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Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) Implementation Head – EACOP Uganda
POSITION IN THE ORGANISATION
Reports to: LSOC Manager
Staff managed (directly supervised): 0
Staff managed (indirectly):

MISSIONS/JOB DIMENSIONS
The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Project involves the construction and operation of a buried, crossborder pipeline to transport crude oil from the Lake Albert area in Uganda to the eastern coast of Tanzania for export to international markets. The pipeline will run from Kabaale in Hoima District, Uganda, to Chongoleani, Tanga Region, in Tanzania. The length of the pipeline is 1,443 kilometers (km) of which 296 km will be in Uganda. In Uganda the pipeline will traverse ten (10) districts, comprising Hoima, Kikuube, Kakumiro, Kyankwanzi, Mubende, Gomba, Sembabule, Lwengo, Rakai and Kyotera.
EACOP is an international project that “pledges to uphold not just the legal requirements in both Uganda and Tanzania, but also to fully comply with the IFC Performance Standards that set out international best practice in these areas.” This is also required by potential lenders for whom the “Lenders’ Environmental and Social Consultant LESC) assesses and reports on EACOP compliance with lender environmental and social standards including the International Finance Corporation (IFC) 8 Performance Standards (PSs). The ESDD is undertaken through a combination of document review, site visits and interviews with EACOP and stakeholders plus identification of environmental and social risks and impacts that the Project could generate during the construction and operation phases.”
Key EACOP social activities that require IFC Performance Standard compliance are associated with the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) and Livelihood Restoration Plan (LRP) that are being implemented to conduct necessary land acquisition while ensuring that Project-affected people (PAPs), especially vulnerable PAPs, do not suffer negative impacts as a result of ceding some of their land for the Project. The main applicable IFC Performance Standards during this phase of the Project are:
• Performance Standard 1:
o Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts (with particular emphasis on stakeholder engagement and grievance management activities)
• Performance Standard 5:
o Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement (land acquisition, compensation, resettlement and livelihood restoration activities)
• Performance Standard 8:
o Cultural Heritage (impacts on cultural resources including graves, shrines, sites or artefacts of archaeological significance)

The Borealis information management system is being used to support EACOP’s environmental and social management system (ESMS) and needs to become a central repository of critical documents and reports that are currently scattered in multiple locations. This will allow easier review by the LESC, authorities and the planned thirdparty RAP M&E contractor who is meant to conduct biannual monitoring visits, a RAP completion audit and an “ex post” RAP audit (some years after the completion audit to ensure that RAP and LRP interventions were sustainable and ensure that Project-affected people were not adversely impacted by the Project. The RAP Implementation Head will work with all key LSOC team members to ensure that this system is properly used, that monitoring activities by outsie stakeholders are supported and that all corrective actions proposed by the LESC, the RAP M&E contractor and any government regulators and ministries are tracked and implemented so as to ensure compliance with international and national standards and legislation.