Report from CEE Bankwatch Network follow-up fact-finding mission regarding resettlement of the Gazela informal settlement, Belgrade, 6-8 October 2009
Publisher: CEE Bankwatch Network
Volume: 5 pages, pdf
Description:
On 31st August 2009 the inhabitants of the informal Gazela settlement under the Gazela Bridge in Belgrade were physically resettled as part of an EIB and EBRD-financed project to rehabilitate the bridge and its approach roads. 114 families who were considered to be from Belgrade were moved to temporary container accommodation in four locations at the outer edges of Belgrade while 64 families were transported to their towns of origin in southern Serbia. Two families were resettled only in October, as they had not agreed to the locations initially proposed to them and only later accepted other locations. The resettlement happened before any Resettlement Action Plan had been consulted with the affected people or been approved by the EIB or EBRD.