According to the LAA, persons who are displaced from public lands do not have a right to bring their grievances to any institutional entities. However, the Bank policy requires the borrowers to establish mechanisms to deal with issues and grievances that might be raised by all affected persons, including the informal users of public lands. The procedure is meant to reduce the incidence of expensive and time consuming litigation involving minor issues among the landowners, and to give an opportunity to those not covered by the LAA. The general GRM established under the project will process all land environment and livelihood related grievances. The decisions made by GRM will be binding on the project execution agency. To instill confidence and trust in the procedure, the convener will ensure that all grievance decisions are made in formal hearings and that the individual GRM members are not contacted by the aggrieved APs or stakeholders in advance. The convener will have the authority to ensure impartiality, fairness and transparency. The GRM will record the details of the grievances and the reasons that led to acceptance or rejection of the particular grievances, and will make them available for review by the IDA supervision missions and other interested persons/ entities. Establishment of a Grievance Redress Committee (GRC) Grievance Redress Committees (GRCs) will be formed by the RDA in each Divisional Secretariat Division or other appropriate project locations consisting of the following members as given in table 7.1. Table 7.1 Positions and Duties of the GRC Members Designation/Official Function in Task Assigned Remarks Position the Committee Provincial Convener- Chairing the GRC Grievance (Chairman) Meetings, making Notice should be recommendations and Headed within a sending for action Officer representing Secretary- Maintaining minutes, RDA - at the project area CE or EE of the Correspondence on RDA can act as the Decisions by the GRC Secretary of the GRC
According to the LAA, persons who are displaced from public lands do not have a right to bring their grievances to any institutional entities. However, the Bank policy requires the borrowers to establish mechanisms to deal with issues and grievances that might be raised by all affected persons, including the informal users of public lands. The procedure is meant to reduce the incidence of expensive and time consuming litigation involving minor issues among the landowners, and to give an opportunity to those not covered by the LAA. The general GRM established under the project will process all land environment and livelihood related grievances. The decisions made by GRM will be binding on the project execution agency. To instill confidence and trust in the procedure, the convener will ensure that all grievance decisions are made in formal hearings and that the individual GRM members are not contacted by the aggrieved APs or stakeholders in advance. The convener will have the authority to ensure impartiality, fairness and transparency. The GRM will record the details of the grievances and the reasons that led to acceptance or rejection of the particular grievances, and will make them available for review by the IDA supervision missions and other interested persons/ entities. Establishment of a Grievance Redress Committee (GRC) Grievance Redress Committees (GRCs) will be formed by the RDA in each Divisional Secretariat Division or other appropriate project locations consisting of the following members as given in table 7.1. Table 7.1 Positions and Duties of the GRC Members Designation/Official Position Function in the Committee Task Assigned Remarks Provincial Convener- (Chairman) Chairing the GRC Meetings, making recommendations and sending for action Grievance Notice should be Headed within a Officer representing RDA - at the project area Secretary- CE or EE of the RDA can act as the Secretary of the GRC Maintaining minutes, Correspondence on Decisions by the GRC
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