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Project Number: 39295-013 December 2016 Due Diligence Report – Social Safeguards Document stage: Final Project number: 39295-013 December 2016 BAN: Third Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project – Magura Pourashava Phase 2 Package Numbers: UGIIP-III-2/ MAGU /UT+DR/01/2016 UGIIP-III-2/ MAGU /UT+DR/02/2016 UGIIP-III-2/ MAGU /(UT+DR)/03/2016 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. ATTACHMENT 1: Revised DDR ON URBAN TRANSPORT & DRAIN Sub-Project: Urban Transport + Drain Package Numbers: UGIIP-III-2/ MAGU /UT+DR/01/2016 UGIIP-III-2/ MAGU /UT+DR/02/2016 UGIIP-III-2/ MAGU /(UT+DR)/03/2016 MAGURA POURASHAVA DECEMBER, 2016 Prepared by: MDS Consultant, UGIIP-III Revised Due Diligence Report – Social Safeguards Document stage: Final Project number: 39295-013 December, 2016 BAN: Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project (UGIIP-III) – Magura Pourashava Phase 2 Prepared by the Local Government Engineering Department, Government of Bangladesh, for the Asian Development Bank ii Magura 2015 CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of October 2016) Currency Unit = Tk. Tk1.00 = $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 office – 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) – Boat landing area along a river Ghat – 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 General strike Hartal – 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 – Councilor Parshad – Pourashava or Paurashava Government-recognized land area – Pucca or Puccha, puccha Structures built partly with bricks and mortar or concrete – Police station Thana – Administrative Upazila – 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, (ii) 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. 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 Magura Pourashava under Third Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project (UGIIP-III) 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 Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 1 II. SUB-PROJECT DESCIPTION ........................................................................................................ 2 III. DUE DILIGENCE ........................................................................................................................... 39 IV. FINDINGS ...................................................................................................................................... 42 V. FUTURE CONSULTATIONS AND DISCLOSURE ....................................................................... 66 VI. MITIGATION OF SOCIAL CONCERNS ........................................................................................ 69 VII. CONCLUSIONS............................................................................................................................. 70 VIII. APPENDIX 1:RECORDS OF PUBLIC CONSULTAION IN MAGURA POURASHAVA ............... 72 IX. Appendix 2: Involuntary Resettlement Impact Assessment Checklist (Magura Pourashava) ..... 93 X. Appendix 3: Indigenous People Check List/Small Ethnic Communities (SEC) Impacts .......... 100 XI. Appendix 4: Sample Grievance Registration Form ................................................................... 103 XII. Appendix 5:: Land Ownership Certification of MaguraPourahsava ............................................. 105 XIII. Appendix - 6 : Photographs of alignments of proposed roads and drains of Magura Pourashava, Phase 2, UGIIP-III. ....................................................................................................................... 106 List of Figures Figure 1: Location Map of Magora Pourashava .................................................................. 20 Figure 2: Map showing Proposed Roads & drains Improvement of Magora Pourashava Phase- 2 ...................................................................................................................................... 28 Figure 3: Strip Map Showing Sub-Project Roads and Drains .................................................. 35 Figure 4: Implementation work Schedule ................................................................................ 36 Figure 5: Typical Road, Drain sections ................................................................................... 38 Figure 6: Affected Person Grievance Redress System ........................................................... 69 List of Tables Table 1: Proposed Phase -2 Roads and Drain Components in Magura Pourashava ................ 3 Table 2: Assessment of Social Safeguard Impacts of Magura Pourashava Sub -Projects Package Nr: UGIIP-III-2/MAGU/(UT+DR)/01/2016/ Package Nr: UGIIP-III- 2/MAGU/(UT+DR)/02/2016 Package Nr: UGIIP-III-2/MAGU/(UT+DR)/03/2016 .............. 44 Table 3: Social Safeguards Cost Relevant to Sub-Project Implementation ............................. 65 v I. INTRODUCTION 1. The Government of Bangladesh is developing secondary towns to improve living standards, particularly in the poorer areas, and to provide an alternative destination for rural dwellers that would otherwise join the migration to larger metropolitan centres, through Third Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) project (UGIIP-III). UGIIP-III is being implemented as a sector loan approach. After the successful implementation of Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement Projects (UGIIP I and II) in the selected Pourashavas, the Local Government Engineering Department(LGED) with the financial assistance of Asian Development Bank (ADB) have planned to implement a similar project (UGIIP-III) in pre-selected 31 Pourashavas over a period of 6 years (2014 to 2020). 2. The impact will be improved living environment tin project towns. The outcome will be improved municipal service delivery and urban governance in project towns. UGIIP-III will improve existing and provide new municipal infrastructures including (i) roads; (ii) Drainages; (iii) water supply system; (iv) solid waste management facilities; (v) slaughterhouses;
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