Social Monitoring Report

Internal Monitoring Report January – June 2016

VIE: Power Transmission Investment Program, Tranche 2 500kV Pleiku-My Phuoc-Cau Bong Transmission Line

Prepared by the Central Vietnam Power Projects Management Board for the National Power Transmission Corporation 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.

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.

NATIONAL POWER TRANSMISSION CORPORATION CENTRAL VIETNAM POWER PROJECTS MANAGEMENT BOARD

PLEIKU – MY PHUOC – CAU BONG 500 KV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT

Loan: VIE-2959 Period: January - June 2016

SEMIANNUAL INTERNAL MONITORING REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF LARAP/REMDP (POWER TRANSMISSION INVESTMENT PROGRAM - TRANCHE 2) (LOAN 2959-VIE)

June 2016 Table of Contents

ABBREVIATIONS ...... 4

I. GENERAL INFORMATION OF THE PROJECT ...... 5

1.1. Context and Project Implementation Progress ...... 5

1.2. Impacts of the project ...... 8

1.3. The affected households and severely affected households ...... 10

1.4. Impacts on ethnic minorities ...... 11

II. PROGRESS OF THE PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION ...... 12

III. SAFEGUARD POLICY AND HUMAN RESOURCES ...... 12

IV. DETAILED ACTIVITES UNDERTAKEN ...... 14

V. MONITORING ...... 18 a. Internal monitoring...... 18 b. Monitoring the compliance of RP implementation ...... 19

VI. CONCLUSION AND PLAN FOR NEXT STEP ...... 19

ANNEX 1. GAP/ CAP ...... 20

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TABLES

Table 1: Project components ...... 5

Table 2: Specifications of 500kV transmission line Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong ...... 6

Table 3: Results of the implementation of the project land acquisition up to 30th June 2015 ...... 8

Table 4: Results of the plan implementation ...... 9

Table 5: Numbers of affected houses to be to díplaced along the transmission line ...... 10

Table 6: Numbers of affected households and permanent land acquisition households and displaced households ...... 10

Table 7: Impacts of land acquisition on the severely affected people ...... 11

Table 8: Members of the monitoring mission ...... 13

Table 9. Operation of REMDPs/LARAPs up to December 2015 ...... 14

Table 10: Total amount of compensation and assistance up to date of 30/12/2015 ...... 15

Table 11: The total land area of permanent acquisition and land affected under a corridor and and temporary borrowing land for road construction material yard ...... 15

Table 12: Results of re-solving the existing gap of the previous reporting period ...... 16

FIGURE

Figure 1: Location of 500 kV transmission line Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong ...... 7

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ABBREVIATIONS ADB Asian Development Bank AFD Agence Française de Développement AP Affected households CPMB Central Vietnam Power Project Management Board CPCs Commune People’s Committees CPMB Central Power Projects Management Board DARD Department of Agriculture and Rural Development DPCs District People’s Committees DONRE Department of Natural Resources and Environment DRCC District Resettlement and Compensation Committee REMDP Ethnic Minority Development Plan FGDs Focus Group Discussions GoV Government of Vietnam LARAP Land Acquisition and Resettlement IDIs In-depth interviews IEE Initial Environmental Examination MONRE Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment NPT National Power Transmission Corporation PAHs The project affected households PAPs The project affected peoples PPC Provincial People Commmittee PTC3 Power Transmission Company No.3 PTC4 Power Transmission Company No.4 RoW Right of Way TL: Transmission Line

