2. Social Safeguards
“Procedures and approaches that can help to ensure that “do no harm” to people or the environment, but rather enhance social and environmental benefits”
Benefits of Social Safeguards
Better living conditions through provision of adequate access to services and facilities
Improve benefit sharing
Improve livelihood & poverty alleviation
Investment in alternative livelihood and employment
Food security
Social inclusion & gender empowerment
Minimize social gap

3. What are NDRMF Social Standards ?

4. Social Safeguards & Risk management
Stakeholder engagement through meaningful consultation for transparency and ownership
Increased responsiveness and attention by adaptive risk management and proportionality
More room for Informed Judgment, stronger decision-making structures, support to avoid forced eviction
Mitigate unavoidable adverse Impacts from land acquisition
Contains criterion for voluntary transactions, land donations and eminent domain
Protect cultural heritage from adverse impacts of project activities and support its preservation

5. Objectives of ESMS Social Safeguards
Avoidance of resettlement and negative impacts on communities of the project area due to land acquisition or resettlement.
Contrive a supportive mechanism to avoid the land losses or other assets to mitigate the negative impacts as result of physical dislocation, loss of income, or other adverse impacts.
Mitigation of adverse impacts on people and the surrounding communities.
Reduce and manage resettlement risk of projects and avoid resettlement where possible i.e. avoid or minimize the involuntary resettlement and displacement of people.

6. National Laws and Regulatory Obligations
Constitution of Pakistan
The Constitution of Pakistan (1973) clearly addresses the protection of property rights (Article 24) such that “no person shall be deprived of his property saved in accordance with law” (Article 24(1)), and “No property shall be compulsorily acquired or taken in possession of sake of public purpose, and save by the authority of law which provides for compensation therefore and either fixes the amount of compensation or specifies the principles on and the manner in which compensation is to be determined and given” (Article 24(2)).
Land Acquisition Act
The LAA 1894 requires an impact assessment and valuation of land, structures, crops, trees and other physical assets are to be compensated in cash at market rate to titled landowners and registered land tenants/users/leaseholders. In addition, a 15% compulsory acquisition surcharge is provided on the value of land.

7. Resettlement
Resettlement planning and rehabilitation is a process by which those adversely affected are assisted in their efforts to improve, or at least to restore, their incomes and living standards.
Project Resettlement and Indigenous Peoples Categorization
Category A: Projects 40 HHs or 200 population full scale resettlement
Category B: Projects less than 40 HHs short/abbreviated resettlement plan
Category C: Having no or least resettlement due diligence report

8. Resettlement Planning Requirements
Socioeconomic and demographic profile
Project impacts and area profile
Alternative analysis
Community and public assets
Community participation, consultation and RAP disclosure
Institutional framework
Eligibility/ Entitlement Matrix
Loss of business and employment
Affected vulnerable families
Resettlements budgets & financing
Implementation schedule
Complaints and grievances
Grievance redressed/resolution Mechanism
Construction schedule

9. How ESMS Contributes to Stronger Project Outcomes
Build on core principles of current safeguard policies and broaden coverage of social risks
Address new development demands and challenges and meet varied needs
Balance monitoring and implementation support
Strengthen Social outcomes of NDRMF projects
How ESMS Contributes to Stronger Project Outcomes

10. Special Care for Vulnerable People
Any HHs who might suffer disproportionately or face the risk of being marginalized from the effects of resettlement and includes;
Female-headed households with dependents
Disabled household heads
Poor households (within the meaning given previously)
Landless
Elderly households with no means of support
Households without security of tenure
Ethnic minorities; and
Marginal farmers (with landholdings of five acres or less)

11. Indigenous Peoples Development Plan (IPDP)
Identification of all impacts (positive & negative) on IPs; social assessment, informed consultation and participation (ICP) to Indigenous peoples’ development plan (IPDP).
Affected persons/household (AP/AH) - people (households) affected by project-related changes in use of land, water or other natural resources.
A time-bound action plan with budget setting out resettlement strategy, objectives, entitlement, actions, responsibilities, monitoring and evaluation.

12. Helping Documents/International Best Practices
ESMS of NDRMF
ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement of 2009.
ADB Policy & Procedures on Resettlement
Resettlement Gender Checklist (2003)
World Bank Involuntary Resettlement Policy OP/BP # 4.12
Land Acquisition Act 1894

13. Involuntary Resettlement
It’s all about the land
Investment with a physical footprint (needs land)
New construction or expansion of infrastructure; land use changes The land is being occupied or used by someone
Legal or illegal/informal; permanent or sporadic; verify on the ground! X
Involuntary Resettlement Voluntary Land Donation

14. Thank you