Semiannual Social Monitoring Report- Indigenous People Project No. 45084-002 June 2019 Coastal Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Project Prepared by Bangladesh Water Development Board for the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and the Asian Development Bank. This Semiannual Social Monitoring Report- Indigenous People 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. GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH COASTAL CLIMATE RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT (CCRIP) ADB Project No. 45084-002 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IMPACT CATEGORIZATION REPORT Local Government Engineering Department Local Government Division Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Project Management Office Project Director, CCRIP RDEC Bhaban (3rd Floor), LGED HQ Agargaon, Dhaka 1207 June 2019 Table of Contents 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................ 2 2 Background of Coastal Climate Resilient Infrastructure Project ........................... 3 3 ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement (2009) on Indigenous Peoples ..................... 3 4 Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh ....................................................................... 4 5 Background of the settlement of the Indigenous People under CCRIP ............... 5 6 Description of Indigenous People in the sub-project area .................................... 6 7 Indigenous People Impact: .................................................................................... 7 7.1 Sub-project in the Indigenous People Impact (IPI) area: Dablugonj Bazar .......... 7 7.2 Sub-project in the Indigenous People Impact (IPI) area: Kabiraj Para Hat .......... 9 7.3 Sub-project in the Indigenous People Impact (IPI) area: Harta- Rajapur- Saltamarket-Chowmohani ....................................................................................................... 11 8 Conclusion ........................................................................................................... 13 Annexure 01: Status of sub-projects being implemented under CCRIP ................................ 14 1 Indigenous Peoples Impact (IPI) Categorization Report under CCRIP, LGED. 1 Introduction 1. In line with the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenious Peoples, September 2007, Asian Development Bank (ADB) recognizes the rights of Indigenous people to direct the course of their own development, and assist them in the way of improving their livelihoods and own development. In general, Indigenous people are being suffered and threatened due to their exiting social stratification that violate into areas they traditionally own, occupy, use or view as ancestral domain. Therefore, special efforts are required to engage Indigenous People in the planning process of development programs that affect them for fulfilling their specific needs and aspiration. 2. ADB categorically outlines in the Safeguard Policy Statement (SPS) that a proposed project is assigned to one of the following categories depending on the significance of the potential impacts on Indigenous Peoples: (i) Category A. A proposed project is classified as category A if it is likely to have significant impacts on Indigenous Peoples. An Indigenous Peoples plan (IPP), including assessment of social impacts, is required. (ii) (ii) Category B. A proposed project is classified as category B if it is likely to have limited impacts on Indigenous Peoples. An IPP, including assessment of social impacts, is required. (iii) (iii) Category C. A proposed project is classified as category C if it is not expected to have impacts on Indigenous Peoples. No further action is required. 3. A project’s Indigenous peoples’ category is determined by the category of its most sensitive component in terms of impacts on them. The significance of impacts of an ADB supported project on Indigenous Peoples is determined by assessing (i) the magnitude of impact in terms of (a) customary rights of use and access to land and natural resources; (b) socioeconomic status; (c) cultural and communal integrity; (d) health, education, livelihood, and social security status; and (e) the recognition of indigenous knowledge; and (ii) the level of vulnerability of the affected Indigenous Peoples community. The level of details and comprehensiveness of the IPP are commensurate with the significance of potential impacts on Indigenous Peoples. 4. In line with the ADB Social Safeguard Policy 2009, a Land Acquisition and Resettlement Framework (LARF) has already been prepared for Coastal Climate Resilient Infrastructure Project (CCRIP) in which social safeguard policy issues of ADB are outlined. Similarly, dealing with the Safeguard Policy, Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) conducts meaningful consultation with the civil society, Local Govt. Displace Persons, especially covering the Indigenous Peoples, poor, vulnerable, the landless, the elderly, female headed households, women and children and those without legal title to land for each and every subproject identified as having involuntary resettlement impacts. Therefore, it is evident 2 that LGED is aware of safeguard issues dealing with the Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh to implement the sub-projects under CCRIP. The project pays particular attention to the needs of vulnerable groups, especially those below the poverty line, Indigenous People, landless, the elderly, women and children. 2 Background of Coastal Climate Resilient Infrastructure Project 5. Coastal Climate Resilient Infrastructure Project (CCRIP) financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Kreditanstaltfür Wiederaufbau (KfW) and International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) under Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) formally started in January 2013 to increase rural incomes and reduce rural poverty through sustainable economic growth, rural development, social & gender development, and improve infrastructure in the project area to be completed by June 2019. This project will promote overall development of the transportation system by constructing, improving and rehabilitating Upazila & Union roads and road structures (brides/culverts), development of growth centers, and Cyclone Shelters. 6. The key components of the projects are: (a) Improved Road Connectivity; (b) Improved Market Services and (c) Enhanced climate change adaptation capacity. 7. CCRIP is specially designed for the development of climate resilient infrastructures including roads, bridges and culverts, cyclone shelters and killas, ghats and markets. The project is contributing significantly in employment creation and poverty alleviation especially for Landless Contracting Society (LCS) members. CCRIP has made substantial progress towards achieving its targets. All the activities of the project are expected to be completed within the stipulated timeframe. 3 ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement (2009) on Indigenous Peoples 8. The objectives of ADB's Safeguard Policy Statement (SPS) 2009 with regard to Involuntary Resettlement (IR) are: (i) to avoid involuntary resettlement wherever possible; (ii) to minimize involuntary resettlement by exploring project and design alternatives; to enhance, or at least restore, the livelihoods of all displaced persons in real terms relating to pre-project levels; and (iii) to improve the standards of living of the displaced poor and other vulnerable groups. ADB's SPS covers physical displacement (relocation, loss of residential land, or loss of shelter) and economic displacement (loss of land, assets, access to assets, income sources, or means of livelihoods) as a result of (i) involuntary acquisition of land, or (ii) involuntary restrictions on land use or on access to legally designated parks and protected areas. It covers them whether such losses and involuntary restrictions are full or partial, permanent or temporary. 9. It is outlined in the DPP of CCRIP that implementation of ADB's Social Safeguard Policies is recommended to minimize the 35 detrimental effects of development on the affected people and small ethnic minority communities in which it points out the ADB'S Safeguard Policy Statement (SPS,2009) and the government's Acquisition and Requisition of immovable Property Ordinance 1982. It is also outlined that no physical and economic displacement will take place in connection with the sub-project until compensation and other entitlements have been provided including comprehensive income and livelihood restoration programme has been established for the affected people prior to commencement of civil 3 works. A resettlement framework (RF) has been prepared for the implementation if the project which outlines the due diligence methodology for transparent implementation of negotiated settlement and the triggers for preparation of a resettlement plan, as well as on implementing responsibility. ADB and LGED will make the resettlement framework publicly available. The Resettlement Framework of CCRIP outlines the Entitlement of the Indigenous People by mentioning that if there are any indigenous people (IPs) are found to be affected under any