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I. GENERAL INFORMATION OF THE PROJECT 1.1. Context and Project Implementation Progress 1. The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam has applied for a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the co-financing with Agence Francaise de Developpment (AFD) towards the cost of the Power Transmission Investment Program, Tranche 2. Part of the proceeds of the loan will be applied for the construction of the Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong 500 kV transmission line. The National Power Transmission Corporation (NPT) is the investor and its executing agency. As that the Central Vietnam Power Project Management Board (CPMB) acted as the management and implementing agency for the project. The Pleiku - MyPhuoc - Cau Bong 500kV transmission line is a high priority project and is one of several projects for construction to meet its target of connecting 90% of the population to electricity by 2020 and 100% by 2025. The TL will meet the energy demand in the southern part of Vietnam growing at 14% per year and up to 25% in 2015. The TL constructed together along with the expansion of Pleiku substation will enhance power supply reliability for the rapid development in the southern provinces of Vietnam. 2. The Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong 500 kV transmission line has 437 km in length and traverses crossing 5 provinces (Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Binh Phuoc and Binh Duong) and Ho Chi Minh City. The line did not cross or intrude into any buffer areas or any possible planned future extension of conservation areas (Figure 1).

Table 1: Project components Components Length (km) Starting point End point Number of Part of tranmission line 82,768 Busbar 500kV of G15 + 403m 173 passing Gia Lai Pleiku sub-station Part of tranmission line 74,841 G13 (Picket G26 (Picket 164 passing Đăk Lăk 827+68) 1576+09) Part of tranmission line 115,933 G25-G26 (Picket G50-G51 235 passing Đăk Nông 1576+09) (Picket 2735+42) Part of tranmission line 102,892 G51 (Picket G69-G70 (Picket 201 passing Binh Phuoc 2735+42) 3764+34) Part of tranmission line 46,228 G70 (Picket G81-G82 (Picket 99 passing Binh Duong 3764+34) 4426+62) Part of tranmission line 14,011 G81-G82 (Cột Busbar 500kV of 54 passing Ho Chi Minh 4426+62) Cau Bong Total length 436,673 926

3. The technical parameters of the 500kV transmission lines are presented in Table 2 as follows:

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Table 2: Specifications of 500kV transmission line Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong The line Specification Length (km) 436,673 - Starting point Busbar 500kV of Pleiku sub-station - End point At busbar 500kV of Cau Bong RoW 32 m Earth grounding width 60 m Voltage 500 kV Number of circuits 2 Conductor 4xACSR-330/43 Earth wire OPGW-90 & PHLOX-116 Optical repeater cable 24 Suspension towers (number) 808 - Hight of towers Average 65 m, highest - 79 m - Coverage area /1 tower 337,62 m² Tension towers (number) 118 - Hight of Tension towers 60 m, highest 72m - Coverage area /1 tension tower 653,4 m²

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Start at Pleiku Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong 500kV Transmission substation line

Notes:

The red areas are national parks

The yellow areas are national reserves

The dark green areas are Cultural- Historical areas

End at Cau Bong substation

Figure 1: Location of 500 kV transmission line Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong

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1.2. Impacts of the project a. Impact on land acquisition 4. The Project acquired permanently land area: 371,167.1 m2. This area is now permanently acquired for the construction of 926 towers, stations, roads etc. Actually, the land affected within the RoW is 11,011,339 m2. Actual temporary borrowing land area for the construction of road and material yard is 90,472 m2 (see table 3). The affected land types are agricultural land for cultivating rice and cassava and forest land and housing land. Table 3: Results of the implementation of the project land acquisition up to 30th June 2015 The area of permanent Land area Temporary land land acquisition affected within area for road Nr. Province/City (basement, stations, the RoW construction, roads) (m2) (m2) material yard (m2) 1. Gia Lai 79,108 2,528,415 13,376 2. Đak Lak 66,562 831,838 6,288 3. Đak Nong 100,390.70 2,963,193 14,476 4. Binh Phuoc 77,757.62 2,872,805 14,360 5. Binh Duong 27,699.81 1,344,687 15,948 6. HCM city 19,649 470,400 26,024 Total 371,167.1 11,011,339 90,472

