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Deal #1571 Version #54261
Mozambique
Created at
2013-02-15
Last update
2021-06-13
Last full update
2024-05-15
Recognition status of community land tenure
Recognition status of community land tenure
Community traditional or customary rights recognized by government
Consultation of local community
Community consultation
Limited consultation
Comment on consultation of local community
Some community members report being pressured into signing.
Surveying the issues raised by affected parties (PIAs) was carried out through focus group meetings
(group leaders, men and women), interviews with local authorities and household questionnaires
How did the community react?
Community reaction
Rejection
Comment on community reaction
for the collection of the concerns related to the project, three major issues have been analyzed, namely: (i) knowledge of community consultation meetings; (ii) knowledge of the project; and (iii) positive and negative impacts of the project.
the main issues raised by communities were as follows:
Lack of available areas for the development of the project;
Preference for food production projects to the detriment of projects from non-food crops ;
There are already conflicts over land that have forced the populations to move to other areas;
Need for clear delimitation of Portucel and communities’ areas;
Lack of knowledge about the project;
Insecurity in relation to their future and their children given the loss of land;
Most communities are still not clear about the process for acquiring the DUATs because they
have not participated in this process, and therefore request that the process be reviewed;
Communities are not informed about the duration of the project and the areas that it will occupy;
Lack of channels of communication with the project, through which communities can raise their
concerns.
Presence of land conflicts
Presence of land conflicts
Yes
Comment on presence of land conflicts
armed threats from suspicious people, and communications from Portucel announcing agreements with communities that had been reached in bad faith. cemetery mapping without support from the community.
Negative impacts for local communities
Negative impacts for local communities
Environmental degradation, Cultural loss
Comment on negative impacts for local communities
armed threats from suspicious people, and communications from Portucel announcing agreements with communities that had been reached in bad faith. cemetery mapping without support from the community. Dams built mean community rivers run dry.
Promised benefits for local communities
Promised benefits for local communities
Capacity building
Comment on promised benefits for local communities
The company met with civil society in 2015 to discuss the community development program. In September 2015, the company signed an agreement for the establishment of an advisory committee which creates a platform where civil society, the company and the community can hold discussions. Promised technical training.
Materialized benefits for local communities
Comment on materialized benefits for local communities
By late 2019, Portucel had invested more than $6 million in its Social Development Programme between this deal and deal #3893.