Social Monitoring Report

Semiannual Report

Loan Number: 3260 NEP July 2018

NEP: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project

Prepared by the Government of Nepal for the Asian Development Bank.

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Social

Monitoring

Report

Nepal: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project

ADB Loan No. 3260 NEP and SDC TA

Prepared by Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project (EEAP)

Central Level Project Implementation Unit-Grant Management and Local Infrastructure (CLPIU-GMaLI) Department of Roads Project Directorate Office National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) for Government of Nepal (GoN) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) Fourth Semi-Annual Social Monitoring Report, January-June, 2018

This social monitoring report 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 program 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.

CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS

Currency unit - Nepalese Rupee (NRs) NRs. 1.00 = $ 0.0091 US $ 1.00 = NRs. 109.25 Source: Nepal Rastra Bank, 30 June, 2018

NOTES (i) The fiscal year (FY) of the Government of Nepal and its agencies ends on 15 July. FY before a calendar year denotes the year in which the fiscal year ends, e.g., FY 2017 ends on 16 July 2018.

(ii) In this report, "$" refers to US dollars.

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ABBREVIATION

ADB The Asian Development Bank AP(s) Affected Person(s)/People CDC Compensation Determination Committee CDO Chief District Officer CFUG Community Forest Users Group CISC Central Implementation Support Consultant CLPIU Central Level Project Implementation Unit CoI Corridor of Impact DADO District Agriculture Development Office DCC District Coordination Committee DISC District Level Support Consultants DLPIU District Level Project Implementation Unit DLSO District Land Survey Office DLRO District Land Revenue Office DoLIDAR Department of Local Infrastructure Development and Agricultural Roads DoA Department of Agriculture DoR Department of Road DPR Detail Project Report EEAP Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project EMP Environmental Management Plan FY Fiscal Year GESI Gender Equality and Social Inclusion GoN Government of Nepal GRC Grievance Redress Committee GRM Grievance Redress Mechanism GMaLI Grant Management and Local Infrastructure HHs Households IA Implementing Agency IOL Inventory of losses IR Involuntary Resettlement LEST Livelihood Enhancement Skills and Training MoFEe Ministry of Forest and Environment NRA National Reconstruction Authority NRs Nepalese Rupees PAF Project Affected Families PAP Project Affected Person PC Project Coordinator PD Project Director PIC Project in Change RP Resettlement Plan RM Rural Municipality RF Resettlement Framework RS Resettlement Specialist SMR Social Monitoring Report SSO Social Safeguard Officer

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SPAF Severely Project Affected Family Sq.m. Square meter

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Table of Contents

1. PROJECT BACKGROUND 1 2. IMPACT AND OUTCOME 1 3. SOCIAL SAFEGUARDS IN EEAP 2 4. OVERALL SOCIAL SAFEGUARD STATUS 2 5. SEMI-ANNUAL SOCIAL MONITORING REPORT 3 PART 1: 4 DISTRICT ROADS 4 1.1 RURAL ROAD BACKGROUND 5 1.1.1 Introduction 5 1.1.2 Physical Progress 5 1.1.3 Consultation, Participation and Disclosure 5 1.1.4 RESETTLEMENT IMPACTS 6 1.2 Objective, Approach and Scope of Semi-annual monitoring 60 1.2.1 Objective 60 1.2.2 Approach 60 1.2.3 SCOPE 60 1.3 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE MONITORING DATA 60 1.4 MONITORING INDICATORS AND PARAMETERS 60 1.4.1 RESETTLEMENT IMPACT CATEGORIZATION 60 1.5 COMPLIANCE with Loan and Grants Covenants 61 1.6 Progress on Documentation and Approval 61 1.7 Progress on Compensation Disbursement 61 1.8 Redressal of Grievances 62 1.9 Monitoring Plan and Activities Planned 65 1.10 Avoiding and Minimizing Impacts 65 1.11 Livelihood Restoration and Enhancement 65 1.12 Ensuring IPs’ Identify, Human Right, Livelihood and Cultural Uniqueness 66 1.13 Issues Observed 66 1.14 issues for Delay 67 1.15 Ways forward 67

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1.16 Physical Progress of the sub-Projects 69 1.3 Resettlement Impacts 69 1.4 Consultation, Participation and Disclosure 70 1.5 Objective, Approach and Scope of Semi-annual Monitoring 70 1.5.1 Objective 70 1.5.2 Scope of Semi-annual Monitoring 70 2. CHANGES IN THE PROJECT SCOPE AND ADJUSTED SAFEGUARD MEASURES 70 1. QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE MONITORING DATA 71 2. MONITORING INDICATORS AND PARAMETERS 71 4.1 Resettlement Impact Categorization 71 13. ALL SUB PROJECTS ARE IN LINE WITH PROJECT SELECTION CRITERIA AND THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF CHANGE IN RESETTLEMENT CATEGORIZATION. 71 3. SEMI-ANNUAL MONITORING RESULTS 71 5.1 Progress on Documentation and Approval 71 5.2 Progress on compensation distribution 72 5.3 Grievances Redress Mechanism 72 4. IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES 74 6.1 Institutional adjustment and Activities Planned 74 6.2 Grievance record system 75 6.3 Training on safeguard and GESI 75 6.4 RP implementation & Monitoring 75 6.5 Livelihood Restoration and Enhancement 76 6.6 Delayed in compensation distribution 77 5. STATUS OF OTHER SOCIAL ACTIVITIES 77 6. MAJOR ISSUES 77 7. PROPOSED ACTIONS ADDRESSING ISSUES 77 8. PROPOSED MAJOR FOCUS FOR NEXT REPORT 78

Table Table 1: Resettlement Impact in Details ...... 7 Table 2: Status of Submitted Grievances and Their Resolution ...... 63 Table 3: Progress on Livelihood Improvement Training ...... 66 Table 4: Key Issued Summarized...... 66

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Figure Figure 2: Grievances in Graph ...... 64

Appendixes

Appendix I: Status of Involuntary Resettlement Planning 82 Appendix II: Details of Compensation Disbursement and Deed Transfer of Resettlement Plan (16 RPs & 1 DDR) 83 Appendix III: Fortnightly Report 86 Appendix IV: Status of Compliance with Relevant Covenants 92 Appendix V: Details of Consultation Meeting Minutes 97 Appendix VI: Photographs 103

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1. PROJECT BACKGROUND 1. Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project (EEAP) is a project being implemented by covenant loan assistance from Asian Development Bank (ADB) and counterpart funding from Government of Nepal (GoN). The goal of the project is to support Government of Nepal to accelerate rehabilitation and reconstruction following the devastating earthquake of 25 April 2015 and the major aftershock of 12 May 2015. The project will support the rebuilding of schools, roads, and district-level government buildings, and strengthen resilience to future disasters. EEAP, Loan 3260 for $200 M was approved on 24 June 2015, signed on 21 August 2015 and became effective on 10 September 2015. Revised project completion date is 23 June 2019 corresponding with a 9 month extension of the implementation period. The Project covers 12 districts spread over eastern, middle and western development regions of Nepal.

2. The project will restore and strengthen the resilience of critical public and social infrastructures and services and has four outputs. Output 1: Schools are rebuilt and upgraded, Output 2: roads and bridges are rehabilitated and/or reconstructed, Out 3: District- level government facilities constructed and/or rebuilt; and Output 4: Disaster preparedness and management capacities strengthened.

3. Under Output 2 ;the initial target of district roads component was rehabilitation and reconstruction of 450 km. A total of 25 potential road sub-projects (474.7 km)had been identified for rehabilitation and reconstruction in 12 sub-projects districts under EEAP. However,17 road sub-projects (290 km) has been prioritized for rehabilitation and reconstruction due to budget constraint (please refer Figures 1 and 2 for project location).

4. National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) is executing agency for EEAP. NRA has established Central Level Project Implementation Unit-Grant Management and Local Infrastructure (CLPIU-GMaLI) in Kathmandu, headed by a project director to coordinate all project activities.

2. IMPACT AND OUTCOME

5. The impact of the project is accelerated economic and social recovery in Nepal’s earthquake affected districts. The outcome will be critical economic and social services resumed with disaster-resilient infrastructure.

6. The project has following four outputs:

(i)Output 1: Schools are rebuilt and upgraded. At least 700 schools will be rebuilt or retrofitted in line with school reconstruction plans to disaster-resilient standards and equipped with water and sanitation facilities, including sex-disaggregated toilets. About five will be model schools built with information and communication technology equipment, science laboratories, and improved learning spaces. However, target has been reduced 154 school buildings (MTR, October 2017). (ii)Output 2: Roads and bridges are rehabilitated and/or reconstructed. About 135 km of strategic roads and about 450 km of rural roads damaged by the earthquake and landslides will be rehabilitated. Target for strategic and district roads has been reduced to

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99.6 km and 325 km respectively (MTR, October 2017). Project roads and bridges will have built back better features for road safety and climate resilience. Construction and maintenance equipment will also be procured. (iii)Output 3: District-level government facilities constructed and/or rebuilt. About 300 district-level government buildings will be rebuilt or retrofitted to disaster resilient standards with basic utilities, and furnished. This target has been reduced to 123 buildings(MTR, October 2017).Transitional district-level government offices will also be established to enable services to continue throughout the reconstruction period. (iv)Output 4: Disaster preparedness and management capacities strengthened. All outputs are assured to be disaster risk resilient. Engineering divisions of all implementing agencies will be strengthened.

7. Swiss Agency for Development and cooperation (SDC) provides technical assistance to the district roads components. United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-Grant 0529) has been received to finance 15 additional schools’ reconstruction in December 2016.

3. SOCIAL SAFEGUARDS IN EEAP 8. The project is category B for involuntary resettlement. Being a sector project a Resettlement Framework (RF) was prepared in accordance with ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement 2009. (RPs) are required for district and strategic roads having land acquisition and involuntary resettlement impacts whereas RP is not required for school and office building subprojects as there are no land acquisition and involuntary resettlement impacts. Strategic and Rural Road components have involuntary resettlement impact. Resettlement plans have been prepared to mitigate impacts.

4. OVERALL SOCIAL SAFEGUARD STATUS 9. The overall social safeguard status of EEAP in reference to its output is listed below.

(i) Output 1- School Buildings: Since there are no land acquisition and involuntary resettlement impacts, so social safeguards monitoring is not needed.

(ii) Output 2a- District Roads:17 RPs for 17 road subprojects have been approved by ADB and NRA. Up to this SMR, updates of two RPs is underway.

