Foinda Resettlement Management Plan
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SIERRA RUTILE LIMITED (SRL) RESETTLEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN – Foinda Village FOINDA VILLAGE, IMPERI CHIEFDOM, BONTHE DISTRICT- SIERRA LEONE Revision Document Control Date Amended By 00 Original/draft February 2018 D. Doherty 01 Updated September 2018 D. Doherty RESETTLEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN – Foinda Village Table of Contents Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................. 1 Acronyms ............................................................................................................................................... 3 Glossary ................................................................................................................................................ 2 Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................... 4 1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 7 1.1 Historical Background ............................................................................................................. 7 1.2 Rationale for Foinda Relocation .............................................................................................. 7 2 Background .................................................................................................................................... 9 2.1 Company background – SRL & Iluka ...................................................................................... 9 2.2 SRL Operational Background ................................................................................................. 9 2.3 Area 1 .................................................................................................................................... 10 2.4 Socio-Economic Context of SRL’s Operational Area ............................................................ 10 3 Project Impacts and Losses ......................................................................................................... 14 3.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 14 3.2 Types of Losses and Impacts ............................................................................................... 14 3.3 Vulnerable People ................................................................................................................. 18 Livelihood status .................................................................................................................................. 18 4 Applicable Administrative Framework .......................................................................................... 19 4.1 Relevant Policy and Legislation ............................................................................................ 19 4.2 International Finance Corporation ......................................................................................... 19 4.3 Comparison between Sierra Leone Requirements and IFC Performance Standards ........... 20 4.4 SRL Approach ....................................................................................................................... 21 5 Socio-Economic, Census and Asset Inventory Surveys............................................................... 24 5.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 24 5.2 Previous Resettlement-related Studies ................................................................................. 24 5.3 2017 Foinda Studies ............................................................................................................. 25 5.4 Survey findings ...................................................................................................................... 30 6 Selection and acquisition of Resettlement Site ............................................................................ 43 6.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 43 6.2 Historical site selection - Foinda and Madina Villages .......................................................... 43 6.3 Allocation criteria ................................................................................................................... 45 6.4 CONSULTATION PROCESS................................................................................................ 45 6.5 Resettlement site acquisition and tenure security ................................................................. 46 7 Compensation and Entitlement .................................................................................................... 49 7.1 Overview ............................................................................................................................... 49 7.2 Types of Entitlements ............................................................................................................ 49 7.3 Parameters for determining entitlements .............................................................................. 50 7.4 Paying compensation ............................................................................................................ 53 RESETTLEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN – Foinda Village 7.5 Replacement housing ........................................................................................................... 53 7.6 Communal Assets ................................................................................................................. 56 7.7 Compensation for loss of business ....................................................................................... 57 7.8 Crop compensation ............................................................................................................... 57 7.9 Entitlement matrix ................................................................................................................. 59 8 Organizational and implementation structure ............................................................................... 63 8.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 63 8.2 Resettlement team ................................................................................................................ 63 8.3 Proposed role of Government of Sierra Leone ..................................................................... 65 9 Stakeholder engagement and consultation strategy .................................................................... 67 9.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 67 9.2 Objectives ............................................................................................................................. 67 9.3 Guiding Principles ................................................................................................................. 68 9.4 Managing stakeholders’ expectation ..................................................................................... 68 9.5 Resettlement committees ...................................................................................................... 68 9.6 Other communication and engagement tools and methods .................................................. 72 10 Livelihoods support strategy ..................................................................................................... 75 10.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 75 10.2 Livelihoods background ........................................................................................................ 75 10.3 Livelihood restoration principles ............................................................................................ 76 10.4 Approaches to livelihood restoration ..................................................................................... 77 10.5 Community Development Agreement (CDA) ........................................................................ 79 10.6 Measuring livelihood success – key performance indicators ................................................ 79 10.7 Livelihood restoration program closure ................................................................................. 80 11 Grievance management ........................................................................................................... 81 11.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 81 11.2 SRL Grievance Mechanism .................................................................................................. 81 12 Monitoring and evaluation plan ................................................................................................. 84 12.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 84 12.2 Monitoring ............................................................................................................................. 84 13 Budget and implementation schedule ......................................................................................