Supplementary Appendix H.1 NORTHWEST IRRIGATION SECTOR PROJECT LINK CANAL SUBPROJECT RESETTLEMENT PLAN List of Contents Page 1. The Project 3 2. Impact on Structures and Land Acquisition 4 3. Mitigating Project Impact 5 4. Socio-Economic Situation in the Project Area. 6 4.1 Project Socioeconomic Surveys 6 4.2 Socio-Economic Characteristics Of The Wider Project Area 6 5. Objectives, Policy Framework and Entitlements 16 6. Mitigating Impact and Ensuring the Restoration of Livelihoods of APs 18 7. Participation, Information and Consultation and Grievance Redress 21 7.1 AP Participation 21 7.2 Disclosure of Information to APs 21 7.3 The Grievance Process 22 8. Management and Organisation 24 9. Resettlement Budget 26 10.Implementation Schedule 28 11.Monitoring and Evaluation 28 List of Tables: Number Title Page No. 3.1 Development Agents Working in Area 7 4.1 Demographics of Subproject Area 8 4.2 Village Demographics 8 4.3 Age-Sex distribution of APs 9 4.4 Size of AP households 9 4.5 Incidence of Overall Poverty in Subproject Area 9 4.6 APs Deficit in rice production for household 9 4.7 APs Duration of Rice Deficit last year (months) 9 4.8 Literacy of household head and spouse 10 i Supplementary Appendix H.1 4.9 School attendance of children of primary school age 10 4.10 Reason for non-attendance school 10 4.11 Attendance of school age children: Lower secondary 10 4.12 Reason for non-attendance at secondary school 10 4.13 Village Land, Farming System, Non-Farming Occupations and Mines or UXO Pesence 12 4.14 Bavel District, Kdol Commune, Villages and Population 12 4.15 Banan District, Takram Commune, Villages and Population 13 4.16 Link Canal and Reservoir Affected Communes: Priority Livelihood Issues 13 4.17 Attitudes and Expectations of Villages in the Canal and Reservoir Areas 14 4.18 APs Knowledge of the project 11 4.19 Affect on property 11 4.20 Will improve farm irrigation 11 4.21 Attitude to project construction works 15 4.22 If good or very good, rank importance 15 4.23 Contribution of labour and/ or cash to construction adn maintenance 15 4.24 Will pay for the improvement of farm land 15 9.1 Administrative Costs for RAP Implementation 25 9.2 Estimate of Compensation Costs 28 List of Figures Number Title Follows Page No. 1.1 Location of Link Canal Subproject 3 8.1 Project Management Organisation 26 List of Boxes Number Title Page No. 5.1 Entitlement Matrix of Proposed Compensation and Resettlement: NWISP Link Canal Subproject 2 18 ii Supplementary Appendix H.1 Executive Summary The Government of Cambodia proposes to construct the Mongkol Borey-Kamping Pouy Link Canal (termed Link Canal), which supplies the Kamping Pouy Irrigation Scheme, using funds from the Asian Development Bank under North West Irrigation Sector Project. A reservoir with a nominal live storage volume of 110 MCM was formed during the Khmer Rouge period. The purpose of this reservoir was to supply water to some 10,000 ha in the wet season and 5,500 ha in the dry. The Link Canal Subproject involves the construction of Headworks taking water from the Mongkol Borey River, the restoration of 7.0 km. of the old canal and the creation of 7.0 km of new canal to the reservoir. Consideration will also be given at the design stage to the creation of a secondary canal system above and in the draw-down area of the reservoir to provide dry season irrigation for villages located in and on the edge of the reservoir losing land due to annual reservoir filling. A Corridor of Impact (COI) of the main canal works, of average width of 40 m., will be cleared of all people and structures and agricultural or other activity for the length of the canal for purposes of the reconstruction of the existing link canal, the construction of the new canal and their embankments and ancillary works. The COI, including areas required outside the main canal works, has been marked out as a basis for conducting a detailed measurement survey of land of people affected by the project (APs) and as a means of identifying and providing information to APs. Four hundred and fifty-one households, approximately 2,300 people, will be affected by the Project. There are one hundred and thirty-five houses in the COI of the canal. One hundred and thirty-five houses in the COI of the headworks and canal and further sixty-two houses in the area of the reservoir, a total of one hundred and ninety-seven houses, are estimated to require relocation. A total of 25.5 ha. Agricultural land will be acquired in the canal COI, requiring replacement or compensation. There will be a loss of wet season land use of about 1,338 ha. In the reservoir area, affecting some 316 APs with houses in Anlong Svay and Tar Ngern villages on areas to the north and south of the reservoir