(iii) Output 2b- Strategic Roads: Resettlement plans of all three roads have been approved.

(iv) Output 3- Office Buildings: Since land belongs to respective government offices there are no land acquisition and involuntary resettlement impacts, so social monitoring report is not needed.

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5. SEMI-ANNUAL SOCIAL MONITORING REPORT 10. According to RF, each CLPIUs with DISC support has to prepare and submit semi- annual monitoring reports (SMRs to ADB, one from January-June and other July-December of each year by the 15th of next month.

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PART 1: District Roads

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1.1 RURAL ROAD BACKGROUND 1.1.1 INTRODUCTION

11. At the district level, project implementation will be the responsibility of the District Level Project Implementation Unit-Grant Management and Local Infrastructure (DLPIU- GMaLI) of each district. CLPIU/DLPIU (GMaLI) will be supported by District Implementation Support Consultants (DISC) which is headed by District Team Leader, technical and social staff. Overall back stopping support to the district will be provided by Central Implementation Support Consultants (CISC).

1.1.2 PHYSICAL PROGRESS

12. Up-to the reporting period 17 road subprojects having total length of 290 km of 12 districts are under implementation. 16 subprojects are under construction whereas one subproject in Bhaktapur has been completed, 2 subprojects are near to completion; Khopasi- Dhungakharka-Chyamranbesi-Milche-Borang Road in Kavre district (92% completed) and Thaiba-Godamchour Road in Lalitpur district (87% completed) whereas remaining 14 subprojects are under construction. (Source; Technical Team, CISC).

1.1.3 CONSULTATION, PARTICIPATION AND DISCLOSURE

13. The DLPIU organized consultation meetings with APs, and with the other stakeholders along the road subprojects.They were provided information on ADB Policy on involuntary resettlement, compensation and entitlement, RF of the EEAP. During the preparation of 17 RPs, adequate consultation meetings have been conducted. Their details are attached in Appendix V. Additionally during the period, it is reported that consultation and disclosure of Resettlement Plans in their respective (Rural) Municipalities is completed in all 12 EEAP districts (Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur, Solukhumbu, Okhaldhunga, Ramechhap, Dolakha, Sindhuli, Gorkha, Lamjung, Kavre and Chitwan). Attached photographs are in Appendix VI.

14. The community meetings and interviews were carried out in each affected (Rural) Municipalities with the land owners. In consultation with other stakeholders, information campaign is facilitated during cadastral survey and household listing and socio-economic and loss assessment survey of the households. The communities were explained about: a. Relevancy of the road subproject scope and schedules b. RP and various degrees of project impact, c. About land acquisition, compensation and other entitlements schemes, d. About grievance redress mechanism, e. Special consideration and assistance of all vulnerable groups, and f. Disclosed draft RP where civil works has started.

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15. Further, information sharing and consultation programs throughout the project period are being conducted simultaneously as RP implementation has taken momentum. APs are actively participating in all levels of subproject planning and implementation process. CISC has advised the district teams to conduct consultation meeting, disclosures with proper recording system with photographs.

1.1.4 RESETTLEMENT IMPACTS

16. Underneath Table 1 describes impacts subproject-wise.

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Table 1: Involuntary Resettlement Impacts in Details

Impacts by Households and type of Loss Affected Affected Affected Land Required Not Required Name of the Sub HHs Population Parcels Affected Physical Physical S.N District Project (No.) (No.) (Plot No.) Land (Ha) Relocation Relocation Remarks Sankhu-Palubari- Out of 13, 1 is 1 Kathmandu Nagarkot Road 55 140 110 10.046 13 public structure Bysai –Jhaukhel – Changu –Telkot- Bhattedanda -Nagarkot Out of 28, 1 is 2 Bhaktapur Road 162 348 314 7.788 3 25 public structure

Thaiba - Godamchaur Out of 55, 10 are 3 Road 144 353 247 1.72 1 54 public structures Godamchour- Godabari- Badikhel- Out of 137, 9 are 3.i Lalitpur Lelebhanjyang Road 392 955 639 9.71 7 130 public structures Khopasi-Dhungakharka -Chyamranbesi-Milche- Out of 31, 3 are 4 Borang Road 207 695 335 14.055 14 17 public structures Kuntabesi-Nayagaun- Out of 124, 14 are 4.i Kavre Nagarkot 356 1568 547 18.67 14 110 public structures Sunkhani-Lamidanda - Kalinchowk section of 10m CoI, which is 5 SunkhaniSangwa Road 154 182 in already existing. Bhirkot - Sahare- Hawa Section of Bhirkot - Sahare- Hawa -Jiri 5.i Dolakha Road 190 372 259 25.565 1 3 Devitar – Phulasipokhari Section of Devitar – Doramba – 6 Ramechhap Paseban – Kolibagar 160 440 259 16.141 2 8

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Impacts by Households and type of Loss Affected Affected Affected Land Required Not Required Name of the Sub HHs Population Parcels Affected Physical Physical S.N District Project (No.) (No.) (Plot No.) Land (Ha) Relocation Relocation Remarks Road Haldibesi-Dhobi- 6.i Dhandebesi Road 474 1485 935 38.899 5 1 Okhaldhunga-Rumjatar Out of 32, 3 are 7 Okhaldhunga Road 355 850 594 11.1 26 6 public structures Garma-Nele-Bogal 8 Solukhumbu Road 320 517 648 17.66 3 3 Luitel - Aappipal - Harmibhanjyang - Thalajung – Bhachek Out of 106, 30 are 9 Road 342 1234 614 30.575 9 97 public structures Ghympesal - Balkot- Palkhu- Swara- 9.i Gorkha Saurpani- Barpak Road 109 613 167 8.2 Belghari – Archalbot - Lamabagar- Serabazaar - Lituere - Out of 152, 9 are 10 Lamjung Pachok Road 267 834 425 12.59 2 150 public structures Out of 10, 3 are public structures. 8m CoI taken Khurkhure (Highway) - while making RP, Samitar - which is in already 11 Chitwan Thakurivanjyang Road 10 existence

PipalBhanjyang - Haitar Out of 30, 8 are 12 Sindhuli - Netrakali Road 191 769 331 29.29 12 18 public structures Total 3878 11355 6424 252.01 99 645

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1.2 OBJECTIVE, APPROACH AND SCOPE OF SEMI-ANNUAL MONITORING 1.2.1 OBJECTIVE

17. The objective of this Semi-annual monitoring is to assess progress on resettlement plan implementation of the project including; (i) compensation payment, (ii) relocation of affected housing/structures and rehabilitation, (iii) restoration of public infrastructures, (iv) review of the consultation and disclosure processes, grievances redress mechanisms and (v) restoration of livelihood of the affected persons/households.

1.2.2 APPROACH

18. The report has been prepared compiling information from fortnightly report, monthly reports, quarterly progress reports and field visit reports submitted by the CISC.

1.2.3 SCOPE

19. This Semi-annual report covers status of safeguard implementation activities in EEAP during January-June, 2018

1.3 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE MONITORING DATA 20. The quantitative data refers to those items that are numerically measurable whereas qualitative data are not tangibly measurable. The quantitative data required for this semi- annual report has been taken from the fortnightly/monthly/quarterly reports and database whilst qualitative data has been supplemented through the field observations, consultations and discussions with the stakeholders and information during meeting/disseminations etc. Quantative data will be taken from compensation payment whereas qualitative data will be taken from livelihood. After field visits, both quantitative and qualitative data have been incorporated in the progress reporting. Hence, data incorporation process consisting of both qualitative and quantitative will be carried out throughout the implementation phase.

1.4 MONITORING INDICATORS AND PARAMETERS 1.4.1 RESETTLEMENT IMPACT CATEGORIZATION

21. Out of 17 sub projects, 16 fall in category B and one falls in category C. Prior to implementation of civil works, resettlement impacts in all the subprojects have been screened and classified by using ADB SPS 2009 classification system .

22. While updating RPs; following process have been applied ; (i) the subproject site is selected in full consultation with landowners and any non-titled affected persons; (ii) voluntary donations do not severely affect the living standards of affected persons and the amount of agricultural or other productive land to be acquired from each affected household does not exceed 5% of the total productive landholdings of the household; (iii) voluntary donations are linked directly to benefits for the affected persons; (iv) any voluntary donation will be confirmed through written record and verified by an independent third party; (v) there is an adequate grievance process (vi) no affected household will be displaced from housing and severely affected; (viii) no affected household is vulnerable; and (ix) a process

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is in place to provide official documentation to those who donated land of their landholding post-donation.

23. Regarding Khurkhure-Samitar-Thakurivanjyang Road (Jorkulo Section 520m), Chitwan district; RP is updated since the road involves voluntary donation and the subproject is classified as Category B. The voluntary donation report has been attached in the updated resettlement plan and sent to CLPIU/GMaLI.

1.5 COMPLIANCE WITH LOAN AND GRANTS COVENANTS 24. Summary of covenants compliance with loan status are as follows; Out of 8 relevant covenants,6 are compliedand remaining 2 are partially complied with loan covenants. Regular follow-up actions are being taken in this regard. (Please refer Appendix IV for details)

1.6 PROGRESS ON DOCUMENTATION AND APPROVAL 25. Up to reporting time, all 17 RPs including 1 DDR were prepared and approved from NRA and ADB.

1.7 PROGRESS ON COMPENSATION DISBURSEMENT 26. The overall progress on compensation payment and deed transfer is 33.58% and 36.96% respectively. Out of 17 subprojects, physical progress of 4 subprojects is more than 80%. They are: Bhaktapur and Chitwan (where compensation payment is also more than 80%), Lalitpur (Thaiba- Godamchor road- CoI is 6.5m)where mostly construction is done in existing area (5.5 or 6m) and compensation is made before construction; and Kavre (Devitar – Phulasipokhari Section of Devitar – Doramba – Paseban – Kolibagar Road) where mostly physical work is done in already existing area only whereas in other new cutting area, construction started after compensation payment. In Dhumkharka Bazar area of Kavre, CoI is 8m (existing 8m) and other remaining parts are mostly forest and ailani land. Out of NRs 1017.27 million, compensation worth about NRs. 341.57 million has been paid. Deed transfer has been completed for 1417 HHs out of 3834 HHs. During last FY, CLPIU–GMaLI has sent NRs 126.91 million for 12 districts as well as additional NRs 658.15 million has been sanctioned from Government of Nepal for the fiscal year 2074/75.

