Social Monitoring Report PRC: Yunnan Integrated Road Network Development Project
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Social Monitoring Report Semi-Annual Report January 2013 PRC: Yunnan Integrated Road Network Development Project Prepared by Beijing Zhongkehongce Consulting Company for the People’s Republic of China and the Asian Development Bank. ADB Loan No. 2709-PRC: Yunnan Integrated Road Network Development Project (Longrui Expressway) MONITORING REPORT ON RP AN EMDP IMPLEMENTATION (No. 2) Beijing Zhongkehongce Consulting Company January 2013 iii Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................. 1 II. METHODOLOGY ............................................................................................................................................. 1 III. RP IMPLEMENTATION .................................................................................................................................... 2 A. FUNDS DISBURSEMENTS .......................................................................................................................................... 2 B. COMPENSATION PAYMENT TO APS ............................................................................................................................ 2 C. NEW HOUSE PLOTS AND NEW HOUSE BUILDING .......................................................................................................... 4 D. LIVELIHOOD RESTORATION ....................................................................................................................................... 5 E. SATISFACTORY STATUS AND COMPLAINTS OF APS ......................................................................................................... 8 IV. EMDP AND GAP IMPLEMENTATIONS .............................................................................................................. 8 A. SUPPORTS TO ETHNIC MINOIRTY COMMUNITIES .......................................................................................................... 8 B. TECHNICAL TRAINING.............................................................................................................................................. 8 C. GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH COMMUNITIES ............................................................................................................... 10 D. RURAL ROAD MAINTENCE GROUPS OF WOMEN ........................................................................................................ 10 V. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMNEDATION ......................................................................................... 11 A. RP IMPLEMENTATION ........................................................................................................................................... 11 B. EMDP AND GAP IMPLEMENTATIONS ...................................................................................................................... 11 C. RECOMMENDATION .............................................................................................................................................. 11 iv I. Introduction 1. Resettlement Plan (RP), Ethnic Minority Development Plan (EMDP) and Gender action Plan (GAP) of Longrui Expressway of Yunnan Integrated Road Network Development Project (the Project) have been implemented since June 2012. Beijing Zhongkehongce Consulting Company (BZCC) was appointed by Longrui Expressway Company (LREC) to conduct independent monitoring and evaluation (M&E) on the implementation of these plans. The first monitoring report was submitted to ADB and YPDOT in July 2012, which mainly included monitoring plan and baseline survey plan. The baseline survey was conducted during July-September 2012. Draft baseline survey report was submitted to ADB in November 2012, and finalized baseline survey plan was submitted to ADB in January 2013 along with this report. This report, serves as both semi-annual and annual monitoring reports, presents the implementation status and quality of RP, EMDP and GAP in 2012. II. Methodology 2. This monitoring team first reviewed the project progress reports (No.3 and No.4) prepared by LREC, and then surveyed 8 natural villages from 7 administrative villages in 5 townships of the 3 project county/cities from December 12 to 28, 2012. The surveyed villages are listed in Table 1. Two surveyed villages, Xiaomidi and Chudonggua, were also targeted by baseline survey as they are dominated by two special less populated ethnic minority groups. Chudonggua village is dominated by De’ang people and Xiaomidi is the only village along the project road where Lisu people live. The other five villages were not targeted by the baseline survey. Aim of selecting different villages from the baseline survey is to increase the monitoring coverage. Table 1 Villages Surveyed County Township Administrative Natural village Ethnicity Baseline village survey Longling Longxin Huangcaoba Wanting Han Yes Xiaomidi Lisu No Zhefang Hunong Mangli Dai No Mangshi Humen Batuo Dai No Sangtaishan Chudonggua Group four De’ang Yes Bangwai Gongbie Jingpo No Ruili Mengmao Mangling Mengga Dai No Jiexiang E’luo Hayunlei Dai No 3. Group and/or individual interviews were organized in each surveyed natural village, and 10-15 APs were interviewed and visited in each natural village. Totally 98 households interviewed, including 15 households who need to be relocated. The interviews focused on procedure of land compensation, satisfaction of affected people with the RP and EMDP implementation, status of obtaining new house plots, status and actions of livelihood restoration, use of or plan to use the compensation, employment opportunities provided to ethnic minorities, help to affected villages by local governments, LREC and contractors etc. In addition, the monitor also met and discussed various issues the resettlement staff of LREC and the city/county coordination offices. The 1 monitor did not visit any village that had not started land acquisition. III. RP Implementation A. Funds Disbursements 4. As presented in the fourth progress report of LREC, it has disbursed CNY 58.7 million and CNY 335.6 million to Longling County and Dehong Prefecture respectively by 31 December 2013. The Longling and Dehong Coordination offices confirmed that they have received the funds. The following figure presents the disbursement records. Figure 1: Disbursement Records of LREC (up: Dehong Prefecture, bottom: Longling County) B. Compensation Payment to APs 5. After DMS, the project office paid land compensation to affected households. It was 2 known from the project progress report that 68.3%1 of affected people have already received their compensattions by end of December 2012. 6. APs can withdraw the compensation wheneven they like. All interviewed households have recived their land compensation payments and a very few of them also received house compensation paymemts. Compenstion flows diretcly from the county/city coordination offices to APs' saving accounts in the Yunnan Rural Credit Cooperatives (see Cases 1-2 below). All interviewed persons are satisfied with the procedure of compensation flow and they were basically happy with the compensation rates2. 7. Compensations for structure demolishment (a very few of cases only) and for land acquisition were paid saparately (see Case 2 below), each in one installment. The interviewed households were satisfied with the quick and full payment of their compensation. 1 This figure is from the Project Progress Report (No.4). 2 Latest rates, higher than the stipulated rates in the 2011 provincial policy for land acquisition. 3 C. New House Plots and New House Building 8. With a few of exceptions, relocation and new house constructions have not yet started. All the 15 relocation households had obtained their new house plots and are will start building their new houses upon the arrival of compensation payments (one already built by using own funds). They wish LREC and county/city coordination office to speed up relcoation and compemsation paymemts so as to enbale them to build their new houses the soonest. 9. In Ruili City, every natural village has its reserved land area used for house plots. In the case of Hayunlei natural village (last one in Table 1), for example, there are 3,600m2 of reserved land which will be used as 12 house plots. While the project will only to relocate two hosueholds. Township government and village committee pomised to help the relcoation households to access to water supply, electricity and roads as well as to do land levelling (Santongyiping in Chinese) in 3 months upon 4 the commencement of relcoation. According to the two affcted hosuehlds, they could build their new houses within 7 months. Again, they wish government departments to do the Santongyiping as soon as possible. 10. In the case of the two natural villages in Zhefang Township of Mangshi City, households to be affected by relcoation also got their new house plots altough relcoation has noy yet offically started: (i) own vegetable plots3; (ii) vegetable plots bought from relatives; and (iii) vegetable plots bought from other households which were relatively more expensive than from relatives. In Mangli natural village, of the four rellocation households, three purchased house plots from their mother-in-laws, and one will use own land. Each household plan to build a new house of 2-3 stoeries of 230-300m2. 11. Mr. Yue Xiaosi, the one presnted in Case 2, has already built his relocation house (see Case 3) on plot obtained from his mother-in-law. D. Livelihood