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Upgrading of N1 Highway Between Tetteh Quarshie Interchange and Mallam Road Junction, Accra, Ghana.Resettlement Action Plan (RAP), Lot 2totaling about 2,040 PAPs; followed by Akweteman and Kwashieman with 801 and 800PAPs respectively.6.2 ELIGIBILITY CRITERIAEligibility will be based on the category of losses suffered as at the cut-off date (which inthe case of N1 Lot 2 was February 17, 2009). The category of losses suffered will beidentified through the various interests and rights derived from customary laws,common law and international conventions. Eligible persons are presented in theEntitlement Matrix below.6.3 PROOF OF ELIGIBILITYThe GHA and LVB will consider various forms of evidence as proof of eligibility. Theproof of eligibility will cover:Affected persons with formal legal rights, documented in the form of land titleregistration certificates, leasehold indentures, tenancy agreements, rent receipts,building and planning permits, business operating licenses, utility bills, among others.Unprocessed / unregistered formal legal documents will not bar eligibility. Proceduresfor confirming authenticity of any such documents are established in this RAP. Theseaffected persons may include house owners and owners of residential plots with noformal or recognized legal rights. The criteria for establishing non-formal,undocumented, unrecognized claims to eligibility is one’s (PAP’s) presence on thecorridor during the PAP census survey which ended on February 17, 2009. While the EIwas gazetted on December 31, 2008, the February cut-off date is intended to ensurefairest treatment of PAPs living and working in the corridor as prior to the censussurvey, the consultants have no way of verifying who was on the road at that time.The entitlement matrix captures all affected parties, the characteristics of the impact,and the types of compensation/reinstatement due them. (Refer to Table 6-3 below)Categories in this table overlap because those being offered re-instatement fall intoseveral groupings and the groupings tend to overlap. For instance, some of the ownersof permanent and temporary structures own land as well. Again, some of the businessoperators also own property such as land or structures. The entitlement matrix ispresented and organized by chainage and construction implementation section (see1.6.12). (Please note that apart from the petty traders and hawkers, projected figures have been usedfor all other categories to make up for the expected increase from the phase two improvements stillbeing marked.)43