27. Based on progress data, out of all 17 subprojects, compensation payment in Bhaktapur and Chitwan districts is more than 80%. For 3 subprojects (Kavre-1, Ramechhap- 1, Okhaldhunga-1), it is more than 60%. Compensation payment is more than 40% for only 2 districts (Kathmandu-1, Lamjung-1). Regarding 9 remaining subprojects (Lalitpur-2, Ramechhap-1, Kavre-1, Solukhumbu-1, Gorkha-2, Dolakha-1, Sindhuli-1), compensation payment is less than 40%. In case of one subproject of Dolakha, there is no compensation disbursed yet. Details of progress on resettlement plan status by district is given in Appendix II.

28. In case of only one subproject (Bhaktapur-1), progress is halted after having achieved 80.91% due to land in mortgage, death of official land owners’ and non-registered land plots. District team has been suggested to publish public notice for timely disbursement of remaining compensation. Since last month, follow ups are being made by DLPIU-GMaLI

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and SSO of Bhaktapur through sending letters to the permanent home address of APs, briefing in letter to collect their compensation within timeframe. Due to these follow-ups, these remaining APs have also started to come in contact.

29. The progress in compensation and deed transfer is just initiated especially on those subprojects which conducted late CDC meeting (e.g., Gorkha-2, Ramechhap-1, Sindhuli-1 and Dolakha-1 and Lamjung-1). And in few districts, DSO is taking long time for field verification of missing plots/error area whereas this process is ongoing in some districts, namely, Kavre, Okhaldhunga, Gorkha, Lamjung, Ramechhap and Sindhuli. Due to this, it has direct impact on progress in compensation payment. In few districts, physical presence of official land owner is made compulsory for transfer of ownership e.g., Solukhumbu district.

30. Regarding structures, upto the reporting period, districts have made good achievement to pay compensation for structures. Based on reports of some districts, the structure owners will get compensation of their structures in two installments especially in case of residential buildings. Compensation in two installments has been made by district teams with close consultation with APs. This provision has been necessitated upon realizing the risk of not willing to dismantle the structures by APs after getting that compensation. Hence, first installment will be provided before dismantling whereas second one will be provided only after the completion of dismantling of structures following the recommendation of rural municipality. In case of secondary structures/partially affected structures, compensation will be paid only in one installment.

1.8 REDRESSAL OF GRIEVANCES 31. Up to the reporting period, Kathmandu and Bhaktapur districts have received written grievances after the publication of notices in national newspapers. Total 24 grievances were received from Bhaktapur (Bysai–Jhaukhel–Changu–Telkot-Bhattedanda-Nagarkot Road), 215 numbers of grievances were documented from Kathmandu (Sankhu-Paluwariroad subproject). Grievances of both Kathmandu and Bhaktapur districts have been subsequently addressed. Likewise, total 16 grievances were received from 2 subprojects from Dolakha which have been resolved accordingly. In Gorkha district, 72 grievances were received from 2 subprojects. Out of them, 66 were resolved. Likewise, out of 122 grievances from Solukhumbu, all are resolved. Most of the grievances lodged have been generated due to error in cadastral survey and missing plots. Details of subproject-wise grievances are presented in Table 2 and there numbers are shown graphically in Fig 1.

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Table 2: Status of Submitted Grievances and Their Resolution No. of Name of the Sub Nature of S.N District grievances Remarks Project grievances recorded Missing plots, mismatch in name, Sankhu-Palubari- All grievances 1 Kathmandu 154 area, demanded Nagarkot Road addressed. compensation of existing area. Bysai Jhaukhel – – Missing Changu Telkot- All grievances 2 Bhaktapur – 24 plots,mismatch in Bhattedanda - addressed name, area Nagarkot Road Missing Thaiba - Godamchaur All grievances are 3 55 plotsmismatch in Road addressed. name, area Lalitpur Godamchour- Missing All grievances are 3 Godabari- Badikhel- 55 plots,mismatch in addressed. Lelebhanjyang Road name, area Khopasi- Out of 23 grievances Missing Dhungakharka - 5 are addressed, 4 23 plots,mismatch in Chyamranbesi-Milche- remaining are under name, area Borang Road process. Kavre Our of 123, 45 Missing Kuntabesi-Nayagaun- addressed and 4.i 123 plots,mismatch in Nagarkot remaining are in name, area process. Sunkhani-Lamidanda - No grievances Kalinchowk section of received till the 5 SunkhaniSangwa preparation of this Road report. Dolakha Bhirkot - Sahare- Missing Hawa Section of All 16 grievances 5.i 16 plots,mismatch in Bhirkot - Sahare- are addressed. name, area Hawa -Jiri Road Out of 76 Devitar – grievances, 61 are Phulasipokhari Section Missing addressed and 6 of Devitar Doramba 76 plots,mismatch in – remaining Paseban Kolibagar name, area – – grievances are Road Ramechhap process. Missing Out of plots,mismatch in 100grievances, 17 Haldibesi-Dhobi- 6.i 100 name, are addressed and Dhandebesi Road area,structures, remaining are in tress process Missing Out of 113, 26 Okhaldhunga- plots,mismatch in addressed and 7 Okhaldhunga 113 Rumjatar Road name, area, remaining16 are in structures, trees process. Missing Garma-Nele-Bogal All 122 grievances 8 Solukhumbu 122 plots,mismatch in Road are addressed. name, area Out of 149, 66 Luitel - Aappipal - Missing grievances are Harmibhanjyang - plots,mismatch in 9 Gorkha 149 addressed and Thalajung Bhachek name, area, – remaining ate under Road structures, trees process.

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No. of Name of the Sub Nature of S.N District grievances Remarks Project grievances recorded Ghympesal - Balkot- Missing Palkhu- Swara- All 6 grievances are 9.i 6 plots,mismatch in Saurpani- Barpak in process. name, area Road Out of 75 Belghari Archalbot - grievances, 55 – Missing Lamabagar- grievances are 10 Lamjung 75 plots,mismatch in Serabazaar - Lituere - addressed and name, area Pachok Road remaining are in process. Khurkhure (Highway) - Missing All 6 grievances are 11 Chitwan Samitar - 26 plots,mismatch in in addressed. Thakurivanjyang Road name, area Out of 147 grievances, 140 Missing PipalBhanjyang - grievances are 12 Sindhuli 147 plots,mismatch in Haitar - Netrakali Road addressed and name, area remaining are in process. Total 1264

Figure 1: Grievances in Graph

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32. District Level Project Implementation Unit-Grant Management and Local Infrastructure (DLPIU-GMaLI) has been playing key role to the effective implementation of GRMs taking into account different levels of GRMs. All the grievances have been well documented for timely addressing the issues.

1.9 MONITORING PLAN AND ACTIVITIES PLANNED 33. The RP implementation progress is being monitored by central and district level team of government staff and district teams. The social safeguard Officer (SSO) reports monthly progress on RP implementation to the DLPIU-GMaLI. The DLPIU-GMaLI discusses the progress status in safeguard desk and submit the report to CLPIU-GMaLI and CISC on monthly basis CLPIU-GMaLI and CISC compile information, prepare fortnightly and quarterly progress report and subsequently submit to ADB. The CLPIU-GMaLI with support of CISC prepares and submit semi-annual social safeguard monitoring report covering all project districts. The monitoring reports include detailed progress on RP implementation, grievance record and resolution status. The semi-annual report also evaluates the resettlement and compensation process in order to ascertain that the procedure prescribed in RF are duly followed as well as to assess whether AP’s economic status has been restored to the level of prior to the project implementation.

1.10 AVOIDING AND MINIMIZING IMPACTS 34. In the road sub projects under EEAP at critical sections and at those sections where large number of structures are noticed during the HHs survey, protection walls nearby residence buildings and other structures have been recommended in consultation with the technical team so that impacts can be minimized to a greater extent. For example: in approved RPs, CoI has been minimized from 10 to 8 m in market section to avoid number of RCC buildings in Khopasi-Dhungakharka-Chyamranbesi-Milche-Borang Road, Kavre. Likewise, CoI has been minimized from 10m to 6.5m along Thaiba- Godamchoar Road, Lalitpur and from 10m to 6.5m along Godamchour-Godabari-Badikhel- Lelebhanjyang Road, also in Lalitpur. And in case of Khurkhure-Samitar-Thakurivanjyang Road, Chitwan; CoI utilized only existing area i.e., 8m. The width has been minimized in these roads in order to avoid/minimize the no of structures to be demolished.

1.11 LIVELIHOOD RESTORATION AND ENHANCEMENT 35. Besides the compensation of affected assets, the APs have received life skill training by project, priority given to who are from Dalit HHs, Janajati HHs, BPL HHs, women headed HHs and those HHs who have lost more than 10% total land holding. In approved RP, it is mentioned that the life skill training under the project will be NSTB-1 and tentative number of trainees is 1111. During RP implementation, TNA selected 871 potential trainees from 17 road subprojects of 12 districts and it has been completed. Total 871 numbers had been selected for livelihood improvement training (I and II). Out of them, 333 from Package I, II completed training that included 305 males and 28 females. And remaining 538 trainees will be in Package III, IV and training will be conducted next FY 2075/76 BS. Details are shown in Table 3. Photographs of completed trainings are attached in Appendix VI.

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Table 3: Progress on Livelihood Improvement Training

District Covered Name of the Trade Involved Participants Remarks

Target Male (No) Female (No) Total Package I& Solukhumbu, Okhaldhunga, Driving/Beauty 333 305 28 333 Package I & II II. Dolakha, Sindhuli, Gorkha, Parlor completed Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Kavre, Ramechhap, Lamjung and Chitwan Total 333 305 28 333 III Solukhumbu, Okhaldhunga, Taloring, eletrician, 538 315 223 538 Package III & Dolakha, Sindhuli, Gorkha, Mason, Carpenter, and IV is IV Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Off season planning next Bhaktapur, Kavre, vegetable farming, FY 2075/76 Ramechhap, Lamjung and Plumbing etc Chitwan Total 538 315 223 538

1.12 ENSURING IPS’ IDENTIFY, HUMAN RIGHT, LIVELIHOOD AND CULTURAL UNIQUENESS 36. Since this project fall under Category C, it has no impact on IPs.

1.13 ISSUES OBSERVED 37. Based on the assessment, following issues are observed. They are tabulated as under along with actions taken(Table 4).

