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Dili to Baucau Highway Project Updated Corrective Action Plan Project Number: 50211-001 May 2018 TIM: Dili to Baucau Highway Project Prepared by Ministry of Development and Institutional Reform for the Asian Development Bank. The Updated Corrective Action Plan is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB’s Board of Directors, Management or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. In preparing any country programme or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Ministry of Development and of Institutional Reform Dili to Baucau Highway Project CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN (CAP) Completion Report Package A01-02 (Manatuto-Baucau) May 2018 Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Corrective Action Plan (CAP) Ministry of Development and of Institutional Reform Completion Report Dili to Baucau Highway Project Table of Contents List of Tables ii List of Figures iii Acronyms iv List of Appendices v 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Objectives 1 1.2 Methodology 2 2 THE PROJECT 3 2.1 Overview of the Project 3 2.2 Project Location 3 3 LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK 5 3.1 Scope of Land Acquisition and Resettlement 5 3.2 Definition of Terms Use in this Report 5 4 RESETTLEMENT POLICY FRAMEWORK 0 5 THE RAP PROCESS 0 5.1 RAP Preparation 0 5.1.1 RAP of 2013 0 5.1.2 RAP Validation in 2015 0 5.1.3 Revalidation of RAP in 2016 1 6 SOCIAL COMPLIANCE AUDIT FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDED CORRECTIVE MEASURES 2 7 OTHER FINDINGS OF THE SOCIAL COMPLIANCE AUDIT 9 8 THE HIGHLIGHTS CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN (CAP) IMPLEMENTATION 10 8.1 Identification of the actual number of affected assets and households or person 10 8.1.1 Impact on Agricultural Crops 11 8.1.2 Impact on Structures 12 8.1.3 Impact on Plants and Trees 15 8.2 Recognition of vulnerable households or persons 16 8.3 Adequacy of Public Consultation, Participation of Stakeholders and Disclosure 16 8.4 Basis of compensation rates, assistance and benefits due to affected households/persons 18 8.4.1 The RAP Entitlement Matrix 18 8.4.2 Compensation Payments - Status of disbursements 22 8.5 Implementation of Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) 24 8.6 Manner of Income Restoration and Rehabilitation activities 34 8.7 Sufficiency of Resettlement Budget 34 8.8 Effectiveness of Institutional Arrangement 35 8.9 Monitoring and Reporting activities 35 9 UNANTICIPATED ISSUES 36 10 LESSONS LEARNED 36 11 RECOMMENDATION 36 i | Page Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Corrective Action Plan (CAP) Ministry of Development and of Institutional Reform Completion Report Dili to Baucau Highway Project List of Tables Table 1 Geographic coverage of Package 2 ............................................................................................................ 4 Table 2 Project Resettlement Framework ............................................................................................................... 0 Table 3 Impact Category and Magnitude, 2013 ..................................................................................................... 0 Table 4 Impact Category and Magnitude, 2015 ..................................................................................................... 1 Table 5 Comparison of Impact Category and Magnitude for Package 2 ................................................................ 2 Table 6 Social Compliance Audit Findings and Recommended Corrective Measures and Actions Taken ............... 3 Table 7 Other Findings and Corrective Measures Undertaken ............................................................................... 9 Table 8 RAP 2016 Detailed Summary of Impacts and ........................................................................................... 10 Table 9 Rice Production Areas impacted by the project in Package 2 .................................................................. 11 Table 10 Houses impacted by the project in Package 2 ........................................................................................ 13 Table 11 Stores impacted by the project in Package 2 ......................................................................................... 14 Table 12 Impact on Houses and Stores in Package 2 ............................................................................................ 15 Table 13 List Vulnerable Households in Package 2 ............................................................................................... 16 Table 14 Date, Venue and Gender Segregation of Participants of Public Consultations in 2016 ......................... 17 Table 15 Project Entitlement Matrix ..................................................................................................................... 18 Table 16 Status of Compensation Disbursement to AH/APs ................................................................................. 22 Table 17 Composition of the GRC ......................................................................................................................... 24 Table 18 Grievance Lodged/Recorded and Actions Taken by the GRC using the GRM Process ............................ 26 Table 19 RAP Revised Resettlement Budget ......................................................................................................... 34 ii | Page Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Corrective Action Plan (CAP) Ministry of Development and of Institutional Reform Completion Report Dili to Baucau Highway Project List of Figures Figure 1 Location map of the Package 2 ................................................................................................................. 4 Figure 2 Photo showing a PIB in simplified version posted in Suco Ailili ............................................................... 17 Figure 4 Process Flow of Compensation Processing and Disbursement ............................................................... 23 Figure 5 GRM Process Flow................................................................................................................................... 25 iii | Page Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Corrective Action Plan (CAP) Ministry of Development and of Institutional Reform Completion Report Dili to Baucau Highway Project Acronyms ADB Asian Development Bank AH affected households AP Affected Person BNCTL Banco Nacional Commercio de Timor-Leste CAP Corrective Action Plan CL Construction Limit DC Design Consultant DCCP Department of Community Conflict Prevention DMS Detailed Measurement Survey EM Entitlement Matrix ESST Environmental and Social Safeguards Team FGM Focus Group Meeting GoJ Government of Japan GoTL Government of Timor Leste GRC Grievance Redress Committee GRM Grievance Redress Mechanism HHM Household Member IOL Inventory of Losses JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency MAF Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries MDRI Ministry of Development and institutional Reform MOF Ministry of Finance MOJ Ministry of Justice NDLPCS National Directorate of Land Property and Cadastral Services PIB Public Information Brochure PISC Project Implementation and Supervision Consultant PMU Project Management Unit RAP Resettlement Action Plan RF Resettlement Framework RP Resettlement Plan RROW Road Right-of-Way SSMR Social Safeguards Monitoring Report VAH Vulnerable Household km Kilometer sqm Square meter iv | Page Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Corrective Action Plan (CAP) Ministry of Development and of Institutional Reform Completion Report Dili to Baucau Highway Project List of Appendices A1 Copy of Updated Consolidated Resettlement Plan for Package 1 and 2 (Nov 2016) A2 Master list of APs and Impacted Assets and Compensation Cost B Minutes of Consultations C Stakeholder Engagement Plan D Simplified PIB E Photo Documentation of Disclosure Process F Standard rates for costing affected structures G Standard rates for costing affected plants and trees H Proof of receipt of payment by AH (Available Upon Request) I Actions taken in addressing grievances #A. Public Consultation #B. Assessment of Damaged Structures #C. Dialogue with local authorities #D. Meeting with Manuel Victor Fernandez #E. Beheda Section Public Consultation submitted to PMU for information and further instruction #F Minutes of the 2nd Round of Public Consultation (Available Upon Request) v | Page Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Corrective Action Plan (CAP) Ministry of Development and of Institutional Reform Completion Report Dili to Baucau Highway Project 1 INTRODUCTION The Asian Development Bank (ADB) requested for a conduct of a social compliance audit and reappraisal of the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) prepared by the Government of Timor Leste (GoTL) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for the on-going (Package A01-01) Dili-Manatuto section and (Package A01-02) Manatuto-Baucau section Dili-Manatuto-Baucau Road Project The audit and reappraisal was in response to the government’s request for ADB to consider financing the civil works for Package A01-02 in parallel with JICA. The objectives of the social compliance audit were to: (a) assess compliance of the original JICA- prepared RAP with the ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement (SPS) of 2009; (b) identify any gaps found in the RAP; (c) audit the implementation of the RAP up to July 2016; and (d) formulate corrective actions, if needed. The differences in the number of affected
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