Land Acquisition, Resettlement & Livelihood Restoration
Turning land access from a project risk into a project enabler.
The Challenge
Land access is the single biggest driver of infrastructure delay. Not engineering. Not financing. Land.
Projects stall for months or years because resettlement plans are incomplete, census data is unreliable, or compensation frameworks are untested.
Communities block access. Lenders suspend disbursement. And the cost of fixing land acquisition failures exceeds the original budget by multiples.
What We Do
We help governments, DFIs, utilities, and project developers secure land access, manage resettlement obligations, and restore livelihoods across infrastructure investments.
Our teams combine field surveys, stakeholder engagement, resettlement planning, livelihood restoration, and implementation monitoring to support successful project delivery.
Core Service Areas
Six integrated capability areas covering the full land acquisition and resettlement lifecycle — from due diligence through livelihood restoration and independent monitoring.
Selected Experience
Delivered across transport, land administration, oil & gas, and energy sectors — for ADB, IFC, and World Bank clients.
Independent third-party monitoring of LAR impacts for multiple transport infrastructure projects — physical and economic displacement verification, parcel ownership records, compensation payment review, GRM evaluation, and ADB SPS 2009 compliance.
Diagnostic evaluation of land and security registration systems across Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, and Senegal — institutional analysis, legal review, process benchmarking, registration fee heatmaps, reform design, and pilot implementation planning.
Land ownership verification for ~11,980 parcels, cadastral mapping, mobile field data collection, multi-tiered stakeholder engagement (1 national, 5 provincial, 50+ district, 500+ village meetings), and coordination with Land Acquisition Collectors.
Site identification, validation, and development support — land ownership, site suitability, grid connectivity, environmental and social constraints, land access requirements, and implementation feasibility for a 40MW solar PV project.
Our Approach
From first field survey to lender completion audit — one integrated team across the full land access lifecycle.
Land due diligence, tenure assessment, acquisition risk mapping
RAP/LARP preparation, entitlement frameworks, livelihood restoration plans
DMS surveys, census, stakeholder engagement, grievance redress
Compensation tracking, independent monitoring, lender compliance review
Livelihood outcome monitoring, completion audits, community follow-up
Why DV
Land acquisition fails when it is treated as paperwork rather than implementation. We combine large-scale field survey capability, resettlement planning, stakeholder engagement, livelihood restoration, and implementation monitoring to help clients secure land access while maintaining lender compliance and community trust.
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