Table 4: Issues Summarized Name of the Name of the S.N. District Subproject Issues Actions Taken After publishing notice, some missing plots Okhaldhunga- have still been seen in 1 Okhaldhunga Rumjhatar Cadastral Report. Resurvey ongoing. After publishing notice, Kuntabesi- error is observed in Nayagoan-Nagarkot some sections of 2 Road cadastral survey report. Resurvey ongoing Khopasi- After publishing notice, Dhungakharka - error is observed in Chyamranbesi- some sections of 2.i Kavre Milche-Borang Road cadastral survey report. Resurvey ongoing PipalBhanjyang - Left eight cadastral Haitar - Netrakali sheets seen missing 3 Sindhuli Road during field verification. Resurvey ongoing

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1.14 ISSUES FOR DELAY 38. Substantial time has been consumed in the re-survey of cadastral at field level. It took substantial time in getting verification of cadastral survey reports from DSO and DLRO. Consequently, deed transfer of submitted plots has taken long time. It has thus direct impact on compensation disbursement and deed transfer in case of Solukhumbu, Gorkha, Lamjung, Kavre, Okhaldhunga, Ramechhap and Lalitpur districts.

1.15 WAY FORWARD 39. Following actions should be taken by the project in order to improve effective compliance of safeguard implementation and monitoring activities; a) Focus on Life Skill Training for timely accomplishment b) Expediting the preparation of updated RP c) Increased field visits to critical districts

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DOR Components

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1.16 PHYSICAL PROGRESS OF THE SUB-PROJECTS DoR has engaged M/S CR5 - Swachhanda JV, Syuchatar, Kathmandu on contract in September 2016 for the upgrading and improvement of Dolakha- Singati road. Similarly, for Dhadingbesi – Arughat – Gorkha Road, contract packages I& II have been awarded to Lama Construction Company, Mahaharagunj in January 2017, package III to Nepal Adarsha -Tamang JV in May 2017 and Package IV to Bajraguru- Synergy JV in September 2017. Contract for Panckahkal – Melamchi Road section has been awarded to M/S Swachhanda – Ashish JV, Syuchatar, Kathmandu, in October 2017.The summary of Physical progress achieved up to June 2018 is given below in table 1.2 Table No: 1.2 Details of physical progress Length Road SN Road Physical progress in (%) (Km) Classification 1 Dolakha – Singati 34.490 Feeder Road 39.52 Package-I 34.65 Package- II 28.42 2 Dhading - Gorkha 42.274 Feeder road Package- II 22.72 Package- IV 31.76 3 Panchkhal – Melamchi 22.997 Feeder road 12.35

1.3 RESETTLEMENT IMPACTS

5. As per RP of Dolakha - Singati Road, Ten private temporary structures have been affected. In Panchkhal – Melamchi road, 191 land parcels have been affected from 134 households of Kavre and Sindhupalchok districts. Likewise, 1199 land parcels from 961 is acquired in Dhadingbesi – Arughat- Gorkha road. The table below shows the detail of resettlement impact in each road section.

Table No: 1.3 Resettlement impact Resettlement Impacts Name of No. of No of land No. of S Sub No of No of Affected affected parcels affected N project affected Affected land land notice structur road hhs Person (ha) parcels issued e Dolakha 1 10 60 NA NA NA 10 – Singati Dhading- 2 1101 5692 1527 1199 13.95 14 Gorkha Panchkh 3 al– 135 675 191 191 0.68 13 Melamchi Total 1246 6427 1717 1390 14.63 37

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1.4 CONSULTATION, PARTICIPATION AND DISCLOSURE

6. Consultation with project affected families and disclosure of project information including RP, which has to be carried out throughout project cycle is in compliance with ADB SPS in each project road. Consultations and disseminations have been done in each ward and settlements along the road alignments. During the reporting period, 10 consultation meetings were conducted in all three roads, where 273 male and 110 female participated. Most of the agendas discussed during the public consultation were rate of compensation for house and structures, left land parcels in land acquisition notice etc. The consulted people were informed about the land acquisition area and process of compensation payment in each road section. The affected people were also requested for not cultivating the acquired land. The project is carrying out following disclosure activities to ensure transparency and active involvement of APs and other relevant stakeholders in resettlement planning and implementation process:

• Copies of approved RPs have been officially submitted to ADB to upload in ADB website, 7. Copies of consultative meetings (Nepali) with affected people, stakeholders and its summary in English and photos are attached in Appendix D and E respectively.

1.5 Objective, Approach and Scope of Semi-annual Monitoring 1.5.1 OBJECTIVE

8. The objective of the Semi-annual monitoring report is to assess progress on safeguard plan implementation of the subproject roads including compensation payment, grievance redress procedure, public consultation and disclosure process, evaluation of income restoration program of affected households including indigenous people and vulnerable people. 1.5.2 SCOPE OF SEMI-ANNUAL MONITORING

11. This Social Monitoring Report is prepared for the project, covering 6 months from January to June 2018. A Social Monitoring Report will be prepared on a semi- annual basis throughout the course of the project implementation. The report will detail the progress of the implementation of the resettlement plan, as well as any other social mitigation and enhancement activities, including the implementation of the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) plan 2. Changes in the project scope and adjusted safeguard measures 9. The length of Panchkhal – Melamchi – Timbu road is reduced from the originally proposed. Originally, road was proposed 41 km and RP was prepared accordingly, but revised length is only 23 km (Panchkhal – Melamchi section) for the upgrading. So revised resettlement plan is prepared and approved by ADB. Similarly, Resettlement Plan of Dhading - Gorkha road section needs to be updated due to reduction of 7 Km (Chainage 69+700 to 76+700 at Phinam to Gorkha Bazar) length of Gorkha section. Out of the 759 total land parcels 104 land parcels are out of scope of project work (reduction part Chainage 69+700 Km to 76+700 Km). Out of the 759 land parcels 104 land parcels were out of the scope of work.

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1. QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE MONITORING DATA 10. The monitoring report contains both quantitative and qualitative information. The quantitative data required for this semiannual report has been collected from project office and qualitative information is from the field observation, consultations and discussions with the project officials, stakeholders and information during meeting/dissemination etc.

2. MONITORING INDICATORS AND PARAMETERS 4.1 Resettlement Impact Categorization 11. All the roads under EEAP come under category “B” in terms of involuntary resettlement (IR) according to ADB’s SPS 2009. According to this the subprojects having any land acquisition and involuntary resettlement, either physical or economic displacement or temporary restrictions to land use that to be compiled with the ADB’s IR and SPS through the preparation of RP’s and other safeguard documents as required. Therefore, RP has been prepared for each road and being implemented.

12. The monitoring method of the report is based on some basic indicators of resettlement implementation. Mainly, type of land acquired, extent of impacts, measures adopted to mitigate the impacts, implementation status of mitigating measures, consultation and dissemination, grievance redressed compensation payment, deed transfer resettlement and rehabilitation measures are focused during the reporting period. The following parameters have been applied during social safeguard monitoring: • Progress on land acquisition and compensation Payment • Procedure of compensation rate determination and compensation payment delivery system (easiness, transparency etc.) • Grievances by type and resolution status, effectiveness of GRC in local level, • Rehabilitation of public utilities, • Public consultation and disclosure activities, • Status of income restoration program (skill training, employment opportunity etc.) • Resettlement Budget • APs satisfaction & perception regarding compensation amount decided by CDC, • Implementation of social awareness program (gender/HIV/human trafficking), 13. All sub projects are in line with project selection criteria and there is no possibility of change in resettlement categorization.

3. SEMI-ANNUAL MONITORING RESULTS 5.1 Progress on Documentation and Approval 14. The Detailed Project Report of each road have been prepared and approved. Based on detailed project report, Resettlement Plan of each road have been prepared and approved from ADB.The compensation rate for Panchkahal- Melamchi (PM) Road, the Compensation Determination Committee (CDC) has fixed compensation rate of land on January 14, 2018 and February 7, 2018 for Kavrepalchok and Sindhupalchok districts respectively. Likewise, compensation amount of Dhading – Gorkha road has been decided

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by compensation Determination Committee on 8 Feb 2017. Status of planning activities is presented in Appendix A and Appendix B respectively.

5.2 Progress on compensation distribution 15. Compensation Determination Committee of project affected districts have finalized the compensation amount of land for Dhading – Gorkha (DG) and Panchkhal–Melamchi(PM) roads and in Dolakha- Singati (DS) road land acquisition not required. As of 30 June 2018, 42 percent and 21 percent compensation payment for DG and PM roads respectively has been completed and compensation payment is still ongoing. The table below presents the details of compensation payment of acquired private land parcels:

Table No: 5.1 Progress of Compensation Payment of land as of 30th June 2018

Sub- Compensation payment Deed transfer Remarks project Target Achieved % Target Achieved %

DS NA NA NA NA NA NA

DG 131413463.1 54838506.43 41.34 1199 482 40.20 58 land parcels withheld by bank

PM 31102787.78 8775315.12 21.35 191 27 14.14 18 land parcels withheld by bank

Total 162516250.90 63613821.55 39.30 1390 509 36.62 76 land parcels withheld by Bank 16. Shifting and material transportation cost for ten temporary structures owners of Dolakha – Singati road section has been paid. In DG and PM roads, cost evaluation of affected structures is ongoing with technical assistance of Department of Urban Development and Building Construction (DUDBC). 17. The compensation payment of structures of Dolakha- Singati Road is completed. In Dhading – Gorkha and Panchkhal – Melamchi road compensation fixation process is going on so affected structures yet to demolish. The compensation distribution of each road is summarized in Appendix C.

5.3 Grievances Redress Mechanism 18. The project has formed required grievance redress committees (GRC) to receive, evaluate, and facilitate the resolution of affected people’s concerns, complaints, and grievances about the social and environmental performance at the level of the project. Grievance Redress Committee in Dolakha- Singati, Dhading - Gorkha and Panchakhal - Melamchi Roads has been established and started handling the grievance in field level.The Subproject Office/PM, and Social/Resettlement Specialist of the Construction Supervision Consultant (CSC)assist the GRC and informing people about the likely resettlement impacts, provision of compensation and other assistance to the affected persons. It is

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expected that GRC helps to minimize, ease to solve the grievances, and facilitate the compensation distribution process.

