Social Monitoring Report Semi-Annual Report March 2018 PRC: Shaanxi Mountain Road Safety Demonstration Project Prepared by Shaanxi Kexin Consultant Company for the Foreign Fund Financed Project Office of Shaanxi Provincial Transport Department 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. Shaanxi Mountain Road Safety Demonstration Project (Loan No. 3924-PRC) External Monitoring Report for Resettlement (Hanbin District) (Report No.3) Monitoring period: September 2017 to February 2018 Prepared for: Foreign Fund Financed Project Office of SPTD By: Shaanxi Kexin Consultant Company March 2018 Executive Summary In February 2018, External Monitoring Unit of Shaanxi Mountainous Road Safety Demonstration Project (Hanbin District Project) carried out external monitoring of Phase II in project affected area (monitoring period: September 2017 to February 2018). This external monitoring scope involved 3 towns and 10 administrative villages of all affected projects. By February 28, 2018, Because only Ankang-Xunyang Highway (G316 Hanbin section) project is implemented in the sub-projects of Hanbin District, while Yandong Highway Project is planned to be started on site in March, 2018, so far it is on the process of knowing the real situation of relocation for settles. Other projects have not been started. The affected monitoring survey was implemented with the well-developed global participatory monitoring method in recent years, namely, establishing the project monitoring and consulting group, and in combination with the conventional monitoring methods, including field exploration, in-home survey and dictation record, arrangement of villagers discussion, visit of related authorities, consultation of statistical materials, local chronicles, statutes documents, etc. By February 28, 2018, in the project of Ankang – Xunyang Road (G316 Hanbin Section), 1132 persons in 277 affected households have signed the agreement on relocation, in which, 83 persons in 17 households are both affected by land acquisition and house demolition. The compensation fund has been paid to the affected persons who have signed the agreement on relocation. Actual compensation standard was formulated based on the principles in RP and shall not be less than that in RP. By February 28, 2018,The project totally involves the acquisition of collective land of 161.47mu without state-owned land. A compensation fund of CNY 7.5 million for land acquisition and ground attachments has been paid. The compensation fund of CNY 905,000 for a land of 27.8mu which was not paid in last monitoring has been paid in November 2017. No temporary land acquisition is involved. By February 28, 2018,Anxun Highway project(Hanbin section of G316) involved the relocation buildings of 3,094.63m2 accumulatively, including 1710.09m2 of Brick-concrete houses, 1119.31m2 of Brick-wood houses, 127.5m2 of Earth-wood houses and 137.73m2 of Make-shift houses. The relocation agreement has been signed with 17 households with compensation amount of CNY 2.9917 million which had been paid to the affected persons totally. The demolition fund of CNY 180,000 for one household which wasn’t paid in last monitoring has been paid in November 2017. 16 affected households select local settlement and one household select the resettlement in Qingshuiwan Community. In this monitoring, there is no major adjustment in the institutional setting and personnel in the PMO of Hanbin District, and the acquisition and relocation work are carried out orderly. In this monitoring, the PMO did not receive any writing or systematic complaints. According to public consultation and on-site investigation, some relocated households are unwilling to move into the apartments in centralized resettlement site and there is no proper site for them to construct the houses. The PMO is in the active negotiation with relevant departments about the resettlement land, to facilitate for that the relocated households can have proper homestead to reconstruct the houses. We suggest the local government to communicate with relevant department of Ankang Highway Bureau, and require them to allocate the abandoned road to the township government, which can be used for the planning of the resettlement site to construct small-scale self-built houses, providing homestead for the affected persons. The progress of LA&R, payment status, complaint and the solution status will also be monitored in next monitoring. Contents 1 PROJECT INTRODUCTION AND IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS ......................... 6 1.1 PROJECT OVERVIEW .................................................................................................. 6 1.1.1 Hanbin District Subproject ................................................................................. 6 1.1.2 Project implementation process ........................................................................ 9 1.1.3 Executing and implementing agencies .............................................................. 9 1.2 AFFECTED AREA ...................................................................................................... 12 2 MONITORING ON PROJECT LA AND HD ............................................................... 14 2.1 MONITORING PROCEDURE ........................................................................................ 14 2.2 INVESTIGATION METHODS ......................................................................................... 14 2.3 SURVEY ON GEOLOGICAL DISASTER INFLUENCE IN SEP. 2017 ..................................... 14 2.4 LA AND HD STATUS ................................................................................................ 15 2.4.1 Land Acquisition .............................................................................................. 16 2.4.2 House Demolition ............................................................................................ 16 2.4.3 LAR Impact status ........................................................................................... 17 2.4.4 Compensation standard of LA & HD ............................................................... 18 2.5 TEMPORARY LAND OCCUPATION ............................................................................... 23 2.6 GROUND ATTACHMENTS ........................................................................................... 23 2.7 AFFECTED VULNERABLE GROUPS ............................................................................. 24 2.8 SURVEY OF SOCIOECONOMIC SITUATION OF THE PROJECT AFFECTED AREA .................. 24 3 LAND ACQUISITION, HOUSE DEMOLITION AND RESETTLEMENT ..................... 29 3.1 IMPACTS AND COST OF LA & HD .............................................................................. 29 3.2 RESETTLEMENT PLAN AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY MEASURE........................................ 31 3.3 STATUS OF CENTRALIZED RESETTLEMENT POINT ........................................................ 35 4 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ......................................................................................... 36 4.1 PUBLIC CONSULTATION RESULTS .............................................................................. 36 4.2 COMPLAINTS AND HANDLING .................................................................................... 37 5 CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ..................................................................... 39 5.1 ASSESSMENT ON PROJECT ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT ..................................... 39 5.2 PROBLEMS AND SUGGESTIONS ................................................................................. 39 APPENDIX 1 CONSULTING LIST OF AFFECTED PEOPLE IN EXTERNAL MONITORING AT THIS STAGE ....................................................................................... 41 APPENDIX 2 SCENE PHOTOS OF THIS PHASE OF EXTERNAL MONITORING ....... 42 APPENDIX 3 RESETTLEMENT POLICIES OF SOUTHERN SHAANXI AREA ............ 44 List of Tables TABLE 1-1 BASIC INFORMATION OF HANBIN DISTRICT SUBPROJECT ........................................... 8 TABLE 1-2 LIST OF TOWNS AND ADMINISTRATIVE VILLAGES AFFECTED BY ROAD COMPONENTS .. 13 TABLE 2-1 DATA OF ACQUIRED LAND IN ANXUN HIGHWAY ........................................................ 16 TABLE 2-2 STATISTICAL TABLE FOR HOUSE DEMOLITION IN ANXUN HIGHWAY ............................. 17 TABLE 2-3 STATISTICS OF LA&R IN ANXUN HIGHWAY ............................................................. 17 TABLE 2-4 STATISTICS OF LA&R COMPENSATION STANDARD .................................................. 20 TABLE 2-5 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS OF ANKANG CITY IN 2017 ...................................... 24 TABLE 2-6 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS OF HANBIN IN 2017............................................... 25 TABLE 2-7 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS OF THE AFFECTED TOWNS IN 2017 ........................ 26 TABLE 2-8 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS OF THE AFFECTED VILLAGES IN 2017 ..................... 26 TABLE 2-9 CORRELATION TABLE ON PREVALENCE SITUATION OF POVERTY IN PROJECT AREAS . 27 TABLE 3-1 EXPENSE ON LAND ACQUISITION AND HOUSE