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The purpose of this guidance note is to
bridge precisely identify how to implement World Bank
resettlement policies in the context of infrastructure
projects affecting South Asian largest cities, with a focus
on the impacts on poor areas and slums. The guidance note is
intended as a tool to help decision makers in Government
agencies and in the Bank, particularly in respect of the
main aspects: 1) methods to assess and evaluate resettlement
issues, 2) development of appropriate packages, considering
the legal and political context, 3) establishment of
efficient implementation and management mechanisms, in terms
of systems and in terms of resources and teams, 4) closure
and post-resettlement aspects, with a perspective on
precluding hardship on affected people as well as claims and
grievances. Special attention is given to the difficult
issue of income restoration, including for business owners,
as well as the longer term issue of the sustainability of
new communities of resettled people. The overarching aim of
this exercise is to approach these issues in a way which
will foster sustainable urban development; in short, to
identify win-win outcomes including facilitation of the
transition from the informal to the formal sector of the
urban economy.
