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The development objective of the Water Sector Institutional Project (WSIDP) in Angola is to improve the sustainability, efficiency and reliability of water supply and sanitation services in nine pilot cities. The project will impact as few people, businesses and public bodies as possible (i.e. move people or deprive them from resources or access to resources or deprive them from income earning capacity or opportunities). Where resettlement is unavoidable, resettlement activities will be conceived and executed as sustainable development programs, providing sufficient investment resources to enable the project affected persons (PAPs) to share in project benefits. PAPs will be meaningfully consulted and will have opportunities to participate in planning and implementing resettlement programs; and PAPs will be assisted in their efforts to improve their livelihoods and standards of living or at least to restore them, in real terms, to pre-project levels or levels prevailing prior to the beginning of project implementation, whichever is higher. Impacts on people, property, and livelihoods will be minimized as much as possible by employing appropriate design technologies and locating project infrastructure in such a manner so as to minimize the need to acquire land and impact property and to cause as little disturbance and disruption as possible. Where resettlement is unavoidable sub-project planners and developers will ensure that sufficient investment resources are appropriately allocated to ensure that PAPs are provided with: (a) adequate and appropriate compensation for assets, including land lost; (b) compensation for the loss of business profits or opportunity; and (c) other measures to assist PAPs to restore their livelihoods and regain, and ideally improve, their pre-project living standards.

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