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Maritime and Waterways Safety Project Social Monitoring Report Semi-annual Report July 2017 Maritime and Waterways Safety Project Prepared by National Maritime Safety Authority for the Asian Development Bank. This Semi-annual Social Monitoring Report is a document of the Borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB 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 judgements as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. 1 National Maritime Safety Authority Maritime and Waterways Safety Project Project Number: 44375-013 Loan Number: 2978-PNG: Maritime and Waterways Safety Project Social Safeguard Monitoring Report Period Covering: January to June 2017 Prepared by: National Maritime Safety Authority Date: July 2017 2 Table of Contents ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................................................................... 3 1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 4 2. PROJECT OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................ 5 3. METHODOLOGY..................................................................................................................... 5 4. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM (CEP) ................................................................... 5 5. GENDER ................................................................................................................................. 6 6. ACTIVITIES FROM PERIOD JANUARY TO JUNE 2017 / UPDATE ON PROPOSED SITES . 7 7. OUTPUTS FOR ACTIVITIES JANUARY - JUNE 2017 ............................................................ 7 I) PACKAGE 3 SITE VISITS .................................................................................................... 7 II) COMMUNITY MEETINGS JANUARY TO JUNE 2017 .......................................................... 8 III) LAND INVESTIGATION REPORT FOR THIS REPORTING PERIOD................................... 9 8. GRIEVANCE REDRESS........................................................................................................ 10 9. CONCLUSION ....................................................................................................................... 10 APPENDICES ............................................................................................................................... 12 APPENDIX A: STATUS OF CEP AND LANDS ACTIVITIES FOR PACKAGES 1,2 & 3 ................ 12 BIBAZ/SEK ................................................................................................................................... 19 RAINU .......................................................................................................................................... 20 MARUA ......................................................................................................................................... 20 APPENDIX B: SAMPLE LAR ........................................................................................................ 19 APPENDIX C: SAMPLE FPIC ....................................................................................................... 21 APPENDIX D: SAMPLE MINUTES ............................................................................................... 23 TABLES Table 1: Summary of Community Consultation from January to June 2017Error! 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Table 2: Community Lighthouse Committees. ................................................................................. 8 Table 3: Status of of Land Acquisition Process ............................................................................... 8 FIGURE Figure 1: Sek Island ...................................................................................................................... 20 3 ABBREVIATIONS ADB Asian Development Bank ARB Autonomous Region of Bougainville BSP Bank South Pacific CALC Community and Lands Coordinator CD Community Development CDO Community Development Officer CEP Community Engagement Program CLC Community Lighthouse Committee CSLA Community Security and Lighthouse Monitoring Agreement DLO District Lands Officer DLPP Department of Lands & Physical Planning ENBP East New Britain Province ESP East Sepik Province FPIC Free, Prior and Informed Consent GoPNG Government of Papua New Guinea LAR Land Acquisition and Resettlement Checklist LARF Land and Resettlement Framework LIR Land Investigation Report LLG Local Level Government MWSP Maritime and Waterways Safety Project Navaid Navigational aid NGI Niugini Islands Group NIP New Island Province NMSA National Maritime Safety Authority PA Provincial Administrator PIU Project Implementation Unit PLO Provincial Lands Officer PMIZ Pacific Marine Industrial Zone PNG Papua New Guinea SPS Safeguards Policy Statement VGO Valuer’s General Office WNBP West New Britain Province 4 1. INTRODUCTION 1. The Maritime and Waterways Safety Project is jointly funded by the Government of Papua New Guinea (GoPNG) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) through Loan 2978-PNG. The Loan Agreement was signed on the 29th of January 2013. The Executing Agency is the National Maritime Safety Authority (NMSA). 2. The Maritime Waterways Safety Project (MWSP) aims at improving safety and efficiency of international and national shipping in coastal areas and waterways in Papua New Guinea (PNG) by replacing, installing and maintaining navigational aids (navaids), improving maritime safety information infrastructure, improving maritime safety practice of communities, and providing efficient project management and capacity development. 3. The MWSP involves the maintenance of 99 existing navigational aids and installation of 33 new ones across the 14 provinces in PNG. The project is expected to have limited and or minor land acquisition of mostly of sea-bed, reefs, or foreshore. Also it is unlikely to have displacement of people or resettlement impacts, as most sub-projects are existing infrastructures and rehabilitation works will be undertaken in the sea and within existing location. 4. According to ADB reporting requirement as stipulated in its Safeguards Policy Statements 2009 (SPS 2009), the MWSP Project Implementation Unit (PIU) should prepare and submit social monitoring report on a semi-annual basis on safeguard matters since the project is categorized B for Involuntary Resettlement, although there is no involuntary resettlement of any people necessary for this project. 5. This social safeguard monitoring report covers project activities from January to June 2017 of mostly community and stakeholder consultations for package three, which covers the whole of Momase Region (Morobe, Madang, West and East Sepik Provinces), and areas of Northern/Oro and Milne Bay Provinces in the Southern Region. 6. The following paragraphs describe in brief the project background, social safeguard requirements, resettlement processes and the community engagement programme, which involves two field visits to each community per navaid site as a minimum and one courtesy visit to the respective provincial government administrations, where the navaids will be installed. 7. Then a short overview is given on implementation of project activities during the reporting period. A table is attached in Appendix A, which summarizes the main outcomes and outputs per community, lists all signed agreements in regards to land acquisition and other social safeguard requirements, any land disputes in the communities, planned mediation processes and further steps how to overcome these problems. 8. A monitoring of the consultation process has started whereas resettlement and social assessments in communities have been initiated as a prerequisite for installation of planned navaids. Any socio-economic impact of people’s life regarding the project activities can be monitored after the first installation of the navaid and first installment of land lease payments to customary landowners and Community Lighthouse Committees (CLC). 9. Detailed activity reports with meeting minutes, signed agreements, due diligence reports for resettlement and photos of sites and communities are not attached to this report but were submitted in quarterly progress reports to ADB. 10. In Appendices B-D are sample forms for Free, Prior and Informed Consent, a checklist from the LARF and minutes from community consultations. 5 2. PROJECT OVERVIEW 11. The Project has four main outputs: I. Installation of 33 new navaids, replacement of 99 existing navaids, and maintenance of installed and replaced navaids as located in the various Maritime Provinces. II. Improvement of safety information, infrastructure, comprising hydrographic surveys, installation of 5 AIS transponders, and installation of 3 tide gauges. III. Improvement of maritime safety practice of communities, comprising of community engagement programs for maritime safety awareness activities and small craft safety training activities. IV. Provision of efficient project management and capacity development, comprising of establishment of a Project Implementing Unit (PIU), support to manage and implement the project, and engagement and training of staff in operating the safety and hydrographic information infrastructure of
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