19. During the reporting period number of grievances (missing land parcels) registered in subproject road office and its current status is presented in the table below

Table No: 5.2 Status of Grievances Handling in Subproject Roads

S.N. Name of Subproject No of Grievance No. of settled No. of non-settled Received Grievances Grievances

1 Dolakah – Singati 8 3 5

2 Dhading- Gorkha 201 41 160

3 Panchkhal- Melamchi 65 15 50

Total 274 59 215

20. In Dolakha – Singati road section a total of eight cases are recorded. Out of them, three have been settled and five remaining will be settled with coordination of Land Survey Office. However, the numbers of grievances are reported higher in Dhadingbesi –Gorkha road section. In Dhading section, while issuing notification for land acquisition, 156 land parcels were missed during notice publication because of unavailability of owner’s name in the record of district land revenue office. The missed land parcels were communicated in community level and landowners have filed complaint with substantial document claiming for compensation process. The project team is verifying grievances through field verification and documentation. Once it is completee, another notice for land acquisition will be issued by project. Similarly, in Gorkha section, length is revised in some particular section that created confusion among land owners so the number of grievances filled in project office seems high. The field verification shows 104 land parcels are out of scope of work, remaining ten grievances are in process and it is continued to address the registered complaints. The status and details of grievance is summarized as below Table 5.3

Table No: 5.3 Statuses of Grievances

Number of Nature of S.N. grievance Status Remarks grievances recorded

Dolakha – Singati section Of the total 3 are settled Verification of through field verification with 5 are under process to 1 8 land parcels the help of district land survey settle office

Dhadingbesi –Gorkha ( Dhading district)

2 156 Missing land Of the total 156 missing land While notification of land parcels in parcels 36 are settled through acquisition, about 156 and

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Number of Nature of S.N. grievance Status Remarks grievances recorded acquisition field verification with help of parcels missed because of notice district land survey, remaining not availability of owner 120 grievances are under name in LRO record. verification Dhadingbesi –Gorkha ( Gorkha district) The grievances recorded because of revised road 15 grievances are out of length in particular scope of project and stretches. Request to verify remaining twenty are settled 3 45 land loss with coordination of local Certain road section of people and Land Survey Gorkha district was reduced Office Gorkha (Ch. 54+300 Km to 69+700 Km) 104 land parcels are falling under reduction part.

Panchkhal –Melamchi ( Sindhupalchok district)

of the total 20 missing land parcels five are settled Missing land through field verification with parcels in 15 land parcels are under 4 20 the private surveyor, acquisition verification remaining 15 grievances are notice under verification with help District Land Survey Office Panchakhal –Melmchi ( Kavre district) Of the total 35 grievances, ten are settled through field Missing land verification with help of district .25 land parcels are under parcels in 5 35 land Surveyor, remaining 25 verification acquisition grievances are under notice verification with help District Land Survey Office Kavre.

Request to verify land loss & Verification shall be carried demanding for After discussion with Mayor 10 out in coordination with working under which are under verification district land survey office existing centreline

4. IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES

6.1 Institutional adjustment and Activities Planned 21. The National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) is the Executing Agency (EA)and Project Management Unit(PMU) n d e r Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoPIT),is Implementing Agency (IA).The PMU will coordinate social safeguards planning and implementation and ensure that the resettlement plans are properly implemented in field level. PM is responsible to monitor and implement project activities including implementation of resettlement plan that is assisted by Safeguard Specialist from Construction Supervision Consultant (CSC). PM is responsible to monitor the implementation of the resettlement plan,

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ensuring that this is carried out in compliance with the project resettlement principles the resettlement framework, and with loan agreement. The CSC will provide capacity-building orientation and skills training, as needed, to concerned personnel of the PM. CSC ensure that the contractors adhere with the terms of their contract relative to avoiding and/or minimizing resettlement impacts, in addition to ensuring that contractors provide the necessary compensation and/or assistance to the affected households prior to and/or during construction activities.

Assistant Resident Engineer (ARE) of the supervising consultant team has been nominated as a focal person for safeguard related activities in all road projects.

24. There are one social/resettlement expert and 3 social mobilizers in each subproject roads who are working to implement the resettlement plan and other social activities of the project. Social mobilizers have full time input for field but social expert have intermittent inputs. There is one safeguards focal person working in Project Directorate Office. The field level grievance redress committee is also formed as outlined in GRM.

6.2 Grievance record system 22. The project has established a proper grievance recording systems. A register has maintained to keep the update of grievances filled in project offices and follow up action taken to address it. For this a social mobiliser is assigned to coordinate at local level and assist to resolve the grievances. Similarly, assistant resident engineer is assigned as safeguard focal person for the subproject to deal with safeguard related activities

6.3 Training on safeguard and GESI 23. A two days workshop/training of Dhadingbesi – Arughat – Gorkha road of the Gorkha section was organized on 1st& 2nd Feb 2018. Participants were from local stakeholders such as local level Rural Municipality representatives, school teachers and project affected households (PAF). Participants from DoR, supervision consultants, representative from local government ward level and contractors staffs also joined the program. Altogether 53 participants (18 female & 35 male) participated in Workshop Cum Training for Road Safety, Gender, Human Trafficking, HIV/AIDS and Safeguards Issues.

24. Similarly, two days workshop/training of Panchkhal – Melamchi road section of Sindhupalchok &K avrepalanchowk districts was organized on 5th& 6th May, 2018. Participants were from local stakeholders and project affected households or families Participants from DoR, supervision consultants, representative from local government ward level and contractors staffs also joined the program. Altogether 56 participants (19 female & 37 male) participated in Workshop Cum Training for Road Safety, Gender, Human Trafficking, HIV/AIDS and Safeguards Issues

6.4 RP implementation & Monitoring 25.Monitoring work is the major activity of any construction works and is essential for proper implementation of social safeguard activities. Monitoring is also essential to update the baseline data and for assessing social impacts as well as for ensuring effective mitigation.

26. The CSC’s social / resettlement expert is supported by two field staff. Out of two supporting social staff,, one is working in Dhading – Gorkha road project and another one is working in Panchkhal - Melamchi road projects.

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27. The safeguard specialist & social mobilizer have been working closely with technical team to minimize and address the grievances of affected people.Affected HHs have received compensation at replacement cost and most of the AP’s are satisfied with the compensation rate decided by CDC..

Table No: 6.1 Summary of the field level activities conducted from January to June 2018. Purpose for the Conducted Sub-project Date Site visit Activities

Panchkhal– 1st to 3th Jan, preparation for the Visited with CDC Melamchi 2018 CDC meeting members

Preparation for Safeguard training at Dhading Gorkha 1st to 3rd Feb, 2018 – Training Gorkha District Field Visited at 4th& 5th March, Preparation for Pankhal Melamchi Pachkhal- Melamchi – 2018 mission visit road with ADB mission Field visited at 6th& 7th March, Preparation for Dolakha Singati Dolakha Singati – 2018 mission visit – with ADB mission Dhading – Gorkha 22nd to 24th March, Preparation for Field visit with ADB Road projects 2018 mission visit mission Panchkhal- Preparation for safe Safeguard training at 4th to 7th April, 2018 Melamchi road guard training Kavre district Field verification with help of district land Preparation to Panchkhal- 28th to 31st May, survey and private address the Melamchi road 2018 Amin (Surveyer) at grievances of APs Sindhupalchok&Kavre section Distribution of Expedite the compensation amount Panchkhal- 1st 7th, 18th to 27th – compensation at Melamchi road June, 2018 payment Kavre&Sindhupalchok districts

6.5 Livelihood Restoration and Enhancement 28. Besides distribution compensation of affected assets, the Aps will receive skill training. The project shall identify the affected households who are entitled to participate in livelihoods restoration and skill enhancement activities and provide short term training.The project is preparing to conduct the skill training.. Participants selection process for livelihood training is under process. The progress on life skill training will be covered in next semiannual safeguard monitoring report.

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6.6 Delayed in compensation distribution 29. The land acquisition and compensation distribution work of Gorkha district is delaying due to delay in deployment of new PIC in place of previous PIC, who has already been transferred and limited staff in DLSO and DLRO where most of the staff were engaged in Budigandaki Hydropower for massive land acquisition, which is one the big hydropower project of Nepal. Other causes of delaying for compensation payment are the documentation of legal testimonies from land owner side is lacking, about 30% of land parcels of panchkhal–Melamchi road announced for acquisition are kept in bank or other financial institutions as collateral. The project is coordinating with concerned banks to settle the issues. The possession has not been taken who have yet to receive compensation.

5. STATUS OF OTHER SOCIAL ACTIVITIES 30. Regular consultations and meetings are being held by CSC with PAPs and other stakeholders to facilitate implementation of social safeguards component. Besides these, the other social activities such as camp site management, health and safety measures, wage rate to construction workers and issue of child labor have been regularly monitored. During site visits of subproject roads, the contractors have been made aware of maintaining compliances of the social activities as per social safeguard documents of the project. The contractors have been paying greater consideration to social safeguard issues during road construction.

6. MAJOR ISSUES 31. Following major issues are identified while implementing RPs. The issues are compiled in consultation with project staff and affected people. • The compensation determination and payment activities are interlinked with government offices such as District Survey Office, District Land Revenue Office, so it’s challenging to receive support in time from respective offices and distribute compensation of acquired land and other assets.

• Difficulties to identify land owner name in district record office in Dhading district that has created to issue next notice for land acquisition.

• In Panchkhal–Melamchi road, about 35 % land parcels are kept in bank or other financial institutions as collateral.

• Local people are demanding house/structure acquisition which is adjacent in the existing road (out of corridor of impact) or shifting center line to avoid the house/structure acquisition at Phedi bazar (Ch1+450 to 1+640) of Panchkhal – Melamchi road section. 7. PROPOSED ACTIONS ADDRESSING ISSUES 32. Following actions will be undertaken to address the issues encountered during subproject implementation:

• Best efforts will be done to establish good networking among inter government agencies for compensation distribution.

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• In Panchkhal – Melamchi road (Ch 1+450 - 1+640) and (Ch. 7+450 – 8+150)), the local people were requesting to shift the center line of the road or compensated the nearby houses of the road, therefore, the issue would be settled with coordination among Mayor, concern ward Chairman and technical team of the project.

• Database of displaced households and their affected assets by type of project activities will be prepared,

• Income restoration program for vulnerable affected people will be initiated.

• Identification of absentees and legal disputes of the land parcels. 8. PROPOSED MAJOR FOCUS FOR NEXT REPORT 33. The next report will focus on following activities:

• Compensation Payment of Structures at Panchkhal- Melamchi and Dhading to Gorkha Roads projects. • compensation payment at Gorkha and Kavre districts, • Life skill training activities • Assessment of APs who have received compensation • Effectiveness of local level grievance redresses committees • Sufficiency of compensation amount to restore income source of affected people.

