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Social Monitoring Report Project Number: 37641 May 2009 PRC: Hunan Flood Management Sector Project External Monitoring and Evaluation Report on Resettlement (Prepared by Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricty Engineering Technology Development Co.) No.4 Prepared by Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Changsha City, Hunan Province, People's Republic of China For the Hunan Provincial Water Resources Department This report has been submitted to ADB by the Hunan Provincial Water Resources Department and is made publicly available in accordance with ADB’s public communications policy (2005). It does not necessarily reflect the views of ADB. Loan No.: 2244-PRC Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans Resettlement External Monitoring & Evaluation Report (No. 4) Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. Apr. 2009 Chief Supervisor: Qin Lin Deputy Chief Supervisor: Huang Qingyun Chen Zizhou Compiler: Huang Qingyun Chen Zizhou Qin Si Li Yuntao Min Tian Qin Lin Main Working Staff: Qin Lin Huang Qingyun Chen Zizhou Qin Si Li Yuntao Min Tian Xia Jihong Ren Yu Li Jianwu Li Tiehui Resettlement External Monitoring & Evaluation Report on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans Contents 1. Monitoring & Evaluation Tasks and Implementations of this Period...........................2 2. Project Description...........................................................................................................3 3. Construction and Operation Status of Resettlement Agencies .................................15 4. Civil Works Implementation Progress ..........................................................................17 5. Condition of Relocatee Base Investigation..................................................................25 6. Implementation Progress of Resettlement Project......................................................37 7. Resettlement Implementation Status..........................................................................113 8. Appeals and Complaints of Relocatees......................................................................149 9. Support to Vulnerable Groups.....................................................................................158 10. Public Participation and Consultation and Information Disclosure ......................160 11. Main Existing Problems and Corresponding Suggestions.....................................161 12. Evaluation Conclusion ...............................................................................................163 Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 1 Resettlement External Monitoring & Evaluation Report on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans 1. Monitoring & Evaluation Tasks and Implementations of this Period Hunan Flood Management Sector Project Utilizing ADB Loans, viz. the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas, was formally started in Jan. 2007. After negotiation, the ADB and Project Management Office of Hunan Province finally determined that the resettlement external monitoring & evaluation on 19 subprojects among the 35 subprojects of this project would be carried out by Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd., including, the whole 8 core subprojects (Loudi City, Xinhua County, Sangzhi County, Wugang City, Yongzhou City, Leiyang City, Huaihua City, Chenxi County) and 11 of 27 non-core subprojects (Cili County, Xiangtan City, Xupu County, Shimen County, Jishou City, Hengyang City, Hengyang County, Fenghuang County, Baojing County, Zhongfang County, and Luxi County). The resettlement external monitoring & evaluation task of this project was formally started in the early of 2007. Our company submitted the No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 Resettlement External Monitoring & Evaluation Reports to the ADB, the Project Management Office of Hunan Province as well as the employers of relevant subprojects in Nov. 2007, Mar. 2008 and Sept. 2008 separately. Currently, employers of 7 subprojects among 8 core subprojects have signed the contracts of resettlement external monitoring & evaluation task with our company, viz. Xinhua County, Sangzhi County, Loudi City, Wugang City, Huaihua City, Yongzhou City, Chenxi County, and the contracts of Leiyang core subproject are still in negotiation. Among the 11 non-core subprojects, only the employers of 5 subprojects of Cili County, Xiangtan City, Xupu County, Shimen County, and Fenghuang County have signed the contracts of resettlement external monitoring & evaluation task with our company, and the contracts of other 6 non-core subprojects are still in negotiation. Therefore, the resettlement external monitoring & evaluation task of this period (No. 4) is carried out mainly according to works of each subproject, the resettlement implementation progress and the signing of the external monitoring & evaluation contracts. The 7 core subprojects of Xinhua County, Sangzhi County, Loudi City, Wugang City, Huaihua City, Yongzhou City, Chenxi County, and 5 non-core subprojects of Cili County, Xiangtan City, Xupu County, Shimen County and Fenghuang County are included in the monitoring & evaluation task of this period. As some subprojects have been launched for two years, the relocation and resettlement work for the relocatees has made a certain progress, and the completed relocation has also been increased gradually. Therefore, one aspect of the key emphasis in monitoring & evaluation task of this period is to carry out the relocatee base investigation to the newly-launched project; another aspect is mainly to focus on the resettlement implementation progress and effect, relocatee’s appeal and complaint, support to the vulnerable group, public participation and negotiation, information disclosure, and the Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 2 Resettlement External Monitoring & Evaluation Report on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans existing main problems, etc. 2. Project Description The scope of the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas is limited to the 35 cities (above county-level) with serious flood disasters in the hilly region of Hunan Province. The project includes 8 prefecture-level cites like Zhuzhou City, Xiangtan City, Hengyang City, Yongzhou City, Loudi City, Chenzhou City, Shaoyang City, Huaihua City, and one autonomous prefecture capital of Jishou City, as well as 27 counties (cities) governed by 12 cities (prefectures). All the cities are the economically advanced in the local area, and they are not only the locations of the city or county governments, the local financial, transport, commercial, educational and cultural centers, but also the distributing centers of agriculture, industry and commerce, playing a significant role in socioeconomic status. These cities lie in the areas with relatively high ground elevation, greatly varied topography, and these areas are subject to the torrent though they are affected little by the Dongting Lake and the propping of tail water level of the four rivers. Because the river level in hilly regions rises sharply and abruptly with great flow velocity, the cities along the river are always destructively damaged. Therefore, doing well in the hilly region urban flood control is of special significance. 2.1 Description of Core Subprojects 2.1.1 Engineering Description According to the selected engineering scope, flood control and waterlogging harnessing standards and the project construction task, the construction projects of the urban flood control projects of Loudi City, Xinhua County, Wugang City, Sangzhi County, Huaihua City, Yongzhou City, Leiyang City and Chenxi County mainly include the flood control project, waterlogging harnessing project, and river dredging as well as flood control highway construction project, etc. The total investment of the 8 subprojects is RMB 1337.907 million yuan, of which the resettlement investment is RMB 305.5961 million yuan. After the project implementation, the flood control and waterlogging harnessing ability of the prefecture-level cities will be improved to 50-year-occurrence and 20-year occurrence, and for the county-level cities, it will be improved to 20-year-occurrence and 10-year occurrence. Therefore, the implementation of this project will reduce the probability of being affected by flood for the cities to a great extent. See Table 2.1.1-1 for the details of the engineering scale of each subproject. 2.1.2 Resettlement Description For the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas, the land acquisition area due to the project refers Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 3 Resettlement External Monitoring & Evaluation Report on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans to unrecoverable area on which the residents are seriously affected in production and living due to the project construction in land acquisition area. According to the resettlement plans of Loudi City, Xinhua County, Wugang City, Huaihua City, Sangzhi County, Yongzhou City, Leiyang City and Chenxi County, due to the implementations of the 8 core subprojects, the temporary land occupation is 2,666.75 mu, the permanent land occupation is 3,997.98 mu, and the number of total affected population is 15,396 from 3,734 households, and the houses of 3,691 persons from 976 households are demolished,