48023-003: Ningxia Liupanshan Poverty Reduction Rural Road
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Social Monitoring Report Project Number: 48023-003 Semi-Annual Report January 2019 PRC: Ningxia Liupanshan Poverty Reduction Rural Road Development Project Prepared by Hangzhou Darren Engineer Project Management Co., Ltd. Resettlement External M&E Team of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Government for the People’s Republic of China 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. Asian Development Bank Loan 3444-PRC: ADB Funded Ningxia Liupanshan Poverty Reduction Rural Road Development Project External Resettlement Monitoring and Evaluation Report No.2 (From February 2018 to 31 December 2018) Hangzhou Darren Engineer Project Management Co. Ltd. Resettlement External M&E Team January 2019 ABBREVIATIONS AAOV – Average Annual Output Value ADB – Asian Development Bank AHs – Affected Households APs – Affected Persons AV – Administrative Village CRO – County Resettlement Office DI – Design Institute DMS – Detailed Measurement Survey CRO – County Resettlement Office FS – Feasibility Study HD – House Demolition LA – Land Acquisition LAB – Land and Resources Bureau LAR – Land Acquisition and Resettlement LEF – Land-Expropriated Farmer L&RO – Land & Resources Office M&E – Monitoring and Evaluation MOU – Memorandum of Understanding NDRC – National Development and Reform Commission PADO – Poverty Alleviation and Development office NDRC – Ningxia Development and Reform Commission PPTA – Project Preparatory Technical Assistance PRA – Participatory Rural Appraisal PRO – Project Resettlement Office RIB – Resettlement Information Booklet RP – Resettlement Plan SES – Socioeconomic Survey SPS – Safeguard Policy Statement of ADB NHAR TD – Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Transport Department TRO – Town/township Resettlement Office WEIGHTS AND MEASURES km – kilometer m² – square meter mu – 666.7 m² Executive Summary E1.Scope, Contents and Methods of External M&E 1. According to the progress of the implementation of the project, the scope of the 2nd external resettlement monitoring and evaluation report mainly covers the subprojects in: (1) Tongxin County, Wuzhong City; (2) Haiyuan County, Zhongwei City; (3) Yuanzhou District, Guyuan City; (4) Xiji County, Guyuan City; (5) Pengyang County, Guyuan City; (6) Jingyuan County, Guyuan City; (7) Longde County, Guyuan City. A total of 7 rural trunk roads and 2 rural feeder roads (see details in table 1-3) are monitored in this report with a monitoring period from February 2018 to the end of December 2018. 2. This resettlement M&E report aims to monitor and report the resettlement implementation progresses and performance of the aforementioned rural trunk and feeder roads in 7 project counties and district as of 31 December 2018, including changes of LAR impacts, project and resettlement implementation progress, compensation compliance, implementation of livelihood restoration and resettlement measures, institutional capacity-building, complaints and appeals redress, satisfaction levels of affected people, etc. 3. The monitoring methods include literature review and key informers interviews, etc. E2. Changes of LAR Impacts and RPs Updating 4. As the project is still in the stage of design and bidding preparation, detailed measurement survey (DMS) hasn’t been carried out by 31 December 2018. Therefore, RPs have not been updated and the LAR impacts have no changes. E3. LAR Progress and Implementation Monitoring 5. Because the project, as a whole, has not started resettlement implementation and construction of civil works, the resettlement activities of all the 7 rural trunk roads and 1 rural feeder road in Jingyuan County have not been carried out yet. The rest one feeder road in Longde County which has been completed the construction in 2017 only involved relocation of some ground attachments, e.g. trees, electric power poles, and cables. It was reported by Longde PMO that these ground attachments had been relocated in 2017 by responsible local government departments and/or public corporations, e.g. Forest Bureau and Power Supply Company, without needs for special compensation from PMO. E4. Readiness and Disbursement of Resettlement Funds 6. Since all the 7 trunk roads and 1 feeder road in Jingyuan have not started resettlement implementation, their resettlement funds have not been disbursed and paid for the time being. The district and county PMOs are stepping up the raising of the counterpart funds needed for the resettlement implementation. E5. Information Disclosure, Pubic Consultation and Grievance Redress 7. The project has carried out extensive information publicity and public consultation in the project preparation stage. To ensure project information is fully public during the phase of project and resettlement implementation, the local transportation bureaus and PMOs will further disclose all kinds of information of the project to the affected persons in a timely and complete manner through various means, such as announcements, newspapers, television news, and the Internet, etc. 8. Channels of GRM are open and smooth, and affected people know that when their rights are violated, there are channels for redress. No complaints or appeals have yet been received. E6. Main Conclusions I 9. (i) Updating of RPs: as of 31 December 2018, the project has not carried out detailed measurement surveys (DMSs) of LAR impacts, nor have the original RPs been updated accordingly. 10. (ii) Project and resettlement implementation progress: as of 31 December 2018, all the 7 trunk roads and 1 feeder road in Jingyuan are still in the preparatory stage of design and bidding, and have not yet started the construction of civil works. Land acquisition and resettlement activities have not been carried out. 11. (iii) Project implementing institutions and capacity-building: the responsibilities and tasks of relevant institutions at all levels are clear, however the personnel and working facilities are not fully equipped, and the preparatory and management works for the project need to be strengthened. The staff need to be trained continuously with relevant policies and procedures of resettlement implementation. 12. (iv) Project implementation consulting firm: In September 2018, HJI team was recruited by Ningxia PMO as the project implementation consulting (PIC) firm. PIC resettlement expert should be mobilized as early as possible to guide and assist the resettlement implementation and management of the project. 13. (v) Grievance Redress Mechanism: the channels for complaints and appeals are open and smooth, and no complaints have been received to date. E7. Main Recommendations 14. (i) District/county PMOs should, on the basis of preliminary design, appoint professional institution or resettlement specialists to carry out detailed measurement survey (DMS) of the LAR impacts of their subproject, and update the original RPs in a timely manner. The updated RPs should be submitted to ADB for review and approval as early as possible. 15. (ii) The resettlement specialist of PIC team should be mobilized in the fields in a timely manner, conduct relevant trainings for the staff of project management and resettlement implementation agencies at all levels, and provide close technical guidance and assistance on RP updating and implementing. 16. (iii) According to the overall schedule, the progress of project preparation should be speeded up. PMOs need to push forward the project and resettlement implementation works, to ensure the project can be implemented and completed as scheduled. 17. (iv) The district/county PMOs should raise the counterpart funds in time and ensure that land acquisition and resettlement expenses can be paid to affected rural collectives and households in full and on time. 18. (v) The district/county PMOs need to coordinate with relevant government departments as soon as possible to handle the land acquisition approval, land acquisition announcements and other relevant procedures, according to the relevant laws, regulations and policies of PRC. And PMOs need to organize and implement land acquisition, house demolition and compensation and resettlement activities strictly following the updated RPs approved by the ADB. 19. (vi) PMOs need to carry out trainings for the staff of both the project implementing agencies and resettlement implementing agencies, in order to strengthen the institutional and personnel capacity for project and resettlement implementation, and improve internal monitoring and reporting system. 20. (vii) PMOs need to strengthen the file management during the resettlement implementation to ensure the timely collection, sorting and archiving of relevant information, such as LAR impacts, compensation and resettlement records, etc. II Table of Contents Executive Summary ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ I 1 Brief Introduction of the Project and Resettlement External M&E ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ 1 1.1 Project background ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ 1 1.2 Construction Contents and Scales ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