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RESETLLEMENT ACTION PLAN

Final Report

Samallout / Suez Gulf / Jabal El-Zayt 500 kV Electrical Interconnection Project

February 2014

EcoConServ Environmental Solutions 12 El-Saleh Ayoub St., Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt 11211 Tel: + 20 2 27359078 – 2736 4818 Fax: + 20 2 2736 5397 E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.ecoconserv.com

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CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES ................................................................................... ii

LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................ iii

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ................................................................................................ V

CHAPTER ONE: DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT ................................................. 10

1.1. Key objectives of project ..................................................................................... 10

1.2. Description of the project activities ..................................................................... 11

1.3. Description of the project areas ........................................................................... 14

1.4. Avoidance mechanism ......................................................................................... 14

CHAPTER TWO: RESETTLEMENT IMPACTS ............................................................ 16

2.1. During the construction phase: ............................................................................ 16

2.2. During the Operation phase ................................................................................ 17

2.3. Land requirement by the project .......................................................................... 18

CHAPTER THREE: SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEY ..................................................... 20

3.1 The rationale of survey ........................................................................................ 20

3.2 The results of a census survey.............................................................................. 20

3.3 The results of other studies.................................................................................. 23

CHAPTER FOUR: WORLD BANK POLICY, LEGAL FRAMEWORK, AND DEFINITIONS ................................................................................................................. 24

4.1 World Bank Involuntary Resettlement OP 4.12 ................................................... 24

4.2 WB disclosure policy ........................................................................................... 25

4.3 Eligibility Criteria ................................................................................................. 25

4.4 Egyptian Legal procedures related to Involuntary Resettlement ........................... 26

4.5 Legal requirements of valuation and compensation mechanisms according to the Egyptian Laws ................................................................................................................ 28

4.6 Modalities of compensation and payment procedures .......................................... 28

4.7 Gaps between the World Bank OP 4.12 and the Egyptian regulations ................. 30

CHAPTER FIVE: VALUATION AND COMPENSATION ........................................... 31

5.1. Eligibility criteria and entitlement matrix ............................................................. 31

5.2. Methodology of Assets valuation and the compensation packages ....................... 35

5.2.1. Loss of crops and trees ................................................................................ 36

5.2.2. Temporary loss of lands ............................................................................... 37

5.2.3. Temporary loss of assets .............................................................................. 37

5.3. Arrangement for delivery of compensation .......................................................... 38

5.4. Transitional support ............................................................................................ 40

5.5. Arrangement for recalculation of compensation .................................................. 40

5.6. Vulnerable groups assistance ............................................................................... 40

CHAPTER SIX: INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS ............................................... 41

6.1. Steps and procedures of land acquisition ............................................................. 41

6.2. Institutional Responsibilities ................................................................................ 43

6.3. Capacity building ................................................................................................. 45

CHAPTER SEVEN: CONSULTATION, DISCLOSURE AND GRIEVANCE

PROCEDURES................................................................................................................. 47

7.1. Introduction ........................................................................................................ 47

7.2 Consultation activities conducted during the RAP preparation ............................ 49

7.3 Comments and concerns raised during the RAP preparation ............................... 51

7.4 Disclosure of the RAP ......................................................................................... 54

7.5 Grievance mechanism ......................................................................................... 54

CHAPTER EIGHT: BUDGET AND TIME PLAN ........................................................ 57

8.1 Estimated budget................................................................................................. 57

8.2 Fund Flow and Payment Plan .............................................................................. 58

8.3 Time plan related to resettlement......................................................................... 58

CHAPTER NINE: MONITORING ARRANGEMENTS ............................................... 60

9.1 Scope of monitoring ............................................................................................ 60

9.2 EETC Internal monitoring .................................................................................. 61

9.3 External monitoring and evaluation ..................................................................... 61

Resettlement Action Plan, Samallout / Suez Gulf / Jabal El-Zayt 500kvTransmission line

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

Table 1: Administrative territories to be traversed within El Menya Governorate .................. 14 Table 2: Summary of project impacts by type of loss ................................................................... 19 Table 3: Type of land ownership in project area ........................................................................... 27 Table 4: Entitlement matrix of Samallout- Suez Gulf OHTL project ....................................... 32 Table 5: Summary of the proposed price for the affected crops/trees ...................................... 36 Table 6: Summary of the proposed price for the affected assets ................................................ 38 Table 7: Steps and procedures of land acquisition ........................................................................ 41 Table 8: Proposed capacity building activities ............................................................................... 46 Table 9: Comments and concerns raised during the field consultation ..................................... 51 Table 10: Comments and concerns raised during the Public Consultation for the RAP ........ 52 Table 11: Total cost and budget in EGP ........................................................................................ 57 Table 12: Tentative Time Plan ......................................................................................................... 59 Photo 1: Consulting the Project Affected Persons in Samallout ................................................ 49 Photo 2: Site engineers in Misr El Wosta Zone ............................................................................ 50 Photo 3: Site engineers and the SDO providing information to the PAPs ............................... 51 Photo 4: Information dissemination for the religious leader ....................................................... 51 Photo 5: Consulting with the PAPs about the project and price valuation strategy ................ 51 Photo 6: Public consultation ............................................................................................................ 51 Figure 1: Institutional Scheme .......................................................................................................... 45 Box 1: Restoration of lands productivity ........................................................................................ 12 Box 2: Compensation mechanism as followed by EETC ............................................................ 35 Box 3: Grievance form ...................................................................................................................... 56 Box 4: Proposed indicators needed for monitoring activities ..................................................... 62


LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

CAPMAS Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics CC Compensation Committee CDA Community Development Association CEPC Cairo Electricity Production Company COD Chemical Oxygen Demand dB Decibel DIN Deutshes Institute Fuer Normung (German Standards) EA Environmental Assessment EDHS Egyptian Demographic and Health Survey EEAA Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency EEHC Egyptian Electricity Holding Company EETC Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company EGP Egyptian Pound EIA Environmental Impact Assessment EIB European Investment Bank EMF Electric Magnetic Field EPADP Egyptian Public Authority for Drainage Projects EPS Egyptian Power Systems Engineering Company ESA Egyptian General Authority for Land Survey ESIA Environmental and Social Impact Assessment ESIAF Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Framework EU European Union Euro Euro GIS Gas Insulated Substation GNPPP Giza North Power Plant Project HVDC High Voltage Direct Current ICNIRP The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection IEEE Institute of Electrical-and Electronics Engineers IR Involuntary Resettlement IUCN the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN Km Kilo Meter KSA King of Saudi Arabia kV kilo Volt LC least concern LDU Local Development Unit MoEE The Ministry of Electricity and Energy MVA Mega Volt Ampere MW Mega Watt MWA Mega Watt Ampere NECC National Energy Control centre NEMA National Electrical Manufactures Association NGO Non-Governmental Organization NUPG National Unified Power Grid


OHTL Over Head Transmission Line OP Operational Policy OPGW optical ground wire cable OTL Overhead Transmission Line PAF Project Affected Family PAP Project Affected Persons RAP Resettlement Action Plan RoW Right Of Way RPF Resettlement Policy Framework SRO Social and Resettlement Officer TL Transmission Line TOR Terms of Reference TSP Total Suspended Particulate UV Ultra Violet WB World Bank

1$ is equivalent to 7.03 EGP 1 Feddan is equivalent to 4200 m2

1 Qirate is equivalent to 175 m2


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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

I. Introduction

Samallout / Suez Gulf / Jabal El-Zayt 500 kV Electrical Interconnection Project is an integral part of the Egyptian Electricity Sector's on-going program to enhance transmission capacity for meeting the ever increasing demand for electricity generation. The project includes evacuation of the Wind-based generated electricity at the Suez Gulf to the National Unified Power Grid (NUPG) via interconnecting Overhead Transmission Lines (OHTL) and supporting Substations. These interconnecting transmission lines and supporting substations will connect the electricity users and consumers to the National Electricity Network. The project will be implemented in two governorates, namely, the Red Sea and Menya. The latter governorate will host the project in Samallout and Matay Districts (Markaz). In the Red Sea Governorate, Jabal El Zayt area located within the jurisdiction of Ras Ghareb city will be the hosting community. All project lands are vacant desert lands except for 28 km which are agriculture lands cultivated by traditional crops and trees. The length of the 500 Kv OHTL is 280 km among which 28 km pass along cultivated lands. The start point is Samallout substation, while the end point is the Wind Farms in Jabal El Zayt. The width of the Right of Way(RoW) is 50 meter. The project OHTL will be comprised of 87 tension towers among which 24 are located in agriculture areas in Menya Governorate and two will be the crossing of Nile towers. 400 suspension towers are estimated for the whole line among which 40 are located in the agriculture lands of Menya.

II. Resettlement Impact

The project will result in various adverse impacts on the 28 km of agriculture area located in Menya Governorate. However, the wind farm areas, the substations and the rest of 252 km will not entail any land acquisition or income restoration activities. That is mainly due to the nature of these areas which are vacant, uncultivated and uninhabited lands that belong to the state. During the construction the project will result in temporary land acquisition. The lands carry mainly traditional crops. The project will result in cutting the trees in the affected areas, particularly, under the OHTL Right of Way (RoW) identified by the Electricity Law no. 63 of year 1974. The RoW entails clearing all tall trees (4 meters tall) and constructed assets i.e. baking room and water tunnels. This counts as a complete loss of income and assets. The owner of trees or assets is not allowed to plant tall trees or construct buildings under the OHTL RoW. Also, the project will affect some plots of lands related to the Army. Limited impact on assets was reported due to the avoidance mechanism adopted by the EETC which aims at avoiding trees and constructions along the RoW as much as possible.


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Following is a summary of impacts: The project will require various types of lands both during the construction and during the operation phases. Following is a summary of the lands required by the project:

1- The total amount of permanent land acquisition is 7500 m2 (lands belonging to the army)

2- The total amount of temporary agriculture land acquisition is: a. for the tension towers 42072 m2 (that figure comprises of towers

foundation- access roads to the towers and waste accumulation& storage areas nearby the tower)

b. for suspension towers the estimated figure is 98800 m2 c. The RoW will not necessitate any land acquisition

3- Number and types of trees affected:

a. The affected trees inside the cultivated lands are limited due to the avoidance mechanism adopted by the EETC. The trees found in the affected areas are: Palm trees- wood trees (Gazwareen) – Grapes on wire, fig trees and banana trees. The tall trees will not be re-cultivated in the affected areas. However, banana and grapes trees will be re-cultivated in the same area but not under the tower. The total number of affected trees is 1144 tree under tension towers and 30 trees for the RoW and suspension towers

b. The affected traditional crops cultivated during this season (ending in August-October) are mainly corn- tomato- cabbage-peanuts and okra.

III. Socioeconomic survey

The main results of the socioeconomic survey applied on those who will be affected due to hosting the tension towers are as follow:

1- The total number of owners/tenants is 29, among which 22 are land owners and 6 are tenants for the duration of one agricultural season. The majority of them own less than 2 feddans. Additionally, one Evangelical Organization will lose the crops of its agricultural lands temporarily

2- The majority of the PAPs are farmers with no secondary job 3- The owners/tenants are of homogeneous socioeconomic conditions. Almost all

of them own their houses, appliances 4- The average family members is 7 persons 5- They have access to potable water and electricity. However, their access to

governmental sewage system is limited. They rely upon the septic tanks that can be evacuated

The severity of impacts on the PAPs varies according to the time of land acquisition. Severity is associated with the ability to collect the crops and trees prior to land take.

IV. The WB policy and the Egyptian legal framework

This project will be implemented in accordance with the various WB and Egyptian legislation, among which, the following are of more influence on resettlement activities:


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The WB policy OP 4.12 is the main governing policy for resettlement. It defines all activities related to involuntary resettlement. It also states the importance of assisting the displaced person. OP 4.12 is the guiding to prepare the Resettlement Action Plan. The policy defines the eligibility criteria and entitlement of the PAPs, Vulnerability, disclosure and information sharing, and the Grievances and Redress mechanism. Op 4.12 emphasize on identifying a cut-off date that prevent people from encroaching the lands. Concerning the Egyptian Laws:

a. The Electricity law Number 63 of year 1974 that defines the electricity project is of Public Benefit project. As well, it defines the Right of Way restrictions. The institutional arrangement for land acquisition is defined under this law

b. Law number 10 of the year 1990: This law discusses land acquisition for public benefit project.

c. Ministerial Decree number 346 of the year 2007 that discusses the responsibility of crops valuation that goes to the governor in its jurisdiction of his governorate. Based on a gap analysis conducted between the WB and the Egyptian legislations, various gaps will be bridged. However, in case of contradiction between the two legislations, the WB policy should prevail.

V. Valuation and compensation

The Ministerial Decree No. 346 of year 2007 stipulates that “The valuation of crops and trees located in the route of public benefit projects is implemented according to the Compensation Committees formed by the governors in their Governorates”. Due to the nature of impacts (crops and trees damage) the EETC requested for an updated crops price lists that were prepared by the Agriculture Directorate in El Menya Governorate. With regards to the limited number of assets, their value will be based on the prevailing market price and full replacement cost included in the study

VI. Planning for land acquisition and compensation payment

The temporary land acquisition and compensation will be applied as follows:

• The design department in EETC has provided a detailed map on land acquisition scope in order to identify the land acquisition area. That map showed the sites of tension towers. After bidding, additional maps will be developed by the contractor in order to address the sites of suspension towers.

