Compilation of resettlement action plans for roads Woreta - Indasilase & Dera - Mechara

This resettlement action plan (RAP) comprises three volumes, the Resettlement Policy Framework (v. 1), and resettlement summaries for the five specified roads (v. 2 and 3). The Second Road Sector Development Program Project, entails the construction and rehabilitation along five roads, where affected assets include not only strips of farmland, houses and structures, but project affected people (PAPs), mostly around urban areas traversed by road alignments, which includes as well, road encroachment considered a strategy for survival. This resettlement policy framework looks at the displacement of people whose livelihoods will be adversely affected by the implementation of the project, based on the country's Constitution, and on the Bank's operational directive on involuntary resettlement, and proposes compensation as follows. Land losses will be compensated at replacement costs, or, in cash based on market values; this includes loss of structures and housing, as well as infrastructure compensation regarding damaged or lost water pipes, electricity, and telephone poles. Likewise, compensation will be also be provided for loss of business, or income, e.g., derived from loss of trees and crops, grazing, or other activities. Monitoring criteria should determine that resettlement objectives are met, while grievance mechanisms will be in place should conflicts arise.