The Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Water and Environment with support from the World Bank is to construct the Matanda Multipurpose Irrigation Project, located on River Kiruruma in Kanungu District, Southwestern Uganda. Matanda Irrigation Scheme project shall be constituted by three components, i.e., the dam (water reservoir), main pipeline, and the irrigable command area. During the ICRP negotiations in February 2020, the GoU through MWE and the World Bank agreed on the opportunity of implementation of the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) reflecting the sectioning of large civil works. It was agreed that the various plans could be implemented in sections, provided that this is adequately reflected in the main RAP report approved and agreed with the World Bank. The RAP completion report will be produced for each section. With reference to the Matanda Irrigation scheme, MWE thus decided to prepare three Sectional RAPs in the following order: (I) Matanda Dam sectional RAP; (II) Matanda Main Pipeline Sectional RAP; and (III) Matanda Irrigation Network (Secondary and Tertiary) Sectional RAP.
MWE has prepared the first sectional RAP of Matanda Dam which shall be regarded as the main RAP report. The rest of the RAPs shall be a summary of the main RAP indicating mainly the impacts in terms of people affected and how they have been compensated.