- Gia Lai 5. In Gia Lai province, the project constructed 173 colunm towers, having 500kV substation expansion and Playku operational road construction etc. The total acquired land area: 7.25 ha (including landownership are organisations). Affected land area in the corridor is approximately: 264 ha. In the course of construction, borrowing land area for road construction is 13,376 m2, this whole area was returned to the land owners. - Dak Lak 6. In Dak Lak province, the project constructed 163 colunm towers with a length 75,1km, acquired land area is: 8.6 hectares (including land area passing through the forest), the land area affected in a corridor estimated: 240 ha. The borrowing land area for road construction is 6,288 m2. - Dak Nong 7. In Dak Nong province, the project constructed 236 colunm towers, with a length of approximately 116,3km, acquired area is: 10.8 ha, the land area affected in a corridor calculated about 372 hectares. The borrwoing land area used for road construction is 14,476 m2 which was returned to the land owners.

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- Binh Phuoc 8. In Binh Phuoc province, the project constructed 201 colunm towers, with a length 102,9 km, recovery area: 7.9 hectares; affected area in a corridor approximately: 320 ha. The borrowing land area used for road construction is 14,360 m2. - Binh Duong 9. In Binh Duong province, the project constructed 99 colunm towers, with a length 46,6km, acquired area is: 2.3 hectares, the land area affected in the corridor about 149 hectares. The borrowing land area used for road construction is 15 948 m2. - Ho Chi Minh 10. In Ho Chi Minh City, the project constructed 53 colunm towers, with a length 13,9km. In additional it has upgraded 500 kV line (circuit 2) in the province of Ho Chi Minh City from 1 circuit to 2 curcuit with a length about 8,345m. The acquired land area is: 1.9 hectares. The land area affected the corridor approximately 71 hectares. The borrowing land area used for road construction is 26 024 m2. b. Affected trees 11. The total numbers of affected trees were 471,825 trees in falling, including 94.5% of industrial plants and the like such as rubber, cashew, the fruit trees accounted for 2.9% and the remaining are other fallen plants sharing 2.6%. The affected trees are split in groups of industrial plants (including cashew, coffee and rubber). The remaining trees are all kinds of fruit trees and forest trees, timber trees, shade trees.

Table 4: Results of the plan implementation Numbers of tree cutting Nr. Province (tree) 1. Gia Lai 134,292 2. Đak Lak 27,655 3. Đak Nong 101,758 4. Binh Phuoc 156,245 5. Binh Duong 42,155 6. HCM city 9,720 Total 471,825 12. The number of industrial trees were greatly influenced in Gia Lai province with 171,142 falling trees; the coffee trees are majority (nearly 100 thousand trees), the coffee trees has the biggest affection figure in Dak Nong province with about 182,000 trees in falling. The rubber trees are mostly affected in Binh Phuoc province with over 70,000 trees fallen, and the second rank is in Binh Duong province with having 50,000 cutting rubber trees. All rubber trees in these two provinces have been in harvested; some of them are starting for a harvest. So the lost is high at farmer side.

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c. Impacts on houses and buildings 13. The safety corridor line with the 32m width along with a permanent land acquisition to build the tower set, therefore the project has required the permanent land with removing 541 houses out of the corridor described as follows: (Table 5). Table 5: Numbers of affected houses to be to díplaced along the transmission line Number of affected Numbers of physical Nr Province houses infrastructures 48 40 1. Gia Lai 33 59 2. Đak Lak 301 335 3. Đak Nong 83 229 4. Binh Phuoc 67 32 5. Binh Duong 9 39 6. HCM city 541 734 Total

14. Apart from the displaced houses, the transmission line also affected permanently 734 architectural works like the kitchen, courtyard, temporary shelters and camp, bath/toilet or barn of households. The determination of these houses affected is complied with Decree No.106/ND-CP and Decree No.81/ND-CP of the provisions protecting the safety corridors of transmission line of electrical project. 1.3. The affected households and severely affected households 15. Up to date, there are total 11,712 households have been affected by the project including there are 985 households affected from the permanent land acquisition and 10,387 affected households are under the safety corridor, 340 households with displaced houses are permenantly affected (see Table 6). Table 6: Numbers of affected households and permanent land acquisition households and displaced households

