Indigenous Peoples Plan Monitoring Report Project No.39432-013 Semiannual Report September 2016 BAN: Participatory Small-Scale Water Resources Sector Project Prepared by Local Government Engineering Department for the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and the Asian Development Bank. This indigenous peoples plan 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. GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH PARTICIPATORY SMALL SCALE WATER RESOURCES SECTOR PROJECT (PSSWRSP) ADB Loan No. 2542-BAN (SF) INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IMPACT CATEGORIZATION REPORT Local Government Engineering Department Local Government Division Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Project Management Office Project Director, PSSWRSP RDEC Bhaban (5th Floor), LGED HQ, Agargaon, Dhaka 1207 September-2016 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS No. Chapter Title Page Abbreviations I 1. Introduction 1 2. Background 1 3. ADB’s policy for Safeguards Indigenous People 2 4. Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh 2 5. Indigenous Peoples in Project area 3 6. Recommendations 3 7. Conclusion 4 Annexure: Annexure 1: Indigenous Peoples Impact Categorization (Dhaka Division) Annexure 2: Indigenous Peoples Impact categorization (Chittagong Division) Annexure 3: Indigenous Peoples Impact Categorization (Rajshahi Division) Annexure 4: Indigenous Peoples Impact Categorization (Khulna Division) Annexure 5: Indigenous Peoples Impact Categorization (Barisal Division) Annexure 6: Indigenous Peoples Impact Categorization (Rangpur Division) Attachments: Attachment-1: Subprojects of Dhaka Division Attachment-2: Subprojects of Chittagong Division Attachment-3: Subprojects of Rajshahi Division Attachment-4: Subprojects of Khulna Division Attachment-5: Subprojects of Barisal Division Attachment-6: Subprojects of Rangpur Division I ABBREVIATIONS ADB = Asian Development Bank AP = Affected Person CBE = Commercial and Business Enterprise DC = Deputy Commissioner DD = Detailed Design DMS = Detailed Measurement Survey E = East EA = Executing Agency FGD = Focus Group Discussion Ha = Hectare ICT = Information and Communication Technology IP = Indigenous Peoples IWRMU = Integrated Water Resources Management Unit Km = Kilometer LGED = Local Government Engineering Department N = North NPRR = National Policy on Resettlement and Rehabilitation O&M = Operation and Maintenance PIC = Project Implementation Consultant PMO = Project Management Office PSSWRSP = Participatory Small Scale Water Resources Sector Project RF = Resettlement Framework RP = Resettlement Plan SES = Socio Economic Survey SSWR = Small Scale Water Resources TK = Taka (Bangladesh Currency) WMCA = Water Management Cooperative Association I Indigenous Peoples Impact Categorization Report under Participatory Small Scale Water Resources Sector Project (PSSWRSP), LGED. 1. Introduction The Asian Development Bank (ADB) recognizes the rights of Indigenous Peoples to direct the course of their own development. Indigenous Peoples are increasingly threatened as development programs infringe into areas that they traditionally own, occupy, use or view as ancestral domain. Special efforts are needed to engage Indigenous People in the planning of development programs that affect them, in, particular, development programs that are supposedly designed to meet their specific needs and aspiration. Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) is implementing 270 new subprojects being aware of safeguard issues of Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh. 2. Background The Participatory Small-scale Water Resources Sector Project (PSSWRP) is the outcome of lessons learned from previous ADB, Dutch and IFAD investments in First & Second Small Scale Water Resources Development Sector Projects from 1996 to 2010 which has developed 580 subprojects in 61 districts of Bangladesh. The Project aims to develop sustainable, stakeholder-driven small-scale water resources management systems. It has three outputs: (i) institutional strengthening of government agencies at all levels to support small scale water resources (SSWR) development, (ii) participatory subproject development, which will include poor and vulnerable groups and will enable WMCA to plan, implement, operate and maintain subprojects; and (iii) construction and maintenance of 270 new subprojects and performance enhancement of 150 subprojects (out of 580 completed from SSW-1 & SSW-2 subprojects). During identification, preparation of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Feasibility Study (FS) and Detail Design (DD) the subproject beneficiaries were consulted about the presence of Indigenous Peoples within the command area. Moreover, while preparing Socio economic survey report and Environmental Mitigation Plan the aspect of Indigenous Peoples were investigated. Though there are habitations of Indigenous People in the many districts of Bangladesh but in the subprojects under study within PSSWRSP the existence of Indigenous Peoples are not found. There are subprojects where the benefits of infrastructure development and institutional activities are influenced to the area where there are habitations of Indigenous Peoples. The Project is jointly funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The total project cost is USD119.797 million: The loan (L2542-BAN) was approved by ADB on 4 September 2009 for USD55.0 million. IFAD provides two loans amounting to USD32.0 million, and domestic contributions amount to USD 32.8 million. The first IFAD loan (loan no.786) was approved by IFAD’s Executive Board on 15 September 2009 and became effective on 6 November 2009. The second loan (loan no.808) was approved on 22 April 2010 and became effective on 18 October 2010. Project completion and closing dates are 31 December 2017 and 30 June 2018 respectively. Indigenous Peoples Impact Categorization Report 1 PSSWRSP September, 2016 3. ADB’s Policy for Safeguards on Indigenous Peoples An agreement with the ADB on Principle of action adopted about Safeguard Policy Statement (SPS), 2009 during implementation/ operation of the Subprojects, if it has been transpired that the Indigenous People have been identified within the Subproject catchment areas, however the project will prepare an indigenous peoples development framework (IPDF) in accordance with in a manner of corresponding to ADB,s Policy on Indigenous People (April 1998) and will be presented as supplementary Appendix. The Indigenous people development framework (IPDF) will guide selection, screening, categorization, assessment and preparation by IWRMP of additional subprojects under the Project where impacts on IPs are identified to ensure better distribution of the Project benefits and to promote development of any IPs found within the Project area and to facilitate compliance with the requirements specified in ADB SPS Safeguard Requirements 3: on Indigenous People. 4. Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh In Bangladesh Native to a reason were more than 4000,000 ethnic households in 2004 and spread all over the country at about 11,000 villages/places and constituted about 1.5% percent of total population of the country. However, ethnic group has been year marked/identified as IP group by the Bangladesh Bureau of statistics (BBS) and identified 30 IP groups in Bangladesh in 1991 census (Latest available relevant data). They are belonging from different ethnic communities and commonly identified as representatives of different tribes and the Bangladesh Population Census identified them as Tribal people. Distribution of different ethnic (IP) population within the Division is shown in Table 1. Table 1: Reasons of Indigenous People (IP) Assemble/consented in Bangladesh % National % District Areas of IP Predominant IPs IPs Population Plains Rajshahi & Rangpur division: Noagoan, Dinajpur, Rangpur, and Joypur hat Santal, Munda and Oraon 36 4 district Sylhet Division: Moulavi bazar and Khasia, Manipuri, Patro, 08 3 Hobigong district Garo and Tripura Madhupur area of Dhaka Division Garo/Mandi 07 2 Patuakhali district (Barisal Division) and Rakahain 06 Cox’s Bazar (Chittagonj) Division Khulna Division, in Sunderbans Munda 02 Chittagonj Division,Hill Tracts districts Chakma, Marma & Tripura 41 44 1.5% of Total 100 National Population Indigenous Peoples Impact Categorization Report 2 PSSWRSP September, 2016 5. Indigenous Peoples in Project area The Feasibility and Socioeconomic study ascertained that the interventions in the subproject will not directly cause any adverse impact of the IPs. Most of the SPs catchment area is isolated and maroon type of landscape like water bodies, Khal, Beel and cultivable lands with object to conservation of irrigation water and improvement of drainage systems to grow more production of crops. There may be less affected inhabitants/squatters within the SPs which are relevance to LA, RP and voluntary RP, so no economic and physical displacement would occur due to implementation of the SP. There is no adjacent affected IP to the SPs identified, who will lose homestead, crops, trees in the titled or non-titled area as a result of SP construction activities. There are