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The ESDD concludes that the relationship between communities and BEL appears to be good, and no significant community issues were identified to have arisen between communities and BEL during Bujagali’s operation.

These included 34 households that were resettled in Naminya Resettlement Village by building them houses with all social services while others were given alternative land From a survey carried out in August 2011 to monitor livelihood restoration, agriculture (cultivation, animal husbandry, fish farming) support was 100% completed. This was in form of assistance to PAPs in form of poultry, piggery, cattle, aquaculture, goats and seedlings of e.g. vegetables and cassava. Other activities that have improved the socio-economic conditions of the population around the project include putting up of physical infrastructure (schools and upgrading of hospital), hospital and education support (in terms of equipment), city water and power supply, business and employment assistance (construction of business centers, market, business training, community based training in vocational skills) as well as relocation of the spirits of Bujagali. Based on the recent ESDD, the stakeholders met were generally satisfied with the relationship with BEL, with most of the PAPs having improved living conditions as compared to before resettlement and the PAPs appreciating the activities by BEL.

In 2009, 514 claimants filed suit related to land transactions in the Ugandan courts claiming that the state-owned transmission utility, UETCL, had undercompensated them for land and crops impacted by the 100 km of transmission lines built by UETCL simultaneously with the Bujagali project to evacuate its power. UETCL is the owner of the line and the land rights associated with it. The dispute resolution function within the CAO’s office mediated a settlement between UETCL and the complainants in 2015. All but three (as of the date of this document) have been compensated according to the settlement and the remaining are in process, awaiting appropriate documentation from claimants to make payments.

Scholarships, school sports, bi-annual clinic, quality fishnets for local fishermen