• Final assessment by EETC team to evaluate the needed lands in cooperation with the Agricultural Associations, the RAP consultant in order to develop the addendum of this RAP.

• The addendum will be sent to the World Bank for approval.

• After receiving the approval from the WB on the addendum and the RAP, the Compensation Committee will start their resettlement activities.


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• The PAPs will be informed and consulted with in order to provide them with the required information about their rights, valuation procedures and grievances and redress mechanism.

• A list of owners/tenants and type of loss will be disclosed in the Local Governmental Units and the agriculture associations

VII. Institutional arrangement

The EETC is the responsible entity for land acquisition. The following departments and committees work in resettlement within the EETC: - The Compensation Committee formed from the staff of Misr El Wosta

Electricity Zone. This committee is supported by the Agriculture Associations and the governorate,

- The Determination Committee that approve the lists of compensations, - The High Purchasing Committee are responsible for purchasing the lands

needed to compensate for the army lands located inside Samallout substation - The Mediation Committee is responsible to solve the complaints received

from the community on the central level - Social Development Officers who are responsible of monitoring,

documenting and filing for the resettlement activities, particularly, the grievances.

Egyptian Power System Engineering Company (EPS)

They develop the project profile, including the exact location of towers.

They accompany the Compensation Committee in order to show them the

exact areas that will be affected by the project

The Ministry of Agriculture provides help through, - Providing crops and trees valuation price lists developed by the Agriculture

Directorate - The Agriculture Association participates in the Compensation Committee The EETC will be in need to raise their capacity, particularly, regarding the documentation and reporting.

VIII. Consultation, disclosure and grievances

In accordance with the WB requirement of project appraisal, the RAP adopted a multi-level strategy that enables the PAPs to be appropriately consulted. Their concerns, worries and questions were responded to by the Electricity engineers. The consultation activities were applied in a form of individual meetings, public consultation and scoping meetings. Concerning the disclosure of the RAP, once the Bank accepts this RAP, they make it available to the public through its InfoShop. The RAP will be publicly disclosed to all PAPs and other relevant stakeholders in a public meeting. The EETC will translate the RAP into Arabic and disclose it through the following channels:

1- EETC website 2- Agriculture association 3- Local governmental units


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After the Bank has approved the final Resettlement Action Plan, the Bank and the EETC disclose it again in the same manner

Concerning grievances, the EETC managed to develop a multi level grievances mecahnism that enable the aggrieved person to be heard Adequately. The grievances tiers, responsibilities, response to the grievance and monitoring were presented in a leaflet that will be distributed to all PAPs.

IX. Budget and time plan

The estimated budget is about 2022838 EGP. This is equivalent to 288976.9 US $. It is distributed as follow:

- Total crops price is 144148 EGP - Total trees price is 132550 EGP - Total assets price is 58000 EGP - Total lands under the tower 9,600,000 EGP - Purchasing lands for the army will cost 1250000 EGP - External Monitoring costs 100000 EGP - Contingency represents 10% of the estimated budget 993,470 EGP - The total estimated budget is 12,278,168EGP

X. Monitoring Arrangement

Monitoring and evaluation are of significant importance to the project. Thus, the following monitoring activities were presented in the RAP

• Internal monitoring to be conducted by the EETC. They will be responsible of monitoring all activities related to the resettlement activities, including, grievances, compensation payment, and consultation activities and document all of those activities. The EETC will develop a quarterly report and an annual report. Those reports will be sent to the WB for revision and clearance

• An external monitoring should be implemented by an independent consultant twice along the life of the project. 6 months after the implementation of resettlement activities. This evaluation process will develop a mid-term review for the project activities. The final evaluation will be conducted by the end of resettlement activities. A final impact assessment report should be developed.


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CHAPTER ONE: DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

Samallout/Suez Gulf/Jabal El-Zayt 500 kV Electrical Interconnection Project is an integral part of the Egyptian Electricity Sector's on-going effort to enhance transmission capacity for meeting the ever increasing demand for electricity generation. The project includes evacuation of the Wind-based generated electricity at the Suez Gulf to the National Unified Power Grid (NUPG) via interconnecting Overhead Transmission Lines (OTL) and supporting Substations which are foreseen to connect the electricity beneficiaries to the National Electricity Network.

1.1. Key objectives of project

Due to the rapid growth in the Egyptian economy, the consumption of energy substantially increased reaching 6% on average annually. Moreover, the Generation Expansion Plan has estimated the need for additional 20 GW of electrical power by 2020. In order to meet the growing demand on electricity, the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MoEE) adopted a power sector development strategy that aims, among its objectives, to rely upon the renewable energy developed from wind and solar resources. The New and Renewable Energy Authority has allocated an area in the Red Sea Governorate to generate wind power. This area is located to the West of the Hurghada - Suez road and extending about 70 km from North to South and about 9 to 10 km to the inland. The area is located about 60 km north of Hurghada. The developed power will be evacuated by an Overhead Transmission Line (OHTL), namely, Samallout- Jabal El Zayt. The OHTL stretches along 280 km. It will pass along two governorates, namely the Menya and Red Sea Governorates, cutting through a mixture of agricultural lands and uninhabited desert lands. The agriculture lands expand until reaching the River Nile (28 km)while, the desert lands expand to the Suez Gulf (252 km).

Map 1: The transmission line route


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Map 2: Project cultivated area in Menya Governorate

1.2. Description of the project activities

This section provides a description of the proposed project activities over the lifecycle of the project: planning, construction and operation. Each of those activities might result certain impacts that should be mitigated. a. The transmission line

In order to construct the Overhear Transmission Line in the agricultural lands (28 km), some plots of lands will need to be temporarily taken over by the project. These are needed to lay the foundation of towers, storing construction materials and soil results from digging and to install the electricity wires.

Preparing the Right of Way: Relevant laws and guidelines require maintaining a suitable Right of Way (RoW) distance in order to maintain safety of the general public and minimize exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs). Thus, the EMFs would effectively attenuate at the edge of this RoW. According to the Electricity Law No.63 of year 1974, the RoW will constitute 25 m at each of the two sides of the transmission line which represent, also, the protection zone along the line route. The RoW should be cleared of both tall wooden trees and of buildings ranging higher than four meters1.

1 The height of trees was reported by the EPS consultant since the Law does not mention the exact

height.


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Construction of Towers Foundations: The EETC use various models and types of tension and suspension towers. The area of the basement of towers varies between 11 X 11m to 23 X 23 m. However, the towers to be used to cross the Nile are of the biggest foundation area. The total number of proposed tension towers is 87 among which 24 are located in the agriculture area and two crossing the Nile2. The suspension towers are estimated at 400 towers, 40 of which are located on agricultural lands in Menya governorate. Digging soil for the construction of the foundation will necessitate removing all crops, trees and construction on the acquired land. All lands allocated to host the foundations of towers are taken over on a temporary basis. The average area that will be affected from digging and installing the foundations are as follows: 1- The average area of tower digging is 27 x 27 = 729m2 per each tower 2- The access roads varies between 10x 50 m to 10 x 200 m (it is mainly

based on the main road venue, if it is close to the tower, the access road will be shorter)

3- Storage area measures on average 10 x22 m The contactor takes precautions in order to strengthen the affected soil from potential earth collapse, particularly in the muddy and sandy soil. Box 1: Restoration of lands productivity

The soil which is removed in the process, is carefully separated to preserve the top soil. The subsoil is then backfilled into the hole and compressed to strengthen the foundation and the topsoil is laid on top and reseeded with appropriate vegetation. Those activities are part of the construction process. This process is crucial to put limitations to the project impacts on the agriculture areas as restoring the productivity of soil enhances the income restoration for the farmers.

Wiring: The wire ropes are unfolded on the ground along the anchor span and then raised and strung sequentially on the towers and tensioned. This process will result in no land acquisition or any damage to crops.

b. Substations

2 Nile crossing towers are of the biggest foundation 30 X 30 to 50X 50 meter lenght


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Samallout substation is located at the desert edge, west of the Nile River. This substation will be expanded to accommodate the new equipment associated with the construction and operation of the new transmission line. The expansion of the substation will be within the substation’s surrounding lands. The lands are owned by the EETC, indicating that they will not be compensated for. Inside the current substation some plots of lands are owned by the Air Defense affiliated to the army. The plots of lands will be affected due to the high voltage. The army expressed willingness to acquire alternative lands in exchange. The EETC will purchase 3 alternative plots of lands to compensate for the army. However, the army will maintain the ownership of the plots of lands located within the current substation. Within the substation, four angle towers will be constructed inside lands affiliated to the substation. The lands are owned by the EETC and will thus not be compensated for.

Suez Gulf and Jabal El-Zayt substation’s areas are allocated to the project by local concerned authorities in the Red Sea Governorate according to a contract signed by the EETC and the concerned authorities3. The substation will be used to evacuate the produced electricity. The land areas of substations are uninhabited, uncultivated desert lands. No land acquisition or resettlement is associated with these pieces of land either.

c. Access roads

The main transport infrastructure linking the Samallout zone to the Suez Gulf/ Jabal El-Zayt area, as well as, linking both of them to the country main ports facilities is principally based on road network. The site of end points (substations) and along the entire route of the transmission line is accessible through the major Regional Road from El-Sheikh Fadl to Ras Ghareb. This road runs parallel to the route along its pathway from Samallout to Jabal El-Zayt. No major access roads are planned to be especially constructed for the transmission line project and the end point structures associated to it. However, the short access roads which are needed to reach the tower sites should be cleared from crops and trees for ease access to the site of towers. EETC apply an avoidance mechanism during the selection of the access roads. They try first to have their access from the main roads. In the case of absence of main roads, they select the shortest access cultivated by crops. This mechanism minimizes the damage to surrounding lands.

3ESIA for Samallout/Suez Gulf/Jabal El-Zayt Transmission Line Interconnection Project

Map 3: Samalout substation


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1.3. Description of the project areas

The project route is located at Samallout and Matay Districts (Markaz) in Menya Governorate to the west of the River Nile and extends along El-Sheikh Fadle/ Ras Ghareb Road to the Eastern Desert. The total length of the OHTL 500 kV double circuit is 280 km. Around 28 km will pass along cultivated lands. However, the rest of the line, will go through uninhabited uncultivated state-owned desert land. On the east-west route no population or human settlements were observed between the Samallout 500 kV Substation and the Gulf of Suez (Ras Ghareb) oil terminal and township. The route is far from the nearest residential areas. Menya governorate is located in northern Upper Egypt, a region characterized by its rural style. The transmission line will pass inside the agricultural lands crossing through Samalout and Matay Districts. A few houses and buildings are scattered along the route with variable distances from the route of the transmission line. This varies between 50m to 1 km. Due to the avoidence mechanism adopted by EETC, the transmission line was designed away from the houses and constructions (at least 50 meters far).The jurisdiction administrative of the affected areas is presented in the following table:

Table 1: Administrative territories to be traversed within El Menya Governorate

District/Markaz Village/Town Hamelet Population

Samalout Shosha El Saliba 20436 Shosha Kom El Raheb Manqatein Manqatein 22994 Dafash Dafash 11433 Qlosna Qlosna 21743

Matay

Matay El Manahra NA Matay Zemam Abo

Shehata 12353

Matay El Sheikh Hasan 6448

Source: CAPMAS census 2006

1.4. Avoidance mechanism

It is the policy of the EETC to minimize the impacts on the PAPs. The following procedures are adopted by the EETC to avoid the occurrence of the resettlement and minimize its impacts if unavoidable. Following are the main procedures adopted by all EETC projects with emphasis on Samallout –Suez Gulf transmission line project:

• EETC have planned their projects to pass mainly in uncultivated desert lands. They try to have the towers on lands owned by the state.

• EETC try to avoid damaging trees and constructions as they are of permanent impact. Additionally, the loss of trees takes at least 3-5 years to be restored.

• Access roads to the towers sites are selected from the nearest areas to main roads in order not to damage more crops.

• Allowing farmers to harvest their crops as long as the time plan will not be affected.


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• Allowing the farmers to move the trees by themselves in order to be able to benefit from the affected trees. However, compensations are paid to farmers when trees are affected.

• The duration of construction does not exceed one month. The limited construction period enables the farmer to restore income shortly.


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CHAPTER TWO: RESETTLEMENT IMPACTS

This section will provide detailed information on the categories and amounts of significant adverse impacts related to resettlement activities and the project affected households and people. Additionally, the section will shed a light on groups that may be particularly vulnerable to hardship.

