Credit Agreement Cr.3673-LK Conformed
Rodrigues,Manuel A.
The objectives of the North East Housing Reconstruction Project is to provide 46,000 vulnerable households; whose houses have been partly or fully damaged; returned/resettled or non-displaced families with their own land/property or on land legally granted by the authorities; and are poor households who have a monthly income of less than Rs 2,500. Each family will receive one housing assistance only. Involuntary resettlement under development projects, if unmitigated, often gives rise to severe economic, social, and environmental risks; production systems are dismantled; people face impoverishment when their productive assets or income sources are lost; people are relocated to environments where their productive skills maybe less applicable and the competition for resources greater; community institutions and social networks are weakened; kin groups are dispersed; and cultural identity, traditional authority, and the potential for mutual help are diminished or lost. This policy includes safeguards to address and mitigate these impoverishment risks. Some of the mitigation measures of the project are as follows: (a) involuntary resettlement should be avoided where feasible, or minimized, exploring all viable alternative project designs; (b) where it is not feasible to avoid resettlement, resettlement activities should be conceived of and executed as sustainable development programs, providing sufficient investment resources to enable the persons displaced by the project to share in project benefits. Displaced persons should be meaningfully consulted and should have opportunities to participate in planning and implementing resettlement programs; and (c) displaced persons should be assisted in their efforts to improve their livelihoods and standards of living or at least to restore them, in real terms, to pre-displacement levels or to levels prevailing prior to the beginning of project implementation, whichever is higher.
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