Report of valuations for land acquisition and supplementary resettlement issues in New Heritage, Omagba

The objective of the Erosion and Watershed Management Project is to improve erosion management and gully rehabilitation; increase incomes for rural households from improved agricultural and forest practices through the use of conservation agriculture, agroforestry, natural regeneration, etc.; and gain efficiency in public administration and public spending through improved knowledge base, analytical tools, multi-sectoral coordination and stakeholder dialogue. Negative impacts include: loss of land, loss of income, loss of economic trees, loss of crops, and loss of livelihood. Some of the mitigation measures include : (i) get their consent/approval for the proposed land acquisition required outside the reasonable legacy boundaries; (ii) determine the considerations for the proposed land acquisition, based on provisions of government property acquisition/compensation frameworks, and open market values; (iii) mobilize to site and identify those whose property interests extend to the proposed areas of lands acquisition; (iv) soil quality considerations on the landed properties are those derived from previous studies carried out in New Heritage; (v) to identify and make provisions for existing access roads and/or facilities such as feed drainage conduits, culverts etc.