The project will result in various adverse impacts on the 28 km of agriculture area located in Menya Governorate. However, the wind farm areas, the substations and the rest of 252 km will not entail any land acquisition or income restoration activities. That is mainly due to the nature of these areas which is mainly vacant uncultivated uninhabited areas that belong to the state. One of the impacts reported by the EETC is affecting some plots of lands that are affiliated to the army. They will experience a permanent impact on their lands located in Samallout Substation. The army will not be able to use their lands for Radar surveillance purposes. Therefore, following the ‘willing buyer willing seller principle’, the EETC will purchase 7500 m2 in compensation for the army lands. . The EETC identified the locations of the proposed land and the High Purchasing Committee within the EETC approved to buy the land. The area of land is 50X 50 = 2500 m2. In total, three plots will be purchased to replace and compensate for the land that will be acquired from the army’s property”

2.1. During the construction phase:

a. Temporary impact

The project will result in a temporary impact on the agriculture lands due to the construction of towers, access roads to the towers and storage area within the tower sites. The impact duration will remain for one agricultural season (maximum 3months). The crop holder will suffer from the loss of cultivated crops. Various factors could determine the severity of the impacts. Fundamentally, the economic condition of the PAP, having alternative source of income, the share of the affected lands are the main elements that identify the severity of impact. With regards to this project, another factor works for defining the severity of impacts on the livelihood of PAPs. This factor is the time of land acquisition in contrast to the farming seasons. Following are the potential severity of impacts according to the expropriation times:

• If the lands expropriated prior to the harvest season, unripe crops might be damaged completely as a result of the project causing the crop-holder losses in terms of financial investment and effort invested in the cultivation of those crops. This will be a complete loss of crops.

• During harvest season, the crop holder is allowed to harvest the ripe crops allowing him to benefit from the crops. Moreover, s/he will receive their compensation. Consequently, s/he is partially affected as they will not lose their crops.


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• During the preparation of lands to be cultivated, the farmers will not lose their crops, and they will exert no effort to cultivate the land. This will be minor impact.

The impact on the short trees i.e. grapes and banana will be temporary as they will be re-planted in the same area of the OHTL after the construction. However, they will not be re-planted under the tower. They will be replaced by traditional crops.

b. Permanent impact The permanent impact is limited to the restrictions to plant tall trees that are about 8-12 meter tall, but for the short trees, there will be no restrictions to plant them. The construction of towers will result in damaging for trees in the areas allocated for towers, storage area and access roads to the towers. Concerning the Right of Way, it will result in the clearing of tall trees (4 meters tall) and constructed assets i.e. baking room and water tunnels. This counts as a complete loss of income and assets. The owner of trees is not allowed to plant tall trees or construct buildings under the OHTL Right of Way. In addition to the above mentioned impacts, limited number of assets will be affected. The impacts on these assets will not involve any physical relocation of individuals. They are as follow:

a. A baking room (9 m2)

b. One ground floor house (40 m2)

c. Water tunnel ( 20 m length)

d. Entrance road inside the ranch (80 m)

The Electricity law Number 63 of year 1974 bans any construction under or close to the towers. This is described as a protected area or the right of way. It varies between 12 m from the center of the line to 50 meter on both transmission line sides. The widths of transmission RoW can vary depending on the voltage be in carried by the line. The farm lands located below the transmission line will be obliged to apply certain procedures in order to minimize the unfavorable impacts There are several key points to remember when planting vegetation on Transmission RoW:

• The farmer should select species which have a maximum mature height of no more than7 meters.

• Vehicle access along the RoW should not be inhibited. As the maintenance vehicle access is required, only grasses or low growing vegetation should be planted within a distance of 25 meters' from each tower centre.

• In special circumstances, such as in gullies (Okhdoud) or watercourses, these requirements may be varied.

2.2. During the Operation phase

• The feet of towers will be a permanent land acquisition. However, the Electricity Law No 63 of year 1974 does not consider the feet area as land acquisition. The


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total area needed for the tower feet is about 20 x 20 cm for each foot. Based on a discussion with the EETC, they reported that although such areas of land for footing are not entitled for compensation as per the Electricity Law , they are considered to be compensated as part of compensation for the tower.

• EETC will need to maintain the towers; in most of cases this process will not disturb the farmers. However, in case of damaging any crops, EETC provides compensation to the crop holder. The probability of this impact is extremely low

EETC is complying with the Egyptian and international standards and regulations which define the heights and safety of TL accordingly. No safety and health

hazards are foreseen on farmers and land users.

2.3. Land requirement by the project

The project will require various types of lands both during the construction and during the operation phases. Following is a summary of the lands required by the project:

3- The total amount of permanent land acquisition is 7500 m2 (lands belonging to the army)

4- The total amount of temporary agriculture land acquisition is as follow:

a. Tension towers will affect the crops in 42072 m2. That figure comprises of the following:

• Total affected area in meter square towers foundation 27x27x 18 tension towers , adding up to 13122 m2 (lands cultivated by trees and lands located inside Samalout substations are excluded)

• Access roads to the towers 10x 50 m to 10x 200 m, adding up to 29400 m2

• Waste accumulation& storage areas nearby the tower10x22 m adding up to 3960 m2

b. Suspension towers will affect the crops in an area that is estimated with 98800 m2

• Total affected area in meter square for access roads 20m x100m x 40 towers. adding up to 80000 m2

• Total affected area needed for the tower foundation adding up to 250 m2 x 40 towers.

• Total affected area needed for the storage adding up to 220 m2 x 40 towers.

c. Concerning the Right of Way: The total RoW is 28000 m x 50 m =

1400000 m2 . This land will not be affected except for the removal of tall

trees (4 meter tall) and buildings. The site visits showed that limited

number of scattered trees will be affected along the RoW

The affected traditional crops cultivated during this season (ending in August-October) are mainly corn- tomato- cabbage-peanuts and okra.

3- Number and types of trees affected:

a. The affected trees inside the cultivated lands are limited due to the avoidance mechanism adopted by the EETC. The trees found in the affected areas are: Palm trees- wood trees (Gazwareen) – Grapes on wire, fig trees and banana trees. The tall trees will not be re-cultivated in the


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affected areas. However, banana and grapes trees will be re-cultivated in the same area but not under the tower. The total number of affected trees is 1144 tree.

b. 30 Palm trees will be affected along the Right of Way

Detailed lists of the type of impacts are presented in (Annex I.) The following table will provide detailed information about the needed lands for the project during the construction and operation phases. Table 2: Summary of project impacts by type of loss Impacts Permanent

land acquisition

Temporary land acquisition

Trees affected

Structures affected

Number of households affected

Number of people affected

Tension tower (including access roads-storage areas and foundation area)

Lands cultivated by crops 46482

1144 4 assets 1 organization and 28 HH (22 owners and 6 tenants they have no documents that declare their tenancy )

219 persons

Suspension tower (including access roads-storage areas and foundation area)

Cultivated lands 98800 m2

No assets 40 HH 280 persons

Transmission line RoW

No land acquisition

30 No assets 6 HH 42 persons

Replacing the land of army property

7500 m2 The army

Total 7500 m2 145282 m2 1174 4 assets 1 org. 74 HH Army

541 persons

*Owners of lands to be purchased for the army are not defined as PAPs as the purchasing process will be based on willing seller willing buyer principle. Regarding the encroachment or squatters along the RoW, based on the census conducted under the RAP process, no encroachment or squatters are existent along the route


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CHAPTER THREE: SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEY

This section will present a summary of the results and findings of the socio-economic survey. The sex of head of household, their educational level, source of income and land tenure will be the main socioeconomic characteristics to be presented.

3.1 The rationale of survey

Based on the Operational Policy of the WB OP 4.12, the involuntary resettlement resulting from developmental projects, if unmitigated, will give rise to difficult economic, social, and environmental risks. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the socioeconomic conditions of the PAPs during the RAP preparation. The collected information will be the baseline required for the monitoring and evaluation activities. The Study team prepared a structured questionnaire that covers the main socioeconomic conditions that might be affected by the project. Hereafter, data collectors were mobilized and trained on the developed questionnaire. A census survey was conducted in the period from 9th of June to 13thof June 2013. Prior to the census survey, the coordinates of the tension towers were clearly defined. A site engineer and two persons from Middle Egypt (Misr El Wosta) electricity Zone accompanied the survey team in order to show them the exact route and location of the tension towers. With regards to the suspension towers, their exact coordinates and locations have not been accurately defined until the date of the production of the RAP. PAPs of the suspension towers were included as numbers under the survey that was conducted for the whole lands affected by the suspension towers and RoW. The conducted survey identified the type of crops and potential affected trees as well as the numbers of PAPs. However, the names of the PAPs and their socioeconomic characteristics will be prepared in a separate addendum immediately after defining the exact suspension towers ‘sites. An addendum will be prepared and sent for bank approval after defining the locations of the suspension towers.

3.2 The results of a census survey

The census survey covered the project affected people who will lose their crops, trees and assets due to the installation of the tension towers (24 tension towers and 2 Nile crossing towers). The tenancy relation was about to come to its end as the farmers were at the end of the agriculture season. Finally, the census covered 22 owners and one tenant who will rent the land for the coming season. The census survey conducted for the tension towers’ PAPs revealed that the whole PAPs are of homogeneous nature. Thus, they were not defined as vulnerable. Female headed families, people live in poverty and old people were not defined during the census.

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• 1 Evangelical Organization cultivates land in the area

• 4 towers will be situated inside the current Samallout Substation

• 22 land owners will be affected due to the project. In addition, 6 tenants will

lose their crops.

• The head of household for the whole PAPs are males

• Most of the head of households are illiterate, while four of them are literate.

Three of them are university graduates and one is a secondary vocational

education graduate.

• 75% of the head of households were less than 50 years of age. Only three

people were above 50.

• The majority of the PAPs rely only on farming as 70% of the head of

households sample don’t have any secondary work. 3o% of the heads of

households are businessmen, doctors and teachers.

• The average family size is comprised of 7 people per household.

• All the PAPs have access to potable water and state electricity connections.

However, none of them have access to proper sanitation systems since there

is no public sewage coverage in the area.

• Concerning the ownership of lands, the majority of the affected households

own their lands. Sixth of them rent lands for their living Moreover, all of

PAPs own their dwellings.

• Most of the project affected persons are economically homogeneous. They

portray similarly moderate socioeconomic conditions. Neither female headed

families nor elderly people were defined.

• The average monthly income is not defined as this is mainly based on the

agriculture season and the type of crop. However, the monthly expenditure

value is less than 1000 EGP

• The tenure of lands among the affected households is as follows:

o Almost 20% of the affected households own five Feddan.(21000 m2)

o Around 60% own 1.5 – 2 feddans (6300-8400 m2) o 20% own less than 0.5 Feddan (2100 m2)

• The legality status of ownership is summarized as follow: o Ownership of lands is documented and cognitive by the

Agriculture Association (that was based on the responses of the interviewed persons)

o Tenancy is not documented

• Based on the preliminary measurements of the affected crops and trees in the lands proposed by the site engineers:

o around 20% will lose the crops and trees of less than 10% of their lands

o 30% will lose the crops and trees of around 25% in their lands o 30% will lose the crops and trees of around 30% in their lands


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o 20% will lose the crops and trees of around 95% in their lands

• The farmers will lose their crops during the construction for a maximum period of one month. This will be during the digging and tower construction phase. Afterwards he will be able to cultivate his lands with no delay. Thereafter, the farmer’s lands will not be affected during the stringing of wires due to the modern technique applied by the EETC. Modern techniques will not require heavy machinery to move in the agriculture lands. The limited duration of construction enables the farmer to restore the productivity of lands immediately.

The magnitude of the expected loss Magnitude of expected loss according to the area of affected land

• Those who will lose the crops and trees of less than 10% of their lands will be slightly affected. They represent 20% of the households,

• Those who will lose the crops and trees of around 25-30% of their lands will be moderately affected. They represent around 60% of the households,

• Those who will lose the crops and trees of around 95% of their lands will be severely affected

Magnitude of expected loss according to the time of land acquisition

• The magnitude of loss during harvesting season is relatively limited since the farmers are allowed to harvest their crops. There is a high probability for not interrupting their harvesting activities. Although, they will not be deprived from receiving the full compensation for their crops, EETC will consider enabling the farmers to harvest their crops unless the work plan is severely affected.

• The magnitude of the loss of crops at the beginning of cultivation season is limited due to the fact that the farmer will receive his/her compensation for the plants. However, s/he will be able to replant them within one month (duration to install the towers). In this case, the farmer hasn’t invested money or effort in the cultivation process apart from seeding.

• In the middle of the agricultural season is the peak of loss since the farmer would have invested effort and money to cultivate the land. However, s/he will not benefit from the crops. S/he will receive the compensation.

• Permanent loss of trees: The farmer will lose his/her trees permanently. However, s/he retains the right to benefit from the trees by selling them or moving them to any other lands. Moreover, s/he will receive full compensation. That might relieve the severity of impact as S/he will not be able to restore his/her income for at least 3-5 years.

• Permanent loss of assets: Limited number of assets was reported. One woman reported that she is badly affected by losing her baking room (Forn) since she uses it for baking bread for her family. She asked for an alternative baking room constructed prior to demolishing her current baking room. The EETC representative was much in favor to provide


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monetary compensation to enable the affected women to have a new baking room constructed prior to demolishing the baking room.

