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Aiding the National Route to Poverty?

 

Results of NGO Surveys on Compensation Issues in JICA’s Planned Project to Expand Cambodia’s National Route 1

(Phnom Penh to Neak Leung)

National Road 1 From Phnom Penh to Neak Leung

Executive Summary

Chapter I. Overview of Project, Expected Problems, and NGO Responses

 1.1  Project Background

 1.2  Lessons from Past Road Projects in Cambodia

 1.3  NGO Advocacy to JICA for Prevention of Further Impoverishment 

Chapter II.Findings from RAN’s Counter Survey

 2.1  Brief Explanation of RAN’s Counter Survey to the PAP’s Survey

 2.2  Findings

Chapter III. Analysis of the Application of JICA’s New Guidelines

 3.1  JICA’s New Guidelines and this project

 3.2  Violation of Involuntary Resettlement Clause—People will be impoverished

    3.3  Violation of Social Acceptability Clause—People were forced to agree

    3.4  Violation of Human Rights Clause—People cannot secure their rights

    3.5  Violation of Meaningful Participation Clause—People’s voices are ignored

  3.6  Violation of Standards—People need Legal Standards

    3.7  Conclusion

Chapter IV  Recommendations

 1. Prevent Intimidation and Secure Free and Informed Consent (or Dissent)

 2. Ensure that sufficient compensation...

 3. Secure Information Disclosure and Meaningful Participation

 4. Establish Grievance Mechanism

References

Appendices

    A1.   Objectives and Method of RAN’s Counter Survey to the PAP’s Survey

    A2.   Survey Questionnaire for RAN Research on PAP’s Survey

    A3.   Letter from Legal Aid of Cambodia to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Japan