Nr. Nr. affected Nr. HHs Nr. HHs Nr. households in affected by the with Affected permanent land transmission displaced Province HHs acquisition line houses 1. Gia Lai 1,813 194 1,574 45

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2. Đak Lak 928 71 824 33

3. Đak Nong 3,837 277 3,457 103 4. Binh Phuoc 2,525 263 2,179 83 5. Binh Duong 1,530 128 1,335 67 6. HCM city 1,079 52 1018 9 Total 11,712 985 10,387 340 16. It is shown that there are 132 households eligible for vulnerable households as defined by REMDPs including the elderly householder households, women single headed households and the poor. 17. The severely affected households are defined in according to LARAPs/REMDPs with over 10% producton land are lost. As that permanent acquisition land has severely affected to 92 households. The number of severely affected households by province listed as follows:

Table 7: Impacts of land acquisition on the severely affected people Afected households Total severely affected Kinh people Ethnic minority households people Gia Rai 17 16 1 Đak Lak 10 7 3 Đak Nông 90 73 17 Binh Phuoc 120 100 20 Binh Duong 24 24 0 Ho Chi Minh 7 7 0 Total 268 227 41 18. Up to date, there is a total of 268 households were severely affected due to land acquisition over 10% of production land, there are 41 HHs are belonged to ethnic minority people, there are over 30% of these severely affected households are the ethnic minorities of Jarai, Stieng and Nung, Tay. 1.4. Impacts on ethnic minorities 19. The total ethnic minority households affected by the project are 520 HHs; they are Jarai, Stieng, Ede in which Gia Lai province has 346 households belonging to ethnic minorities with Gia Rai: 315, Tay: 23, Nung: 8. In Dak Lak province, there are 174 households belonged to ethnic minority groups with Dao: 72, Nung: 47, Tay: 34, E De: 21. 20. There are four provinces such as Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Binh Phuoc province having ethnic minority households were affected by the project. Ethnic minority groups were affected including Gia Lai, E De and the ethnic minority communities migrated from the north to such as ethnic minority group of Nung and Tay.

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II. PROGRESS OF THE PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION 21. The project transmission line 500kV Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong began performing in 2012 and it has completed the construction and put into operation since May 2014. The project has complied with the provisions of ADB and Vietnam Law on planning for land acquisition and resettlement and ethnic minority development. REMDPs and LARAPs were built on a harmony between safeguard policies of the ADB and the Government of Vietnam in the involuntary land acquisition, policies for ethnic minorities, gender strategy and policy of communication and information dissemination. There were 6 safeguard documents for the 6 provinces of the project, including 4 Resettlement and Ethnic Minorities Development Plans (REMDPs) and two Land Acquisition and Resettlement Action Plans (LARAPs) were built on the compromise between safeguard policies of the ADB and the Government of Vietnam. There are 04 REMDPs plan for 4 provinces of Daklak, Dak Nong, Gia Lai, Binh Phuoc and 02 LARPs for 02 provinces of Binh Duong and HCMC is appropriate. Because that the project line that affects to the ethnic minority communities in four provinces of Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Binh Phuoc, so there are 04 Resettlement Ethnic Minority Development Plans (REMDP) were developed. In Binh Duong province and Ho Chi Minh City, the land acquisition affects only the Kinh people, so the action plans for these two provinces are the land acquisition and resettlement action plans (LARAP) based on a social safety document (RP) was developed by PECC4 in 10/2010. 22. It is showed that the REMDPs and LARAPs were developed and submitted in 3/2011. During the design process of the investor, the technical consultants were working in a collaboration with local authorities to design the power line going parallel with the existing 500kV line. Therefore, the land acquisition for tower construction did not influence the household. Also, it did not affect to the basic infrastructure of the communes. It reduced the resettlement for households. Beside that the technical consultants in supporting Tranche 1 was considered and given the additional requirements of investigation and assessment to ensure that RAP documents complied with the requirements of ADB Policy. By May 10/2011, PECC4 submitted the draft 2nd RAP, which was updated by the results from the survey for the replacement cost and socio-economic surveys and community consultations. By 9/2011, the technical assistance (TA7742-VIE) for Tranche 2 was mobilized to support the CPMB and the PPMBs in preparing projects for Tranche 2. The social resettlement consultant team conducted field works with a trip in May 11/2011 for social assessment and review CPMB activities in the preparation of social safeguard documents for transmission line project Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong. The team conducted fieldwork activities and had meetings with ADB specialist and they agreed to develop 6 social safeguard documents for 06 project provinces as mentioned. 23. The implementation of REMDPs and LARAPs in 6 project provinces is so far unfinished until 30/12/2015. At present, the compensation and assistance for the impact of the project on land acquisition and resettlement have been carried out reaching up to 99.73% and it still continues to be implemented by CPMB and DCARBs in the coming time.

