Video - Flexibility Fixes Land Acquisition, Payment Concerns in Bangladesh

The communal land system in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tract makes land acquisition complex. Asian Development Bank (ADB) has supported a project that improved infrastructure and incomes and resolved the challenge through continuous consultation, resulting in the first successful application of consensus-based compensation under ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement.

Flexibility Fixes Land Acquisition, Payment Concerns in Bangladesh

The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), a geographically isolated area in Bangladesh, experienced severe poverty due to low access to basic services, ethnic confrontations, and a long-running insurgency. Its infrastructures were damaged, its natural resources were depleted, and incomes were 40% lower than the national average. The area, with a rapidly increasing population, badly needed help.