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Environmental Monitoring Report Is a Document of the Borrower Environmental Compliance Monitoring Report Semi-Annual Report No. 7 Loan/Grant Number: 2796 NEP/0267 NEP July-December, 2016 Nepal: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project- Additional Financing Prepared by the Government of Nepal for the Asian Development Bank. This environmental Monitoring 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. Your attention is directed to the “terms of use” section of this website. 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. Environmental Monitoring Report Seventh Biannual Report July-December, 2016 NEP: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project – Additional Financing ADB Loan No. 2796 NEP (SF) & Grant No. 0267 NEP (SF); OFID Loan No. 1442 and SDC TA Prepared by Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project Additional Financing for the Government of Nepal and the Asian Development Bank ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING REPORT July-December, 2016 CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS 30 December 2016 Currency unit – Nepalese Rupee (NRs) NRs. 1.00 = $ 0.009150805 US $ 1.00 = NRs. 109.28 ABBREVIATIONS ADB Asian Development Bank BG Building Group BoQ Bill of Quantity BS Bikram Sambat (Nepali Calendar) CFUG Community Forest Users Group CISC Central Implementation Support Consultant DDC District Development Committee DDR Due Diligence Report DFO District Forest Officer DISC District Implementation Support Consultant DoLIDAR Department of Local Infrastructure Development and Agricultural Roads DPO District Project Office DPR Detail Project Report DRILP AF Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project Additional Financing DTO District Technical Office EMP Environmental Management Plan FY Fiscal Year GoN Government of Nepal GRC Grievance Redress Committee IEE Initial Environmental Examination LBES Labour based, equipment supported MoFALD Ministry of Federal Affairs & Local Development MoFSC Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation NRs Nepali Rupees PCU Project Coordination Unit SD Safeguard Desk SDC Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation VWRCC Village Works and Road Construction Committee NOTES (i) The fiscal year (FY) of the Government of Nepal and its agencies ends on 16 July. FY before a calendar year denotes the year in which the fiscal year ends, e.g., FY 2016 ends on 16 July 2017. (ii) In this report, "$" refers to US dollars. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING REPORT July-December, 2016 This environmental monitoring 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. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING REPORT July-December, 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. BACKGROUND 1 2. ENVIRONMENTAL SAFEGUARDS IN DRILP-AF 1 3. CONSTRUCTION APPROACH 2 4. OVERALL ENVIRONMENTAL SAFEGUARD STATUS 3 5. COMPLIANCE STATUS WITH ENVIRONMENTAL COVENANTS 3 6. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT 3 7. COMPLIANCE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL SAFEGUARD MEASURES 3 a) Awareness raising training 3 b) Life skill Training 4 c) Tree loss and Compensatory plantation 5 d) Forestry clearance 6 e) Spoil management 6 f) Drainage management 7 g) Slope stabilization and bioengineering activities 7 h) Rehabilitation of community infrastructures and cultural and religious sites 7 i) Quarry site management 7 j) Camp Site Management 8 k) Occupational health and safety 8 l) Signboard placing (erection) 8 m) Grievances received and addressed 8 n) Safeguard desk meeting 9 o) EMP implementation, monitoring, reporting and field visit 9 8. ISSUES AND WAY FORWARD 10 List of Figure Figure 1: Map of Nepal showing the sub-projects in districts within DRILP-AF ............................ 2 Figure 2: No. of Signboard along the roads .................................................................................. 8 Figure 3: Grievances received and addressed. ............................................................................ 9 List of Tables Table 1: Half day orientation training ............................................................................................ 3 Table 2: Number of participants in various life skill training conducted ........................................ 4 Table 3: Compensatory plantation target versus progress in the districts .................................... 6 Table 4: Date and name of districts visited by CISC Environmental Team................................. 10 Table 5: Corrective Actions and Way Forward ........................................................................... 10 List of Annexes Annex 1a: Status of Environmental Safeguard Planning Status.……………… ..………………..12 Annex 1b: Environmental Safeguard Implementation Status ..................................................... 13 Annex 2: Status of Compliance with Loan and Grant Covenants ............................................... 14 Annex 3: Environmental Management Cost (NRs) ..................................................................... 15 Annex 4: Detail on Target versus Achievement in Compensatory Plantation ............................. 17 Annex 5: Status of Environmental Safeguard Compliances ....................................................... 20 Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project-Additional Financing i ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING REPORT July-December, 2016 Annex 6: Case Studies ............................................................................................................... 32 Annex 7: Plantation Plan ............................................................................................................. 34 Annex 8: Status of Grievances ................................................................................................... 37 Annex 9: Implementation Reporting Format ............................................................................... 43 Annex 10: Environmental Monitoring Format .............................................................................. 45 Annex 11: Photographs .............................................................................................................. 48 Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project-Additional Financing ii ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING REPORT July-December, 2016 1. BACKGROUND The Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project-Additional Financing (DRILP-AF) is a project being implemented by loan and grant assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), loan assistance from OFID and technical and grant assistance from Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), counterpart funding from Government of Nepal (GoN), participating districts and contributions from project beneficiaries. The goal of the project will be reduced rural poverty in 18 poor and remote hill and mountain district of Nepal1. The project purpose will be widened access to social services and economic opportunities. The project purpose will be achieved through the following outputs: (i) rural incomes uplifting through increased employment, skills training and improved access to credit for the rural poor, (ii) capacity building and decentralized governance, including addressing corruption concerns and (iii) fostering rural transport connectivity and complementary community infrastructure investments. Department of Local Infrastructure Development and Agricultural Roads (DoLIDAR) is the executing agency for DRILP-AF supported sub-projects. The implementing arrangements are as following: DoLIDAR has established a Project Coordination Unit (PCU) in Kathmandu, headed by a project coordinator to coordinate all project activities. The PCU will be responsible for guiding and monitoring District Development Committees (DDCs) as they implement project components. At the district level, project implementation will be the responsibility of the District Project Office (DPO) within the District Technical Office (DTO) of each DDC. Headed by District Team Leader, technical and social staff will support DPO as District Implementation Support Consultants (DISC). Overall back stopping support to the district will be provided by Central Implementation Support Consultants (CISC). 2. ENVIRONMENTAL SAFEGUARDS IN DRILP-AF Environmental assessment is the primary administrative tool to integrate environmental considerations into decision-making to ensure that proposed development intervention will have minimal environmental impacts. DRILP-AF falls in “B” category project according to ADB Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009 and the road sub-projects under DRILP-AF are classified as district road core network (DRCN)2 according to Nepal Rural Road Standard (2055 BS) 1st Revision, September 2012 of the DoLIDAR. Therefore, Initial Environmental Examination (IEE) for the sub-projects under DRILP-AF is mandatory in order to assess the environmental consequences of the rural road rehabilitation and construction activities and suggest appropriate,
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