Resettlement Action Plan. Renewable Energy Sector Development Project

This Resettlement Action Plan provides for implementing the renewable energy sector development project, focused on the viability of the country's geothermal resource for electricity generation and on strengthening the enabling environment to scale up clean energy investments with the private sector. This Action Plan outlines measures to address the physical and economic displacement resulting from exploratory drilling under the energy sector development project; furthermore, the Action Plan ensures that affected persons and vulnerable groups are not left worse off and receive fair compensation for land, shelter, crops, and income loss, along with due assistance. The Action Plan concerns the conduction of a survey for identifying affected populations and the impact of project activities, focusing on the following criteria: household, population and family size; employment, occupation and household incomes; educational status; access to water and electricity services; access to healthcare and sanitation services; land and house ownership. The Action Plan also analyses the impacts of the projects on the following topics: loss of land; housing and farmers' resettlement; temporary loss of access to land; reduction of farmers' income; impact on crops. Therefore, the Action Plan provides for compensation and mitigation measures, and a grievance redress mechanism.
The phases of implementing the Action Plan follows this path: approval and disclosure: finalization and approval of the Resettlement Action Plan by the World Bank, and national authorities, followed by public disclosure to the stakeholders; implementation preparation: verification of projected affected persons and affected assets; compensation and resettlement: execution of involuntary land acquisition procedures, disbursement of compensation, and relocation of displaced projected affected persons with housing and support; post-civil works completion: restoration of land access to farmers, final monitoring and reporting to confirm successful implementation and compliance and post project evaluation.