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NORTH POWER CORPORATION Electric Network Project Management Board ------------------------------- Public Disclosure Authorized ETHNIC MINORITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN (EMDP) Public Disclosure Authorized SUBPROJECT: DISTRIBUTION EFFICIENCY PROJECT PROVING MEDIUM, LOW GRID – LANG SON PROVINCE Public Disclosure Authorized REPRESENTATIVE INVESTOR REPRESENTATIVE CONSULTING Public Disclosure Authorized Hanoi, 1st June, 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 4 2. Ethnic Minorities in the subproject areas........................................................................... 4 2.1. General information about the project areas ................................................................... 4 2.2. The characteristic of ethnic minority people in the subproject areas: ............................ 5 2.2.1. The Nung:................................................................................................................ 5 2.2.2 The Tay.................................................................................................................... 6 2.2.3. Other ethnic minority groups: ................................................................................. 6 2.3. The project affected ethnic minority people ................................................................... 8 3. Policy framework ........................................................................................................... 11 4. Project impacts on EMs and the mitigating measures ......................................................... 13 4.1. The project impacts ....................................................................................................... 13 4.1.1. Temporary impacts on farm land ........................................................................... 13 4.1.2. Temporary impacts to crops .................................................................................. 14 4.1.3. Permanent acquired land ....................................................................................... 16 4.2. The mitigation measures ............................................................................................... 17 4.2.1. Public consultation ................................................................................................ 17 4.2.2. Training and development supporting activities.................................................... 19 5. Implementation .................................................................................................................... 19 5.1. Electricity of Vietnam ................................................................................................... 19 5.2. Network PMU ............................................................................................................... 20 5.3. Provincial People’s Committee ..................................................................................... 20 5.4. District/Commune People's Committee ........................................................................ 20 6. Implementation Plan ............................................................................................................ 20 7. Monitoring and evaluation ................................................................................................... 20 8. Budget and costs .................................................................................................................. 20 ANNEX.................................................................................................................................... 22 2 Abbreviation Consultant Investment Electrical and construction joint stock company Company CPC Commune People’s Committee DPC District People’s Committee NPC North Power Corporation EVN Electric of Viet Nam EM(s) Ethnic minority GOV Government HH(s) Household OP4.10 Operation Policy of the World Bank 4.10 PPC Provincial People’s Committee EMDP Ethnic Minority Development Plan ROW Row of Right WB World Bank MV Medium voltage 3 1. INTRODUCTION According to surveys, there is currently power shortage in Lang Son Province, especially in the communal areas, the number of households are connected to the power grid has not reached 100%. Even in some places, there are always overload of electric, large electrical energy losses and low electric quality. From the shortcoming of the power grid in the communes as mentioned above, it is necessary to implement additional construction investment in substations and to improve medium, low voltage grid in Lang province. These create infrastructure for economic development and improving culture- economy-social life of local citizen. Recognizing the necessary of this work, Lang Son People’s Committee asked the World Bank (WB) for subproject financing. The subproject “Improving medium, low voltage grid-Lang Son Province” is one of subprojects which will be implemented in Phase I of the Distribution Efficiency Project (DEP) of Viet Nam Electricity. This DEP was funded by the WB. Subproject will be implemented in 13 communes of 10 districts in Lang Son Province. The activities of subproject include: (i) newly constructing 3.34 km for a medium voltage transmission line, (ii) new construction of two substations and (iii) rehabilitating and upgrading of additional 70,157 km of low voltage transmission line in 13 communes of 10 districts in Lang Son Province, including: Binh Xa commune-Dinh Lap District, Hung Vu commune and Bac Son-Bac Son district, Lang Nang commune-Van Quan district, Hoang Viet commune and Hoang Van Thu commune-Van Lang district, Dong Quang commune and Dong Buc commune- Loc Binh district, Tri Phuong commune-Trang Dinh district, Hoang Van Thu commune-Trang Dinh district, Hoang Van Thu commune-Binh Gia district, Hoa Cu commune-Cao Loc district, Dong Tien commune-Huu Lung district, Mai Sao commune-Chi Lang district. These activities as mentioned above may affect to ethnic minorities who are living in the subproject areas. This document is built according to the requirements of policy OP4.10 of the World Bank on ethnic minority and policies of Viet Nam Government on ethnic minority. Ethnic Minority Development Plan (EMDP) is developed and implemented in order to: (a) Protecting tradition and culture of the ethnic minority, (b) Mitigate the subproject impact over ethnic minority groups, and (c) the ethnic minority groups will get the socio-economic rights. This guideline ensures that the ethnic minorities are well informed, consulted and mobilized to participate in the subprojects. Their participation can either provide those benefits with more certainty, or protect them from any potential adverse impacts of subprojects in the subproject implementation process. 2. Ethnic Minorities in the subproject areas 2.1. General information about the project areas Lang Son is a border province in the Northeast of Viet Nam. Its west borders Cao Bang province, its east borders Quang Ninh province, its south borders Bac Giang province, its west borders Thai Nguyen and Bac Kan province, its Northeast borders the ethnic autonomous region of the Choang-Guangxi (China). There are 10 districts and 1 type 3-city with 212 communes and 14 towns. There are also 5 border districts, including: Trang Dinh, Van lang, Cao Loc, Loc Binh, Dinh Lap and 5 interior districts, including: Van Quan, Binh Gia, Bac Son, Chi Lang, Huu Lung. The Lang Son city is the political-social-economic center of this province. 4 The population of the province is 757.6 thousand people (in which, the city dweller accounts 22%). There are 9 main ethnic groups (the Nung: 43.8%, the Tay: 35.2%, the Kinh: 15.2%, the Dao: 3.5%, the rest are the Hoa, the Mong, and the San chay. 2.2. The characteristic of ethnic minority people in the subproject areas: 2.2.1. The Nung: The Nung have about 706,000 inhabitants living in the provinces of Lang Son, Cao Bang, Bac Thai, Ha Bac and Tuyen Quang. They have other names such as Xuong, Giang, Nung An, Nung Coi, Phan Sinh, Nung Chao, Nung lnh, Qui Rin, Nung Din and Khen Lai. Nung language is close to that of the Tay and belongs to the Tay-Thai Group. Nung has writings called Nom Nung (Nung demonic scripts) which has prevailed since the 17th century. The Nung mainly worship their ancestors. The altar is placed in a bay of the house and above it hungs the altar to deities, genies, saints, Confucian and Kwan Yin. The Nung live on rice and corn. They cultivate rice either in submerged fields along the ravines and in terraced fields on the hillsides. They grow cash crops and fruit trees such as tangerines and persimmons. Anise is the most valuable trees of the Nung which has brought them high profit every year. Handicrafts are a continuing activity, particularly weaving cloth to supply local needs, then come carpentry, blacksmithing, basketry and ceramicware-making. The Nung villages are often set up on the hillsides, in front of them are the submerged fields and behind are burnt- over land and gardens. The Nung houses are built on stilts made by wood structure and the roof are covered with tiles or thatch. The Nung wear indigo attire. Deeply in the Vietnamese people's memory, President Ho Chi Minh often wore indigo vest of Nung style to keep him warm in the cold days when he lived in Pac Bo cave in 1941 to be active in national revolution after he turned back from abroad. In certain regions, ancient stories retrace about indigo color and a faithful love of a woman who persistently