TACR: Viet Nam: Central Mekong Delta Region Connectivity Project
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Central Mekong Delta Region Connectivity project Survey Report: Impacts of the project on traveling and socio-economics of the local people Prepared by: Nguyen Xuan Nhan December, 2010 Impacts of the project on traveling and socio-economic of the local people 1 of 32 Central Mekong Delta Region Connectivity project Table of Contents Abbreviation .............................................................................................................................. 3 2. THE REQUIRED SCOPE OF THE SURVEY AND ASSESSMENT ....................................... 4 2.1. The scope of required work .................................................................................................... 4 2.2. Approach and Methodology .................................................................................................... 5 2.4. Schedule ................................................................................................................................ 6 3. SURVEY RESULTS ............................................................................................................ 7 3.1. Cao Lanh District .................................................................................................................. 77 3.2. Cao LanhCity. .................................................................................................................... 8 8 3.3. Lap Vo District ...................................................................................................................... 99 3.4. Thot Not District ................................................................................................................... 14 143.5. VinhThanh District ............................................................................................................ 15 153.6. The meeting of Can Tho City People’s Committee ........................................................... 17 3.7. The meeting of Đong Thap City People’s Committee ............................................................ 17 4. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ..................................................................... 17 Appendix ................................................................................................................................. 19 Appendix 1 – The general layout of the project ............................................................................ 20 The map of Component 1 ............................................................................................................ 20 The map of Component 2 ............................................................................................................ 21 The map of Component 3 ............................................................................................................ 22 Appendix 2 - List of participants ................................................................................................... 23 Appendix 3. Some pictures of the meetings in the affected commune .......................................... 27 Impacts of the project on traveling and socio-economic of the local people 2 of 32 Central Mekong Delta Region Connectivity project Abbreviation ADB Asia Development Bank AP(s) Affected Person CPC Commune People’s Committee DPC District People’s Committee HH Household PMU Project Management Unit PPC Province People’s Committee SES Socio-Economic Survey Impacts of the project on traveling and socio-economic of the local people 3 of 32 Central Me Kong Detal Region connectivity project 1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT AND SURVEY AREAS 1. The Government of Vietnam has requested the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to finance a project for constructing two major bridges across the Mekong River at Cao Lanh and Vam Cong in southern Vietnam with access roads and an interconnecting road. 2. The Central Mekong Delta Region Connectivity Project is located in the southern section of the Ho Chi Minh Highway in the Mekong Delta Region, connecting Dong Thap province with An Giang and Can Tho provinces via two main bridges and interconnecting roads. The project originates from connection point of HCM road at Tan Kieu commune, Thap Muoi district, Dong Thap province, crosses the Tien River via the Cao Lanh bridge, continues southwest to meet National Highway No.80 at Lap Vo Town, crosses the Hau River via the Vam Cong bridge, and then extends to the provincial border between Can Tho and An Giang provinces. The project connects with National Highway No.91 and includes the Long Xuyen bypass ending at a connection with provincial road 943 in An Giang province. 3. The project includes six components, in which, there are two main bridges as mentioned above. The lengths of components are as follows: Component Km to Km L (km ) Note Component 1 Km 24+500 to Km 33+000 8,5 Cao Lanh bridge ( 2 km ) Component 2 Km 33+000 to Km 48+000 15,0 Component 3 Km 48+000 to Km 54+000 6,0 Vam Cong bridge( 3 km ) Component 4 Km 00+500 to Km 6+250 6,25 Bypass of Thot Not town Km 6+250 to Km 17+250 11,25 Bypass of Long Xuyen city Component 5 From the end of Km + 250 to 3,5 Highway 91 Component 6 Km0+000 to km 24+500 25,5 Connect HCM road to Component 1 Total 76 4. An important activity in the Project Preparation Technical Assistance (PPTA) is basing on the basic design that has been approved to evaluate and consider the current train the future Which are socio-economic impacts on the local people? The survey data will be an important basis for effective and exact detailed design in the next steps of the project. 5. The scope of this survey includes approximately 27 km in length (including the components 1,2,3 of the project) from An Binh Commune in Cao Lanh district, Dong Thap province to 5 communes in Lap Vo districts and Vinh Trinh commune in Vinh Thanh districts and Thoi Thuan Ward in Thot Not district, Can Tho City. 2. THE REQUIRED SCOPE OF THE SURVEY AND ASSESSMENT 2.1. The scope of required work 6 – Based on design documents and technical solutions in the design, especially the layout of the work items (see Appendix 1) that are provided with the survey group. 7 - The survey group had held the meetings with the related offices as Project management unit (PMU) and local authorities to agree on job requirements, contents and schedule for the group discussions with most of the government representatives, organizations and individuals in the affected communes (those who understand and take an important role in the locality). Conduct of access surveys for components 1-3 4 of 32 Central Me Kong Detal Region connectivity project 8. In the meetings, the survey group had presented the work items arrangement of the project on supplied maps and engineering design. Together with the local officers, discuss and assess negative and positive impacts of the project. Listen to feedbacks from participants on the transport road project, particularly highways, at a certain level, which will make it difficult for traveling of the local people where new roads will be built as well as in production and life. The negative impact will make it difficult to access social services and livelihood of the local people. 9. Receive comments and recommendations raised by participants to minimize the negative impacts and give recommendations if any. 10. Based on investigation of these impacts, the comments will be considered in the design and propose necessary solutions to have a suitable technical design and bring the most benefit from this project. 11. Visit, observe, collect information on bridges, roads, culverts, interchanges ... of the Trung Luong highway project and the Can Tho Bridge which will have been applied and resolved for this project. 2.2. Approach and Methodology Participation of the group discussions includes the local officers, social organizations, teachers and village leaders who are living in the affected area and understand about the local to conduct a discussion focusing on selected issues. In the meetings, the contents of discussion have been prepared in advance, including the introduction of issues, questions and interview on the theme and in-depth discussion on those topics, aiming to collect the necessary information. 12. The group discussion in the communes is an opportunity to understand the impacts of new road to the daily life of the affected communities and provide solutions that can be used for the detailed design. (See Appendix 4: Photos of Group Discussion at the locality). 13. This approach is to use knowledge of participants who were invited to discuss (the community leaders and representatives of organizations). They were deeply understanding about what will be affected by projects in their localities, and raise their opinions. These recommendations will be considered in the design to bring beneficial effects to the community that is affected much by the project. 14. Invite the representatives of the community taking part in the group discussions to share their ideas after listening to the design of project at their locality on the design places such as bridges, roads after the project is built and ... the current transport system and directions of the local people to the public works such as markets, schools, hospitals, buildings and places of worship ... to find a reasonable and irrational ideas of design and discussion of each locality in each specific location on the map. 15. To conduct the meetings, it is necessary to work with the District People’s Committee (DPC) and Commune People’s Committee (CPC) to unify the schedule and