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Appendixes

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Appendix A: Status of RP Planning Activities

Does Does Does Name of requi sufficie Scree subproj ADB IR red nt Re S. Name of ning ect approve planning instit budget mar N. subproject carrie categor d IR document ution allocate ks d out y planning prepared set d for doc. up IP/IR Dolakha- 1 Singati Road √ B RP √ √ √ Dhading- 2 Gorkha Road √ B RP √ √ √ Panchkhal- Melamchi 3 Road √ B RP √ √ √ Note: IR = Involuntary Resettlement RP = Resettlement Plan IP = Indigenous People

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Appendix B: RP Implementation Status

S. Name of Compensation payment Deed transfer Income restoration Public Remarks N. subproject training infrastructure reinstated

Target Achieve % Target Achieve % Targ Achi % Targ Ach % et eve et ieve

1 DolakhaSing NA NA NA NA NA NA 10 0 0 2 1 50.00 Land acquisition issue is not ati Road existed till date but 17 nos. of new temporary structure owners have also claimed for compensation, for this processes of verification for further action is on going.

2 DhadingGor 25 0 0 2 1 50.00 Both of the districts Compensation kha Road Determination Committees fixed 131413463.1 54838506.43 41.73 1199 482 40.20 rate of land and distribution process is on going

3 PanchkhalM 191 27 14.14 15 0 0 4 0 0 Both of the districts Compensation elamchi Determination Committees fixed Road 31102787.78 8775315.12 21.35 rate of land and distribution process is on going

Total 162516250.90 63613821.55 39.30 1390 509 36.62 47 0 0.00 8 2 25.00

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Appendix C: Status of compensation distribution as of 30 June 2018

No. of No. of Paid paymen HHs Road Parcel Land Progre Remaini amount till t received wise s parcel ss in Total amount ng date progres compensat Package notice paid till % Parcels (NPRs.) s in % ion issued date

DG -1 316 310 98.1 49930116.75 41127924 82.37 6 200 DG -2 252 172 68.25 33656860.37 13710583 70.45 80 181 Total (Dhading 568 482 84.86 83586977.12 54838506 67.57 86 381 ) DG-3 383 0 0 31927813 0 0 383 0 DG-4 248 0 0 15898673 0 0 248 0 Total 631 0 0 47,826,486.00 0 0 631 0 (Gorkha) Total DG 1199 482 40.2 131413463.1 54838506 41.34 717 381 Road PM/ 163 14 8.58 10907391.77 706740.1 6.48 149 14 Kavre PM 28 13 46.43 20195396.01 8068575 39.95 15 13 /Sindhu Total PM 191 27 14.14 31102787.78 8775315 21.35 164 27 Grand 1390 509 36.62 162516250.9 63613822 39.3 881 408 Total

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Appendix D: Formation of GRC (Formation field level GRC, Gorkha )

Formation Field level GRC at Panchkhal - Melamchi

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Appendix E: Copy of consultative meeting (Nepali) with affected persons and its summary in English. Dhading – Gorkha road section SarbajanikSunaie (Public Hearing) at Jyamuring, NilakanthaMunicipility, Ghading

Field Verification for deed transfer at Gorkha

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Panchkhal – Melamchi road section Meeting at Melamchi municipality

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Meeting at CSC Summary of meetings/discussions (In English)

No of Date Place Summary of discussion Participants

Dhading- Gorkha Road

28/5/2018 Jyamire -8, 17 Different types of the issues were discussed at dhading public hearing including payment of the compensation amount as possible. and Information sharing to community regarding land acquisition area which is additional 2 m. each side from center line of the road where existing road acquired land width was 8 meter which was already acquisition by RAIDP

15/01/2018 Finam, Gorkha 10 Discussion about additional land acquisition area (2m. each side from center line and its compensation amount.

13/02/2018 PakhelPandhera, 10 Discussed about additional land acquisition area Gorkha (2m. each side from center line and current rate of land of existing Khanthok. VDC which was NRs 0.8 million for 509 square meter land.

02/02/2018 Gorkha 25 Formed local level grievance redress committee Municipality - where Mr. HikmatKuwar become chairperson as 1 Gorkha well as locals expressed that they would raise their voice if there is delaying in road construction. The chairman expressed that if working should be implemented smoothly, local people shall be coordinate for the construction works.

02/02/2018 Aalema, 25 Formed local level grievance redress committee Gorkha Muni-2, where Mr. RahamTallaMiya become chairperson as Gorkha well as locals expressed that they would raise their voice if there is delaying in road construction.

02/02/2018 Baguwa, 10 Formed local level grievance redress committee Gorkha where Mr. Shyam Krishna Poudel become chairperson as well as locals expressed that they would support to expedite the road construction work.

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No of Date Place Summary of discussion Participants

02/02/2018 GorkhaMunicipi 25 Formed local level grievance redress committee lity -4 where Mr. KhobaBdrAdhakari become chairperson as well as locals expressed that they would support for the road construction.

02/02/2018 Bhimsen rural 25 Formed local level grievance redress committee municipility -5 where MrPream Chandra Sharestha ward chairman Gorkha become GRC chairperson as well as local express that they would support for road construction.

17/02/2018 PalpaBhanjyan 8 Discussion on forming cost evaluation committee g, Dhading for affected house and structures.

Panchkhal- Melamchi Road

28/01/2018 Mandan, 18 Discussion on land valuation and compensation Deupur, payment of acquired land. Kavrepalancho k

24/03/2018 Melamchi 15 Meeting was chaired by Mayor ( MrDmaberBdr. Municipality Aryal) (2075/01/11 ) Discussion on demarcation of the cutting and compensated area. Zero Kilo to Melamchi road shall be maintain trafficable any time Controlling the road site pollution (regular watering & monitoring) Coordination among elected chairman and local bodies etc

02/04/2018 KuntaBesi 12 Internal meeting conducted between DOR, CSC, office Consultant staffs and Contractors representative Discussion for Amain mobilization at field coordination among district land survey office, Contractors social safeguards focal personal should have coordination among local bodies etc

04/04/2018 Melamchi 18 Discussion for trees clearance at CFUG areas (2075/01/25 Municipality ) Construction progress at field before rainy seasons and coordination among ward chairpersons and dust management at site.

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Appendixes

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Appendix I: Status of Involuntary Resettlement Planning Length of the Roads, SN District RP Consultant km Road Status 1 Kathmandu ERMC/ RRRSDP 10.046 Sankhu-Palubari-Nagarkot Approved from NRA/ADB Bysai –Jhaukhel –Changu –Telkot-Bhattedanda - 2 Bhaktapur ERMC/ RRRSDP 7.588 Nagarkot Road Approved from NRA/ADB Khopasi-Dhungakharka -Chyamranbesi-Milche- 14.055 Borang Road Approved from NRA/ADB 3 Kavre ERMC/ RRRSDP 18.673 Kuntabesi-Nayagoan-Nagarkot Road Approved from NRA/ADB Sunkhani-Lamidanda -Kalinchowk section of 27.37 SunkhaniSangwa Road Approved from NRA/ADB Bhirkot - Sahare- Hawa Section of Bhirkot - 4 Dolakha Gaurav 25.565 Sahare- Hawa -Jiri Road Approved from NRA/ADB 5 Solukhumbu SILT 22.007 Garma-Nele-Bogal Approved from NRA/ADB Devitar – Phulasipokhari Section of Devitar – 16.141 Doramba – Paseban – Kolibagar Road Approved from NRA/ADB 6 Ramechhap Gaurav 38.899 Haldibesi-Dhobi-Dhandebesi Approved from NRA/ADB 7 Sindhuli SILT 29.29 PipalBhanjyang - Haitar - Netrakali Road Approved from NRA/ADB Luitel - Aappipal - Harmibhanjyang - Thalajung – 30.575 Bhachek Road Approved from NRA/ADB Ghympesal - Balkot- Palkhu- Swara-Saurpani- 8 Gorkhka CISC 8.2 Barpak Road Approved from NRA/ADB CISC 2.65 Thaiba - Godamchaur Road Approved from NRA/ADB Godamchour- Godabari- Badikhel- Lelebhanjyang 9 Lalitpur ERMC 14.981 Road Approved from NRA/ADB Belghari – Archalbot - Lamabagar- Serabazaar - 10 Lamjung CISC 12.59 Lituere - Pachok Road Approved from NRA/ADB 11 Okhaldhunga SILT 11.1 Okhaldhunga-Rumjatar Approved from NRA 12 Chitwan CISC 11.5 Khurkhure-Samitar-Thakurivanjyang Road Approved from NRA/ADB

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Appendix II:Details of Compensation Disbursement and Deed Transfer of Resettlement Plan (16 RPs & 1 DDR) Resettlement Plan Implementation Progress Status Compensation payment to AP Deed Transfer

S.N. S.N. District subproject of Name RP Approved Target Total (NRs.) Amount cost Revised Compensation Date to Paid (NPR) Compensation as Date to Paid % Total of HHs Taget Total RP) (Approved HHs Revised HHs of Number toDate Total of as % HHs of Number 1 Kathmandu Sankhu-Palubari- 101264013.9 46613775.23 46.03 55 45 81.82 Nagarkot Road 2 Bhaktapur Bysai –Jhaukhel – 128958649.6 113058300.50 91478166.94 80.91 162 207 171 82.61 Changu –Telkot- Bhattedanda - Nagarkot Road 3 Lalitpur Thaiba - 39767864.77 10611053.00 26.68 144 133 92.361 Godamchaur Road 3 Lalitpur Godamchour- 108566980.6 2673554.00 2.46 392 182 46.4286 Godabari- Badikhel- Lelebhanjyang Road 4 Kavre Khopasi- 38980996.07 7327007.00 18.80 207 66 31.88 Dhungakharka - Chyamranbesi- Milche-Borang Road 4 Kavre Kuntabesi- 100804175.4 64995066.00 64.48 356 110 30.90 Nayagaun- Nagarkot 5 Dolakha Sunkhani- 154 5 3.25 Lamidanda - Kalinchowk section of SunkhaniSangwa Road 5 Dolakha Bhirkot - Sahare- 3614992.26 603000.00 16.68 190 9.00 4.74

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Compensation payment to AP Deed Transfer

