Involuntary Resettlement

VIE: Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project
Resettlement Framework and Resettlement Plans

The Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project [ PDF ] aims to improve the urban environment and enhance human capital in the poorest provinces of Vietnam. Living conditions, public health, and urban environment for the inhabitants of inner urban parts of five towns—Thanh Hoa, Ha Tinh, Dong Ha (Quang Tri), Lang Co (Thua Thien-Hue), Tam Ky (Quang Nam), and Quang Ngai—will be improved through community participation by developing community-based sanitation (CBS) improvements; provision of improved urban infrastructure facilities, and services (drainage, waste water, solid waste and roads); and capacity building and strengthening of local institutions and community groups to manage these systems.

Improvements in each town include a combination of the following civil works:

• constructing flood protection dykes and flood regulating lakes
• constructing new, or dredging and upgrading existing drainage and sewage systems
• constructing wastewater treatment plants, and installing pumping stations
• improving solid waste collection, transportation and storage
• constructing new, or expanding existing landfill sites
• constructing access roads to essential drainage and sewage links or to landfill sites.

Assessments made during project revealed that these civil works will require some land acquisition which have significant involuntary resettlement effects. To address these impacts, the Provincial People’s Committees of the selected towns prepared these resettlement plans

• Resettlement Plan - Quang Nai Province & Attachment 6 (Public Information Booklet)
• Resettlement Plan - Quang Nam & Attachment 6 (Public Information Booklet)
• Resettlement Plan - Quang Tri & Attachment 6 (Public Information Booklet)
• Resettlement Plan - Thua Thien Hue (Public Information Booklet)
• Resettlement Plan - Ha Tinh & Attachment 6 (Public Information Booklet)
• Resettlement Plan - Thanh Hoa & Attachment (Public Information Booklet)

Some minor land acquisition is also expected for the CBS component which will finance demand-driven projects such as drains, footpaths or solid waste collection units. the Provincial People’s Committees of the selected towns also prepared this resettlement framework [ PDF ] to guide any unforeseen land acquisition and resettlement planning during project implementation, including the CBS component.