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Tabora Region Summary of Preparatory Study for Development Study 1. Full title of the Project The Study on Rural Water Supply in Tabora Region 2. Type of the study (e.g. Master Plan, Feasibility Study, Detailed Design, etc.) Master Plan and Feasibility Study 3. Categorization and its reason B: There may be no significant negative impact happening as a result of formulation of the Rural Water Supply Plan and design of the expected facilities since their size will not be a large scale. However, as for “Social Institutions such as Social Infrastructure and Local Decision - making Institutions”, and “Misdistribution of Benefit and Damage,” it is necessary to pay attentions both not creating unfairness and affecting on social relations among prospected beneficiaries and not having adverse effects in the planning stage. In addition to the above, design, construction and rehabilitation of the water supply facilities will be included in the anticipated Rural Water Supply Plan, and it may occur to influence to changes in water usage, water rights and communal Rights, undergroudwater and topography and geographical features depending on the cases. 4. Agency or institution responsible for the implementation of the project Community Water Supply Division, Ministry of Water and Irrigation, The United Republic of Tanzania 5. Outline of the Project (objectives, justification, location, proposed activities, and scope of the study) The objectives of the Study are three folds: ① To formulate a Rural Water Supply Plan (hereafter referred to as “RWSP”) in Tabora Region ② To conduct an outline design on the priority projects ③ To develop the capacity of counterpart personnel of Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Regional, Districts and other authorities concerned in Tabora Region in the course of the Study. The study area covers 6 councils in Tabora Region, namely, Nzega, Igunga, Urambo, Sikonge, Uyui, Tabora Municipality. Scope of the Study is composed of the following 2 phases: PHASE I：Formulation of RWSP ① Collection and review of RWSP ② Selection of the villages for the formulation of RWSP ③ Field survey on existing water supply system in the selected villages ④ Water Demand Projection ⑤ Study on Groundwater Development Potential ⑥ Formulation of RWSP for the Selected Site (Target Year 2020) ⑦ Selection of Candidate Priority Projects 1 PHASE II：Outline Design on Priority Projects ① Interpretation of satellite imageries and aerial photographs covering selected sites for the candidate priority projects ② Geophysical exploration, test boring, well logging, pumping test, water quality test and groundwater level observation in selected sites for the candidate priority projects ③ Collection of supplemental data ④ Supplemental survey ⑤ Selection of the priority projects ⑥ Outline facility design ⑦ Formulation of construction plan ⑧ Formulation of operation, maintenance and management plan ⑨ Formulation of community education plan ⑩ Cost estimation ⑪ Technical assistance on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), if necessary ⑫ Project evaluation (economic, financial, institutional, technical, social and environmental) ⑬ Formulation of project implementation plan Schedule of the Study: The Study will be carried out in the period of 20 months. The schedule is tentative, and subject to modification if such necessity should arise during the course of the Study and mutually agreed by both parties. 6. Description of the project site (maps, environmental and social condition, current issues, etc.) Tabora region is the mid-western part of Mainland Tanzania on the Central African Plateau between latitudes 4°and 7°south of Equator and longitude 31°to 34°east of Greenwich. There is 740 km west from Dar es Salaam and 350 km east from Kigoma. Tabora is the largest region among 21 regions in the Mainland, the area wise at 76,663 km2 of thus total surface are 76,151 km2 land area. It accounts for 8.6% of Mainland area. To the north it is bounded by Shinyanga region, and the border is about 150 km south from the southern shore of Victoria Lake. In the east it borders Singida region. Its border neighbors to the south are Mbeya and Rukwa regions. It shares a common border with Kigoma region in the west. The sea level ranges from 1,000 m to 1,300 m, and the sea level of the Tabora municipality, a region capital, is about 1,200 m. Tabora Region has 6 municipality/district councils, namely Nzega, Igunga, Ulambo, Sikonge, Uyui and Tabora Municipality. According to the socio-economic profile of Tabora Region 2005, population of Tabora region is estimated 2.06 millions in 2006, and the region is the seventh most populous region on the 2 Mainland. In Tabora, about 76% of the population is farmers, and thus agriculture is the largest single sector in the economy directory producing about 80 percent of Tabora region’s wealth of goods and services. Main cash crops grown are tobacco, cotton and paddy. Tobacco and cotton are mainly grown for export markets. Principal food crops are maize, sorghum, cassava, sweet potatoes and legumes. Tabora region’s GDP per capita is USD 177 equivalent in 2002 and USD 229 in 2005. The GDP per capita is lower than the national average, USD 276 in 2002, and USD 327 in 2005. The income level indicator is ranked in 14th among 21 regions in Tanzania. 