Conceptualizing Fair, Full and Prompt Compensation – the Tanzanian Context of Sustaining Livelihood in Expropriation Projects (original) (raw)

2014

Abstract

Objections to assessed compensation for expropriated land in Tanzania have been on increase irrespective of the changed ideologies of the country. The basis of valuation assessment as provided in the laws governing land acquisition is ‘market value’ while the local valuation practice has had limited use of the basis in compensation and resettlement assignments. With a large number of investment projects being funded by donors, a new dictate on the basis of valuation for compensation and resulting relocation has been introduced often disguising the respective national laws as being not protective enough for the loss of livelihood of the affected persons. Safeguards requirements mainly Resettlement Policy Framework (RFP) and Environmental and Social Management Frameworks (ESMF) by global financial organizations such as the World Bank, the Africa Development Bank and a number of bilateral aid/grant organizations have further complicated a rather delicate valuation practice opening up w...

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