Knowledge base
The practical layer between safeguard standards and project evidence.
A practitioner knowledge base for land acquisition and resettlement: standards, RAP workflows, working papers, templates and SmartLARMS documentation.
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Understand the whole system
Move from the safeguard requirement to the workflow that produces evidence a project can defend at completion audit.
How SmartLARMS works
The RAP lifecycle, approval gates and the record each stage produces.
Explore →RAP lifecycle guide
Fifteen stages from screening and census to livelihood restoration and completion audit.
Explore →Why RAP software
Why a live PAP, asset, entitlement and payment record outlasts disconnected workbooks.
Explore →Templates and tools
Free working artefacts for the field, valuation, budgeting and monitoring.
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Standards and research
Read the rules and the reasoning
Use the standards comparison and working papers for the analytical position, then move to the practical guide when the project needs an answer.
Compare international standards
Where IFC PS-5, World Bank ESS-5 and other safeguard frameworks converge and diverge.
Explore →Standards library
An operational orientation to eligibility, replacement cost, livelihoods, grievances and monitoring.
Explore →Working papers
Long-form research on displacement, valuation, livelihoods, grievances and monitoring.
Explore →Practitioner writing
Shorter explanations for the decisions a RAP team has to make this week.
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Use the artefacts
Turn knowledge into a project record
Start with the document you need, then connect it to the evidence and workflow that keep it current.
Entitlement matrix
Eligibility, loss categories, valuation basis and delivery timing in one working table.
Explore →PAP census questionnaire
Claims, households, assets, livelihoods and the flags that shorten a payment tail.
Explore →Resettlement API
Connect PAPs, entitlements, payments, grievances and project reports to other systems.
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