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Upgrading of N1 Highway Between Tetteh Quarshie Interchange and Mallam Road Junction, Accra, Ghana.Resettlement Action Plan (RAP), Lot 2regions of Ghana as well as respondents to whom the question was not applicable andthose who declined to respond to that question. Female respondents formed themajority whilst the males constituted only a minority.4.6 LAND USE IN THE PROJECT CORRIDORAir photos at the scale of 1:500 and Quick-bird high resolution image have been used tostudy the land use and land cover of the corridor. The photos and the images werereviewed and preprocessed before being digitally interpreted, using knowledgeobtained during reconnaissance field studies. The classification was done in thelaboratory and a map composed. This has been verified or validated in the field. Thefield study also confirmed the classification and a final map has been designed andcomposed and placed as Figures 4-7 in the EIA ReportThe corridor is overwhelmingly a built environment. There are many structures withinthe 78-meter, 74meter and 82-meter-wide corridor and most of them are Sandcrete,wooden or metal structures. While the wooden and metal structures are mostly used asshops, the sandcrete structures serve multi-purpose functions. These appear on themaps as small units or structures. Residential and commercial buildings will be affected,especially within the 74 meter and 78 meter. Some of the buildings have been walled,making them more easily identifiable than the non-walled ones. The value of thebuildings and structures can be assessed only on the ground, since their architecturaldrawings are not available. The metal/wooden structures being used as shopsundoubtedly also have no such drawings and their values can be established only on theground.Most of the petty traders along the road corridor, if not all, were observed to dependupon the road and the passing vehicles for their sale and access or both. Many of thelarger users or establishments also require services such as electricity and water.The reconnaissance survey along the route indicated that encroachment upon the ROWwas widespread but not uniform. Permanent and temporary structures wereconcentrated mostly at the busier road intersections, which were also where theparking area for public transport, small traders and hawkers congregated. Activitiesrequiring more land, such as sale of cars and trucks, manufacturing activities and vehiclerepairs, tended to be concentrated in less busy locations. However one car salesoperator is located at a fairly busy junction.There are a number of occupiers or users of land but who do not have legallyrecognizable interests or rights. These business operators are often described as“squatters” or “encroachers”. This includes artisans, petty traders, kiosks operators andthe like. These categories of people earn a living through the various economic activitiesthey carry out at the kerb side. Obviously the project will affect them adversely as theonly source of their livelihood would be threatened because they need to vacate their32