Resettlement policy framework and specific resettlement action plan

Table 1. Suggested new and rehabilitated infrastructure and links to the resettlement issues

	Construction/Rehabilitation works expected	Potential/probability of
		Leasehold farms and households land acquisition		Resettle-ment of people, or damage to immovable assets
		Temporary	Permanent
	Open interceptor drains: construction 24.9 km	Yes	Yes	No
	Subsurface horizontal drainage (SHD): cleaning / repair – 230 km; new 100 km	Yes	No	No
	Drains: rehabilitation of off-farm and on-farm – 1 150 km	Yes^5	No	No
	Canals: rehabilitation of off-farm and on-farm – 2 500 km	Yes^6	No	No
	Rishtan town: upgraded electricity supply – New transformer; power line – 50 km; repair of drainage flumes	Yes^7	No	No
	Vertical Drainage Wells (VDWs): rehabilitation, including mechanical and electrical components – 240 units.	No	No	No
	Pressure relief wells (PRWs) and Artesian wells (Aws): new - 1 420 pcs.	No	No	No
	Cross regulators and outlets: repair of off-farm and on-farm - 625 pcs.	No	No	No
	Cross regulators and outlets: new off-farm and on-farm – 265 pcs.	No	No	No
	Water measuring structures: new - 750 units	No	No	No
	I&D culverts and siphons: repair – 450 units	No	No	No

The implementation of the Project will not require physical resettlement; rather, it will have some adverse impacts on standing crops and thus cause economic displacement. The impacts will be more prominent along the ID, affecting 37 farmers. As mentioned, extensive detailed surveys were carried out with these farmers and an inventory of their affected assets has been prepared. This document incorporates the full RAP completed for the ID area and the broader resettlement policy framework that covers the remaining works.
The construction and rehabilitation works are highly complex and require the use of various types of heavy machinery. The use of the machinery within the existing farms may result in unavoidable yet minimal damage to standing crops. However, other than the construction of IDs, the works would involve temporary economic displacement. Most of the Project components will not involve permanent and/or temporary impacts on farm land and/or standing crops.
Construction of open IDs on 37 farms (25 km) will involve extensive work in individual leasehold farms. New IDs are expected to be relatively wide open drains (canals) of 5 meters deep and 10 meters width. The construction and further maintenance of the drains also will require reserving up to 10 meters of land from each side of the drain. Preliminary calculations show that about 42 hectares of land will be used permanently to install 25 km of proposed IDs. The excavation works and the necessity to store the excavated soil will require an additional 10 meters of land from each side of ID, or 25 ha of land on a temporary basis. Thus, considering the scope of the works, the land acquisition requirements for this major component of the Project will be 70 hectares, of which 42 hectares will be permanent. These drains will discharge into the existing network. The location and scope of works are shown in “Feasibility Study Working Paper 6: Irrigation and Drainage” [MMTS, 2008f].
There will be 6 IDs (8 km) constructed in the Altyaryk raion, 13 IDs (15 km) in Bagdad, and 2 IDs (2 km) in Rishtan district, as shown in Maps 2-5 below.