The lands acquisition process is limited and the duration will not exceed one month. The crops’ owners will be able to restore their income immediately. However, the owners of trees close to tension towers (23-25) will not originally be able to restore their income before three years. Therefore, the EETC will do the following in order to assist them:1) allow them to move the trees during the tower construction, thereafter replant them . As well, EETC will pay them the full compensation of the whole affected trees. In addition, They are allowed to collect the fruit prior to the construction. They can replant the trees after the construction activities. The tenants are considered as the crops owners. Originally they pay the renting fees for the land owner. Thus, they should be entitled for crop compensation. Yet, the owner is the sole person who allows EETC to get into his lands. Thus, the owner's approval should be attained first. Thereafter, both the tenant and the owner are invited to be consulted with regarding the compensation. The owner receives the compensation and pays the tenant his share.

3.3 The results of other studies

• The patterns of social interaction in the affected communities. The affected communities enjoy a tightly knit social solidarity network summarized below4:

a. The extended family (El A’eila) represents the main frontier for the power of such communities. The family consists of more than one household which. offer each other financial and social support.

b. The communities pay more attention to the norms and traditions, particularly obedience to the head of the family

c. The head of the household will remain the main motive for the PAPs approval on resettlement activities. In case the head rejects the project, that will represent an obstacle of the project

• Social and cultural characteristics of displaced communities The affected communities have some active NGOs and community-based organizations, including social facilities affiliated to the religious institutes. One of such facilities was generous to host the public consultation event conducted on the 12th of June with the owners and tenants of lands. It was the Event Hall in Samalout. They also contributed in inviting the PAPs and the community leaders. Such organizations will be useful to disseminate information to the affected community members.

4Based on the ESIA conducted in Environmental and Social Impact Assessment for Helwan South

Power Plant Interconnection, March 2012


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CHAPTER FOUR: WORLD BANK POLICY, LEGAL FRAMEWORK, AND DEFINITIONS

This section aims at summarizing the social legislations, regulations, guidelines (that govern the implementation of the project. This will include reference to Egyptian enabling legislation and major regulations, as well as to World Bank OP 4.12, Involuntary Resettlement.

4.1 World Bank Involuntary Resettlement OP 4.12

World Bank OP 4.12 on Involuntary Resettlement that were developed with main common objectives of mitigating the negative social impacts resulting from land taking or affecting the sources of livelihoods as a result of development project. The thorough review for the mentioned guidelines showed the following:

� The policy was drawn with the general human rights framework in recognition for the protection of the ownerships and also safeguarding the interests of the poor and vulnerable groups in particular

� OP 4.12 accords in all the key principles and terminologies related to involuntary resettlement. The main guiding principle is that: where physical or economic displacement is unavoidable, the funding agency requires the promoter to develop an acceptable resettlement tool (this may include a Resettlement Policy Framework or a Resettlement Action Plan). The plan should incorporate and follow the right to due process, and to meaningful and culturally appropriate consultation and participation, including that of host communities.

� WB OP 4.12 is an important and key reference addressing the international funding agencies requirements for addressing involuntary resettlement impacts.

� According to the WB’s safeguard policy on Involuntary Resettlement, physical and economic dislocation resulting from WB funded developmental projects or sub-projects should be avoided or minimized as much as possible. Unavoidable displacement should involve the preparation and implementation of an Abbreviated Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) or a Resettlement Policy Framework (RPF), to address the direct economic and social impacts resulting from the project or sub-project’s activities causing involuntary resettlement.

The following instruments may be utilized to implement resettlement activities:

• Resettlement Action Plan • Resettlement Policy Framework • Process Framework

The principle policy objectives of OP 4.12 are:

• Involuntary resettlement should be avoided where feasible, or minimized, exploring all viable alternative project designs.

• Where it is not feasible to avoid resettlement, resettlement activities should be

conceived and executed as sustainable development programs, providing sufficient investment resources to enable the persons displaced by the project to share in project benefits. Displaced persons should be meaningfully consulted and should


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have opportunities to participate in planning and implementing resettlement programs.

• Displaced persons should be assisted in their efforts to improve their livelihoods and

standards of living or at least to restore them, in real terms, to pre-displacement levels or to levels prevailing prior to the beginning of project implementation, whichever is higher.

Involuntary resettlement resulting from development projects, if unmitigated, will give rise to difficult economic, social, and environmental risks which may lead to: i) dismantling production systems, ii) impoverishing people when their productive assets or income sources are lost, iii) relocating people to environments where their productive skills may be less applicable and the competition for resources is greater, iv) resettling people into community institutions and social networks are weakened, v) dispersing kin groups and, vi) diminishing or losing cultural identity, traditional authority, and the potential for mutual help.

4.2 WB disclosure policy

The Bank reaffirms its recognition and endorsement of the fundamental importance of transparency and accountability to the development process. Accordingly, it is the Bank’s policy to be open about its activities and to welcome and seek out opportunities to explain its work to the widest possible audience. The Bank wishes to stimulate debate on and broaden understanding of development, facilitate coordination with its partners—countries and other institutions—and help create and nurture support for activities which promote economic and social progress in developing countries. To the same end, it makes the results of its operational experience and research available to the development and academic communities and brings the lessons of experience to policy makers, development practitioners, and other interested parties. In addition, timely dissemination of information to local groups affected by the projects and programs supported by the Bank, including nongovernmental organizations, is essential for the effective implementation and sustainability of projects. Experience has demonstrated that consultation and sharing of information with co financiers, partners, and groups and individuals with relevant knowledge of development issues help to enhance the quality of Bank-financed operations. It follows that there is a presumption in favor of disclosure, subject to the provisions of this statement. To facilitate timely public access to Bank information, the Bank has established the InfoShop to serve as the central contact for persons seeking to obtain Bank documents. The InfoShop located at Bank headquarters, serves the public in member countries through the Public Information Centers (PICs) and the internet

4.3 Eligibility Criteria

A project triggering OP 4.12 is required to develop a procedure, satisfactory to the Bank, for establishing the criteria by which PAPs will be deemed eligible for compensation and other resettlement assistance. The procedure includes provisions for meaningful consultations with: (i) Project affected persons and communities, (ii) Local authorities,


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and, as appropriate, (iii) Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and (iv) Grievance mechanisms. The aim of including the eligibility criteria in the RAP is to ensure that PAPs who suffer a complete or partial loss of assets or access to assets shall be clearly defined and recognized as eligible for some kind of assistance, according to their legal rights to the land, if it can be established that they occupied the land before the claim cut-off date. The Bank OP4.12 specifically proposes general categories for eligibility, as follows:

1) Category One: Individuals who have formal legal rights to land are the owners of lands within the 28 km located in the agriculture area. They are entitled to receive full compensation defined in the price lists

2) Category Two: Individuals, who do not have formal legal rights to land, but have

a claim to such land or assets5. They are mainly the tenants who have no documents that declare the tenancy relation with the owners. They are entitled to receive compensation during the tenancy duration reported by the owner. The owner will delegate the tenants to receive the compensation

4.4 Egyptian Legal procedures related to Involuntary Resettlement

The main legislations and guidelines that will be discussed under this section are as follow:

1- The Electricity law Number 63 of year 1974:Article 6 of the law specifies the distances to be measured and cleared from tall trees, buildings and structures for the axis of the overhead/aerial lines route as well as the cables. These paths are called the Right of Way (RoW). Following are the specifications:

• Twenty five meters in the case of overhead ultrahigh voltage lines.

• Thirteen meters in the case of overhead high voltage lines.

• Five meters from the medium voltage lines.

• Five meters in the case of High Voltage Cables.

• Two meters in the case of Medium and Low Voltage Cables.

Article 6 also states that the owner of the affected structure is entitled for compensation without any need to expropriate his/her land. Indicating that, the electricity projects are implemented without any land expropriation decree. Articles 7 and 8 outline the mechanism for compensations to be paid to the owners and shareholders in the case damages are incurred to them. According to article 8, the estimation of compensations is done through a committee selected by the Minister of Electricity and Energy, with the membership of representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, the Egyptian Survey Authority, the Governorate- and the Local Popular Council respectively in addition to a relevant expert(s) to be invited by the committee.

5provided that such claims are recognized under Egyptian laws or become recognized through a process

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Articles 10 and 11 of the Law outline the process of compensation in the cases of reaching an agreement with the owners on the compensation amount or not. According to the Electricity Law articles 12 and 13 the owner/the tenants has the right to raise formal complaints to the Compensation Committee in 15 days after receiving the compensation value notice. They also can raise their complaints within 30 days after getting the compensation value notice.

This law is applicable on the RAP as resettlement activities will necessitate certain mitigation measures to the farmers who will face restriction of construction and planting tall trees under the RoW.

2- Law number 10 of the year 1990 on property expropriation for Public Benefit identifies electricity projects as public benefit activities. It describes the acquisition procedures for lands, assets and other affected materials.

3- Ministerial Decree number 346of the year 2007 that enables the governors to form a committee in order to identify the valuation of compensation for crops and assets within the jurisdiction of the governorate.

4- Decree number 599 of the year 2010 that was related to the formation of compensation valuation committee from the EETC- Misr El Wosta Zone.

5- Decree number 155 of the year 1997 related to the reformation of the Compensation Committee on the level of the governorate that consists of the following: 1)General Manager of electricity grids 2) representative of Ministry of Agriculture 3)representative of the Egyptian Authority of Land survey 4) member of Local Popular Council 5) the head of property department. This decree updates the formation of committee reported in Article 8 of the Electricity Law

6- Decree number 271 of the year 2013 related to the formation of Grievances and Redress Committee within the EETC.

Egyptian ownership legislation defined certain types of ownership of lands. According to the Egyptian law the following table presents the types of lands ownership in the project area: Table 3: Type of land ownership in project area

Land ownership type Description

Public or State land6 This is the land that is owned by the Electricity Transmission Authority located inside the Samallout substation . 252 km of the project will pass through vacant desert lands owned by the state. Among the state land, the army owns some plots of lands inside the substation of Samallout

Private land This is the majority of lands located under the OHTL within the 28 km of the agriculture lands which may be alienated/transferred freely

6The large majority of land in Egypt is public or State-owned desert land that is for the most part undeveloped

(estimated to be 90-95% of the national territory).


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4.5 Legal requirements of valuation and compensation mechanisms according to the Egyptian Laws

• The Governor of El Menya Governorate determined the re-forming of the Compensation Committee on the level of the Governorate (decree No. 155/ year 1997) The Committee is composed as follow:

1- General Manager of Grids in El Menya and Assuit as a chairman 2- A representative from the Ministry of Agriculture (the head of the

Agriculture Directorate) 3- A representative of the Egyptian Authority for Land survey (the head

of the ESA Directorate) 4- A representative of the Local Popular Council (LPC ) 5- The head of Real Estate Department as a representative for the

governorate

Until the submission of this report the committee members have not conducted any meetings.

• The Agriculture Directorate develops price lists for the affected crops and trees. (Annex III)

• The compensation of assets is determined pursuant to prevailing prices in the areas. The valuation will be based on the decision taken by the Compensation Committee formed by decree No. 155/ year 1997) (Annex VI)

• Compensation is determined in accordance with Article (20) of Law 10/1990 on the basis of prevailing prices at the date of issuance of the expropriation decree in question. The committee and the courts would look to expert opinion in determining the prevailing prices, taking into account prices stated in recorded contracts. In addition, the ministerial decree No. 346 of year 2007 discussed the stated that compensations are identified by the governors in each governorate according the ( the circumstances of each governorate, quality of land …etc ( see Annex V)

• The EETC disburse the compensation to the PAP prior to the implementation of the project. The EETC disburses the compensation to the PAP prior to the implementation of the project. However, due to the fact that the contractor usually affects more than the anticipated area, a process of re-measuring for the actual affected agriculture area is usually conducted upon completion of construction. The actual assessed damage is measured and the owners/tenants is paid the difference upon the completion of the construction work

4.6 Modalities of compensation and payment procedures

The EETC provides cash compensation to the PAPs who lose their crops, trees and structure. The price lists developed by the Agriculture Directorate is the main reference to evaluate the prices of crops and trees. However, the Compensation Committee is responsible to evaluate the prices of structure. There evaluation is based on the prevailing market price of the asset and the potential cost of reconstruction of the same asset. The Compensation Committee relies upon the skilled members who have experience in assets valuation. They consider the venue of


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the asset, the type of the area, the size of the affected assets and the prevailed market in the area.

• The Resettlement Action Plan has applied a census survey for the PAPs who will be affected due to the construction of tension towers, Right of Way, and access roads. As well, an addendum of this RAP will be prepared for the PAPs who will be affected due to the suspension towers. The cut-off date of this project is the date when the RAP census of the tension towers was completed on the 13th of June 2013.The cut-off date puts limitation to the plantation of trees and construction activities under the Overhead Transmission Lines. No limitation is identified for crops cultivation. The disclosure of the cut- off date was as follow:

o Agriculture association and the Local Governmental Units were informed about the cut- off date allocated for the tension towers during the preparation of the RAP

o The PAPs of tension towers were informed about it during the census survey and the consultation activities.

o The suspension towers will be defined prior to the construction. Then, an additional census will be applied to define the PAPs who will be affected due to the construction of suspension towers. Thereafter, the PAPs of the suspension towers will be fully informed about the cut-off date.

• The Compensation Committee will apply a survey prior to the construction in order to verify the types of crops mentioned in the RAP study. The cut-off date will be disseminated during the verification survey .