III. SAFEGUARD POLICY AND HUMAN RESOURCES

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24. Related to the project policy and compliance with GoV’s regulation and ADB’s requirement, there is a need to address the discrepancies between ADB Safeguard Policy and relevant GoV regulations, the subprojects’ principles on resettlement policy are (i) Meaningful consultations have been carried out with the APs and concerned groups and ensure participation from planning up to implementation. The comments and suggestions of the APs and communities have been taken into account; (ii) The REMDPs/LARAPs is disclosed to APs in a form and language that understandable to them; (iii) Involuntary resettlement and impacts on land, structures and other fixed assets are avoided or minimised where possible; (iv) Compensation and assistance is based on the principle of replacement cost; (v) Severely affected household is entitled when they are losing 10% or more of the household’s productive land; (vi) Special assistance has been incorporated in the resettlement plan to protect socially and economically vulnerable groups such as households headed by women, children, disabled, the elderly, landless and people living below the provincial poverty line; (vii) Gender concerns are incorporated through RP implementation; (viii) Reporting and independent monitoring is defined as a part of the subproject management system. Periodically independent monitoring on implementation of RP has been implemented. 25. The DDRs of 06 provinces were re-established in August 2015. 26. Decisions issued by the Provincial People Committee on compensation, assistance and resettlement of Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Binh Phuoc, Binh Duong and Ho Chi Minh City. 27. The investigation reports on replacement cost of Gia Lai province, Dak Lak province, Dak Nong province and Binh Phuoc province, Binh Duong province, HCM city were properly and independently established. The reports of replacement cost were prepared by the independent parties; the services were provided by private companies independently for these investigations on the market prices of the specific market places.

Table 8: Members of the monitoring mission Nr. Name Position Responsibilities 1. Mr. Le Dinh Quang Vice Director Project Management 2. Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan Deputy Director of Management of Compensation Department, environment and responsible for environment resettlement and resettlement 3. Mr. Tran Đang Hai Expert in environment and Monitoring, assist for social resettlement safeguard 4. Ms. Le Hoang Ngoc Expert in environment and Monitoring, assist for social resettlement safeguard

5. Mr. Do Phu Hai Support consultant Support for internal monitoring and evaluation

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IV. DETAILED ACTIVITES UNDERTAKEN DURING THE REPORT PERIOD

28. The summary of operation performed by REMDPs/LARAPs was concretely carried out until June 2016 in Table 10 as follows:

