Social Safeguards
 “Procedures and approaches that can help to ensure that “do no 
 harm” to people or the environment, but rather enhance social 
 and environmental benefits”
  
 Benefits of Social Safeguards
    
 Better living conditions through provision of adequate access 
  to services and facilities
 Improve benefit sharing
 Improve livelihood & poverty alleviation
 Investment in alternative livelihood and employment
 Food security 
 Social inclusion & gender empowerment 
 Minimize social gap
   WHAT ARE NDRMF SOCIAL 
       STANDARDS ?
       Social Safeguards & Risk management
 Stakeholder engagement through meaningful consultation for  
  transparency and ownership
 Increased responsiveness and attention by adaptive risk management 
  and proportionality 
 More room for Informed Judgment, stronger decision-making structures, 
  support to avoid forced eviction
 Mitigate unavoidable adverse Impacts from land acquisition 
 Contains criterion for voluntary transactions, land donations and eminent 
  domain 
 Protect cultural heritage from adverse impacts of project activities and 
  support its preservation
    Objectives of ESMS Social Safeguards
 Avoidance of resettlement and negative impacts on communities of the 
  project area due to land acquisition or resettlement. 
 Contrive  a supportive mechanism to avoid the land losses or other assets 
  to mitigate the negative impacts as result of physical dislocation, loss of 
  income, or other adverse impacts. 
 Mitigation  of  adverse  impacts  on  people  and  the  surrounding 
  communities.
 Reduce and manage resettlement risk of projects and avoid resettlement 
  where possible i.e. avoid or minimize the involuntary resettlement and 
  displacement of people.
    National Laws and Regulatory Obligations
 Constitution of Pakistan
  
   The Constitution of Pakistan (1973) clearly addresses the protection of property rights (Article 24) such 
   that “no person shall be deprived of his property saved in accordance with law” (Article 24(1)), and “No 
   property shall be compulsorily acquired or taken in possession of sake of public purpose, and save by 
   the  authority  of  law  which  provides  for  compensation  therefore  and  either  fixes  the  amount  of 
   compensation  or  specifies  the  principles  on  and  the  manner  in  which  compensation  is  to  be 
   determined and given” (Article 24(2)).
 Land Acquisition Act
  
   The LAA 1894 requires an impact assessment and valuation of land, structures, crops, trees and other 
   physical assets are to be compensated in cash at market rate to titled landowners and registered land 
   tenants/users/leaseholders. In addition, a 15% compulsory acquisition surcharge is provided on the 
   value of land.