https://valuespace.space/blog/ Practitioner writing on resettlement action plans, IFC PS-5 and World Bank ESS-5 — eligibility, valuation, grievances, livelihood restoration and completion audit. en https://valuespace.space/blog/what-rights-do-you-have-during-land-acquisition/ https://valuespace.space/blog/what-rights-do-you-have-during-land-acquisition/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Eight of them, most of which projects will not volunteer. Knowing they exist is what makes them usable. https://valuespace.space/blog/how-do-you-know-if-your-project-needs-a-rap/ https://valuespace.space/blog/how-do-you-know-if-your-project-needs-a-rap/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT One test decides it: does the project take land, assets or access from anyone. Scale then decides which instrument, not whether. https://valuespace.space/blog/does-a-rap-cover-businesses/ https://valuespace.space/blog/does-a-rap-cover-businesses/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Businesses are covered, employees are covered, and both are the categories most often left out of the entitlement matrix. https://valuespace.space/blog/what-if-two-people-claim-the-same-land/ https://valuespace.space/blog/what-if-two-people-claim-the-same-land/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The project cannot decide ownership. What it can do is record both claims, pay neither prematurely, and not use the dispute to avoid paying. https://valuespace.space/blog/can-you-choose-where-you-are-resettled/ https://valuespace.space/blog/can-you-choose-where-you-are-resettled/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT You get a say and rarely a veto. Where the choice is real, it is usually between cash and a site — and the site is chosen before you are asked. https://valuespace.space/blog/are-trees-compensated-separately-from-land/ https://valuespace.space/blog/are-trees-compensated-separately-from-land/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Yes, and for perennials the tree is often worth more than the ground it stands on. How the figure should be built. https://valuespace.space/blog/how-is-a-house-valued-for-compensation/ https://valuespace.space/blog/how-is-a-house-valued-for-compensation/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT By what it costs to build the same house today, with no deduction for age — which is not how a valuer would price it for sale. https://valuespace.space/blog/can-a-private-company-acquire-your-land/ https://valuespace.space/blog/can-a-private-company-acquire-your-land/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Companies negotiate; states compel. Where a company can call on the state's power, the negotiation is not what it appears to be. https://valuespace.space/blog/do-you-have-to-move-immediately/ https://valuespace.space/blog/do-you-have-to-move-immediately/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT No. You are entitled to notice, to a place to go, and in most cases to time to take the harvest with you. https://valuespace.space/blog/what-is-livelihood-restoration/ https://valuespace.space/blog/what-is-livelihood-restoration/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Compensation is a payment for what you lost. Livelihood restoration is an obligation to get your income back to where it was. https://valuespace.space/blog/how-to-file-a-grievance-on-a-project/ https://valuespace.space/blog/how-to-file-a-grievance-on-a-project/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Every lender-financed project must have a mechanism, it must be free, and using it must not cost you your right to go to court. https://valuespace.space/blog/can-construction-start-before-compensation-is-paid/ https://valuespace.space/blog/can-construction-start-before-compensation-is-paid/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT No — and this is the rule projects break most often, under schedule pressure, with an undertaking to pay later. https://valuespace.space/blog/what-happens-after-a-rap-is-approved/ https://valuespace.space/blog/what-happens-after-a-rap-is-approved/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Approval is the halfway point, not the end. The order of what follows decides whether the plan survives contact with the site. https://valuespace.space/blog/who-approves-a-rap/ https://valuespace.space/blog/who-approves-a-rap/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Usually a national authority and a lender, in that order, against different criteria. What each one is actually looking for. https://valuespace.space/blog/who-prepares-a-resettlement-action-plan/ https://valuespace.space/blog/who-prepares-a-resettlement-action-plan/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT A consultancy team writes it, the borrower owns it, the lender reviews it — and the people who implement it are usually none of the above. https://valuespace.space/blog/rap-vs-esia-difference/ https://valuespace.space/blog/rap-vs-esia-difference/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The ESIA identifies impacts across the whole project. The RAP deals with one of them — displacement — for named people. https://valuespace.space/blog/can-you-harvest-crops-after-the-cut-off-date/ https://valuespace.space/blog/can-you-harvest-crops-after-the-cut-off-date/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The cut-off stops new claims; it does not take your standing crop. What you are owed for a harvest you cannot take. https://valuespace.space/blog/can-compensation-be-paid-to-husband-and-wife/ https://valuespace.space/blog/can-compensation-be-paid-to-husband-and-wife/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT It can, and on most projects it is not. Why single-payee compensation strips women's claims, and what to ask for instead. https://valuespace.space/blog/what-is-a-project-affected-person/ https://valuespace.space/blog/what-is-a-project-affected-person/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Anyone who loses land, assets, income or access because of a project — whether or not they own anything, and whether or not they move. https://valuespace.space/blog/what-documents-do-you-need-for-compensation/ https://valuespace.space/blog/what-documents-do-you-need-for-compensation/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Identification, proof of the claim and proof you are