RP1206 v3 The Abbreviated Resettlement Plans (ARAPs) for the Municipal solid waste composting Project in Gulu Municipality (for Project Activities Land and Access Roads). 07th November, 2011. __________________________________________________________________________ The Municipal Solid Waste Composting (MSWC) for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was initiated in Uganda in 2005 as a project under the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) with financial and technical support from both NEMA and the World Bank under the Environment Management and Capacity Building Project-II (EMCBP-11). The first phase involved 9 Municipal/Town Councils of Kabale, Mbarara, Kasese, Fort-Portal, Mukono, Jinja, Mbale, Soroti and Lira. The second phase is to bring on board Eight (8) additional Urban Councils of Gulu, Arua, Tororo, Busia, Entebbe, Mityana, Masindi and Hoima. The Municipal Council was responsible for acquiring the land where the composting plant was constructed and availed utilities such as power and water. The purpose of the Abbreviated Resettlement Plans (ARAPs) is to record and make publicly available the information related to the acquisition of the land for the Environment Management and Capacity Building Project-II (EMCBP-II) composting component to ensure compliance with Operational Policy, OP 4.12 on the Involuntary Resettlement. Copies of the corresponding Environmental Impact Assessments (E.I.As) and other information are available with the office of the Town Clerk of the above mentioned Municipality. However, copies are also available in the NEMA library (NEMA House on plot 17/19/21 Jinja Road, Kampala) and NEMA Website (http://nemaug.org/Clean_development_mechanism.php). Below is a tabulation of location of the composting site and the land details in the Municipality. Location of land/ Date of Land ownership Comments about the Land composting site acquisition type Patiko Pabwor in The land (10acres) Municipal Council has currently Pamel parish, 12.02 .2009 purchased at Ug applied for it to be converted Paminumel village, Shs 20,000,000 to a freehold/grant of freehold Patiko Bungatira sub- was customary county, Aswa county owned under Gulu District customary tenure system, however Gulu Below are the agreements for the purchase of the project land.