• They will measure the affected areas and trees with the help of the agriculture association. The farmer (owner- tenant) should attend the measuring activities in order to consider his opinion. Any complaints raised by the farmer are responded to during the measurement process.

• The farmer will be asked to prepare the administrative documents that declare his ownership for crops/trees/asset, the needed documents are:

o A document to be taken from the Agriculture Association declaring that the PAP is the person entitled for compensation due to his/her ownership or tenancy of lands. (see Annex XI)

o The tenant should present a delegation from the owners to receive the compensation in case of affecting crops

o The inheritors should provide the following: � The declaration of inheritance � Delegate one of them to receive the compensation on behalf

of other inheritors o Copy of the ID o In case if the documents are not available, the farmer falls under

those who have Right of the land. The Agriculture Association provides him with the document stating his right. The Compensation Committee tries to support the farmer who has no documents. They provide him with guidance on the appropriate procedures to follow to get the administrative documents, regardless of his legal status.

• Thereafter, the Compensation Committee (CC)will develop lists of land owners and tenants including the cost of the compensation allocated per each owner or tenant of lands


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• The CC will send the lists to the Headquarter of EETC in order to be approved by the Determination Committee.(lagnet El Batt) Afterwards, the approved lists will be sent to the financial department in order to prepare the cheques for those who are entitled for compensation

• The Compensation Committee hand the cheques to the land owners and tenants prior to the construction. Hereafter, the owner/tenant sign receipts declaring that they have received the compensation for the lands/trees/assets. The owners/tenants are the sole persons entitled to receive the compensation. Moreover, they are responsible for any disputes that might raise with other people claiming entitlement for compensation on that particular land/trees/assets

• After the completion of the construction, the Compensation Committee re-measure the actual affected lands/crops/trees and assets in order to compensate for any additional damage that might have done during the construction.

4.7 Gaps between the World Bank OP 4.12 and the Egyptian regulations

This section will discuss the gaps between the WB policy and the Egyptian regulations applicable to this project:

1- The cut-off date: The WB identifies a cut-off date in order to prevent people influx to the project area. This measure is stipulated in order to protect the project owner and preventing wasting of resources. The Egyptian laws never set a cut-off date, particularly if the impacts are related to agricultural lands that might experience changes in crops and tenancy.

Measures to fill the gap: The cut- off date has been determined to be on the 13th of June 2013 when the RAP census was finalized for the tension towers. Further verifications of ownership and tenancy will be applied prior to the construction phase, reported to the WB and approved.

2- Monitoring and Evaluation: Monitoring or evaluation measures are not

stipulated in Egyptian regulation. Lack of the necessary legal provision needed to put in place monitoring and evaluation measures can negatively impact the accountability and transparency programs and plans may not be able to benefit from corrective action in cases of mistakes nor receive rewards in cases of good performance. Measures to fill the gap: It is imperative for the Bank to move toward advancing the monitoring and evaluation principles stated in OP 4.12. Social and economic impacts will have to be measured; the amounts of compensation will have to be known and accounted; the efficiency and effectiveness of grievances and redress mechanisms will have to be evaluated and progress in the resettlement process will have to reported and known


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CHAPTER FIVE: VALUATION AND COMPENSATION

5.1. Eligibility criteria and entitlement matrix

The aim of including the eligibility criteria in the RAP is to ensure that PAPs who suffer a complete or partial loss of lands, crops, trees and assets or access to them will be clearly defined and recognized as eligible for some kind of assistance regardless to their legal rights to the land.

A. The first criteria for eligibility will be the cut-off date which is the 13th of June 2013. If the residency was identified through the census survey, the owners will be entitled for compensation for their loss of properties and/or assistance for livelihood stabilization. On the other hand, if a person builds any constructions along the RoW of the project area after the cut-off date, they will not be entitled to compensation. The cut-off date, after being announced by the EETC will not enable the PAPs to construct a building under the RoW

B. The second criteria for eligibility will be the legality of the PAPs status. Identified PAPs are basically classified into the following categories in the donor policies:

• Those who have formal legal rights to land (including customary and traditional rights recognized under the laws of the country);

• Those who do not have formal legal rights to land at the beginning of the census, but have a claim to such land or assets; provided that such claims are recognized under the law of the country or process identified in the resettlement plan;

Although Egyptian legislation has not mention of entitlement to compensation for those who do not have legal rights, such persons have been compensated in the course of operational practice if they were previously regarded as the apparent owners of the affected properties. The following table will present the people entitled for compensation, assistance and livelihood restoration as they were previously affected by the Samallout-Gabal El Zayt OHTL project


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Table 4: Entitlement matrix of Samallout- Suez Gulf OHTL project No Type of losses Level of impact Entitled

person(s) Compensation policy & standards Type of

compensation Responsible entity

A. Loss of Standing Crops, Trees, and Plants a1 Loss of crops or

plants

Temporary (complete or partial) loss of standing crops or plants

Farmers or individuals who have formal legal ownership to land on which the crops are planted

• Provide cash compensation for loss of crops or plants at replacement cost to the crop holder (owner or tenant)

Cash compensation to be provided prior to the construction

EETC

a2 Loss of crops or plants or access to them

Temporary (complete or partial) loss of standing crops or plants

Farmers or individuals who do not have formal legal tenancy rights to land on which the crops are but have temporary or leasing rights (tenants)

• Provide cash compensation for loss of crops or plants at replacement cost to the tenant


EETC

a3 Loss of standing trees

Permanent (complete or partial) loss of standing trees

Farmers or individuals who have formal legal ownership of the trees

• Provide cash compensation for loss of trees to the owner of trees at full replacement cost.


EETC


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No Type of losses Level of impact Entitled person(s)

Compensation policy & standards Type of compensation

Responsible entity

a4 Loss of standing trees

Permanent (complete or partial) loss of standing trees

Farmers or individuals who don’t have formal legal tenancy of the trees

• Enable the tenant to collect fruits prior to the construction, thereafter, the trees’ owners receive their compensation


EETC

B. Loss of agricultural land b1 Loss of arable

land Temporary loss of all or part of arable land located under the RoW and towers location

Farmers / individuals who have formal legal rights to land

• Provide cash compensation equivalent to the replacement cost at market price for renting the land during the temporary use.

• Compensation should be provided to the owner of land. In case of tenancy, the tenant might receive the compensation after the provision of delegation document from the owner


EETC

b2 Loss of arable land

Temporary loss of all or part of arable land located under the RoW and towers location

Farmers / individuals who don’t have formal legal rights to land (tenants or owners)

• Provide cash compensation equivalent to the replacement cost at market price of renting the land during the temporary use.

• Compensation should be provided to the owner of land. In case of tenancy, the tenant may receive the compensation after the provision of delegation from the owner


EETC

C. Restriction to reuse the lands


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No Type of losses Level of impact Entitled person(s)

Compensation policy & standards Type of compensation

Responsible entity

c1 Restriction to reuse the lands according to electricity law

Permanent limitation of use for tall trees and mining activities

Individuals who have legal or illegal status to reuse the lands

• Provide awareness raising seminars on how to cultivate other types of crops with the same productivity

Awareness raising activities

Ministry of Agriculture and EETC

D. Loss of Structures or Buildings (Commercial, Business, Industrial, or Residential) d.1 Those who have

building/ rooms under the RoW

Permanent impact during construction and operation

The owner of the unit who have legal rights

• Provide cash compensation for loss of constructions.

Cash compensation

EETC

E. Loss of construction land E.1 Those who

possess lands used for the construction of building/ rooms under the RoW

Permanent impact during construction and operation

The owner of the lands who have legal/illegal rights

• Provide cash compensation for loss of lands. Regardless to the legality status. The owners of the lands should be compensated

Cash compensation

EETC


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5.2. Methodology of Assets valuation and the compensation packages

The valuation methodology of the crops and assets’ compensation is imperative for the RAP study in order to facilitate the compensation process. The Ministerial Decree No. 346 of year 2007 stipulates that “The valuation of crops and trees located in the route of public benefit projects is implemented according to the Compensation Committees formed by the governors in their Governorates”. The above mentioned decree does not provide any information about the valuation procedures, how the procedures are applied and what the considerations of valuation are.. Following is a box that contains a discussion of compensation mechanism. Box 2: Compensation mechanism as followed by EETC

"The Egyptian Electricity law Number 63 of year 1974 requires not to acquire land within the right of way for construction of a transmission line (including the towers). But it stipulates that the affected structures and moveable properties are entitled for compensation. According to the law, structures and tall trees are not allowed to be constructed and planted within the right of way but normal cultivation can continue if the land is agricultural land. In Egypt, the lands for transmission lines in most cases are desert and sometimes involve agricultural land. In consideration of partial restriction of land use when agricultural land is involved, as a normal practice, EETC provides the landowners with land compensation for towers but not for the whole right of way. For this project, EETC has well informed the affected landowners the compensation policies and options which the landowners have. The compensation policies of this project are the following: 1) landowners and tenants will receive compensation for crops, trees and structures within the right of way; 2) the landowners will receive partial compensation of land for the tower construction. The landowners will have two options: 1) transfer the land use to EETC when they agree with the compensation policy; 2) not to transfer the land to EETC when they do not agree with the compensation policy. All landowners of the agricultural land used by the tower construction of this project expressed that they would like to keep the land ownership by accepting the compensation for restricted land use. The compensation value is basically determined through negotiation. But it roughly corresponds to 50% to 75% of market value of purchasing the land. Upon receiving the compensation, the farmers and EETC sign an agreement which clearly indicates that the farmer can continue cultivation but cannot plant high trees and permanent structures on the land."

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5.2.1. Loss of crops and trees

As the project will result in a temporary impact on the crops and agricultural lands, the study team relied upon the pricing lists provided for the crops. (sample of prices is put as an Annex III7).

The price lists are developed by the Agriculture Directorate. Prior to developing such lists, the Agriculture Directorate had a dialogue with the Agriculture Associations within the jurisdiction of the governorate in order to identify the prevailing market price. Such dialogue is not documented by the Agriculture Directorate; however, it is reflected on the developed price list.

The price lists contain some determinants that might influence the cost of the crops. Those factors are as follow:

1- Type of irrigation system which adds 50% to the compensation value 2- Age of trees 45-50% raise for trees above 5 years of age 3- Quality of crop (full cost is paid for excellent quality) The valuation of the

quality is based on the Compensation Committee perspective (Agriculture Association is represented in the committee)

4- Planting inside greenhouse raises the compensation by 100% of the crop value

The price list developed by Menya Agriculture Directorate did not consider the age of tree. As well, detailed information related to the types of crops and fruits should be more elaborated prior to the construction. During the process of measuring the affected lands, that will be applied by the Compensation Committee, they will calculate the prices of the affected assets according to the above mentioned factors. Indicating that, the pricing factors are guiding tool to be utilized by the Compensation Committee

Table 5: Summary of the proposed price for the affected crops/trees

Crops Trees

Crop Value Per Qirate (175 m2)

Crop Value Per Qirate (175 m2)

Trees Value Per tree

Trees Value Per tree

Corn 180 EGP Peanut 250 EGP Grapes on wires

100 EGP Palm tree 500 EGP

Tomato 240 EGP Okra 250 EGP Fig 300 EGP Sefsaf tree

50 EGP

Cabbage 200 EGP Banana 50 EGP Vacant agriculture land is compensated with 130 EGP per Qirate for one agriculture season

Source: Agriculture Directorate lists 2013

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80% of the owners/tenants were consulted about the values of crops and trees. They were to some extent satisfied with the crops compensation. However, they reported that the best timing to give their land is by the end of the agricultural season after harvesting the crops. Some lands that were cultivated by traditional crops and limited number of trees expressed their satisfaction with the value of compensation under one condition which is enabling them to move the trees by themselves. They aimed at replanting the trees in their lands far from the RoW. The owners of trees that will be damaged completely expressed their dissatisfaction with the value of the trees due to the fact that the compensation value will cover only the price of trees. In order to restore the farmers’ income, they will need to wait until the affected trees are replanted. That will take the farmers 3-5 years at least to restore their income. EETC social officer within the region will be cooperating with the Agriculture Association in order to provide guidance to farmers on how to move their trees temporarily allowing them to replant their trees after construction works are completed. In such case, the compensation value will be satisfactory for them.

