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Due Diligence Report – Social Safeguards Document stage: Draft for Discussion Project number: 39295-013 October 2017 BAN: Third Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project (UGIIP-III) (Window-B) Jamalpur Pourashava (Phase 2) Package Number: UGIIP-III-2/W-B/JAMA/ (UT+DR)/01/2016 Prepared by the Local Government Engineering Department, Government of Bangladesh, for the Asian Development Bank. This due diligence 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. CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of November 2016) Currency Unit = Tk. Tk.1.00 = $0.0126 $1.00 = Tk. 78.95 ABBREVIATIONS ADB –- Asian Development Bank AP – affected person ARIPO – Acquisition and Requisition of Immovable Properties Ordinance CCL – Cash Compensation under Law DC – Deputy Commissioner DDR Due Diligence Report DPHE – Department of Public Health Engineering EMP – environmental management plan FGD – focus group discussion GICD Governance Improvement and Capacity Development GRC – grievance redressal cell GRM – grievance redress mechanism IR – involuntary resettlement LGED – Local Government Engineering Department PDB – Power Development Board PIU – Project implementation unit PMU – Project Management Unit PPTA – Project preparatory technical assistance ROW – right of way RF – resettlement framework RP – resettlement plan SPS – Safeguard Policy Statement ToR – terms of reference RCC _ Reinforced Cement Concrete CC _ Cement concrete BC _ Bituminous Carpeting HBB _ Herring bone boned GLOSSARY OF BANGLADESHI TERMS I core – 10 million (= 100 lakh) Ghat – Boat landing area along a river Hat, hut, or haat – Market (bazaar) operating certain afternoons during the week when sellers establish temporary shops. There are also some permanent shops in a Hat. Markets usually represent a significant source of income for municipalities Hartal – General strike Khal – drainage ditch/canal Khas or khash – land/property belonging to government Kutcha, katchha or kacca – Structures built without bricks and mortar or without concrete Lakh or lac – 100,000 Moholla or mohalla – Sub-division of a ward Mouza map – Cadastral map of mouza showing plots and their numbers Nasiman – A 3-wheeler motorized vehicle Parshad – Councilor Pourashava or Paurashava – Government-recognized land area Pucca or Puccha, puccha – Structures built partly with bricks and mortar or concrete Thana – Police station Upazila – Administrative unit below the district level. A district is called a Zila iii WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Km – kilometer M – meter 2 m – square meter Mm – Millimeter 3 m – cubic meter NOTES (i) In this report, “$” refers to US dollars, (i) BDT refers to Bangladeshi Taka This social safeguard assessment- Due Diligence Report (DDR) 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. PREFACE The premises of this Due Diligence Report (DDR) are the MDS Consultant services presentation of an analysis of data and conclusions, together with its appendices. While MDS consultants have been deputed to assist the Pourashava/Executing Agency (EA) for the preparation of the DDR, the responsibility and ownership of the DDR rest with the EA. The key elements of the Due Diligence Report focus on: Assessment of Compliance Guidelines of Social Safeguards according to ADB and GoB policy. DISCLAIMER This Due Diligence Report (DDR) of Jamalpur Pourashava under Third Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project (UGIIP-III (W-B) has been prepared under the guidance of Team Leader and Deputy Team Leader of MDS consultant. All the data used to prepare this Due Diligence Report (DDR) have been collected from the Pourashava Development Plan (PDP). Some of the information’s have also been collected from the Pourashava personnel over telephone. Moreover some information’s have been collected by the respective experts of MDS consultant through intensive field visit which have been used in writing this report. If any information or data or any other things coincide with other Project documents that are beyond our knowledge and fully coincidental event and we express apology for that. iv Executive Summery Cities in Bangladesh are growing at an unprecedented speed. Bangladesh’s urban population has grown rapidly and has reached 50 million1. Rapid urbanization, while improving economic productivity through agglomeration benefits, is placing severe strains on the natural environment and is fuelling demand for urban infrastructure and services. One principal cause of such rapid growth is the presence of better opportunities spanning economic, communication, education, health and other social aspects in the urban areas. It is worth noting that by one account, in countries of Bangladesh’s standing, around 55- 60% of a country’s aggregate economic activities takes place within the urban confines. Jamalpur, Mymensingh districts and Rangpur region’s poverty rate are above 50 %, which is much higher than the national average 40% (BBS 2005). In this context, the Government of Bangladesh has set a strategy to reduce the regional disparities; thus Third Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) project (UGIIP- III) is keen to accomplish the plan. The project is being implemented as a sector loan approach with financial assistance of Asian Development Bank (ADB); ADB Loan NR-3142 BAN (SF)/1626P together with co- financing from OFID to improve governance and urban service provision in two sets of Pourashavas over a period of 6 years (2014 to 2020). The first set is 31 pre-selected target Pourashavas and are marked as Window-A Pourashavas, in which full set of support will be provided under the project. The 2nd set of Pourashavas has been selected through the performance evaluation of governance improvement undertaken and are called - Window B Pourashavas. These 20 Pourashavas have been selected for financing at a prescribed allocation for infrastructure (i.e. roads & drains) development in phase-2 under UGIIP-III. This Due Diligence Report has been prepared for Jamalpur Pourashava; Package Nr: UGIIP-III-2/W-B/JAMA/(UT+DR)/01/2016 that aims to improve roads and drainage system. The schemes are (i) improvement/construction of 21 roads length-28.375 KM and 06 drains length 3.105 km). The report is prepared based on the feasibility study and details engineering designs developed by MDSC design team and field verifications occurred by the MDSC Social Safeguard team. Jamalpur Pourashava is located in the Jamalpur district head quarter under Mymensingh Division. It consists of 12 (Twelve) wards and has a railway junction at the heart of the city. There are a Boarder Guard Bangladesh (BGB) sector H.Q, a government Medical College & many educational institutions in the Pourashava. The main town, Jamalpur Pourashava, is situated on the bank of the river Brahmaputra, and 140 km (87 mile) north of Dhaka, the national capital. During field visit, it was found that people of Jamalpur Pourashava expressed dissatisfaction of poor service of the Pourashava especially bad condition of the road and insufficient drain. Existing drains are not cleaning at regular basis, so they are clogged and water logging occurred. Improvement of roads and drainage is a long felt popular 1 http://countrymeters.info/en/Bangladesh v demand of the Pourashava. This area has severely been affected by flood; during the monsoon season of 2016 and roads, drains and houses of low areas were inundated. The RCC and bituminous road have become broken and earthen part of the road has also become filthy that made the inhabitants’ misery and the roads are not remained in the position to use. Improvement of these roads will help smooth transportation movement. The improvement of the roads, drains may have positive impact on employment, creation of better business environment, marketing of agricultural products and promoting education facilities as well as health facilities. All these factors have incremental value on socio-economic aspects in general and social aspects in particular. A project-specific grievance redress mechanism (GRM) has been established at Jamalpur Pourashava to receive, evaluate, and facilitate the resolution of AP’s concerns, complaints, and grievances about the social and environmental performance. The GRM aims to provide a time-bound and transparent mechanism to voice and resolve social and environmental concerns linked to the project. All private land and homesteads on the sides of the proposed roads and drains have been kept unaffected and out of purview of involuntary resettlement for the construction of the roads and drains. There are no religious institutes, archaeological sites and protected areas, wetlands, mangroves, or estuaries in or around the sub-project location.