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ABBREVIATIONS
AF
Affected Family
AP
Affected Person
BP
Bank Procedure
EA
Executing Agency
NARP
National Agency for Public Registration
LARP
Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan
PAP
Project Affected Person
RPF
Resettlement Policy Framework
MDFG
Municipal Development Fund of Georgia
UWSCG United Water Supply Company of Georgia
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Glossary
1. Affected Person (or household) - People (households) affected by project-related
changes in use of land, water or other natural resources. These include permanent and
temporary loss of land, assets, and income. Affected persons entitled for compensation or
at least rehabilitation provisions under the Project are: all persons losing land, or access
to land, permanently or temporarily either covered by legal title/traditional land rights or
without legal status; tenants and sharecroppers whether registered or not; owners of
affected buildings, crops, plants, or other objects attached to the land; and affected persons
losing business, income, and salaries;
2. Asset Inventory
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A complete count and description of all property that will be
acquired;
3. Compensation - Loss reimbursement for the Project affected persons; Cash payment or
in-kind compensation in the due amount in return for the loss of assets (property),
resources or income;
4. Direct impact - When privately owned land parcels are physically affected by the project;
5. Economic Rehabilitation - Economic Rehabilitation implies the measures taken for
income restoration or economic recovery so that the affected population can improve or
at least restore its previous standard of living;
6. Eligibility - The criteria for qualification to receive benefits under a resettlement
program;
7. Eminent Domain - The right of the state to acquire land, using its sovereign power, for
public purpose. National law establishes which public agencies have the prerogative to
exercise eminent domain;
8. Expropriation - Process whereby a public authority, usually in return for compensation,
requires a person, household, or community to relinquish rights to land that it occupies or
otherwise use;
9. Grievance Procedures - The processes established under law, local regulations, or
administrative decision to enable property owners and other displaced persons to redress
issues related to acquisition, compensation, or other aspects of resettlement;
10. Initial Baseline Survey - The population census, asset inventory, and socioeconomic
survey together constitute the baseline survey of the affected population;
11. Income restoration - Re-establishing income sources and livelihoods of people affected;
12. Involuntary - means actions that may be taken without the displaced person's informed
consent or power of choice;
13. Involuntary resettlement - Development project results in unavoidable resettlement
losses that people affected have no option but to rebuild their lives, income and/or assets
bases elsewhere;
14. Land includes anything growing on or permanently affixed to land, such as buildings and
crops;
15. Land Acquisition - The process of acquiring land under the legally mandated procedures
of eminent domain.
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16. Land parcels under project impact - When only privately owned land parcels are
physically affected by the project activities;
17. Land parcel with residential house attached under project impact - When privately
owned land parcels as well as residential houses are physically affected by the project
activities and require demolition of the house;
18. Land parcel with supplementary structure under project impact - When privately
owned land parcels as well as any non-residential and non-commercial structures are
physically affected by the project activities and may require demolition of the
residential house as well;
19. Population Census - A complete and accurate count of the population that will be
affected by land acquisition and related impacts. When properly conducted, the population
census provides the basic information necessary for determining eligibility for
compensation;
20. Project Cycle
- the cycle of project development from initial phases of
identification and assessment of feasibility, until its final implementation. From
standpoint of the Project implementing agency, it is convenient to represent the
project cycle as consisting of following phases: Pre-feasibility Assessment, Feasibility
Studies, Project Design and Appraisal, Project Implementation;
21. Rehabilitation - Re-establishing incomes, livelihoods, living, and social systems;
22. Relocation - Rebuilding housing, assets, including productive land, and public
infrastructure in another location;
23. Replacement rates - Cost of replacing lost assets and incomes, including cost of
transactions;
24. Resettlement - Term – “Resettlement” in accordance to the World Bank Involuntary
Resettlement Operational Policy Document 4.12 considers alienation of land parcels
and/or physical relocation (moving to other place) of households being appeared within
the Project affected area;
25. Resettlement Entitlements - Resettlement entitlements with respect to a particula
eligibility category are the sum total of compensation and other forms of assistance
provided to displaced persons in the respective eligibility category;
26. Resettlement effects - Loss of physical and non-physical assets including homes,
communities, productive land, income-earning assets and sources, subsistence, resources,
cultural sites, social structures, networks and ties, cultural identity, and mutual help
mechanisms;
27. Resettlement plan - A time-bound action plan with budget setting out resettlement
strategy, objectives, entitlements, action, responsibilities, monitoring and evaluation
Resettlement (Action) Plan - A resettlement action plan [RAP] is the planning document
that describes what will be done to address the direct social and economic impacts
associated with involuntary taking of land.
28. Resettlement Strategy (Rehabilitation Strategy) - The approaches used to assist people
in their efforts to improve (or at least to restore) their incomes, livelihoods, and standards
of living in real terms after resettlement. The resettlement strategy typically consists of
payment of compensation at replacement cost, transition support arrangements, relocation