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Social Monitoring Report Social Monitoring Report Project Number: PRC-44037 January–December 2016 PRC: Shaanxi Weinan Luyang Integrated Saline Land Management Project External Monitoring Report on Land Acquisition and Resettlement (No.3) Prepared by the Shanxi Academy of Social Sciences for the Project Management Office for the Weinan City Government and the Asian Development Bank. 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. Your attention is directed to the terms of use section of this website. 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. ADB FINANCED PROJECT: L2980-PRC: Shaanxi Weinan Luyang Integrated Saline Land Management Project External Monitoring Report on LA&R (No.3 ) (Monitoring Duration: January –December 2016) Shanxi Academy of Social Sciences April, 2017 CONTENTS 1 PROJECT DESCRIPTION .................................................................. 1 1.1 WORK BACKGROUND ........................................................................ 1 1.2 PROJECT BRIEFING ....................................................................... 4 1.2.1 Contents of the project ......................................................... 4 1.2.2 Impact of project land occupation and house demolition ........................... 6 1.2.3 Benefited area and affected area ................................................ 7 1.2.4 Organizational Arrangement ...................................................... 7 1.3 RESETTLEMENT BUDGET ..................................................................... 8 1.4 MONITORING ARRANGEMENTS .................................................................. 8 2 EXTERNAL MONITORING ON LA&R ......................................................... 10 2.1 EXTERNAL MONITORING .................................................................... 10 2.2 RANGE AND CONTENTS OF MONITORING .......................................................... 10 2.3 MONITORING METHODS ..................................................................... 10 2.4 PROCEDURE OF MONITORING ................................................................. 11 2.4.1 Socioeconomic development status of the affected area in project land acquisition 11 2.4.2 Data of sample households ...................................................... 15 2.5 IMPLEMENTATION OF LA&R ................................................................. 16 2.5.1 Land acquisition and demolition progress ....................................... 16 2.5.2 Compensation standard of LA&R .................................................. 20 3 MONITORING RESULTS .................................................................. 22 3.1 PROJECT PROGRESS ...................................................................... 22 3.2 CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS ................................................................... 27 3.3 IMPACTS OF LAND ACQUISITION .............................................................. 27 3.4 TEMPORARY LAND OCCUPATION ............................................................... 29 3.5 TEMPORARY BUILDING DEMOLITION ............................................................ 29 3.6 AFFECTED PERSONS ....................................................................... 30 4 MEASURES FOR RELOCATION AND RESETTLEMENT ............................................ 32 4.1 LAND REDISTRIBUTION AND INCOME RESTORATION MEASURES .......................................... 32 4.2 COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION MEASURES FOR SALT PANS ........................................ 33 4.3 COMPENSATION AND RECLAIM MEASURES FOR TEMPORARILY OCCUPIED LAND ................................. 34 4.4 BUILDING DEMOLITION AND RELOCATION ........................................................ 34 4.5 ECONOMIC REHABILITATION PROGRAM FOR VULNERABLE GROUPS ......................................... 34 4.6 GENDER ISSUES ......................................................................... 35 4.7 REHABILITATION PROGRAM OF SPECIAL FACILITIES ................................................ 35 5 COMPENSATION STANDARDS AND PAYMENT .................................................. 36 5.1 COMPENSATION POLICY .................................................................... 36 5.2 COMPENSATION STANDARDS .................................................................. 36 5.3 PAYMENT SITUATION ...................................................................... 37 6 INFORMATION DISCLOSURE AND CONSULTATION ............................................. 39 6.1 DEFINITION OF STAKEHOLDER ............................................................... 39 6.2 INFORMATION DISCLOSURE .................................................................. 39 6.2.1 Implementing agencies and approach ............................................. 39 6.2.2 Contents of the information disclosure ......................................... 40 6.2.3 Timing of information disclosure ............................................... 40 6.3 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ................................................................... 41 6.3.1 Public participation activities finished for now ............................... 41 6.3.2 Aspects of public participation in project implementation stage ................. 43 6.3.3 Village Meetings ............................................................... 43 6.4 GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISMS .............................................................. 44 7 MAIN FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................... 47 7.1 MAIN FINDINGS OF EXTERNAL MONITORING IMPLEMENTATION OF RP ...................................... 47 7.2 RECOMMENDATIONS IN NEXT STEPS ............................................................. 47 APPENDIX 1 VILLAGES REMOVAL AND GROUPING OF DANGMU TOWN ................................. 49 APPENDIX 2 RECEIPTS FOR PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION FEES OF ALKALI DISCHARGE CANAL PROJECT ... 51 APPENDIX 3 CASHING TABLE FOR GROUND ATTACHMENTS OF ALKALI DISCHARGE CANAL PROJECT ........ 58 List of Table Table 1-1 Basic information of the project ................................................................ 6 Table 2-1 Socioeconomic data of the affected villages ........................................ 14 Table 2-2 List for investigation of basic data of sample households ..................... 15 Table 2-3 Impact of drainage canal project ............................................................ 17 Table 2-4 Compensation standard table for determined drainage canal project ....... 21 Table 3-2 Summary table for land acquisition and demolition and resettlement ...... 23 Table 3-3 Impact condition of land acquisition and house demolition and resettlement of each contract package ................................................................................ 24 Table 3-8 Situation of the engineering building demolition...................................... 29 Table 3-9 Completion progress of the building demolition in Project 2 .................... 30 Table 3-10 Situation of the affected households of the Project ............................... 30 Table 4-1 Employment of Local Labor Force by the Project ................................. 32 Table 4-2 List for Scientific Training of Dangmu Town in 2016 ............................... 33 Table 5-1 Sheet of compensation standard ............................................................ 36 Table 5-2 Sheet of compensation disbursement ..................................................... 37 Table 5-3 Sheet of compensation disbursement to the affected villages ................ 38 Table 6-1 Process of information disclosure ........................................................... 40 Table 6-2 Procedure of Public Participation ........................................................... 42 List of Figures Figure 1-1 Project Sketch Map .............................................................................. 3 Figure 1-2 Institutional frame chart of saline and alkaline soils management in Weinan Luyang Lake ..................................................................................................... 8 Figure 2-1 Photocopy of document: Pu Zheng Fa (1994) No.57 .............................. 19 Figure 4-1 Photo of Agricultural Technique Training of Luyangxin Village .............. 33 Figure 6-1 PMO personnel are undergoing public consultation in affected village .... 43 1 Project Description 1.1 Work Background Weinan Luyang Lake Integrated Saline and Alkaline Land Management Project is located on the north bank of the Weihe River and within the Pucheng and Fuping counties in Weinan City of Guanzhong Plain of eastern Shaanxi Province, with a service area of 418km 2. 144 villages of 10 towns in Pucheng and Fuping County are involved in the Project. The topography of the project area is high in the west and low in the east, tilting from northwest to southeast, and low in the middle and high on all sides, as a circular closed low-lying land. Luyang Lake is in the middle of low-lying areas. Because Luyang Lake was a collecting area by surface water and groundwater pool, and its sediment contained more saline and alkali, with serious water mineralization, coupled by the climate,
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