhamxay, Sayaburi and Vientiane Provinces.
Despite efforts of the Ministry of Communication, Transport, Post
and Construction (MCTPC) to minimize involuntary resettlement impacts,
approximately 348 households will be affected by the acquisition
of 4 hectares of land. MCTPC prepared these resettlement plans for
the following road projects:
MCTPC also prepared this Social
Action Plan to draw together the measures for addressing
resettlement, community (ethnic minority) development and for the
management of social risks (such as HIV/AIDs) associated with this project.
A Resettlement
and Community Development Framework has also been prepared to guide the resettlement and
ethnic minority planning and implementation for the other two subproject
roads: Hongsa-Thaxoang (Sayaburi) and Pakton-Ban Vang in Vientiane
Province.
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