Cambodia

This Resettlement Policy Framework applies to all local Social Land Concession (SLCs) receiving financial or technical assistance from LASED and describes (a) the principles... Show More + that the National Committee on Social Land Concession (NSLC) and the National Committee on the Management of De-concentration and Decentralization (NCDD) have decided to follow in order to avoid or minimize any loss of access to land or loss of fixed assets by local people due to the LASED project, and (b) measures to be taken in order to minimize or address such project impact. There are five categories of potential impacts on poor unauthorized Project affected people (PAPs) in the LASED project: 1) Families affected by the construction during the SLC program of rural infrastructure such as a road, a water supply system, or a public service building because their house or the agricultural land they derive their livelihood from is located on the construction site; 2) Families with livelihoods based on "temporary chamkar" having failed to report their land during the detailed land survey and mapping; 3) Families with livelihoods based on "temporary chamkar" in areas with marginal soils and limited carrying capacity that poses a risk to the overall land use sustainability of the SLC; 4) Land-poor families choosing to include their land in a local SLC and not receiving SLC land due to possible errors, technical mistakes or because they have been displaced to clear the SLC; and 5) Families applying to an SLC program following insufficient compensation after eviction from an economic land concession that was established before the SLC was planned and which is not linked to the SLC in any way. This type of impact is likely to have created land poor families in all communes with a large economic land concession that became active before the social land concession. All five categories are generally more vulnerable people. They deserve therefore special attention to avoid adverse impacts by the project. Show Less -