Expression of Interest are invited for Consultancy Service to Develop Guidelines and Criteria for Defining Infrastructure Corridors in Uganda Government has prioritised infrastructure development to spur socio economic growth and development of the Country Meaningful infrastructure development can only happen when there is effective and timely acquisition of land and its subsequent securing 1 Government acquires land for construction of national roads and railway lines oil pipelines and oil wells dams power lines and other electricity networks housing sewerage systems internet cables Optic Fibre water pipelines and industrial parks among others There are a number of challenges facing infrastructure development in Uganda today ranging from land acquisition land management land registration land administration and through to physical planning as well as inadequate centralized database that can support efforts to curb illegal land use practices within and along the infrastructure corridors A number of Agencies including Parliament have emphasized the need to come up with a framework that coordinates land acquisition for Government infrastructure and secures and safeguards the acquired land Shared infrastructure Corridors are proposed as this framework The absence of a national coordinated framework for land acquisition for infrastructure development has raised a number of challenges such as the following i High costs for land acquisition arising from uncoordinated land acquisitions by Government agencies in the same corridor or parallel to each other using meagre Government resources Some Government agencies use private valuers who propose high compensation values which in most cases are at variance with values proposed by the Chief Government Valuer who then is seen by the beneficiaries as merely denying them what they deserve This most times leads to increased acquisition and maintenance costs ii Inefficient handling of residual parcels of land where only a portion is acquired leading to delayed subdivision or total failure to subdivide the titles to remove the acquired portion This situation has in some instances led to owner s land titles getting misplaced by acquiring entities lost or their ownership fraudulently changed This has in some cases led to litigation and Government has ended up losing cases hence paying high court awards and penalties in addition to losing credibility before the land owners iii Failure to take effective possession of acquired corridors leading to inversion of the acquired land by illegal occupants who demand for compensation before being removed from the land on account of the livelihoods they derive from this illegal occupation thus leading to double compensation iv In some instances failure to take effective possession has encouraged arbitrary and illegal remodelling of structures in the infrastructure corridors as a result of failure to reorganise settlements traversed by or in the immediate vicinity of such infrastructure corridors v Transport infrastructure provides an opportunity for Transit Oriented Development Unfortunately for Uganda in the majority of cases agencies developing the transport infrastructure have not taken advantage of Planning for Transit Oriented Development TOD vi Increased speculation by opportunists who acquire land within the earmarked infrastructure corridors and protected areas in anticipation of being compensated by Government with huge sums of money vii Absence of an integrated centralized digital database for infrastructure corridors clearly showing the limits of the corridors and parcels affected by the infrastructure corridors as well as buffer zones compensated landowners and other Project Affected Persons PAPs This in most cases has led to double payments to the same people payments to ghost claimants and illegal repossession of some pieces of land residual by former compensated land owners viii Time and cost overruns of projects arising from the delay to effectively take over lands acquired for infrastructure projects In addition to the higher valuation by private valuers there are also project time extensions which come with costs as such initial costs of the project are considerably overrun It is imperative therefore that Uganda adopts the shared infrastructure corridor approach There are already a number of examples of shared infrastructure corridors worldwide These include 1 The Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport LAPSSET Corridor2 The Trans Kalahari Walvis Bay Corridor3 The Maputo Corridor Logistics Initiative4 The Mekong Sub Regional Corridor Asia The commonality with these corridors is that they provide a right of way for a combination of infrastructure including roads railway Ports Oil Pipe Lines Optic Fibre Logistics Centres etc Having different utilities running parallel requires that certain minimum standards are observed For example design of a railway line needs to minimise the impact of derailing should it occur Similarly a pipeline carrying refined petroleum may not run on the surface next to a road or even railway line High voltage power lines may not be compatible with internet cables and or other utilities It should also be noted that some infrastructure are more rigid than others Standard Gauge Railway lines for example cannot curve beyond specific limits On the other hand already existing infrastructure are expected to a large extent to determine corridor alignment It is therefore necessary that detailed guidelines and criteria for defining infrastructure corridors are developed
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