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Deal #1798 Version #55482

Sierra Leone
Created at
2013-02-15
Last update
2016-01-04
Last full update
2024-04-10

Consultation of local community

Community consultation
Limited consultation
Comment on consultation of local community
The community claims that the land agreement was not discussed entirely and the community was not given the opportunity for free and prior informed consent regarding some of the clauses in the lease agreement.

How did the community react?

Community reaction
Rejection

Displacement of people

Number of people actually displaced
30 000
Comment on displacement of people
13,617 according to one source;84 30,000 on the lease area belonging to 92 land-owning groups, according to Addax Bioenergy’s spokesperson The African Development Bank estimated that that about 13,600 people in 52 villages would be affected.

Promised or received compensation

Promised compensation (e.g. for damages or resettlements)
Compensation to the local chiefs and landowners (not necessarily the land users). 12 USD per ha per year, 64% of which goes directly to the owner ( the community claims that this compensation was not subject to negotiation and does not adequately reflect the benefit the community was giving up.

Promised benefits for local communities

Promised benefits for local communities
Capacity building, Financial support
Comment on promised benefits for local communities
Farmer Development Programme that involves farmer training and ploughing community plots for three years and providing inputs of seed rice and fertilizer for communities, and has resulted in an increase in rice yields in the Addax Bioenergy project area. The community states that promises made by the company regarding jobs, boreholes, schools, clinics and community centres have not been realised, while the company denies having made these promises.