The development objective of the Digital Foundations Project for Tanzania is to increase access to affordable, high quality internet services for government, businesses, and citizens and to improve the government's capacity to deliver digital public services.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) cash compensation for affected land equivalent to replacement value; (2) land for land replacement where feasible, or compensation in cash for the entire landholding according to project affected persons (PAP’s) choice; (3) cash compensation equivalent to average of last 3 years’ market value for the mature and harvested crop, or market value of the crop for the remaining period of tenancy and lease agreement, whichever is greater; (4) transfer of the land to the pap shall be free of taxes, registration, and other costs; (5) cash compensation for affected assets (verifiable improvements to the property by the tenant); (6) cash compensation equivalent to average of last 3 years market value for the mature and harvested crop; (7) cash compensation based on type, age, and productive value of affected trees plus 10 percent premium; and (8) cash compensation for any assets affected (for example, boundary wall demolished, trees removed).
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The development objective of the Competitive Agriculture Project for Serbia is to improve agri-food market linkages of targeted beneficiaries. The project comprises of three components.
... See More + The first component, improving the value-added of agriculture is to improve the productive and entrepreneurial capacity of small and medium agri-food producers, producer groups, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to improve their linkages to markets. It consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthening access to agricultural advisory and business development services; and (ii) facilitating access to finance for productive investments. The second component, improving the capacity of ministry of agriculture, forestry, and water management (MAFWM) to support modern agriculture is to improve the capacity of MAFWM and related public agencies to enable improved sector performance through evidence-based policy making and provision of public goods, such as an information delivery system and open data platform. It consists of following sub-components: (i) improving MAFWM information systems; and (ii) developing an agriculture business intelligence information system. The third component, project management, monitoring and evaluation will support the establishment of a project management team (PMT) in the Directorate of Agrarian Payments (DAP) and the capacity needs related to project implementation, including project monitoring, a comprehensive baseline, mid-term review, and a final impact evaluation of project investments.
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The development objective of the Renewable Energy and Energy Access Project for Lesotho is to increase access to electricity in rural and peri-urban areas of Lesotho.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) project affected people (PAP) will be entitled to alternative land of the same value as the one being displaced; (2) reimbursement of rental deposit or unexpired lease - such amount will be deducted from the compensation of land owners; (3) compensation at full replacement value and cost for affected land, bindings and structures, sacred altars and associated facilities; (4) PAPs shall be compensated for cost of improvements if they made improvements on the rental property; (5) when possible PAPs will be given enough time to harvest existing crops to avoid economic loss to them; (6) cash compensation at market rate of estimated annual and seasonal yields and harvest of the tree multiply by the number of seasons it will take for a nursery to mature; and (7) contractor will conduct assessment of damages, compare with existing baseline information and corresponding remedial actions (for example, repairs, mitigation measures for noise, damages payments, etc.) presented to the affected party.
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The development objective of the First Phase of the Dasu Hydropower Project for Pakistan is to facilitate the expansion of electricity supply of hydro-power in Pakistan.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) Pakistani rupee (PKR) 1,120,000 for each tower as compensation for the land taken for each tower. The amount may vary from on one tower to another due to location and a variety of other factors; (2) cash compensation at replacement rates for affected structure and other fixed assets free of salvageable materials, depreciation, and transaction costs; (3) crop compensation in cash at full market rate for one year (winter and summer seasons) for impacts caused by grid construction, tower base, stringing, and access roads; (4) for timber and wood trees, the compensation will be at market value of tree’s wood content; (5) in case of temporary loss, cash compensation equal to the period of the interruption of business up to a maximum of six months or covering the period of income loss based on construction activity; (6) community support program such as roads, clinic, market etc. to be built in consultation with the affected people during implementation; and (7) temporary or permanent employment during construction or operation, wherever feasible.
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The development objective of the Climate Resilient Transport Project for Vanuatu is to improve the climate resilience of the recipient's road network, with emphasis on selected project road, and in the event of an eligible crisis or emergency, to provide an immediate response to the eligible crisis or emergency.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) compensation in kind with building materials in types of materials and quantities acceptable to the affected persons at least sufficient to replace lost asset; (2) productive trees will be compensated at the rate of five seedlings to one mature tree; (3) for road realignment, replacement land can be in the form of transfer of land from the previous road alignment (effectively a land swap), provided that the previous road alignment section is contiguous with affected person’s land, is not occupied by other persons, is technically viable and acceptable to the affected person; and (4) adjacent land disturbed by road or drainage works will be restored within seven days.
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