or along the right bank of the Anlong Svay Stream on the present fringes of the reservoir. Some of this farmed land in the reservoir is owned by army units who are renting this land out to farmers. Because topographical data and alignments, and the design and effects of mitigating measures, have not been available during the feasibility resettlement study, it has not been possible to establish precise impact and requirements for compensation, land replacement for the reservoir area. On a provisional basis the Indicative IRP provides for one half of current land use, 669 ha., to be compensated or replaced, but this figure will be amended on the basis of a full DMS cadastral and land use study and decisions on any measures for dry season irrigation in the recession area to be taken during the detailed design study. The aim of the project is for none of this land, now irregularly flood-prone, to be fully lost to APs, and to optimise dry season cropping to provide a reliable farming system. Mitigating measures, which would include a drainage canal to divert water at present flowing from the mountain above Anlong Svay, which contributes to the flooding of the 40 houses also affected by high reservoir levels, and irrigation of dry season cultivation of farms now to be inundated in the wet season in the reservoir area, will be appraised for inclusion in detailed project design 1 Supplementary Appendix H.1 To mitigate the disruption of houses, both in the COI of the canal and along the edge of the reservoir, along the Prekh Anlong Svay right bank, house sites will be provided and houses replaced with new materials at full replacement costs at locations permitting the restoration of social and economic activity of the concerned households at least their level of livelihood prior to project works. Compensation costs are provisionally calculated on the basis of the expected need to replace a total of 197 houses. Provision is made for the replacement of or compensation for a total of 25.5 ha agricultural land along the canal. For purposes of the IRP and for the estimation of compensation it is assumed that one half of 1,338 ha in the reservoir, 669 ha. will be compensated or replaced. The total cost of IRP implementation is estimated to be US$286,343. This includes $30,400 for the administrative costs of IRP implementation, of which $12,000 is for an independent External Monitor, who will be contracted for all NWISP sub-project monitoring and evaluation throughout the project duration. The draft Indicative Resettlement Plan (IRP) has been prepared for the project in accordance with ADB Guidelines on Involuntary Resettlement, and provides a framework within which the households negatively affected by land acquisition and the displacement of structures are identified, their location and assets recorded, compensation entitlements defined, and implementation and monitoring mechanisms explained. The draft IRP has been prepared on the basis of consultation between MOWRAM, the Inter- Ministerial Resettlement Committee, the Provincial Resettlement Sub-Committee of the Province of Battambang and APs. It has been based on preliminary identification and registration of APs and a detailed measurement survey of AP livelihoods and property affected by the project in the headworks and link canal, including a socio-economic survey of AP households and a cadastral survey of their houses and land. The purpose of the socio-economic survey was to identiify the social characteristics and livelihood sources of households in the COI, including the identification of vulnerable households, specifically for purpose of calculating entitlements and taking any mitigating measures to maintain and restore livelihoods and assets. These studies have been further assisted by two other surveys conducted as part of the feasibility studies: social and agricultural surveys reported in Annex A of the Final Report, which have provided detailed data on households in the wider project village and commune areas; and a detailed socio-economic survey of 20% of households in the COI to provide a baseline for monitoring and evaluation, the results of which are reported on in Section 3 below and set out in full in an annex to this report. Topographical mapping of the reservoir, done during the feasibility study, has permitted the drawing of contours and the definition of areas, including agricultural and residential areas, which will seasonally be flooded in the reservoir. The topographical survey results did not permit an early enough alignment to be drawn in the reservoir to conduct any DMS for Anlong Svay or Tar Ngern affected households and no figures are available for Army ownership of land rented to villagers in the reservoir area.