PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT: ELIGIBILITY FOR COMPENSATION OF PROJECT AFFECTED PERSONS (PAPS)

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PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT: ELIGIBILITY FOR COMPENSATION OF PROJECT AFFECTED PERSONS (PAPS)

 

The Government of The Gambia (GOTG), with financing from the World Bank through The Gambia Electricity Restoration and Modernization Project (GERMP) is implementing the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP). The Project intends to construct a high voltage (225kV) transmission line through the villages of Brikama Kabafita, Farato Bojang Kunda, Farato, Jambur, Latriya, Jabang, Jamwelly (Sare Pateh), and Mariama Kunda in the Greater Banjul Area (GBA).

The RAP is based on a set of surveys/census conducted in these communities in two phases:

  • a survey/census was conducted to identify all the affected persons along this corridor between 3rd – 17th February 2020, with the cut-off date declared as Monday February 17th 2020;

 

  • in October 2020 with the objective of allowing more Project Affected Persons (PAPs) registered, a second phase of survey/census was conducted between October 21st and November 6th, to identify all the PAPs eligible for compensation along the corridor, and the cut-off-date for eligibility was 6th November 2020. This means, any person who was not included in the survey/census between these dates would not be eligible for compensation.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic prevailing at the time, less than 80 persons affected by the project could be interviewed from more than 490 identified plots of land along the corridor. Consequently, the cut-off-date of 6th November 2020 could not be enforced, and hence compensations of affected persons continued.

However, following more than two years of RAP implementation, the new cut-off-date for payment of compensations is 31st December 2023, and any claimant who turns up after this date will not be considered for compensation.

Anybody who feels that s/he should be included should contact the project’s Grievance Resolution Committee (GRC) before the 31st December 2023 at the Project Management Unit (PMU) office located at Emporium Complex, 114 Kairaba Avenue, Kanifing Municipality, through one of the contacts listed below:

  1. Ousman Mankara – Social Safeguards Specialist on Toll Free number 1266 on Africell
  2. Nuha Colley – Safeguards Specialist – Toll Free number 1266 on Qcell
  3. Baboucar Corr – Safeguards Specialist – 3845096/9963511