Cooperate with data survey team in Old Harbour

Residents are being asked to cooperate with the data collectors, who will carry BRAC IDs, as they conduct this very important survey exercise.

Background

BRAC Consultants Limited has been hired by JSIF to conduct a Social Assessment of communities that will be impacted by the upcoming improvement works to the Myton Gully (Mighty Gully), Fraser’s Gully, and Big Pond. This Social Assessment forms part of a Resettlement Action Plan to be developed with input from the community. The Resettlement Action Plan is to be carried out by the JSIF and will seek to provide mitigating measures for properties that will be affected by the drainage improvement works.

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), with funding support from the World Bank and the Caribbean Development Bank, is about to begin work on the Myton (Mighty) Gully that runs from Bannister to Old Harbour Bay. The aim of this project is to address the problems caused by flooding, during the rainy seasons, a situation that has persisted over many years, each time causing great loss of property and livelihood and inconvenience to residents who live in the vicinity of the gully, as well as the general travelling public who use the roads to get their businesses done.

The work to fix the problem includes widening or deepening parts of the gully channel, building bridges, culverts and other structures that together will work to get rid of the problem.

Residents in several communities in Old Harbour through which the Myton (Mighty) Gully passes will be directly affected by the works that will take place, either because the gully passes in front, back or through the middle of their properties.