Itaparica Project

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The project provides for the resettlement of some 8100 families who will be displaced by the flooding of the reservoir of the Itaparica Hydropower Project on the Sao Francisco River. The principal project objective is to maintain and improve the displaced population's current living standards. The project finances: (a) irrigation and agricultural production services, including establishment of some 8000 ha of irrigated farmland and agricultural production support services; and (b) other rural infrastructure and services including rural housing, water supply, rural road construction, installation of electric power systems, and education, health and social services. It also finances (c) urban resettlement of the townships of Petrolandia, Itacuruba, Rodelas and Barra do Tarrachil and water supply and sanitation, and relocation of regional roads and power lines. The main objective of the project is to restore and improve the l standards of some 8,300 families displaced by the construction of a re for the Itaparica Hydroelectric Project on the Sao Francisco River in Northeast Brazil. The resettlement project includes: (a) land acquisit the new settlements; (b) construction of housing and other infrastruct four new urban centers; (c) construction of housed and other infrastru for 109 rural settlements (agrovilas); (d) transfer and resettlement o urban and rural population and provision of health and education servi e) construction of infrastructure for five irrigation sub-projects; an provision of agricultural and social support services.

Energy and Extractives,FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry,FY17 - Social Protection,FY17 - Transportation

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Road, Water Supply and Storage, Power Transmission, Power Generation (CCGT), Raw Materials, Hydro, Education, Government