Table 9. Operation of REMDPs/LARAPs up to December 2015 Province/City Gia Dak Dak Binh Binh HCM Lai Lak Nong Phuoc Duong Nr Activities 1. Information disclosure Completed Completed Completed Completed Completed Completed 2. Detailed measurement Completed Completed Completed Completed Completed Completed survey and entilement 3. Compensation and Completed Completed Completed Completed Completed Completed resettlement development 4. Public consultation, advise Completed Completed Completed Completed Completed Completed for APs about the compensation plans 5. Finalised the compensation Completed Completed Completed Completed Completed Completed plans and submitted for the approval 6. Supervision and approval Completed Completed Completed Completed Completed Completed for the compensation plan 7. Compensation payment and Completed Completed Completed Completed Completed In - completed assistance 8. Site clearance Completed Completed Completed Completed Completed Completed 9. External monitoring Preparing the final report

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29. The Boards of Compensation and Land Clearance of districts continued to conduct compensation and assistance to solve ultimately shortcomings of the project. During the report period of the 6 months begining of year 2016, the activities continued mainly to complete the compensation and assistance for affected households, so the HHs numbers accounted up to date in 12.30.2015 was 11,712 households with exact amount of compensation and assistance reached: VND 869,160,672,553. In particular, there are 1,813 households who received the compensation and assistance in Gia Lai with the amount of VND 80.465.432.304. There are 928 households in Dak Lak received a total amount of VND 34,922,084,147. There are 3,837 households in Dak Nong received a total VND 97,652,074,024. There are 2,525 households in Binh Phuoc received VND 223,220,624,723. There are 1,530 households in Binh Duong received a total amount of VND 289,225,305,831. There are 1,079 households in HCM city received a total amount of VND 143,675,151,524 (see Table 10).

Table 10: Total amount of compensation and assistance up to date of 30/12/2015

Total amount of Total amount of compensation and assistance compensation and assistance Province/City up to 30/6/2015 (VND) up to 30/12/2015 (VND)

Gia Lai 80,382,030,863 80,465,432,304 34,922,084,757 34,922,084,147 Đak Lak 97,643,439,024 97,652,074,024 Đak Nong

Binh Phuoc 222,884,902,111 223.220.624.723

Binh Duong 287,643,008,513 289,225,305,831

HCM city 138,910,721,462 143,675,151,524 862,386,186,730 869,160,672,553 Total 30. So far, the implementation of compensation and assistance was almost completed, the total amount was spent by up to date 30th June 2016 were: VND 869,160,672,553. At present, there are still a number of activities for compensation and assistance are being continued to implement in 6 participating provinces. 31. Up to date 30/06/2016, total land area was acquired in the project is 320,860 ha. The land area affected under the safety corridor is 38.75 ha. The temporary borrowing land area for road construction, materials yard is 1.426 ha (see Table 11 for detail). Table 11: The total land area of permanent acquisition and land affected under a corridor and and temporary borrowing land for road construction material yard

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Total land area of Land permanently permanent acquisition affected under a corridor Tỉnh/thành phố (Ha) (ha)

Gia Lai 7.25 264 8.6 240 Đak Lak 10.8 372 Đak Nong

Binh Phuoc 7.9 320

Binh Duong 2.3 149

HCM city 1.9 71 38.75 1,426 Total

32. In the first 6-month period in 2016, the gender issues continued to be interested in the project implementation process. The women consultation continued to be the focus of the implementation activities in the compensation. 33. The results of solving the existing gaps of the previous reporting period is presented in Table 12 below Table 12: Results of re-solving the existing gap of the previous reporting period

Issues during the last report period (GAP) Results

The affected HHs have not yet received assistance of 25% Done. rice land support accordance to the policy set up around late 2013 and early 2014 in Ia Sao commune and Ia Der commune, IaGrai district, Gia Laiprovince

Mr. Bien Truc has not yet received the payment VND 113 Done. Mil. support (he already received 1.02 billion in Trúc Sơn commune, Cư jút district, Đắk Nông province

There are 11 cases of AHs who have not received the Done. compensation because they registered and live in outside district area (Dak Mil district) in Nam Xuân commune, Krong Nô district, Đắk Nông Province The land area outside the safety corridor affected to the CPMB sent the official letter transmission line in Ku Knia commune; the measurement Nr. 881/AMT-ĐB dated on and DMS have not yet to be done. The Dak Nong PPC has 03/03/2015 to Dac Nong PPC formally proposed on the payment to support these 15 APs Đắk Nông). However, it will not be done because it is not

16 because that their rubber trees must be cut down to protect appropriate with the GOVN’s the 500kV transmission line. However, CPMB yet to sign a policy (See Para. 35) contract with the consultant to conduct the survey and estimate the cost of support.

