Vietnam

The Danang Sustainable City Development Project (SCDP) for Vietnam aims to help Danang become a more sustainable city that benefits all citizens by improving urban environment... Show More + and increasing urban mobility in a clean, safe, inclusive, and energy efficient manner. The project negative impacts and their mitigation measures include: (1) minimize the impact of land acquisition on other assets and the resettlement of people; (2) all Displaced Persons (DPs) who live, work, do business or farm in bridge and road right of ways at the time of the survey will be provided with full economic recovery measures to improve, or at least maintain, their living standard and ability to generate income at the same level as before the Project implementation; (3) rehabilitation measures including: (i) compensation at the replacement cost without considering depreciation or materials that may possibly be re-used to construct new houses and other structures; (ii) agricultural land will be compensated by cash at the replacement cost; (iii) residential land will be compensated by cash at the replacement cost; households and individuals whose land is acquired totally or the remaining area after being acquired is not enough to live, if there are demands, will be allocated for resettlement; iv) transportation costs, allowances, and support; (4) the replacement land for residential and agricultural land should be acceptable to the DPs and as close to the Project acquired land as possible; (5) moving time for resettlement should be minimized and allowances and support for DPs must be made one month before the scheduled commencement date for the project's work in each area; and (6) land acquisition, compensation and support should be planned with the participation of DPs to minimize disturbance. Benefits must be provided to DPs before the scheduled commencement of the work in each project area, and the available public services must be maintained or improved. Show Less -

The Danang Sustainable City Development Project (SCDP) for Vietnam aims to help Danang become a more sustainable city that benefits all citizens by improving urban environment... Show More + and increasing urban mobility in a clean, safe, inclusive, and energy efficient manner. The project negative impacts and their mitigation measures include: (1) minimize the impact of land acquisition on other assets and the resettlement of people; (2) all Displaced Persons (DPs) who live, work, do business or farm in bridge and road right of ways at the time of the survey will be provided with full economic recovery measures to improve, or at least maintain, their living standard and ability to generate income at the same level as before the Project implementation; (3) rehabilitation measures including: (i) compensation at the replacement cost without considering depreciation or materials that may possibly be re-used to construct new houses and other structures; (ii) agricultural land will be compensated by cash at the replacement cost; (iii) residential land will be compensated by cash at the replacement cost; households and individuals whose land is acquired totally or the remaining area after being acquired is not enough to live, if there are demands, will be allocated for resettlement; iv) transportation costs, allowances, and support; (4) the replacement land for residential and agricultural land should be acceptable to the DPs and as close to the Project acquired land as possible; (5) moving time for resettlement should be minimized and allowances and support for DPs must be made one month before the scheduled commencement date for the project's work in each area; and (6) land acquisition, compensation and support should be planned with the participation of DPs to minimize disturbance. Benefits must be provided to DPs before the scheduled commencement of the work in each project area, and the available public services must be maintained or improved. Show Less -

The objective of the resettlement policy for Urban Water Supply Development Project in Vietnam is to ensure that all project affected persons (PAP'S) will be compensated... Show More + for their losses at replacement cost and provided with rehabilitation measures to assist them to improve, or at least maintain, their pre-project living standards and income earning capacity. Some of the negative impacts and their mitigation measures are as follows: 1) acquisition of land and other assets, and resettlement of people will be minimized as much as possible; b) all PAPs residing, working, doing business or cultivating land within the recovered area under the Project as of the cut-of-date are entitled to be provided with rehabilitation measures sufficient to assist them to improve or at least maintain their pre-Project living standards, income earning capacity and production levels. Lack of legal rights to the assets lost will not bar the PAPs from entitlement to such rehabilitation measures; 3) replace premise and agricultural land will be as nearby as possible to the land that was lost, and acceptable to the PAP. In case of minor fractions of land cash compensation may apply; and 4) plans for acquisition of land and other assets and provision of rehabilitation measures will be carried out in consultation with the PAPs to ensure minimal disturbance. Entitlements will be provided to PAPs no later than one month prior to expected start-up of works at the respective project site. Show Less -