5.2.2. Temporary loss of lands

The Compensation Committee formed on the governorate level defines the restriction to use the vacant lands or the lands that is being prepared for agriculture purposes. Restrictions will be limited to one month during the construction phase. Such lands are compensated for on temporary basis. However, Lands cultivated by crops or trees receive no compensation since the value of compensation will be based on crops and trees but not the lands. The estimated value proposed is mainly based on the renting cost of similar lands in the same governorate. The value of renting cost is estimated according to lands productivity and fertility. It was essential to set a group of determinants that might influence the compensation valuation. They can be summarized as follows:

1. The location of the affected lands (proximity to the road) 2. The fertility of lands (it is measured by the agriculture association) 3. The type of irrigation used (modern – traditional) 4. Level of effort exerted in the lands until census preparation (plowed –

seeded…etc)

5.2.3. Temporary loss of assets

The Compensation Committee evaluates the affected assets. The assets were limited due to the fact that EETC follow the avoidance mechanism aiming at reducing the affected groups. One house, an entrance, baking room and irrigation ditch were reported. The valuation of this type of assets is mainly based on the prevailing prices of such assets in the area. That will be defined by the Compensation Committee in cooperation with the community leaders. PAPs will be part of this process in cooperation with the committee and community leaders. The assets have been valuated according to full replacement cost . For example, the house is valuated according to the following determinants:

1. The construction material of the house ( 2. Area of land that the house was constructed on


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3. Needed cost to reconstruct the house (laborers- transfer of the construction materials- license…etc)

Table 6: Summary of the proposed price for the affected assets

Asset Value

A vacant house built in agriculture land (Built with no license)

1000 EGP per square meter

Water Tunnel about 20 m length 50 EGP per square meter Entrance road inside the ranch

100 EGP to be restored

The baking room 1000 per square meter

* The owner of the vacant house was consulted with by the EETC Social Development Officer regional branch

5.3. Arrangement for delivery of compensation

The temporary land acquisition and compensation will be applied as follows:

1. The Design Department in EETC has provided a detailed map on land acquisition scope in order to identify the land acquisition area. That map showed the sites of tension towers. After bidding, additional maps will be developed by the contractor in order to address the sites of suspension towers.

2. The PAPs were consulted during the preparation of the RAP in order to provide them with the required information regarding their rights, valuation procedures and grievances and redress mechanism.

3. The RAP Consultant strongly advises that EETC should verify the RAP two months before the commencement of the construction. This will be an important exercise to reflect a practical and realistic survey for the affected persons, which is not practical to consider at this stage due to the following reasons:

• Due to the turmoil experienced in the political and security status currently in the country, probability of having a delay in the construction is relatively high. The prolonged delay might result in revisiting for the prices developed by the Agriculture Directorate, since the price list is only valid for one year

• The potential change in the type of crops

• The potential change in the owners and tenants of lands entitled for compensation

• Trees will be identified according to their age, that might be changed according to the time of project implementation

• The access roads might be changed in case of having a nearby constructions

• Quality of crops are mainly tailored for the current crop status that might be changed during plantation

• Fertility of lands might be altered according to the type of crop cultivated

• The need to identify the exact sites of the suspension towers


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4. Final assessment by EETC team to evaluate the needed lands in cooperation with the Agricultural Associations and the RAP consultant in order to develop the addendum of this RAP.

5. The addendum will be sent to the World Bank for approval.

6. After receiving the approval of the WB on the addendum and the RAP, the documents will be translated and disclosed to the PAPs in the Agriculture Association, the EETC website and the World Bank Infoshop. Thereafter, the Compensation Committee will start their resettlement activities. Although the educational status of the head of households is largely of illiterates, the majority of their children are literate. Thus they will have access to information in writing. In addition, the compensation committee will provide a satisfactory level of information to the PAP through continuous meetings to be conducted pre, during and after the construction phase “We meet with the PAPs, socialize with them and attend their social events” reported by one of the compensation committee members. Such level of relation enables the compensation committee to provide the PAPs with continuous information.

7. A continuous dialogue will be applied with the PAPs as part of stakeholder engagement activities

8. A list of affected owners/tenants and type of loss will be disclosed in the Local Governmental Units and the agriculture associations

9. If the owner/tenant approved the compensation an agreement will be signed with them.

10. The value of compensation of the potential affected lands/crops/trees and assets will be defined and forwarded to the financial department in the EETC.

11. The financial department will release the compensation amount of money

12. The Compensation Committee will disburse the compensation value according to the following system:

• Full compensation will be given before the construction

• After the construction, the Compensation Committee will re-measure the actual affected crops, lands and assets. Transmission lines projects frequently damage more than the areas estimated to be affected. Thus, revaluation is crucial in order to give fair compensation for the owner/tenant..

• The owner/tenant should receive any additional amount of compensation needed for further demolishing and impact on the assets, crops and trees

13. Complete legal procedures for land acquisition will be documented by the Social Development Officers within the Middle Egypt Zone in Menya Governorate (Eng. Mohamed Moftah) and copies will be sent to the Social Development Officer in the EETC headquarter in Cairo (Ms. Sawsan El Assar). EETC HQ should maintain all the records for the purposes of internal and external monitoring and the Bank due diligence


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5.4. Transitional support

Due to the nature of impacts which are mainly impacts on crops and trees, there will be limited transitional support activities. There will be no moving costs, temporary living allowance and payment of fees since there will be no physical resettlement of the PAPs. The sole constructed house is vacant. Moreover, it is constructed on agricultural land. The compensation includes the full replacement cost of this building. Concerning the baking room, EETC will pay the monetary compensation to the owner of baking room as a compensation for the structure that will be affected in order to enable him to build a new one prior to demolishing the affected baking room. The PAP will receive their compensation, thereafter, it is up to them to reconstruct the baking room or not. In both cases, the proposed compensation covers all reconstruction activities.

5.5. Arrangement for recalculation of compensation

In case of any prolonged delay related to the project implementation the following procedures will be applied:

1- The Misr El Wosta zone will send a letter to the Agriculture Directorate in order to get the updated crops and trees price lists. This will be during the re-measuring process

2- The Compensation Committee will inform the PAPs about the change of the prices. They should sign a new agreement that reflects their approval on the new value of compensation re-calculation

3- The value of compensation of the potential affected lands/crops/trees and assets will be defined and forwarded to the financial department in the EETC.

4- The financial department will release the compensation amount of money from the budget item allocated for compensation and requested early by the project manager.

5- The Compensation Committee will disburse the compensation value according to the previous conditions of payment reported in section 5.2

6- All updated lists, agreement and money disbursement will be documented both on the zone level and the headquarter level

5.6. Vulnerable groups assistance

The census survey did not identify any female headed families, elderly groups and ultra-poor people along the Right of Way or under the tension towers. The census survey applied on the tension towers reflected no vulnerability due to the homogeneous of the socioeconomic characteristics of the PAPs. However, there is minor probability to find vulnerable groups in case of having any change inland tenancy status . The land renting, in most of cases, never exceed one year. Therefore, the probability of having new tenants during the implementation is high. Following is the proposed assistance that will be adopted by the EETC:

1- Provide the PAPs with compensation in their premises 2- Sufficient and clear information to be provided to them 3- Probability of hiring one of their unemployed children

In addition to the above mentioned procedures, it is crucial to pay attention to provide information to the illiterate groups. Thus, information will be attained by the provision of clear satisfactory information to the illiterate head of households.


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CHAPTER SIX: INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS

This section identifies the organizations and/or agencies primarily responsible for resettlement implementation. It describes the capacity of these entities for effective implementation by reference to links to authority, prior experience with resettlement, and number and training of their personnel. This section also briefly describes the implementation timetable, establishing that key implementation measures to apply the resettlement activities.

6.1. Steps and procedures of land acquisition

In order to identify the institutional responsibilities of land acquisition within the project areas, it was relatively crucial to present the sequence of land acquisition. Thereafter, detailed discussion of rules and responsibilities will be presented. Briefly, the land acquisition activities will be implemented according to the following sequence: Table 7: Steps and procedures of land acquisition Activities Description Responsibility During the preparation phase Negotiations with the governorate in order to re-forming the Compensation Committee

The EETC headquarter discuss with the governorate the composition of the Compensation Committee.

EETC – Misr El Wosta Zone

Get the updated price lists from the Agriculture Directorate

EETC requested for the updated price lists from the Agriculture Directorate. Thereafter, the Agriculture Directorate developed the lists.

EETC and the Agriculture Directorate

Formation of the Grievance and Redress committee

EETC managed to form the GR on three levels: Regional, central and mediation

EETC in cooperation with the community leader

Preparation of the project profile (exact locations and types of towers are identified)

The Egyptian Power System Engineering Company develop the coordinates of the towers

EPS in cooperation with the contractor

Finalization of RAP and obtaining Bank approval.

The consultant will develop the RAP in cooperation with the Compensation Committee

The consultant in cooperation with the EETC

Disclosure of the RAP EETC in cooperation with the WB and the consultant will disclose the RAP results

The consultant in cooperation with the EETC

Request for the estimated compensation budget

The project manager requests for the estimated budget allocated for compensation activities

Project manager EETC financial department

Approval on the estimated budget

The determination committee approves the tentative budget

Determination committee- EETC

Consultation with the Consultation activities with the PAPs EETC & RAP


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Activities Description Responsibility PAPs to be handled by the RAP study

team and the EPS consultant EPS representative

Capacity building to the EETC SDOs

The consultation firm developed the RAP will provide in cooperation with the WB training sessions to the SDOs.

EETC & RAP consultant

During the resettlement implementation Verification of the census and updating the affected crops lists

Compensation Committee revisit the types of affected crops

Compensation Committee (EETC, Governorate and the agriculture association)

Measuring the area of potential affected crops and trees

The Compensation Committee will measure the affected crops and define the price

Compensation Committee

Consultation with the PAPs

The Compensation Committee will consult with the PAPs regarding the compensation and payment rules

EETC Misr El Wosta Zone, Compensation Committee & the Agriculture Directorate

Preparation of the addendum

The consultant will develop the addendum in cooperation with the Compensation Committee

The consultant and the EETC

Approval of the Bank on the addendum

The World bank will approve the addendum

The WB

Disbursing payment to the PAPs

The Compensation Committee will disburse the payment to the PAPs


Documentation of the compensation activities

The Social Development Officers will keep records for: 1-Measurements of affected crops and trees 2- Farmers’ legal documents from the agriculture associations 3- Compensation receipts

EETC Social Development Officer on the regional and central level

Documentation of Grievances recipients and responses

The GRM on the central and regional level will keep documents to all grievances and how they were tackled

EETC Social Development Officer

Monitoring activities 1- the supervision of the HQ Social officer in the implementation of the resettlement 2- Developing periodic reports 3- Mid-term evaluation study

The SDO will be responsible for applying site visits on monthly basis To be developed by the EETC HQ and regional branches An independent consultant should be contracted in order to apply both

EETC HQ and regional branches An independent consultant


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Activities Description Responsibility 4- Final impact study

studies

After the construction

Remeasuring of the affected cultivated plots of lands, trees and assets

The Compensation Committee will measure the affected crops and define the price


Preparation of PAPs lists after remeasuring

The Compensation Committee will prepare lists of PAPs who practiced re-measuring

EETC Misr El Wosta Zone, Compensation Committee & the Agriculture Directorate

Disbursing payment to the PAPs

The Compensation Committee will disburse the payment to the PAPs


Document the remeasuring process

The Social Development Officers will keep records for: 1-Measurements of affected crops and trees 2- Farmers’ legal documents from the agriculture associations 3- Compensation receipts

EETC Social Development Officer on the regional and central level

6.2. Institutional Responsibilities

This project will necessitate a dense cooperation between various entities on the central and regional level. Due to the wide range of experience gained along the life of the Electricity Transmission line projects, it was noticeable that the members of EETC working within the compensation committee are getting strengthened level of experience. This is attributed to the multiple structured and unstructured training courses received by the Bank and the Consultant. In order to strengthen their knowledge on issues related to the WB regulations, documentation skills and disclosure activities, the consultant provided EETC staff with three days’ workshop. The workshop also clarified their role as part of the resettlement process. Following are the main entities and committees handling the resettlement activities:

A. The Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (main entity):EETC

departments and committees handle the resettlement within their

implemented projects. The main actors and committees are as follow:

1. Compensation Committee on the regional level

The main role of this committee is handling the various activities related

to resettlement. They cooperate with the governorate and the Agriculture

Association in order to facilitate the compensation activities

2. Determination Committee (headquarter level)

This committee is a permanent entity in the EETC. It is composed of the

head of electricity zones and the head of financial department. They are


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mainly responsible for approving the budget allocated for compensation.

In addition, they approve the compensation value allocated for each PAP

3. High Purchasing Committee (headquarter level)

They are responsible of purchasing the lands required to compensate for

the army lands

4. Mediation Committee (headquarter level)

This committee is responsible for mediating between the petitioner and

the EETC. Their mediation role might put limitation to raising the

problems to the court

Social Development Officers

They are responsible of documenting the grievances provided on

different levels and refer it to the concerned body.

5. Social Development Officers (on the regional and headquarter level)

On the regional and central level they are responsible to monitor, document and file all resettlement activities, especially, those related to grievances and redress.

B. Other support entities

1. Egyptian Power System Engineering company

They develop the project profile, including the exact location of

towers. They accompany the Compensation Committee in order to

show them the exact areas that will be affected by the project

2. Ministry of Agriculture

i. The Agriculture Directorate

Their role is limited to developing price lists for all types of crops that

might be affected

ii. The agriculture associations :

At least one of the employees working in the agriculture

association accompany the compensation committee as an

active member of the committee. The agriculture associations8

are responsible for: the following activities

• Accompanying the Compensation Committee during the

inventory,

• Estimate the value of crops and trees according to their actual

conditions

• Participate with the Compensation Committee during the

payment of compensation

• They attend all indvidual consultation related to the resettlment

• The PAPs lists are published in the agriculture association

• Provide a proof of property documentation for lands and crops

8 The agriculture association is a governmental entities responsible for provision of seeds and fertilizers

to the farmers. Each one of them is responsible for the agriculture activities in a zone comprices of 175

Feddan (agriculture lands). They work also in the compensation process as a representative for the

Ministry of Agriculture.


