Vietnam

The objective of the Central North Health Support Project for Vietnam is to strengthen district-level curative and preventive health services and improving their accessibility... Show More + for the economically vulnerable population. Negative impacts include: loss of agricultural land; loss of residential land and structures; and loss of business. Mitigation measures include: 1) the general mechanism for compensation of lost agricultural land will be through provision of land for land arrangements of equal productive capacity, satisfactory to the displaced person (DP). However, if the DP so wishes and the portion of the land to be lost represent 10 percent or less of the total area of the landholding, cash compensation, at full replacement cost, may be provided to the DP; 2) DPs will be compensated for the loss of standing crops and fruit or industrial trees at market price; 3) the mechanism for compensating loss of residential land and structures will be: (i) the provision of replacement residential land (house site and garden) of equivalent size, satisfactory to the DP: and (ii) cash compensation reflecting full replacement cost of the structures without depreciation; 4) if the impact on residential land and/or structure is minor, cash compensation at replacement cost acceptable to the DP will be provided; and 5) the mechanism for compensating loss of business will be: (i) the provision of alternative business site of equal size and accessibility to customers, satisfactory to the DP; (ii) cash compensation for lost business structure reflecting full replacement cost of the structures, without depreciation: and (iii) cash compensation for the loss of income during the transition period. Show Less -