S.N. S.N. District subproject of Name RP Approved Target Total (NRs.) Amount cost Revised Compensation Date to Paid (NPR) Compensation as Date to Paid % Total of HHs Taget Total RP) (Approved HHs Revised HHs of Number toDate Total of as % HHs of Number Hawa Section of Bhirkot - Sahare- Hawa -Jiri Road 6 Ramechhap Devitar – 43455520.22 34300577.00 78.93 160 66 41.25 Phulasipokhari Section of Devitar – Doramba – Paseban – Kolibagar Road 6 Ramechhap Haldibesi-Dhobi- 264995031.3 1451178 0.55 474 6 1.27 Dhandebesi Road 7 Okhaldhunga Okhaldhunga- 78950259.54 54727386.4 69.32 355 235 66.20 Rumjatar Road 8 Solukhumbu Garma-Nele-Bogal 15340666 20,235,609.21 6551541.48 32.38 320 231 60 25.97 Road 9 Gorkha Luitel - Aappipal - 55819915.28 5132748.2 9.20 342 135 39.47 Harmibhanjyang - Thalajung – Bhachek Road 9 Gorkha Ghympesal - 14005910.14 4346853 31.04 109 65 59.63 Balkot- Palkhu- Swara-Saurpani- Barpak Road 10 Lamjung Belghari – 12296369.11 6016287.00 48.93 267 69 25.84 Archalbot - Lamabagar- Serabazaar - Lituere - Pachok Road 11 Chitwan Khurkhure 1164487.14 1023365.63 87.88

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Compensation payment to AP Deed Transfer

S.N. S.N. District subproject of Name RP Approved Target Total (NRs.) Amount cost Revised Compensation Date to Paid (NPR) Compensation as Date to Paid % Total of HHs Taget Total RP) (Approved HHs Revised HHs of Number toDate Total of as % HHs of Number (Highway) - Samitar - Thakurivanjyang Road 12 Sindhuli PipalBhanjyang - 20295898.10 3719065.52 18.32 191 60 31.41 Haitar - Netrakali Road Total 1017276323.51 341570624.40 33.58 3834 1417 36.96

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Appendix III: Fortnightly Report Resettlement Plan Implementation Progress Status

Compensation payment to APs Deed Transfer Deeds Transfered

to HHs

S.N. District of Name subproject Planned Actual vs Dateof CDC Meeting Dateof Call for AP Applicationsfor CompensationClaims Completionfor Date Verificationof APs' ApplicationDocuments StartingDate CompletionDate ApprovedRP Total Amount Target (NRs.) Revisedcost Compensation to Paid Date (NPR) Compensation to Paid Dateas of % Total Budget StartingDate CompletionDate TotalTaget HHs (ApprovedRP) RevisedHHs Numberof HHs toDate of % as Total Numberof HHs

Planned Sankhu- O Palubari- 10 11 10 ng Nagarkot Sep, Sep, 10-Oct- Ong 101264 46613 Oct, oi 1 Kathmandu Road Actual 2017 2017 Ongoing 17 oing 013.9 775.23 46.03 2017 ng 55 45 81.82 Bysai – Jhaukhel – Planned Changu – Telkot- O Bhattedand 27 5 1130 5 ng Bhaktapur a -Nagarkot June, Jul, 5 Jul, Ong 128958 5830 91478 Jul,2 oi 20 2 Road Actual 2017 2017 Ongoing 2017 oing 649.6 0.50 166.94 80.91 017 ng 162 7 171 82.61 1st Last wee 2nd wee k of week of k of Feb, Ffeb, Feb, Planned 2018 Ongoing 2018 2018

Lalitpur O Thaiba - 13 ng Godamcha 14 Jan, March, Ong 397678 10611 oi 92.36 3 ur Road Actual 2018 2018 oing 64.77 053.00 26.68 ng 144 133 1

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S.N. District of Name subproject Planned Actual vs Dateof CDC Meeting Dateof Call for AP Applicationsfor CompensationClaims Completionfor Date Verificationof APs' ApplicationDocuments StartingDate CompletionDate ApprovedRP Total Amount Target (NRs.) Revisedcost Compensation to Paid Date (NPR) Compensation to Paid Dateas of % Total Budget StartingDate CompletionDate TotalTaget HHs (ApprovedRP) RevisedHHs Numberof HHs toDate of % as Total Numberof HHs 1st Last wee 2nd wee k of week of k of Godamcho Feb , Feb, Feb, ur- Planned 2018 Ongoing 2018 2018 Godabari- O Badikhel- 11 ng Lelebhanjy 14 Jan, March, Ong 108566 26735 oi 46.42 ang Road Actual 2018 2018 oing 980.6 54.00 2.46 ng 392 182 86 Khopasi-

Dhungakha Planned

rka - Chyamranb O esi-Milche- 24 4 ng Borang 5 May , May, 4 Jul, Ong 389809 73270 Jul, oi Road Actual 2017 2017 Ongoing 2017 oing 96.07 07.00 18.80 2017 ng 207 66 31.88 Last

Kavre week of Dec, Planned 2017 1st wee O Kuntabesi- 27 8 k of ng Nayagaun- Aug, Sep, Dec, Ong 100804 64995 Jan, oi 4 Nagarkot Actual 2017 2017 Ongoing 2017 oing 175.4 066.00 64.48 2018 ng 356 110 30.90 Sunkhani- 1st Lamidanda wee - k of

Kalinchowk Jan, Dolakha Dolakha 5 section of Planned 2018

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S.N. District of Name subproject Planned Actual vs Dateof CDC Meeting Dateof Call for AP Applicationsfor CompensationClaims Completionfor Date Verificationof APs' ApplicationDocuments StartingDate CompletionDate ApprovedRP Total Amount Target (NRs.) Revisedcost Compensation to Paid Date (NPR) Compensation to Paid Dateas of % Total Budget StartingDate CompletionDate TotalTaget HHs (ApprovedRP) RevisedHHs Numberof HHs toDate of % as Total Numberof HHs SunkhaniS angwa Road Actual NA 154 5 3.25 Bhirkot - O Sahare- ng Hawa March, April, Jul, April, April, oi Section of Planned 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 ng Bhirkot - Sahare- Hawa -Jiri June, Ong 361499 60300 9.0 Road Actual ##### 2018 oing 2.26 0.00 16.68 190 0 4.74 3rd wee 3rd k of O Devitar – week of Marc ng Phulasipok March, h, oi hari Section Planned 2018 2018 ng of Devitar – 1st Doramba – wee O Paseban – 18 25 k of ng Kolibagar Sep, Sep, Ong 434555 34300 April, oi

Ramechhap Ramechhap Road Actual 2017 2017 Ongoing oing 20.22 577.00 78.93 2018 ng 160 66 41.25 Last wee 1st Haldibesi- k of wee Dhobi- Marc k of Dhandebes h, 11 Jan, 29 Jan, Feb, 6 i Road Planned 2018 2018 2018 2018 94

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Compensation payment to APs Deed Transfer Deeds Transfered

to HHs

S.N. District of Name subproject Planned Actual vs Dateof CDC Meeting Dateof Call for AP Applicationsfor CompensationClaims Completionfor Date Verificationof APs' ApplicationDocuments StartingDate CompletionDate ApprovedRP Total Amount Target (NRs.) Revisedcost Compensation to Paid Date (NPR) Compensation to Paid Dateas of % Total Budget StartingDate CompletionDate TotalTaget HHs (ApprovedRP) RevisedHHs Numberof HHs toDate of % as Total Numberof HHs O 11 ng March, 264995 14511 oi

Actual 2018 031.3 78 0.55 ng 474 6 1.27

ga Planned Okhaldhun O ga- 25 9 ng Rumjatar 15 Oct, Oct, 9 Dec, Ong 789502 54727 Dec, oi 7 Okhaldhun Road Actual 2017 2017 Ongoing 2017 oing 59.54 386.4 69.32 2017 ng 355 235 66.20

13 Jul, Planned 2017 O Garma- 13 20,23 14 ng

Solukhumbu Nele-Bogal 8 Jul, Jul, 14 Jul, Ong 153406 5,609 65515 Jul, oi 23 8 Road Actual 2017 2017 Ongoing 2017 oing 66 .21 41.48 32.38 2017 ng 320 1 60 18.75 1st 2nd wee 1st 1st wee Luitel - k of week of week of k of Aappipal - Feb, Feb, Feb, Feb, Harmibhanj Planned 2018 2018 2018 2018 yang - O Thalajung – ng

Gorkha Bhachek 10 Jan, Ong 558199 51327 oi 39.47 Road Actual 2018 oing 15.28 48.2 9.20 ng 342 135 37 Ghympesal Last Last Last 2nd - Balkot- wee week of week of wee Palkhu- k of Nov, Dec, k of 9 Swara- Planned Nov, 2017 2017 Jan,

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Compensation payment to APs Deed Transfer Deeds Transfered

to HHs

S.N. District of Name subproject Planned Actual vs Dateof CDC Meeting Dateof Call for AP Applicationsfor CompensationClaims Completionfor Date Verificationof APs' ApplicationDocuments StartingDate CompletionDate ApprovedRP Total Amount Target (NRs.) Revisedcost Compensation to Paid Date (NPR) Compensation to Paid Dateas of % Total Budget StartingDate CompletionDate TotalTaget HHs (ApprovedRP) RevisedHHs Numberof HHs toDate of % as Total Numberof HHs Saurpani- 2017 2018 Barpak Road O 02 11 ng April, May, Ong 140059 43468 oi Actual 2018 2018 oing 10.14 53 31.04 ng 109 65 59.63

3rd 3rd 2nd week wee 3rd 3rd wee Belghari – of k of week of week of k of Archalbot - March, Dec, Dec, Dec, Jan, Lamabagar Planned 2018 2017 2017 2017 2018

Lamjung - Final Serabazaar CDC O - Lituere - April 20 ng Pachok 10, May, Ong 122963 60162 oi 10 Road Actual 2018 2018 oing 69.11 87.00 48.93 ng 267 69 25.84 Last wee 15 k of Jan, 15 Jan, 20 Jan, Jan, Khurkhure Planned 2018 2018 2018 2018

(Highway) - O Chitwan Samitar - 08 ng Thakurivanj 29 Jan, May, Ong 116448 10233 oi 11 yang Road Actual 2018 2018 oing 7.14 65.63 87.88 ng

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S.N. District of Name subproject Planned Actual vs Dateof CDC Meeting Dateof Call for AP Applicationsfor CompensationClaims Completionfor Date Verificationof APs' ApplicationDocuments StartingDate CompletionDate ApprovedRP Total Amount Target (NRs.) Revisedcost Compensation to Paid Date (NPR) Compensation to Paid Dateas of % Total Budget StartingDate CompletionDate TotalTaget HHs (ApprovedRP) RevisedHHs Numberof HHs toDate of % as Total Numberof HHs 3rd 3rd 2nd week wee 3rd wee of k of week of k of March, Jan, Jan, Feb, Planned 2018 2018 2017 2018 Final Sindhuli PipalBhanjy CDC O ang - Haitar on 21 ng - Netrakali March, Ong 202958 37190 oi 12 Road Actual 2018 oing 98.10 65.52 18.32 ng 191 60 31.41 101727 34157 6323.5 0624.4 141 Total 1 0 33.58 3834 7 36.96

Up to reporting period, all 17 RPs (including 1 DDR) are already approved from NRA/ABD. The RP cost shown in table is estimated cost and can be changed after CDC decision/revised cadastral survey.

