Compensation without Relocation Sample Clauses

Compensation without Relocation. Throughout the 250 km² Project area, there are 89 herder households, whose livestock breeding infrastructure, including a) winter and summer camps, b) pasture and reserve pastures and c) water xxxxx, are affected by the Project’s infrastructure corridor. The compensation without relocation program, which is meant to compensate the herder households for economic displacement caused by the Project, began in early 2011. To date, however, it is not clear what methodology is being used to determine the type and level of negative impact on herder households. Eligibility is being determined based on the proximity of a herder household’s winter camp to the physical source of the negative impacts, when it should be determined based on the actual impact to each herder household’s livelihood. Moreover, a herder household is being treated as a family being negatively impacted by the Project, rather than a small herding business and a livestock production unit of Khanbogd soum. Yet, the primary impacts to the herder households are impacts to their animals, which are their primary source of income. Pasture, xxxxx and reserve pasture are the essential production infrastructure, and the quality, quantity, and safe and undisturbed access to pastures and xxxxx are therefore essential to our livelihoods. Yet, no evaluation of the impact of the Project on the herding business was carried out. In other words, there has been no quantification of the negative impacts the degradation of our pasture and water has on the quality of our livestock and the animal products we produce and sell. Nor has the resulting loss of marketability of those products, which reduces our ability to earn income from our herding business, been taken into account. The Company refuses to hear these concerns expressed by herders in the process of discussion of the compensation package. In the past several months, the Company stepped up the pressure on households using all forms of persuasion to make herders sign the contract. The most popular are scaring herders by saying “you are the only one left and if you do not sign now we will just drop you and move on”; or by promising to consider inclusion of a disability benefit in the package; or by just making older herders sign without giving them the opportunity to read and understand the contract. 9 Herders strive to grow the herd by at least doubling the number of female reproductive age animals each year.