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World Bank Document RP577 v3 World Bank Financed Bengbu Integrated Environment Improvement Project Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized SOCIAL ASSESSMENT (SUMMARY REPORT) Public Disclosure Authorized National Research Center for Resettlement, Hohai University (NRCR) June, 2007 Public Disclosure Authorized 1 Contents Lists of Table............................................................................................................ 2 Abstract.................................................................................................................... 3 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................... 1 2 The General Situation of Project Area............................................................. 6 2.1 Project Area Identification ............................................................................................... 6 2.2 Social and Economic Situation in Project Area ............................................................... 8 2.3 The Poverty Profile in Project Area ............................................................................... 13 2.4 Minorities in Project Areas ............................................................................................ 15 3 Stakeholders Analysis ..................................................................................... 16 3.1 The Identification of Stakeholders ................................................................................. 16 3.2 Demands of Stakeholders............................................................................................... 19 4 Project Influence Analyses.............................................................................. 23 4.1 Project Social Influences Analyses ................................................................................ 23 4.2 Influences Analyses on Principal Stakeholders in Project ............................................. 31 5 Willingness and Ability to Pay Analyses ........................................................ 35 5.1 existing payment status .................................................................................................. 35 5.2 Willingness to pay Analyses .......................................................................................... 44 5.3 Ability to pay Analyses .................................................................................................. 45 6 Identification and Control of Social Risks ..................................................... 51 6.1 Social Risk Identification............................................................................................... 51 6.2 Social Risks Control....................................................................................................... 53 7 Conclusion, Suggestion and Action ................................................................ 79 7.1 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................... 79 7.2 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................... 81 7.3 Action............................................................................................................................. 84 Appendix I: Agenda of Bengbu Integrated Environment Improvement Project Social Assessment Group....................................................................................... 86 Appendix II Symposium and Interview List..................................................... 87 Lists of Table Table 1-1 Contents of Bengbu Integrated Environment Improvement Project ................................ 3 Table 2-1 General Situation of Porject Area..................................................................................... 7 Table 2-2 Project Area Population Status ....................................................................................... 10 Table 2-3 Project Area Principal Economic Indicators Table..........................................................11 Table 2-4 Project Area Principle Social Indicators......................................................................... 12 Table 2-5 Project Area Povery Status ............................................................................................. 14 Table 3-1 Principal Stakeholder of Each Subproject...................................................................... 17 Table 4-1 Social Aims of Project Construction .............................................................................. 23 Table 4-2 The Service Scopes of the Establishments and Beneficial Population Status Before and After the Project Implementation.................................................................................... 26 Table 5-1 The Supportive Policies of Relevant Fees toward vulneraly groups.............................. 39 Table 5-2 The Exerting Standard of Domestic Water Fees and the Predict increased Standard..... 41 Table 5-3 The Exerting Standard of Sewage Disposal Fees and the Predict increased Standard ... 42 Table 6-1 Table of main social iems, social risks, suggested measures and actions in each subproject........................................................................................................................ 59 AppendixII-1 Symposium list ........................................................................................................ 87 AppendixII-2 Interview with Affected Groups............................................................................... 87 2 Abstract Entrusted by Bengbu Project Management Office (BPMO) of Bengbu Integrated Environment Improvement Project (BIEIP) funded by World Bank, the social assessment group of NRCR in Hohai University arrived at Bengbu City in May, 2007, and started a 20- days spot investigation on the 8 subprojects of BIEIP. And the social assessment report of BIEIP was finished after several communications with PMOs, project owner, design institute and planning unit of resettlement in June, 2007. 6 districts and 2 development districts (economy development area and hi-tech development district) are involved in this project. There are 8 subprojects which could be compartmentalized as 3 categories: (1) integrated management of water resources in Bengbu, including project of flood control and waterlogging drainage and environment improvement in Longzi Lake, and flood control project in Tianhe; (2) urban environment and infrastructure reconstruction, including Urban (Huaihe River south) environmental infrastructure improvement project, project of flood control and waterlogging drainage in Huaishang District, project of urban infrastructure reconstruction in Huaishang District, and project of flood control management and environment improvement in Xijiagou; (3) environment and infrastructure reconstruction of three districts, including Guzhen County integrated environmental improvment, Wuhe County Mohekou integrated environmental improvement and Huaiyuan County integrated environmental improvment. The method of combining literature research with field investigation is adopted in the social assessment process. During the field investigation, 9 symposiums with different stakeholders were held (including 84 persons totally). There, 19 persons were interviewed concretely. Spot investigations were taken to every subproject. According to World Bank’s requests and DRA’s social assessment outline, this report mainly covers the following 4 aspects of the subprojects: (1) the positive and negative social impacts on the affected persons (especially the vulnerable groups) in the project; (2) with the rise of relevant rates which might be brought by the project, the affected persons’ payment ability and inclination; (3) the potential social risks and relevant measures to reduce the risks; (4) with the suggestions given by the social assessment group, the relevant institutions’ actions. Through analysis and field investigations on the project, it is concluded that BIEIP would advance the ability of flood control, waterlogging drainage and water resource integrated management of 7 districts, enlarge the covering range of environment infrastructure, satisfy much more groups’ need, reduce poverty, improve social and economical status of project area, and then boost the development of economy, society, and 3 environment. While the above positive impacts would be brought by the project, some negative impacts also might be brought to different stakeholders. (1) Risks of the project design. If the project is not designed properly, the quantity of land acquisition and house demolition would be larger than necessary. For example, there are 6 subprojects (except the project of Tianhe river Longzi Lake) involving land acquisition and house demolition, so the population of Dps is large. If these projects are not design under the objective to minimize these damages, the population of Dps would be increased. Parts of people might be excluded outside the range of project benefit. Through investigations and interviews, it is found that people in Tuanjie Village, Mohekou Town, and Wuhe County are relatively poor, and are drinking groundwater with high fluorine content chronically, so they need drinking water according to required standards. If the money for the branch pipe net, sending the water to villages and households, could not be raised successfully, there would be some vulnerable groups that would not
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