Public Disclosure Authorized NATIONAL WATER AND ELECTRICITY COMPANY (NAWEC) Public Disclosure Authorized RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN (RAP) FOR THE ECOWAS REGIONAL ELECTRICITY ACCESS PROJECT (ECOWAS-REAP): THE BRIKAMA SUBSTATION Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized NOVEMBER 2020 i Contents LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................................................... vi LIST OF FIGURES .......................................................................................................................... vi ABBREVIATIONS AND ACCRONYMS ............................................................................................ vii DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN THE REPORT .................................................................................... ix EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................................ xi CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 20 1.1 Project Background ...................................................................................................... 20 1.2 Rationale of the Resettlement Action Plan ................................................................ 20 1.3 Objectives of the Resettlement Action Plan ...................................................................... 21 1.4 Responsible for the study ............................................................................................ 21 1.5 Approach and Methodology in Developing the RAP .................................................. 22 1.5.1 Literature Review ..................................................................................................... 22 1.5.2 Field Surveys ................................................................................................................ 22 1.5.3 Stakeholder Consultations ......................................................................................... 23 1.5.4 Socio-economic survey ................................................................................................ 23 CHAPTER 2 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT AND ITS COMPONENTS ............................................. 25 2.1 The Project Development Objective (PDO) ................................................................ 25 2.2 Project Beneficiaries in The Gambia ........................................................................... 25 2.3 Overview of the ECOWAS-REAP Activities .................................................................. 26 CHAPTER 3: ... PROFILE OF THE PROJECT AREA CATEGORIES AND TYPES OF IMPACTS AND PERSONS AFFECTED .................................................................................................................................. 28 3.1 Project Location ........................................................................................................... 28 3.2 Description of Sites and Land Use ............................................................................... 28 3.2.1 The proposed transmission corridors ......................................................................... 28 3.2.2 Agricultural Land .......................................................................................................... 29 3.2.3 Fruit trees ..................................................................................................................... 29 3.2.4 Physical Structures ....................................................................................................... 30 3.2.5 Human and Socio-economic Environment .................................................................. 30 3.2.6 Efforts to minimize impacts ......................................................................................... 30 3.3 Process to Identify the Project Affected Persons ....................................................... 30 3.4 Categories and Types of Impacts and Persons Affected ............................................ 31 3.4.1 Types of Project Impacts ............................................................................................. 31 3.4.2 Project Affected Persons (PAPs) .................................................................................. 32 3.4.3 Impact on the “Green Cover” and Carbon Sequestration .......................................... 34 CHAPTER 4. SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEY ..................................................................................... 35 ii 4.1 Objectives of the Survey .............................................................................................. 35 4.2 Methodology ................................................................................................................ 35 4.3 Principal Findings of the Socioeconomic Survey ........................................................ 36 4.3.1 PAPs’ Household Sizes and Composition .................................................................... 36 4.3.2 Main Occupation of PAPs ............................................................................................... 36 4.3.3 Household Composition by Age, Category and Proportion Involved in Livelihood Activities 37 4.3.4. Health and Disease Conditions of PAPs ................................................................... 38 4.3.5. Literacy Level of PAPs ............................................................................................... 39 4.3.6. Marital Status of Household Heads ......................................................................... 39 4.3.7. Vulnerability Status .................................................................................................. 39 CHAPTER 5: THE RELEVANT LEGAL FRAMEWORK ........................................................................ 41 5.1 The National Policy and Legal Framework .................................................................. 41 5.1.1 Land Administration in The Gambia ........................................................................ 41 5.1.2 Land Tenure in The Gambia ......................................................................................... 41 5.1.3 Land Laws Governing Land Administration and the Project Areas ............................ 42 5.2 World Bank’s Involuntary Resettlement Policy OP 4.12 ............................................ 43 5.2.1 The World Bank Safeguard Policy OP 4.12 ................................................................. 43 5.3 Gap Analysis between Gambian Laws and World Bank Policies ............................... 44 CHAPTER 6: VALUATION AND COMPENSATION FOR LOSSES ........................................................ 48 6.1 Entitlement Policy ........................................................................................................ 48 6.1.1 Entitlement of PAPs Losing Farmland to the Poles .................................................... 49 6.1.2 Entitlement of PAPs Losing 30% of Fruit Tress due to Trimming ............................... 49 6.1.3 Entitlement of PAP Losing Part of Compound and Fence .......................................... 49 6.1.4 Entitlement for Replacement of “Green Cover” due to Trimming ............................ 49 6.1.5 Entitlement for Temporal Loss of Earnings for PAPs .................................................. 50 6.1.6 Eligibility Criteria for Affected Persons ....................................................................... 50 6.1.7 Cut-off Date .................................................................................................................. 51 6.1.8 Proof of Eligibility ......................................................................................................... 51 6.1.9 Notification .................................................................................................................. 51 6.2 Entitlement Matrix ...................................................................................................... 51 6.2.1 Entitlement for Loss of Farmland ................................................................................ 51 6.2.2 Entitlement of PAPs with Trimmed Mango Trees ...................................................... 52 6.2.3 Entitlement for Replacement of Lost “Green Cover” ................................................. 52 6.2.4. Entitlement for Loss of Earnings .............................................................................. 52 6.2.5 Entitlement for Lost Residential Land and Structure ................................................. 52 iii CHAPTER 7: COMPENSATION PROCESS ....................................................................................... 53 7.1 Disclosure and presentation of the eligibility criteria and principles of compensation ...................................................................................................................................... 53 7.2 Presentation of the estimated individual and collective losses ....................................... 53 7.3 Negotiate with the PAPs the compensation granted ........................................................ 53 7.4 Conclude agreements or resort to mediation ................................................................... 53 7.5 Pay compensation ............................................................................................................... 54 7.6 Support to affected people, especially the most