the right person. What to do when you hold none of them. https://valuespace.space/blog/do-tenants-get-compensation/ https://valuespace.space/blog/do-tenants-get-compensation/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Yes — under lender standards, and often not under national law. What a tenant is owed and how to make sure you are recorded. https://valuespace.space/blog/what-to-do-if-compensation-is-too-low/ https://valuespace.space/blog/what-to-do-if-compensation-is-too-low/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Four routes, in ascending cost. Most disputes are about counts rather than rates, and those are settled fastest in the field. https://valuespace.space/blog/how-long-does-compensation-take-to-be-paid/ https://valuespace.space/blog/how-long-does-compensation-take-to-be-paid/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Months where the file is clean, years where it is not. What sits between a valuation and money arriving, and which delays are avoidable. https://valuespace.space/blog/how-is-land-compensation-calculated/ https://valuespace.space/blog/how-is-land-compensation-calculated/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Land, structures, crops and trees are each valued on a different basis. What goes into the figure, and the parts most often left out. https://valuespace.space/blog/can-government-take-your-land-without-paying/ https://valuespace.space/blog/can-government-take-your-land-without-paying/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT It can take it. Taking it without compensation is a different question, and the answer under both national law and lender standards is no. https://valuespace.space/blog/what-happens-if-you-miss-the-cut-off-date/ https://valuespace.space/blog/what-happens-if-you-miss-the-cut-off-date/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Missing the census and arriving after the cut-off are different situations with very different outcomes. How to tell which you are in. https://valuespace.space/blog/what-happens-if-you-refuse-compensation/ https://valuespace.space/blog/what-happens-if-you-refuse-compensation/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Refusal is not the end of the process, and it does not forfeit your entitlement. What actually follows, and what it costs you. https://valuespace.space/blog/who-pays-for-resettlement-compensation/ https://valuespace.space/blog/who-pays-for-resettlement-compensation/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The project pays, through the borrower or the developer. Why the source of funds matters to how quickly you are paid. https://valuespace.space/blog/how-much-does-a-rap-cost-to-prepare/ https://valuespace.space/blog/how-much-does-a-rap-cost-to-prepare/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Preparation is a consultancy fee driven by parcel count and terrain; compensation is a separate and far larger budget. What drives each. https://valuespace.space/blog/how-long-does-a-rap-take/ https://valuespace.space/blog/how-long-does-a-rap-take/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Nine to eighteen months for preparation on a typical project, and years for implementation. What sets each stage, and what makes it slip. https://valuespace.space/blog/legacy-land-acquisition-audit/ https://valuespace.space/blog/legacy-land-acquisition-audit/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Land taken before a lender arrived is still the project's problem. How a legacy audit is scoped and what remedy is realistic. https://valuespace.space/blog/independent-monitoring-and-midterm-review/ https://valuespace.space/blog/independent-monitoring-and-midterm-review/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Internal monitoring reports activity to the people running it. External monitoring exists to say the thing nobody internally can. https://valuespace.space/blog/contractor-obligations-in-works-contracts/ https://valuespace.space/blog/contractor-obligations-in-works-contracts/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Most land-related harm during construction is caused by a contractor bound by a contract that never mentioned the RAP. https://valuespace.space/blog/forced-eviction-and-lawful-possession/ https://valuespace.space/blog/forced-eviction-and-lawful-possession/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Taking possession is a legal act with conditions attached. Where those conditions fail, the project has carried out an eviction. https://valuespace.space/blog/titling-at-resettlement-sites/ https://valuespace.space/blog/titling-at-resettlement-sites/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Secure tenure is an obligation, and formalisation is not neutral. Who is named on the document decides who keeps the house. https://valuespace.space/blog/resettlement-site-services-handover/ https://valuespace.space/blog/resettlement-site-services-handover/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Water systems, roads and drains built by a project become somebody else's operating cost. Usually nobody agreed to that in writing. https://valuespace.space/blog/host-community-agreements/ https://valuespace.space/blog/host-community-agreements/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Resettlement puts pressure on land, water, schools and clinics that belong to people the project never counted as affected. https://valuespace.space/blog/financial-literacy-and-compensation-support/ https://valuespace.space/blog/financial-literacy-and-compensation-support/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT A single large transfer to a household that has never held one is a known risk. What support helps, and what is just paternalism. https://valuespace.space/blog/enterprise-and-skills-livelihood-programmes/ https://valuespace.space/blog/enterprise-and-skills-livelihood-programmes/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Vocational training is the default livelihood intervention and the least evidenced. What to require before funding another round of it. https://valuespace.space/blog/agricultural-livelihood-restoration-programmes/ https://valuespace.space/blog/agricultural-livelihood-restoration-programmes/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Extension, inputs and demonstration plots are activities. Restoration is an income level. What has to connect the two.