SAFEGUARDING TENURE

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Safeguarding Land, Housing and Indigenous
Peoples Rights
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The Global Land Grabbing Crisis
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The Costs of Displacement
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There is nothing more fundamental to the fight
against poverty and inequality than increasing
secure and equitable access to land, housing and
productive resources.
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World Bank Safeguards Review

• Opportunity or Threat?

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Civil society calls

• 21st century Involuntary Resettlement Policy and
  Indigenous Policy, consistent with international
  human rights law standards.

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New policy on tenure of land, housing and natural
resources to ensure that Bank projects

• Do not weaken or impede tenure rights
• Do not exacerbate conflict over land and natural
  resources
• Strengthen and secure tenure rights of vulnerable
• Promote more equitable access to land, housing
  and natural resources, with particular attention
  to rights of women

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First Draft Environmental and Social Frameworkon
land rights?
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Positives

• Prohibition on forced evictions when ESS5 and
  ESS7 is triggered
• Compensation requirements redefined to ensure
  adequate replacement housing
• FPIC for Indigenous Peoples in ESS7

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Indigenous Peoples Rights Opt-Out?One hand
giveth and the other taketh away
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Dismantling the World Bank Involuntary
Resettlement Policy
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Dismantling the World Bank Involuntary
Resettlement Policy

• Detailed due diligence requirements on the Bank
  to avoid displacement Gone
• Sustainable development objective of resettlement
  Gone
• Detailed requirements for resettlement-specific
  baseline studies Gone
• Clear requirement to submit policy-compliant
  resettlement plan and adequate budget for Bank
  review prior to project approval Gone
• Only sub-projects classified by borrowers as High
  Risk required to meet Bank standards

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No serious protections against land grabbing
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No objectives or serious measures to protect
the land rights of the poor
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The model

• Abandonment of up front requirements
• Open-ended compliance, based on discretion of
  Bank staff, not rules
• Increased reliance on borrower systems,
  self-assessments, reports and evaluations
• Increased implementation support?
• Total abdication of Bank responsibility to ensure
  no harm is done.

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serve as the basis of a renewed partnership
between the Bank and its borrowers a
partnership rooted in a common commitment to
environmental and social sustainability.
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