POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR COMPENSATION, RESETTLEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF PROJECT AFFECTED PERSONS

The overall development objective of the VN-Rural Energy 2 Project is to improve access to good quality, affordable electricity services to rural communities, in an efficient and sustainable manner. This would be achieved through: (a) major upgrading and/or expansion of rural power networks in about 1200 communes; (b) conversion of current ad-hoc rural electricity management systems to local distribution utilities (LDUs), as legal entities recognized under Vietnamese law, to improve management of power distribution in rural areas, improve financial sustainability, and better enable future mobilization of funds; and (c) capacity building assistance for the LDUs, provincial authorities involved in......