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3. The governorate

The Compensation Committee developed by the EETC is supported

by the representatives of the following:

i. Department of Real Estate Amlak

ii. Egyptian Land Survey Authority

Figure 1: Institutional Scheme

6.3. Capacity building

EETC has wide experience in managing compensation issues as part of projects using the Egyptian standards and regulations. This also applies on the representatives from other organizations who participate in the compensation committee and the activities of disbursing compensation to PAPs. However, EETC is still in a learning stage for the standards of the World Bank, in particular OP 4.12 on Involuntary Resettlement.. The capacity assessment conducted as part of preparing the RAP reveled a need for building the capacity of the newly assigned Social Development Officers, on both the central and zones levels, in various areas related to planning, implementing and monitoring the resettlement activities. EETC started to benefit from training in the above topics. The following training package are also recommended (for more details see Annex XII):

• WB policies related to resettlement activities: OP 4.12 and resettlement instruments.

• Skills of documentation and filing: this module will try to provide the SDOs with filing skills that will be needed for reporting and auditing missions of the WB. Documentation of grievances and compensation documents both on the central and regional level will facilitate reporting to the bank

EETC level

EETC

compensation

committee is

supported by:

- Department of

Real Estate Amlak

- Egyptian Land

Survey Authority

- Agriculture

association

Mediation

Committee

Determination

Committe

High

Purchasing

Committee

SDO

Other support entities

Egyptian Power

System

Engineering

company

Agriculture

Directorate


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• Monitoring and evaluation: it is one of the most crucial skills that will enhance the monitoring skills of EETC staff

In addition, it will be useful to get information about the following two courses in order to enable the SDOs to disseminate information for the community regarding the limitation of use under the Right of Way

• Participatory approach: in order to engage the community to take part in the project activities, this approach will be useful to enhance the dialogue between the EETC and the communities hosting the project

• Awareness and communication skills: such skill will be useful as the project will require some restrictions of land use. The community is not fully aware about such restrictions. Therefore, the provision of such training will be useful to the SDOs in order to be able to provide information to the PAPs related to the restriction of land use

Table 8: Proposed capacity building activities

Training module Learning objectives Duration& date Proposed trainees

WB policies related to resettlement activities

• Have a full understanding of the OP 4.12 regulations

• Have a full understanding of the needed actions within this policy and its instruments (RPF- RAP)

1 day for the theoretical part 2 days for the on the job training Prior to the resettlement implementation

Social Development Officer

Skills of documentation and filling

• Have a full understanding of the filing process

• Have a full understanding of the needed items to apply a good and comprehensive documentation

• Gain the ability to develop a report about the grievance and redress

• Keep records and document various compensation related documents

1 day for the theoretical part 2 days for the on the job training Prior to the resettlement implementation


Monitoring and evaluation

• To understand the monitoring definition and the role of monitoring and evaluation in the project

• To learn about effective monitoring and evaluation tools and reporting formats

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CHAPTER SEVEN: CONSULTATION, DISCLOSURE AND GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES

7.1. Introduction

Various phases of consultation were adopted along the life of the ESIA, RPF and RAP preparation. Land acquisition issues were raised on different levels of consultation conducted. Thus, the RAP study will present the results of ESIA and RPF related to the land acquisition briefly. Thereafter, a detailed discussion of the consultation activities conducted under the RAP will be presented.

This section will discuss various actions taken to consult with the PAPs. It will also shed a light on the actions to be taken under Grievances and Redress Mechanisms. Following are the main topics discussed under this section:

1. Consultation related issues: They covered all measures taken to consult with the

PAPs regarding the proposed resettlement arrangements, and to foster their participation in activities essential to improvement or restoration of incomes and living standards.

2. The disclosure arrangements: The resettlement plan highlighted the disclosure related issues in order to ensure that the RAP is made available in a language and location accessible to displaced persons and the general public.

3. Grievance and Redress mechanism: The administrative and the legal steps the PAPs can take to pursue questions or grievances they may have regarding resettlement implementation.

The consultations carried out were as follows:

7.1.1 Consultation conducted during the ESIA and RPF:

• A Public Consultation Meeting on the 8th of November 2010 conducted in the Red Sea Governorate. This meeting was attended by 119 people

• A Public Consultation Meeting conducted on 10thof November2010, in the El-Menya Governorate. 57 people attended the meeting, and

• Scoping meetings (mini-meetings) conducted during the ESIA study preparation

The scoping sessions conducted during the ESIA and the RPF preparation consulted the local stakeholders, heads of popular councils, local leaders, as well as citizens and farmers.

Detailed information was presented and consulted with the stakeholders. The scope of provided information covered the electrical line which will be occupied by the tower bases at an area of 20 ×20 cm2, and the compensation for losing crops on these plots of land in cultivated areas where the line is expected to pass west of the River Nile until Samallout substation. The majority of stakeholders gained this information from a previous experience they had with similar electricity transmission lines, particularly in Menya and Samallout where 500 kilovolt electricity transmission lines pass through their land. (source: ESIA of the Samallout Suez Gulf)


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7.1.2 Consultation conducted during the RAP

In order to ensure that the views and interests of all project affected persons are taken into accounts, various consultation activities have been carried out in accordance with the World Bank guidelines which require appropriate consultation to be conducted with the Project Affected Persons.

Consultation objectives during the RAP For the purpose of this RAP, the consultation activities conducted with the PAPs aimed at providing them with the following information:

1- Generic information about the project activities that will result in land acquisition

• The location of the project

• The length of the OHTL

• Importance of the project to the Egyptian society

• Adverse impacts of the project and how to be mitigated 2- Type of impacts on their own lands, crops and assets 3- The type of compensation needed to restore their living conditions

and the valuation process 4- The duration of land acquisition activities and the duration needed to

restore the productivity of their lands 5- Responsible entities for conducting the inventory, valuate and pay the

compensation 6- The Grievance and Redress mechanism 7- The community people they trust in order to integrate them in the

compensation process 8- Source of information they can get in contact with if they want

further information The above mentioned topics were consulted with the community people, particularly, the PAPs. Their input and feedback was documented in Table 9 of this report.

Strategies adopted to outreach the PAPs during the RAP

The consultation activities conducted during the RAP covered the 28 km affected by the project. It was relatively difficult to gather all the PAPs in one venue. Thus, the study team tried to reach out to the affected community by applying the following mechanisms:

1- The first strategy adopted was paying visits to the crop holders in their premises during the census survey. The team utilized a structured questionnaire to be conducted with the PAFs. Consequently, all of the PAPs were informed about the potential affected area of crops and trees. There concerns and questions were documented and responded to.

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3- Finally, a public consultation was conducted with the PAPs in the Event Hall situated in the vicinity of the project area on the 12th of June 2013.

Prior to the implementation of consultations different communication tools were

utilized in order to outreach the community. They were as follow:

• The leaflet was distributed in the project areas, particularly to women

who were unable to attend the public consultation as it is socially

unacceptable for women to attend public events

• A poster was prepared and copies were put up in the entrance of the

event hall and close to the famous religious institutes. The poster

contained the same information mentioned in the leaflet

Photo 1: Consulting the Project Affected Persons in Samallout

7.2 Consultation activities conducted during the RAP preparation

A consultation meeting was conducted with Misr El Wosta Electricity Zone(The regional branch of the EETC located in Menya Governorate) on the 9th of June. The Study team conducted a meeting with the site engineers. The meeting aimed at the following:

a. Discussion of the RAP process b. The role of Misr El Wosta Electricity Zone in this process c. The final route of the project d. Consultation activities to be applied e. Information to be disseminated to the community


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f. Documentation of PAPs worries and concerns g. Support materials to be distributed to the PAPs

The participants were mainly the engineers who work as members in the Compensation Committee. In addition to the Compensation Committee members, other technicians and support staff attended the meeting

Photo 2: Site engineers in Misr El Wosta Zone

1. Site visits were paid to each Project Affected Person (those affected by

tension towers) during the preparation of census survey between 9th and

-13th of June in order to inform them about the project, the needed plot of

lands to be expropriated temporarily, grievances mechanism, and the type of

crops compensation. Each land/crop owner was consulted individually in

order to avoid any problems that may arise during the implementation of the

project. The study team consulted the PAPs in their farms, houses, rest

hut…etc. The total consulted persons were up to 50 persons.

2. Consulting with people in their gathering areas (i.e. mosques, markets

and a construction material shop). This enabled the team to outreach the

women and the people located in remote areas, particularly, the potential

PAPs who will be affected by the suspension towers. The total consulted

persons were around 37 persons

3. A Public consultation session was conducted with the PAPs in the Event

Hall situated in the vicinity of the project area on the 12th of June 2013. The

total number of participants was 32 persons (list of participants is presented

in Annex IX


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Photo 3: Site engineers and the SDO providing information to the PAPs

Photo 4: Information dissemination for the religious leader

Photo 5: Consulting with the PAPs about the project and price valuation strategy

Photo 6: Public consultation

7.3 Comments and concerns raised during the RAP preparation

The study team felt it was important to highlight the main issues raised during the various activities

Table 9: Comments and concerns raised during the field consultation

Topic Concern/question Response of EETC representative

About the project and land avoidance mechanism

Can the project avoid my lands?

As a matter of fact, EETC will not step into any of your lands without your approval. The project avoids privately owned lands, trees and structures. If your land is cultivated by crop, we will damage the crops, as well, you will receive your compensation

How much land you will need?

About 50 X 20 m that will be in total around 3 Qirates on average.


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What would happen if the project affected more than this plot of land?

We will re-measure the affected lands after the construction and you will receive a full amount of money. You will attend the measuring process and the re-measuring. As well a representative from the governorate, local governmental unit and the Agriculture Association in order ensure that you will be fairly compensated.

About compensation mechanism

How do you valuate the crops, trees?

We receive a price list from the Agriculture Directorate. That list is updated annually. For example, the compensation of a palm tree is about 500 EGP. We will consult with you prior to the implementation about the prices in order to make sure that the prices are fair and based on the real market price.

Who will pay us the compensation? We don’t trust the Government but if this man is responsible for the compensation we will be confident that the price is fair (the farmer pointed to the SDO Eng. Mohamed Moftah)

Eng. Moftah will be a member of the Compensation Committee. The compensation will be paid in fair value based on the current market price we don’t want to do harm to the community.

Who will benefit from the project

We will host the project, therefore, we should be the main beneficiaries from the produced electricity

The produced electricity will go to the National Grid. All of Egypt will benefit from the project.

Information about the project

What if we need further information

You are most welcome to contact Eng. Moftah and the Samallout substation to get the needed information. Also you can contact the EETC itself. If you have access to the internet, all information about the project is on the website

Table 10: Comments and concerns raised during the Public Consultation for the RAP


The route of the Where will the It will extend along the route from Samallout


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OHTL OHTL pass? to Suez Gulf wind farm. You may have seen some engineers doing site investigations in you lands.

Towers locations

Will you install a tower in my own land?

Yes you will host a tower in your land. You will be compensated for your land. That will take maximum a month. Later on you can re-cultivate your land with no problems.

Rejection to host the tower

I don’t want to have a tower in my land

We will not force any one to host the tower. We will do our best to avoid the agriculture and structures. However, we might be obliged to damage certain plots of lands in the process.

Why did you choose my land?

It is mainly based on the route and the type of soil. If you have unstable soil we will be obliged to change the route, but the site engineers have already investigated the soil in the area. They reported that the soil is appropriate to the project.

Commencement of the project

When will the project be implemented?

We don’t have a time plan until now so kindly don’t stop farming your lands. We have a continuous delay because of the revolution. Let us hope to begin in 6 months.

More consultation

Thank you engineer Atia, can you visit us again in order to gain more information about the project?

It will be our pleasure to meet with our people in Samallout. Eng. Moftah lives here. He will be the person in charge to provide you with the needed information. If you want further information, it will be my pleasure to come to the area again and again.

Further consultation to be conducted during RAP implementation

1. The Compensation Committee will consult individually and collectively with

the affected persons in order to provide them with the needed information about the valuation of crops, trees and assets, compensation and income restoration strategies, as well as, grievances and redress mechanism

2. Individual meetings will be conducted during the measuring of the affected areas. The farmer will be informed about the impact, valuation of affected asset, land and crop

3. Public meetings will be conducted in the nearest agriculture association. All information will be shared with the PAPs transparently and sufficiently. The used language will be the local simple words. The Compensation Committee will attend all the public meetings.

4. The committee will send an inventory of the affected people and valuation of their crops or land renting fees to the governors for final approval.