Duong Van Sinh has resettled plots, but he did not received Not yet been done thoroghly. the formal certificate of land use rights, so the Tuy Duc CPMB has sent the official DPC now has to pay the house rent for him for each month letter Nr. 1099/CPMB-ĐB 1.5 million / month. Tuy Duc DPC has written a letter to ask dated on 15/03/2016 to the for a transfer of house rent for 2016, but they have not yet Tuy Duc DPC related to the received the payment in Quảng Tân commune, Tuy Đức compensation. And then Tuy district Duc DPC just approved the package to supplement the cost for the rent house and resettlement plan for this AH.

There is an affected HH, Mr. Bui Van Tang has not yet Done received additional compensation in Bến Cát town, Bình Dương province.

In Cu Chi district, HCM city, there are 35 affected Partly done. households have not received the compensation and At present, there are 35 assistance because the Banks hold their certificates of land affected households have not received the compensation and use rights when providing loans. 26 acquired land plot could assistance because the Banks not find the land owners, they have just found 03 hold their certificates of land households, Remains are 23 households who have not paid use rights; 23 acquired land the compensation. 19 additional households related to plot could not find the land 110kV submit and pay early. owners

On the whole line, there is still existing of houses and Done. architechtural structure not dismantling, so they may cause a risk of unsafe operation of the line.

34. In the last 6 months of the reporting period in 2015, the problem exists on complaints and grievances were detected in the last 6 months of 2015 which were resolved (Table 12). The results are shown that up to 06/2016, the complaints were resolved completely.

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35. Because that the Provisions in Decree No. 14/2014/ND-CP dated on 26/02/2014 of the Government on detailed regulations to implement the Law on Safety Electricity not to mention about the compensation and the support for the limited land use area which locate outside the safety corridor. Therefore, the compensation is not allowed to pay for the affected land and assets outside the safety corridor even though they are affected by the line. Also, CPMB and Compensation and Land Clearance Committees are only allowed to compensate for the high trees beyond safe corridors fallen directly to affect to the transmision line under Clause 2, Article 12 of Decree 14/2014/ND-CP of the Government. Currently, the land area outside the safety corridor has been used for farming activities from local farmers cultivating with food crops and the agricultural production is maintained in accordance with the practice and conditions specified in safety protection of transmision line.

V. MONITORING 36. The CPMB has established concrete systems for internal and external monitoring and evaluation. The main purpose of the monitoring and evaluation programme is to ensure that resettlement and acquisition of land and properties has been implemented in accordance with the policies and procedures of the RP. For external monitoring and evaluation, in particular, has focused on social impacts on DPs and whether or not DPs have been able to restore a standard of living equal to, if not better than, that which they had before the subproject. 37. The objectives of the monitoring and evaluation programme are to (i) ensure that the standard of living of DPs is restored or improved; (ii) monitor whether the time lines are being met; (iii) assess if compensation, rehabilitation measures and social development support programmes are sufficient; (iv) identify problems or potential problems; and (v) identify methods of responding immediately to mitigate problems. a. Internal monitoring 38. The CPMB conducted the internal monitoring of RP implementation to identify as early as possible the activities achieved and the cause(s) of problems encountered so that arrangements in RP implementation can be adjusted. Results of the internal monitoring are to be reported quarterly to NPT and ADB. The semi-annual report is also prepared to summarize all activities relevant to the implementation of RP done during six months. 39. This semi-annual monitoring report for the first half of year 2016 has been prepared in compliance with the ADB requirements. This report incorporated monitoring results from Jan to June 2016 in purpose to show how the tasks have been implemented during 6 months and the works taken to improve the situation, if needed. Relevant information has been collected monthly from the field to assess the progress of RP implementation and then consolidated. 40. Based on the RF, the main indicators that regularly monitored in this period include (i) Public consultation and information dissemination procedures to the new affected households arise; (ii) Payment of compensation AHs; (iii) Adherence to grievance procedures.