7. Legal Framework of Environmental and Social Considerations (1) Laws, regulations and standards related to environmental and social issues including requirements and procedures of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), stakeholder participation, and information disclosure. • National Environmental Action Plan 1994 • National Environmental Policy: NEP, 1997 • Environmental Management Act No 20 of 2004 (EMA) According to NEMAC, 10 processes of EIA are as follows: ① REGISTRATION (Ts20,000）。 ② SCREENING：EIA and Audit based on Regulations of 2005 ③ SCOPING ④ IMPACT ASSESSMENT ⑤ PREPARATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (EIS) ⑥ SUBMISSION OF EIS ⑦ REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEEMENT ⑧ PERMITTING/DECISION ⑨ ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND AUDITING ⑩ DECOMMISSIONING (2) Relative agencies and institutions National Environmental Management Council (NEMC) is a statutory body in its advisory role to the Ministry of Natural Resource and Tourism (MoNRT) on implementing IEE and EIA. In Ministry of Water and Irrigation, there is an environmental management office as a section for monitoring and supervision of IEE and EIA to cooperate implementation of environmental and social considerations and preparation of IEE and EIA. 3 8. Provisional Scoping (types and magnitudes of possible adverse impacts and mitigation measures) ＜Provisional Scoping＞ Name of Cooperation Project: Item Rating Reasons 1 Involuntary Resettlement The Rural Water Supply Plan to be formulated will C not include large scale of re-settlement plan. 2 Local Economy such as Loss of base of economic activity including water Employment and vendors will not be significant. C Livelihood, etc 3 Land Use and Utilization There is a forest reserve in Sikonge District, which of Local Resources will be excluded as potential intervention sites. Land is owned by the Tanzania Government, and there has no experience of the dispute relating C Rural Water Supply before. The Rural Water Supply Plan to be formulated will not include large scale of land use and local resources. 4 Social Institutions such as There may be some influences on social Social Infrastructure and institutions and relations by formulating Rural Local Decision - making B Water Supply plan and the expected construction Institutions of facilities, which needs to be paid cares. 5 Existing Social Any negative impact will not occur by the Study Infrastructures and and formulation of the Rural Water Supply Plan. C Services 6 The Poor, Indigenous and Any negative impact will not occur by the Study Social Environment: Ethnic people C and formulation of the Rural Water Supply Plan. 7 Misdistribution of Benefit There may be happening of some imbalance of and Damage B benefit on water supply, which needs to be paid cares in the Rural Water Supply Plan. 8 Cultural heritage There is no any valuable cultural heritage which C may be influenced by Rural Water Supply Plan to be formulated in the Study area. 9 Local Conflicts of Interest There has been not experience of the local conflicts on water development issues before, and it is not C expected to occur any conflicts on Rural Water Supply plan to be formulated and the expected construction of facilities. *Impacts on “Gender” and “Children’s Right” may be related to all social environment criteria. Right” may be *Impacts on “Gender” and “Children’s 10 Water Usage or Water There has been not experience of the local conflicts Rights and Communal on water development issues before. This is Rights because the ownership of land belongs to the C nation, and interests related to land is adjusted in this course. Therefore it is not expected to occur any conflicts on Rural Water Supply plan to be formulated. 4 11 Sanitation Rural Water Supply Plan will have positive impact C to improve current status of sanitation. 12 Hazards (risk) Any infectious diseases will not occur by the Study Infectious Diseases such as and formulation of the Rural Water Supply Plan. C HIV/AIDS 13 Topography and It is not much relevant since Rural Water Supply Geographical Features Plan and design of the expected facilities will not be a large scale. However, by depending on the volume of underground water use, changes in a level of underground water table may occur, and B thereby it may influence to topography and geographical features. 14 Soil Erosion It is not relevant since Rural Water Supply Plan C and design of the expected facilities will not be a large scale. 15 Groundwater It is not much relevant since Rural Water Supply Plan and design of the expected facilities will not B be a large scale. However, by depending on the volume of underground water use, changes in a level of underground water table may occur. 16 Hydrological Situation It is not relevant since Rural Water Supply Plan and design of the expected facilities will not be a C large scale.
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