The social due diligence covered assessment and estimation of liabilities within the following areas:
- while the environmental due diligence covered all environmentally related activities such as fuelling contracts, marshalling yards and ship yards. In addition, assessments of occupational health conditions and safety precautions formed part of the due diligence.
The project also included a detailed outline of a relocation action plan for more than 3,000 squatters to be displaced in accordance with Kenyan and World Bank (WB) guidelines for involuntary resettlement.
The plan was developed through a detailed person-to-person characterisation, mapping and videoing of all individual project-affected-persons (PAPs).
The relocation action plan consisted of four main elements:
In addition, a detailed study on eligible railway engineering solutions supporting an overall sustainable relocation action plan was carried out.
The relocation action plan and engineering solutions were priced in detail according to Kenyan Government and WB-approved entitlement compensatory pricing matrices and civil works pricing.
Kenya
International Finance Co-operation (IFC) under The World Bank Group.
Social, resettlement, relocation action plan, environmental management and liability, privatization process.
Project management, advisory and expert assistance, social and environmental surveys, relocation action plan, public hearings and participation process.
2004 - 2006
USD 0.4 million