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41. Moreover, the field surveys were carried out twice respectively in Feb 2016 and May 2016 by the team with the support of the employed safeguard consultant. At each survey, the team has cooperated with contractor in charge of clearance site, contractor of construction, local government, and local community to maintain RPs’ implementation in adequate process. 42. The monitoring work was done by working with stakeholders such as CPC, DLFDC, PECC3 and some in-depth interview sessions have been done with APs to achieve the monitoring target. b. Monitoring the compliance of RP implementation 43. The general objective of the external monitor is to provide an independent verification of the CPMB’s monitoring information through the conducting of a periodic review and assessment of achievement of resettlement objectives, the changes in living standards and livelihoods, restoration of the economic and social base of the affected people, the effectiveness, impact and sustainability of entitlements, the need for further mitigation measures if any, and to learn strategic lessons for future policy formulation and planning. 44. The fourth external monitoring mission is conducting to (i) ensure that livelihoods and living standards of affected people are restored or improved; (ii) monitor that the overall project and resettlement objectives are being met in accordance with the resettlement plans, and if not recommend corrective action measures; (iii) assess if rehabilitation and compensation measures are sufficient and in compliance with the resettlement plans and ADB's Safeguard Policy Statement; (iv) identify deviations and issues that may arise in the course of implementation and recommend actions for mitigation.

VI. CONCLUSION AND PLAN FOR NEXT STEP 45. So far, the activities in the REMDP/LARAP implementation have nearly been completed. The operational activities of compensation, assistance and resettlement, public consultation and information dissemination procedures to arising affected households, the payment of compensation and assistance to the affected households have been done in the compliance to the ADB policy and GoVN Law. 46. The existing of the outstanding issues have been discovered in the last 6 months report of year 2015 and DRRs have been resolved. However, there are still some works which to be continued to settle as noted in monitoring report of this first 6 months of year 2016. 47. These gaps and problems will need to be resolved during the time. The Final Report will be shortly carried out in late June 2016.

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ANNEX 1. GAP/ CAP

Province/ GAPs and Problems CAP/ Responsible implementation District/ Commune Krong No Currently. there are 19 land plots of 19 households in Tan CPMB should continue to monitor the task of the district, Dak Thanh commune have unfinished the compensation from a compensation with higher prices to farmers Nong province mistake incorrect calculation of expenses in the compensation, so it has now requested to re-do the compensation plans with higher prices to farmers Cu Jut district, For the adjustment of land use right (LUR) certificates of CPMB should continue to monitor the task after the project Dak Nong Nam Dong Commune for 08 households, CPMB had sent the completion. province official letters to DPCs in Dak Nong, Dak Lak, Gia Lai, Binh Phuoc, Binh Duong, Ho Chi Minh City dated on 16/03/2016 Cu chi district, 35 affected households have not received the compensation CPMB should ask the Land Clearance and Compensation HCM city and assistance because the Banks hold their certificates of Councils to work with commercial banks and Division of land use rights when providing loans. 23 acquired land plot Natural Resources and Environment to revise the certificates could not find the land owners. for these 35 households as well as to consider re-issue the LURs for 2 households who lost LURs before enabling them to receive the compensation. CPMB should ask the Cu Chi DPC should continue for tracing the land owners of remaining 23 land plots for paying the compensation as early as possible.

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