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Bangladesh Urban Resilience Project Public Disclosure Authorized Social Management Framework Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh Project Coordination and Monitoring Unit, Programming Division, Planning Commission Public Disclosure Authorized Dhaka North City Corporation, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives Dhaka South City Corporation, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives Sylhet City Corporation, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK), Ministry of Housing and Public Works Department of Disaster Management, Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief Fire Services and Civil Defense, Ministry of Home Affairs December 2014 Table of Contents Executive summary ........................................................................................................................... 6 Approach and Methodology .......................................................................................................... 7 Grievance Redress Mechanism: ............................................................................................... 10 I. Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 11 A. Background .......................................................................................................................... 11 B. Project Description ............................................................................................................... 12 1. Objective of the Bangladesh Urban Resilience Project ................................................... 12 2. Components of the URP .................................................................................................. 12 C. Social Issues and Impacts ..................................................................................................... 14 D. Approach and Methodology ................................................................................................. 14 E. Disclosure ............................................................................................................................. 15 F. Structure of the Report ......................................................................................................... 15 II. Assessment of Social Issues and Impacts ................................................................................ 16 A. Social Setting of the Project Area ........................................................................................... 16 1. Urbanization and the Project Cities ................................................................................. 16 2. Demographic Profile ........................................................................................................ 18 3. Poverty in the Project Cities Urban Poverty .................................................................... 19 4. Major Hazards in Dhaka and Sylhet Cities ...................................................................... 20 5. Social Resilience .................................................................................................................. 30 B. Social Issues in Urban Resilience ........................................................................................... 30 1. Inequality ......................................................................................................................... 31 2. Inclusion .............................................................................................................................. 31 3 Participation .......................................................................................................................... 31 4 Issues concerning women and children ................................................................................ 32 5 Tribal Peoples in the Project Area ................................................................................... 32 6. Vulnerable and Socially Excluded Groups .......................................................................... 33 While conducting social assessment the project will identify such vulnerable groups, their expectations and need and will recommend special measures to enhance inclusiveness and participation of such groups. The suggested measures will also include institutional arrangement to better address the needs of the abovementioned special target groups. .......... 33 7. Elite Domination .................................................................................................................. 33 C. Transparency and accountability............................................................................................. 34 D. Project Impacts and Safeguard Compliance Issues ................................................................. 34 1. Potential benefits and opportunities ..................................................................................... 34 2. Social Impacts by Project Components ........................................................................... 36 3. Social risks and safeguards issues ................................................................................... 39 4. Social concerns and Mitigation Measures ........................................................................... 39 1 III. Stakeholder Analysis ........................................................................................................... 41 A. Objectives of Stakeholder Analysis ..................................................................................... 41 B. The Stakeholder Groups and their Concerns ........................................................................ 41 IV. Legal and Policy Guidelines ................................................................................................ 44 A. Government Legislatives and Regulatory Framework ......................................................... 44 B. World Bank Social Safeguard Policies ................................................................................ 49 3. The World Bank Policy on Access to Information ............................................................ 51 V. Social Management Framework .............................................................................................. 52 A. Principles of Urban Resilience ............................................................................................. 52 1. Key Points ........................................................................................................................ 52 2. Fundamental issues of urban resilience ........................................................................... 52 B. General Principles of Social Development .......................................................................... 58 1. Inclusion and participation............................................................................................... 58 2. Transparency and social accountability ........................................................................... 58 3. Social safeguards ............................................................................................................. 58 4. Subproject exclusion criteria ........................................................................................... 59 5. Grievance Redress Mechanism ........................................................................................ 59 6. Approval and Disclosure ................................................................................................. 59 C. Gender Assessment and Action Framework ........................................................................ 60 D. Resettlement Policy Framework .......................................................................................... 62 1 Key policy norms and principles ..................................................................................... 62 2. Social Impact Assessment ............................................................................................... 62 3. Involuntary Displacement ................................................................................................ 63 4. Resettlement Planning ..................................................................................................... 63 5. Eligibility and Entitlements ............................................................................................. 64 6. Compensation Payment Procedure .................................................................................. 72 7. Eligibility and cut-off date ................................................................................................... 72 E. Small Ethnic Community Planning Framework................................................................... 73 1. Objectives ........................................................................................................................ 73 2. Baseline............................................................................................................................ 74 3. Informed Consultations and Broad Community Support ................................................ 74 4. Publication and information dissemination ..................................................................... 74 5. Grievance Redress Mechanisms .....................................................................................