Sierracon provides world-leading community resettlement and land access services working with project managers and communities to negotiate land access and resettlement in ways that are responsible, sustainable and secure for the affected peoples’ future livelihoods and development needs.
We offer extensive experience in applying international standards to local project conditions to achieve a successful resettlement program. This includes the preparation of robust Resettlement Policy Frameworks and rigorous Resettlement Action Plans.
A typical resettlement goal is to secure long-term project land access while addressing economic and physical displacement impacts and enhancing the project’s development impact by improving the quality of life of project-affected persons.
Key components of our resettlement work include socio-economic baseline data collection and analysis, legal review, livelihood restoration, community and stakeholder engagement, resettlement housing, infrastructure and services assessment, capacity development for community-based organizations and government agencies and establishment of effective grievance and conflict resolution processes.
Example projects
- Adviser to the World Bank Group on social performance for a range of health, transport, education, water and other projects in the Pacific & Papua New Guinea, 2021 ongoing.
- Land Acquisition and Safeguards Review for the Markham Valley Solar Project. Completed for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific) 2020.
- Resettlement, in-migration management and social programs planning, Wafi-Golpu Copper-Gold Project, PNG. Wafi-Golpu Joint Venture, 2014 – 2016, 2018-2019.
- Development of a Land Access and Resettlement Strategy for the Papua LNG Project, Total E&P PNG, 2016-2017.
- Resettlement Lead for the Tampakan Copper-Gold Project. My role as Resettlement Lead was to ensure that the land access and resettlement activities were properly coordinated and met International Finance Corporation standards. Sagittarius Mines Inc 2011-2013.
- Advice and management regarding community engagement and land access and resettlement and development of a Resettlement Action Plan for the Wawa Pumped-Storage Hydropower Project, Olympia Violago Power, Philippines, 2016-2018.
- Review and further inputs for the development of a Resettlement Action Plan for the Flood and Landslide Recovery Project (FLERP): Kalay – Hakha Road (NH40) Rehabilitation, Chin State Government, Myanmar (for submission to the World Bank), Myanmar, 2020-21.
- Peer Reviewer for Resettlement, Taysan Copper-Gold Project Resettlement Scoping Study, Philippines. This review was conducted using IFC performance standards.
- Resettlement Field Coordinator with the PNG LNG Project. I led resettlement implementation in the field which included awareness raising, negotiating resettlement assistance packages, implementing housing and livelihood restoration programs and facilitating physical resettlement. Exxon Mobil 2009-2011.
- Lihir Resettlement. I provided project management and undertook technical work to develop and implement a plan for the resettlement of a small village on Lihir Island, PNG. Lihir Gold Limited (LGL) 2009.
- Porgera Resettlement. I managed the development of a Resettlement Action Plan for the proposed resettlement of some 5,000 landowners for the Porgera Gold Mine expansion in PNG. In this role, I led a team of 25 professionals. PJV 2006-07.