Deal #1571 Version #92908

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

By late 2019, Portucel had invested more than $6 million in its Social Development Programme between this deal and deal #3893. Capacity building of 7,000 households for adopting more efficient agricultural techniques through conservation farming/smart agriculture practices. 2,800 families have benefited from training in horticulture (more than 2 million seedlings have been produced since 2017). 795,000 kilos of improved seeds – corn, beans, soya and sesame. Distribution of 881 beehives in the provinces of Manica and Zambezia. 433 families received 3 goatlings each (1,299 animals) to breed and share the first two offsprings. 27 boreholes built + 28 non-operational boreholes repaired. 3,000 families have received solar lamps since 2015. Supporting with USD 150,000 the construction of the Surgical Block at the hospital in Ile, Zambezia province Rehabilitation and building of roads and rural paths of over 5,300 kilometres. Rehabilitation of more than 20 small rural bridges and other road infrastructures.