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Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan June 2015 ARM: North–South Road Corridor Investment Program - Tranche 3 Prepared by the Ministry of Transport and Communication for the Asian Development Bank. This is the final version of the draft originally posted in November 2012 available on http://www.adb.org/projects/documents/north-south-road-corridor-investment-program-tranche- 3-talin-gyumri-rp. This land acquisition and resettlement plan is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. Your attention is directed to the “terms of use” section of this website. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. Effective date 05.11.2015 RA Government Decree No 1196-Ն as of September 17, 2015. On approval of Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan of Talin-Lanjik Road Project 3 of North-South Road Corridor Investment Program Guided by the requirements of Clause 10 of schedule 5 and Clause (vii) of schedule 6 (North-South Road Corridor Investment Program) of Financial Framework Agreement signed on September 15, 2009 between the Republic of Armenia and Asian Development Bank and the requirements of Loan agreement (general actions) project 3 of North-South Road Corridor Investment Program signed on March 11, 2014 between the Republic of Armenia and the Asian Development Bank as well as for implementation of Project 3 of North-South Road Corridor Investment Program, the RA Government decides: 1. To approve Project 3 the Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan of Talin-Lanjik Road of North-South Road Corridor Investment Program according to the attachment. 2. To the RA Minister of Finance: By the stated order to provide to the RA Ministry of Transport and Communication the means envisaged by brief budget (474.635.453,24 AMD) of Project 3 Resettlement Plan of Talin-Lanjik Road of North-South Road Corridor Investment Program to provide to state non-commercial organization “North-South Road Corridor Investment Program” for implementation of Project 3 Resettlement Plan of Talin-Lanjik Road of North-South Road Corridor Investment Program. 3. Current decree enters into force from the tenth day of official publishing. Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia H.Abrahamyan October 19, 2015 Yerevan Annex of the RA Government Decree No. 1196-Ն dated September 17, 2015 Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................. 10 A. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 16 1. Project Background ........................................................................................................ 16 2. LAR-Related Conditions to Project Implementation ..................................................... 16 3. Overall Objectives of the Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan ............................ 17 4. Document Disclosure ..................................................................................................... 18 5. Cut-Off Date ..................................................................................................................... 18 B. IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND AFFECTED HOUSEHOLDS/ PERSONS CENSUS ....................................................................................................................... 19 1. Scope of Land Acquisition ............................................................................................. 19 2. Survey Activities and Methodology ............................................................................... 19 3. Impact Assessment ........................................................................................................ 19 3.1 AHs and Census ........................................................................................................ 19 3.2 Ethnicity and Gender Composition of Affected Persons ....................................... 21 3.3 Land Impacts ............................................................................................................. 21 3.4 Impact on Buildings and Structures ........................................................................ 23 3.5 Impacts on Crops ...................................................................................................... 24 3.6 Impacts on Business and Employment ................................................................... 25 3.7 Impacts on Severely Affected and Vulnerable Households and Income Restoration ...................................................................................................................... 25 3.8 Common Property Resources/Public Utilities ......................................................... 26 C. SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE OF AFFECTED HOUSEHOLDS............................. 27 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 27 2. Affected Population and Family Size ............................................................................ 27 3. Gender and Age of AH Heads ........................................................................................ 28 4. Education Level ............................................................................................................. 29 5. Employment Status ....................................................................................................... 30 6. Access to Services and Facilities ............................................................................... 32 7. Asset Ownership of AHs ............................................................................................... 33 8. Household Expenditure, Indebtness and State Benefit ................................................ 34 9. Women’s Participation and Impact ............................................................................... 36 10. Poor and Extremly Poor AHs ........................................................................................ 37 D. LEGAL AND POLICY BACKGROUND ............................................................. 39 1. Armenia’s Legal Framework on Land Acquisition and Resettlement ......................... 39 2. Asian Development Bank’s Provisions on Involuntary Resettlement under the Safeguard Policy Statement .......................................................................................... 40 3. Comparison of Armenia Law and Regulation on Land Acquisition and Resettlement and Asian Development Bank Safeguard Policy Statement ....................................... 41 4. Land Acquisition and Resettlement Framework Principles and Entitlements Adopted for the MFF ..................................................................................................................... 43 2 E. COMPENSATION ELIGIBILITY AND ENTITLEMENT ............................................ 44 1. General ............................................................................................................................ 44 2. Eligibility .......................................................................................................................... 46 3. Compensation Entitlements ........................................................................................... 47 3.1 Land loss ................................................................................................................... 47 3.2 Loss of residential buildings .................................................................................... 47 3.3 Loss of Non-Residential Buildings .......................................................................... 48 3.4 Loss of Public Property ............................................................................................ 48 3.5 Loss of Yield/Crops ................................................................................................... 48 3.6 Loss of Trees and yield ............................................................................................. 48 3.7 Interruption of Business (entrepreneurship) ........................................................... 48 3.8 Job Loss .................................................................................................................... 49 3.9 Allowances for Severe Impacts ................................................................................ 49 3.10 Relocation Allowances............................................................................................ 49 3.11 Allowance to the Vulnerable People/AHs .............................................................. 49 3.12 Temporary impact ................................................................................................... 50 3.13 Unforeseen LAR impacts if any .............................................................................. 50 3.14 Compensations of Improvements: ......................................................................... 50 4. Assessment of Compensation Unit Values ................................................................... 50 5. Conditions for Expropriation .........................................................................................
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