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42254-013: Northern Road Connectivity Project Annual Social Safeguards Report January - December 2018 SRI: Northern Road Connectivity Project – Additional Financing (National Road Component) -March 2019 Prepared by Road Development Authority for the Asian Development Bank. This annual social safeguards 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. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND HIGHWAYS ROAD DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (RDA) NORTHERN ROAD CONNECTIVITY PROJECT ADDITIONAL FINANCING ANNUAL SOCIAL SAFEGUARDS REPORT JANUARY - DECEMBER 2018 Prepared by: Project Management Unit, NRCP, RDA Submitted to Asian Development Bank TABLE OF CONTENT ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................................................................................... 2 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................. 3 1.1 Background ................................................................................................................................................ 3 1.2 Project ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 1.3 Scope of Social Safeguards ................................................................................................................. 4 1.4 Monitoring Social safeguard Compliance …………………………………………………………6 1.5 Purpose of the Annual Monitoring Report ........................................................................................ 6 2. STATUS OF RP IMPLEMENTATION ........................................................................................................... 7 2.1 Institutional Arrangement and Capacity ............................................................................................ 7 2.2 Compensation and Rehabilitation ....................................................................................................... 7 3. SUMMARY OF MONITORING RESULTS AND KEY FINDINGS ....................................................... 8 3.1 Rambewa – Medawachchiya section of A009 Road .................................................................... 8 3.2 Monitoring Social Safeguards during Performance Based Maintenance period ................. 8 3.2.1 Land Acquisition and Resettlement ............................................................................................... 9 3.2.2 Public Complaints ................................................................................................................................ 9 3.2.3 Complying with Gender Action Plan .............................................................................................. 9 3.2.4 Socio Economic Development of the project area .................................................................. 11 3.3 New Contract Packages Medawachchiya Horowupothana road……………………………11 4. COMPLIANCE STATUS ................................................................................................................................. 12 5. FOLLOW UP ACTIONS .................................................................................................................................. 13 1 ABBREVIATIONS ADB Asian Development Bank CP Contract Package DPs Displaced Persons DSD Divisional Secretariat Division ESDD Environment and Social Development Division GAP Gender Action Plan GRM Grievance Redress Mechanism MHE&H Ministry of Higher Education and Highways NCP North Central Province NP Northern Province NRCP - AF Northern Road Connectivity Project - Additional Financing PMU Project Management Unit RDA Road Development Authority RP Resettlement Plan RoW Right of Way 2 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Sri Lanka is a country with an emerging economic growth in the South East Asian region of the world. The civil unrest which continued in the past three decades had a significant impact on its economic and social development. Northern Province is one of the worst conflict affected regions of the country. The damage to physical infrastructures has been severe and extensive. In particular the road network has not been maintained or repaired, thus making an adverse impact on transport of goods and material that are required for the development of the region. Northern Road Connectivity Project executed under the Road Development Authority (RDA) of Ministry of Highways & Road Development and Petroleum Resources Development (MOHRD&PRD) rehabilitated and improved 186 km of class A and B roads (National roads in Northern and North Central Provinces). This project was funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB) (loan number 2639 SRI) within the time period of October 2010 to June 2016. 1.2 Project Further to this original loan, an additional finance was approved by ADB on 14th of September 2012 to improve the connectivity in the Northern and North Central Provinces of the country. Thus, the Northern Road Connectivity Project - Additional Financing (NRCP - AF) will rehabilitate and improve additional 130 km of national highways located in two provinces. The road sections of A009, A029, A014, AB019, B283 and B211 roads will be rehabilitated and improved under nine (10) contract packages. Details on the road section, contractor and location are presented in table 1.1 below and refer Figure 1.1 for the Location Map. In addition, the EA has planned to implement another 2 contract packages in Medawachchiya Horowupothana road from 10 km to 37.8 km. Table 1.1: Contract packages of Northern Road Connectivity Project - Additional Financing Length Package Road section Province Contractor Current status (km) International Vavuniya-Horowupothana In Performance Based Construction CP11 (A029) Road from 22+000 to NCP 12.9 Maintenance (PBM) Consortium (Pvt) Ltd 34+950 km stage (ICC) Medawachchiya – Consulting Engineers CP12 Kebithigollewa (B283) Road NCP 12.6 & Contractors (Pvt) In PBM stage from 0+000 to 12+600 km Ltd (CEC) Medawachchiya – K.D.A. Weerasinghe CP13 Kebithigollewa (B283) Road from NCP 12.6 In PBM stage Co. (Pvt) Ltd (KDAW) 12+600 to 25+400 km K.D.A. Weerasinghe Kebithigollewa- Padaviya (B211) CP14 NCP 15.5 & Co. (Pvt) Ltd In PBM stage Road from 0+000 to15+500 km (KDAW) Kebithigollewa- Padaviya (B211) Hunan Road & CP15 Road from 15+500 to 31+345 NCP 15.8 Bridge Corporation – In PBM stage km. KDAW JV Medawachchiya-Mannar- Maga Engineering CP16 Talaimannar (A014) Road NP 15.1 In PBM stage Pvt Ltd (MAGA) from47+000 Km to 62+100 Km Medawachchiya-Mannar- V V Karunaratne & CP17 Talaimannar (A014) Road NP 14.5 In PBM stage Company (VVK) from62+100 Km to 76+500 Km Jaffna-Pannai-Kayts (AB019) Maga Engineering CP18 Road from 0+000 Km to 10+000 NP 10.2 In PBM stage Pvt Ltd (MAGA) Km Length Package Road section Province Contractor Current status (km) Jaffna-Pannai-Kayts (AB019) Maga Engineering CP19 Road from 10+000 Km to NP 10.0 In PBM stage Pvt Ltd (MAGA) 20+275 Km Rambewa – Medawachchiya RR Construction Completed and under NCP 9.64 (A009) Road from 140+760km to (Pvt) Defects Notification CP 22 150+400km Period Proposed New Contract Packages Medawachchiya Horowupothana Under Procurement CP 23 (B 382) road from 10+000 km to NCP 13 process 23+000 km Medawachchiya Horowupothana Under Procurement CP 24 (B 382) road from 13+000 km to NCP 14.8 process 37+800 km NCP – North Central Province, NP – Northern Province 1.3 Scope of Social Safeguards The project is categorized as category B for involuntary resettlement in accordance with ADB's safeguard policy statement (2009). The improvement works of the subprojects is envisaged to be within the existing right of way boundaries except for Jaffna - Pannai - Kayts (AB019) road for which land acquisition is required. During feasibility studies a resettlement plan was prepared for this subproject and it was approved by ADB in June 2012. The land acquisition for this subproject was started in June 2013. The Resettlement Plan was updated in 2014 and was approved by ADB. The requirement of additional acquisition of eight (8) lots was identified and an addendum was prepared for this in 2015. With regard to indigenous people, the project is categorized as category C where no specific action is required. This project is classified as the “effective gender mainstreaming” by ADB and a Gender Action Plan (GAP) has been formulated for the project. During implementation the contractors shall prioritize employment of local women, ensuring the equal pay for equal work and employ 15% of women for road maintenance. For this project, a Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) was introduced by ADB together with RDA. The two stages GRM is supposed to solve the project related impacts efficiently to the satisfaction of the stakeholders. 4 CP19 CP18 Figure 1.1: Location Map of NRCP - AF Roads 5 1.4 Monitoring of Social Safeguards Compliance During construction phase: ESD Division inspected during construction of all contract packages in order to monitor the compliance
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