Note: Bhaktapur and Solukhumbu districts have revised RP Implementation cost. However, total sum varies from the earlier cost.

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Appendix IV: Status of Compliance with Relevant Covenants

Schedule Covenants Type Complied (Yes or Not Progress Status/Remarks Yet Due or On-going or Partially Complied or Not Applicable)

Schedule Conditions for Award of Contracts Environmental Ongoing • IEE reports are prepared and 4-7 Safeguard The Borrower shall not award any approved by concerned agencies Works contract for a Subproject (NRA). Few road sub-projects are which involves environmental under construction though IEE are impacts until the EA or the IAs still under preparation. However, has: construction activities are limited to structural activities in those road sub- (a) Obtained the final approval projects. of the EIA/IEE from the Ministry of Science, Technology and • Provisional sum of money for Environment(for EMP is allocated in work contracts. EIAs)/concerned sector agency (for IEEs) (b) Incorporated the relevant provisions from the EMP into the Works contract.

Schedule Project is implemented in Administrative Yes Noted and considered. 5-1 accordance with PAM.

Schedule Preparation, design, Environmental Ongoing IEE prepared as per applicable law 5-4 implementation, and operation of Safeguard and EARF. EMP of approved IEE are

each Subproject comply with under implementation.

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Schedule Covenants Type Complied (Yes or Not Progress Status/Remarks Yet Due or On-going or Partially Complied or Not Applicable) applicable laws; the Environmental Safeguards; the EARF; and IEE and EMP.

Schedule Land acquisition and resettlement Resettlement Ongoing Out 17 approved RPs, 17 subprojects 5-5 activities comply with laws; the have started compensation Involuntary Resettlement distribution and deed transfer Safeguards; the RF; and the process. respective RP.

Schedule Necessary budgetary and human Safeguard Ongoing • NRA is arranging the 5-7 resources made available to fully necessary budget for the implement the EMPs, and the implementation of RPs. RPs. • Total 126.91has been sanctioned by GoN for EEAP subproject. And, additional NRs 658.15 million has been sanctioned from Government of Nepal for the fiscal year 2073/2074. • Focal persons for IEE and RP in CLPIU-GMaLI are assigned.

Schedule All bidding documents comply Safeguard Ongoing Noted and considered.

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Schedule Covenants Type Complied (Yes or Not Progress Status/Remarks Yet Due or On-going or Partially Complied or Not Applicable) 5-8 with IEE, EMP, and RP; budget is made available for environmental and social measures; any unanticipated environmental, resettlement or indigenous peoples risks notified by a written notice; and condition of roads, agricultural land and other infrastructure recorded prior to construction.

Schedule (a) A semi-annual Safeguards Safeguards Yes Noted and under follow-up. Semi- 5-9 Monitoring Reports submitted to annual social safeguard monitoring ADB and disclose relevant report prepared and submitted along information; (b) any unanticipated with quarterly report. environmental and/or social risks and impacts reported promptly to ADB; and (c) any actual or potential breach of compliance reported.

Schedule No proceeds of the Loan are used Safeguard Yes No activities listed in Appendix 5 of 5-10 to finance any activity included in SPS are carried under EEAP. the list of prohibited investment activities provided in Appendix 5 of the SPS.

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Schedule Covenants Type Complied (Yes or Not Progress Status/Remarks Yet Due or On-going or Partially Complied or Not Applicable)

Schedule The core labor standards and Safeguard Yes Noted and considered. 5-11 applicable laws are complied. Bidding documents and contracts require that the contractors (a) comply with applicable labor law and incorporate workplace occupational safety norms; (b) do not use child labor; (c) do not discriminate workers; (d) do not use forced labor; € allow freedom of association.

Schedule (a)the GESI/AP is implemented; Safeguard Ongoing Resources allocated and 5-12 (b) adequate resources are implementation underway. allocated for implementation of the GESI/AP (c) the bidding documents and contracts comply with the GESI/AP and (d) progress on implementation of GESI/AP regularly monitored and reported to ADB. Schedule Within 6 months after the Effective Safeguard Ongoing First level of GRM is active at field. 5-15 Date, the Borrower shall prepare a Grievance Redress Mechanism, acceptable to ADB, and establish a special committee to receive

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Schedule Covenants Type Complied (Yes or Not Progress Status/Remarks Yet Due or On-going or Partially Complied or Not Applicable) and resolve complaints/grievances or act upon reports from stakeholders on misuse of funds and other irregularities, including grievances due to resettlement. The special committee will (a) make public of the existence of this Grievance Redress Mechanism, (b) review and address grievances of stakeholders of the Project, in relation to either the Project, any of the service providers, or any person responsible for carrying out any aspect of the Project; and (c) proactively and constructively responding to them.

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Appendix V: Details of Consultation Meeting Minutes

Name of the Sub- .N. District Project Consultation Issues were discussed Briefing about the Project to the communities.

ii) Demanded compensation for extra new cutting and their losses of Location:Shankarapur structures as per recent market rate. 1 Kathmandu Sankhu-Palubari Road Municipality-8,9; Male 28; i) Demanded compensation for extra new cutting and their losses of structures as per recent market rate.

ii) Community demanded APs should Byasi-Jhaukhel- Location;Nagarkot Municipality be facilitated by Life Skill Trainings. 2 Bhaktapur Changu-Telkot Road 8;Male 18; Female 3 Godamchour- Godabari- Location;Godavari Municipality- i) Community demanded structures’ Lalitpur Badikhel- 8;Male-10 , Female-5 compensation at recent market price. 3 Lelebhanjyang Road

i) Community demanded structures’ compensation at recent market price. ii) During construction, maximum local laborers should be used. Khopasi-Dhungakharka Location; Bethanchowk Rural iii) Those left plots during cadastral -Chyamranbesi-Milche- Municipality-5,8,4; Male -50; survey should be incorporated in the 4.i Kavre Borang Road Female 7 re-survey.

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Name of the Sub- .N. District Project Consultation Issues were discussed Location: Mandan Deupur Municipality ward no. 2,4,. Kuntabesi-Nayagoan- No.of consultation:3 , Female: i) Briefing about EEAP to the 4.ii Kavre Nagarkot Road 11 Male:20 communities.

ii) APs should be provided by different livelihood trainings eg., hair cutting saloon, advanced animal husbandry, professional agricultural training etc. iii) During construction maximum, local laborers should be used. iv) Community demanded that cutting affected trees/saplings should be carried out in the presence of related CFUGs members.

v). Community demanded structures’ compensation at recent market price. vi) Upgrading road works should be started as soon as possible. i) Briefing about EEAP to the communities. ii) This road should ensure direct Location: Manthali benefits to the community people. Municipalityward no. 4,1,2. Devitar-Fulasi-Pokhari No.of consultation:3 , Female: 5 Ramechhap Road 9, Male:33 iii) Regarding missing plots

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Name of the Sub- .N. District Project Consultation Issues were discussed iv) Demanded compensation of extra new cutting and their losses of structures during construction period. v) Demanded/requested road should be good. During construction, protection of landslide area, soil erosion and public gap area should be ensured through plantation and other appropriate measures. Construction of community people toilets and irrigation cannels should be prioritized.

vi) Community requested that road should be accessible up to Primary School which is beyond the RoW(500m far away from the constructed road).

i) Briefing about EEAP to the communities.

ii) Demanded compensation of extra new cutting and their losses of structures during construction period. Location: KamalamaiMunicipality, No.of Pipalbhanzyang- consultation: 1, Women: 10, iii) Demanded good spoil management 6 Haitar Sindhuli Men:70 and plantation.

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Name of the Sub- .N. District Project Consultation Issues were discussed iv) During construction, maximum local labors should be used. v) APs should be provided different livelihood trainings.

vi) Demand structures’ compensation at recent market price. vii) During the construction time, reconstruction demanded if any infrastructure damage occurred (within CoI 10m or beyond this too) such as irrigation canal, tap stand, pati, temple etc. i) Briefing about EEAP to the communities ii) During implementation, sticking to centerline. Road (either gravel or black top)should be extended up to Sombare Bazaar. iii) Demanded compensation of extra new cutting and their losses of structures during construction period. iv) Community requested to protect maximum infrastructures during Location: Dudkunda construction. Garma-Nele-Bogal Municipality,No.of consultation: v) Construction should start as soon as 7 Solukhumbu Road 4, Female ; Male:31 possible. Okhaldhunga- Municipality 3,2,1 Male-59; i) Briefing about EEAP to the 8 Okhaldhunga Rumjhatar Road Female-20 communities.

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Name of the Sub- .N. District Project Consultation Issues were discussed

ii) Demanded compensation of extra new cutting and their losses of structures as per recent market rate.

iii) Community demanded to upgrade the road up to Ramilo Danda. iv). APs should be provided different livelihood trainings eg., hair cutting saloon, advanced animal husbandry, professional agricultural training.

v) During construction, maximum local laborers should be used. vi) Implementation starts as soon as possible. viii)Demanded good spoil management and plantation.

i) Briefing about EEAP to the communities. Luitel-Aappipal- Location: Palungtar Municipality Harmibhanjyang- ward no. 3,8,9,13. No.of ii) Demanded compensation of extra Thalajung-Bhachek consultation:4 , Female: 25, new cutting and their losses of 9 Gorkha Road Male:60 structures as per recent market rate.

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Name of the Sub- .N. District Project Consultation Issues were discussed iii) Community demanded upgrading of road. Existing trees/saplings should be protected as much as possible. iv). APs request that public as well as private structures should be protected as much as possible. v) During upgrading the road, quality should be good. vi) At Raguwa ale village, Jhakridevisthan should be protected during road construction

10 Dolakha Sunkhani-Kampole - - i) Briefing about EEAP to the Belghari-Archalbot- communities Lamabagar- Sernabazar-Liture- Location ;Location ;DordiRural ii) Community will help to count the 11 Lamjung Pachok Road Municipality2; Female;32; CFUGs trees and structures too.

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Appendix VI: Photographs

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