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7.4 Disclosure of the RAP

As part of the disclosure and transparent sharing of information, the lists of PAPs along with the types of compensations that are entitled to should be disclosed on a visible neutral location within the village (e.g. the Agriculture Association) OP 4.12 requires that project discloses information: “As a condition of appraisal of projects involving resettlement, the borrower provides the Bank with the relevant draft resettlement instrument which conforms to this policy, and makes it available at a place accessible to displaced persons and local NGOs, in a form, manner, and language that are understandable to them. Once the Bank accepts this instrument as providing an adequate basis for project appraisal, the RPF will be translated into Arabic and disclosed both locally and the Bank makes it available to the public through its Info Shop. After the Bank has approved the final resettlement instrument, the Bank and the borrower disclose it again in the same manner.” Based on the above mentioned appraisal requirement, the EETC will provide the Bank with the draft RAP which conforms to the OP 4.12. EETC should seek the Bank approval before the disclosure of the approved RAP. Once the Bank accepts this RAP, the EETC will translate it into Arabic and make it available to the public .After the finalization of the RAP it will be publicly disclosed to all PAPs and other relevant stakeholders. The EETC disclose it through the following channels:1)EETC website,2) Agriculture Association and 3)Local governmental units. As well, it will be useful to send the results of RAP to the mayor or to the local council. This might give the community a wide range of channels to know about the RAP.

7.5 Grievance mechanism

Grievances and redress represent one of the important processes that should be tackled carefully during the project implementation. This is mainly due to the political conditions resulted after the 25th of January Revolution. The community people became more active and willing to be heard. Grievance system is also important for EETC to ensure that complaints are properly handled without delay that may negatively affect the project. Moreover, to ensure that information is shared transparently and that they are accountable to the hosting communities. The EETC adopted a comprehensive grievance mechanism. Prior to the RAP implementation a grievance leaflet was developed by the EETC to be distributed to the PAPs prior to the RAP implementation. The following procedures will be applied in order to have a clear grievance’s activities:

A. Grievances’ tiers: Various tiers of grievances were adopted by the EETC. The petitioner can target his/her complaint to one or more tiers at the same time. Following are the various tiers of grievances:


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1- Tier 1:Social development officers in Misr El Wosta Region. (Eng. Mohamed

Moftah Ateia) 2- Tier 2:General Manager of Transmission Substation in Misr El Wosta

Region(Eng. Masoud Abdou Deeb) 3- Tier 3: The Social Officer in the Headquarter of the Egyptian Electricity

Transmission Company (Eng. Masoud Abdou Deeb)

All information related to the above mentioned persons and entities is integrated in Annex XIV) The above mentioned tiers are consistent with the World Bank’s OP 4.12. Providing

multi-levels of tiers will result in amicable implementation of the project .It is a function of the project, to provide aggrieved people with an avenue for amicable settlement without necessarily pursuing a court case. The absence of first tier mechanism denies project affected groups the direct channel for grievance and delays resolution of disputes against the interest of both the PAP and the project. The aggrieved person has to receive the response to his/her complaint within 15 days for each level of grievances’ committees. The Compensation Committee prepares a crop compensation register in coordination with the agricultural association and the local governmental unit in the village. The crop compensation register is then publicly displayed at the bulletin board within the relevant agricultural association office. Any grievances related to the posted crop compensation information should be submitted within 30 days to be investigated by the Compensation Committee. If his grievance was not appropriately solved, the submitting party would be able to raise their complaint to court. However, this will not affect the implementation plan of the project.

B. Grievances channels

Complaints could be submitted by multiple intake points including submission by hand, mail or by email. The petitioner, through the use of the complaint tracking number, can follow up on their complaints through range number of methods including mail, e-mail, phone or by visiting the person in charge, as indicted below. The petitioner is free to submit his/her complaint to one or more of the three above mentioned tiers.

C. Response to grievances

Within a maximum of 15 days, the petitioner should receive a response to their/her complaints, if not; s/he has the right to take the grievance to a higher level. The higher level might be the head of departments or the EETC headquarter

D. Monitoring of grievances All grievance activities should be monitored in order to verify the process. The following indicators should guide the monitoring process:

1- Number of received grievances monthly (Channel, gender, age, basic economic status of the complainants should be mentioned)


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2- Type of grievance received (according to the topic of the complaint) 3- Number of grievances solved 4- Dissemination activities done 5- Level of satisfaction with solutions 6- Documentation efficiency 7- Efficiency of response to grievance provided ( efficiency in time and action

taken)

A Grievance Monitoring Report should be developed on a quarterly basis in order to keep track of all grievances developed. The report should be developed by the SDO in the EETC headquarter

E. Disclosure of grievances

All grievances activities should be disclosed on the EETC website. A quarterly report should be prepared for the most frequent grievances faced and how they were solved. This report will be disclosed through EETC website and the local governmental unit. A best practice standard is to acknowledge all complaints within 15 days. Due to the complexity of some of the complaints, not all of them can be resolved immediately. In this case medium or long-term corrective actions are required, which need a formal procedure recommended to be implemented within 30 days: 1. The aggrieved person has to be informed of the proposed corrective measure. 2. In case no corrective action is required, the petitioner should also be informed

accordingly. 3. Implementation of the corrective measure and its follow up has to be

communicated to the complainant and recorded in the grievance register All grievances and communications, received by the EETC social officer, will be registered and the actions taken/responses given will be tracked and recorded for each. Proper administration and internal records of stakeholder complaints and communications are essential for transparency and quality of EETC responsiveness and reporting to stakeholders on the resolution of grievances. All grievances received shall be documented in a grievance register. The following table represents the main contents of such form:

Box 3: Grievance form

Serial Number: Markaz Date: Gender of the aggrieved person Age of the aggrieved person Education of the person reporting a grievance Topic of grievance Actions to be taken (short term- long term) The referral of grievance Monitoring for grievance


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CHAPTER EIGHT: BUDGET AND TIME PLAN

This section includes a budget breakdown estimating all resettlement-related costs, including an allocation for contingencies. It also establishes financial responsibility for meeting resettlement commitments, and describes funding flow arrangements.

8.1 Estimated budget

Impact compensation expenses refer to compensations to be paid directly to the affected persons, which include temporary land use compensations and compensations for the affected trees. The census showed that the potential impacts will be as follow:

• The majority of project impacts will be on crops and vegetation o Temporary impact on the crops o Permanent impacts on trees

• Mixed in nature impacts on some assets Following is a table with the estimated amounts of money necessary for compensating PAPs, along with other costs associated with RAP (site supervision, monitoring RAP implementation by client, etc.). The estimated budget is about 12.280 million EGP. This is equivalent to 1754023.971 US $ Table 11: Total cost and budget in EGP

Budget line item Estimated budget in EGP

Tension towers

Suspension towers

Total item

Crops Access roads 26,149 82,286 108,434

Towers 12,580 10,286 22,866

Storage 3,797 9,051 12,848

Total crops price 42,526 101,623 144,148

Total trees price 123,550 9,000 132,550

Total assets price 58,000 58,000

Tower price 3,600,000 6,000,000 9,600,000

Total compensation 3,824,076 6,110,623 9,934,698

Purchasing lands for the army

1,250,000

External Monitoring 100,000

Contingency 382,408 611,062 993,470

Capacity building *

Total estimated budget 4,206,484 6,721,685 12,278,168

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cost. The capacity building related to the RAP is an activity covered under the RAP study preparation budget that necessitates no further source of funding.

8.2 Fund Flow and Payment Plan

The EETC go through the following process before processing paments

1- The project manager prepares an estimated budget for the whole project activities, including compensations and resettlment, this budget is passed on to the Financial Deparment at EETC in order to make the payment. (After the finalization of bidding procedures)

2- The Determination Committee of the EETC approves the budget prior to the construction activites (at least five months)

3- The Financial department requests a certain amount of money based on priliminary estimates provided by project engineers. (at least four months before the construction)

4- The compensation value will be transferred to the EETC financial department (at least three months before the construction)

5- The Compensation Committee begin the census surveyand calculate the needed compensations accordingly. They send the inventory lists, supported by the ID of the owner/tenants and his ownership or tenancy status, to the Determination Committee which is reponsible for approving the inventory. Thereafter they request the Financial Department to prepare the cheques. (at least one month before the construction)

6- The financial department prepares the chequesin advance, at least two weeks before paying the compensation

7- The first installment should be paid to the owners/tenants prior to the construction.

8- The remaining installments are prepared along the construction life

8.3 Time plan related to resettlement

Due to the unstable political situation in Egypt, an accurate time plan was difficult to put in place. Instead, a tentative time plan that may be changed in accordance with the political situation along the life of the project was prepared. This time plan might be adapted in accordance with the construction plan that will be developed by October 2013


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Table 12: Tentative Time Plan


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CHAPTER NINE: MONITORING ARRANGEMENTS

This section briefly describes arrangements for monitoring implementation, for both internal project purposes and external monitoring to be conducted by a qualified agency independent of the project office. The scope and frequency of monitoring activities will be described.

9.1 Scope of monitoring

Monitoring aims at tracking project implementation procedures. It will address the following aspects:

• Follow up on the activities assigned under the RAP (valuation, awareness raising events, disclosure, dissemination activities)

• Follow-up on the status of the project affected persons

• Follow up on the process of grievances in order to identify the efficiency of livelihood restoration: agriculture, business

• Provision of all data needed to apply the mid-term evaluation and final assessment

The evaluation should ensure that policies have been complied with in addition to providing the needed feedback for adjusting strategic directions. The evaluation has the following specific objectives:

• General assessment of the compliance of the implementation of resettlement activities with objectives and methods as set out in this RAP,

• Assessment of the compliance of the implementation of resettlement activities with laws, regulations and safeguard policies as stated above,

• Assessment of resettlement and relocation procedures as they have been implemented,

• Evaluation of the impact of the resettlement and relocation programs on incomes and standard of living, with focus on the “no worse-off if not better-off” requirement,

• Identification of actions to take as part of the on-going monitoring to improve the positive impacts of the program and mitigate its possible negative impacts, if any.

Frequency of monitoring The follow up activities will be conducted along the life of the project. With regards to the reporting frequency, following is proposed reporting system:

1 A site visit report should be prepared for the EETC headquarters after each site visit

2 A monthly report will be prepared for the following activities: a. Grievances received b. PAPs compensation received c. PAPs compensation not received d. Consultation activities implemented e. Information needed

3 A quarterly report will be prepared for the WB


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9.2 EETC Internal monitoring

While Egyptian regulations do not offer any monitoring or evaluation measures, the Bank’s OP 4.12 does. It embraces monitoring and evaluating the social and economic impact on the affected groups. It requires measurement of the amounts of compensation paid, time taken to ensure compensation payment, number of grievances and redress cases received and addressed and objective feedback on the overall impact of the resettlement action on the affected group. The OP 4.12 explains procedures for a monitoring and evaluation process that should be incorporated into the Egyptian law. EETC SDOs will monitor the RAP process during all its phases. They will be responsible for ensuring efficient consultation with all land owners, their representatives, fairness of agreement, proper implementation of the compensation process and its effects on the PAPs socioeconomic status. This will not be reflected on the financial cost as it is part of the EETC activities. Monitoring activities will be applied along the life of the project and reported to the bank on quarterly basis

9.3 External monitoring and evaluation

9.3.1 Independent consultation

The EETC develops in cooperation with the RAP consultant a detailed list of indicators as the RAP will be the baseline study for the project affected people. Halfway through the RAP process, an independent consulting firm will be contracted by EETC in order to apply a rapid assessment for the activities done under the RAP, as well as, the impact of involuntary resettlement on the livelihood of community people. This assessment aims at providing the guidance for the EETC in case of facing any obstacles that might affect the implementation of the RAP. Following are the proposed external monitoring activities:

1- Approximately 6 months after the commencement of the construction, an independent consultant will be hired in order to evaluate the resettlement activities, and shed light on the surplus impacts. A mid-term evaluation should be developed and submitted to the WB

2- By the end of the construction phase an independent consultant will be hired to evaluate the whole process of the RAP, in addition to providing a full assessment for the activities done, including documentation, grievances mechanism, valuation, entitlement and the lessons learned. A final impact report will be prepared and submitted to the Bank

Following are some of the suggested indicators to be measured during the external monitoring and evaluation process:


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Box 4: Proposed indicators needed for monitoring activities

Examples of proposed indicators during RAP implementation

Quantitative and qualitative indicators 1. Number of persons compensated for a) land, b) crops, c) trees, etc. 2. Number of persons not yet compensated ( by types of losses) 3. Number of consultations held

- Number of participants (According to the communication channel)

- Gender of participants

- Age of participants

- Occupation of participants

- Their comments

4. Number of complaints received ( by types)

- Number of complainants

- Gender of complainants

- Main complains raised

- Number of solved complains

- Number of complains left unsolved (reasons should be reported)

5. Number of grievances resolved 6. Number of grievances outstanding 7. Level of satisfaction of affected people with the compensation 8. Number of awareness sessions held

Examples of proposed indicators during the final evaluation and assessment

1. Total Number of persons compensated for a) land b) crops c) trees, etc. versus the baseline information provided in the RAP

2. Number of persons left with no compensation ( by types of losses) and reasons 3. Number of consultations held (A full assessment about their characteristics of

participants, reason for holding consultation, comments, where they held different consultation

4. Number of complaints received (by types) (How they were dealt with 5. Number of grievances resolved 6. Number of grievances outstanding 7. Income change due to land acquisition 8. Appropriate application of entitlement matrix

World Bank monitoring: Bank supervision missions will regularly and systematically review the progress reports of the RAP implementation and documentation for different activities

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