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Ethnic Peoples Plan IPP578 Lao People’s Democratic Republic Public Disclosure Authorized Ethnic Peoples Plan Global Environment Facility Medium-Size Project Developing and Demonstrating Replicable Protected Area Management Models Public Disclosure Authorized at Nam Et -Phou Louey National Protected Area (P113860) Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized June 21, 2012 Contents: 1. Background and objective ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 1.1. Project description ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 1.2. Project components --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 1.3. Purpose of the Ethnic People’s Plan -------------------------------------------------------------------4 1.4. Implementation arrangement ---------------------------------------------------------------------------5 2. Legal and institutional framework applicable to Ethnic People in Lao PDR ------------------------- 5 3. Affected Ethnic Peoples Communities ------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 3.1. Distribution and definition of Khmu. Hmong, iuMien and Lao Tai people --------------------- 7 3.2. Customary land and Natural Resource use ---------------------------------------------------------- 8 4. Social Assessment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 5. Process of FPIC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 6. Project Measure ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 6.1. Participatory planning of Resource restriction----------------------------------------------------- 13 6.2. Alternative livelihood ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 6.3. Case of Sanam users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 6.4. Infrastructure development in and near NE-PL NPA --------------------------------------------- 14 6.5. Physical Culture Resources ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 6.6. Safeguard compliance by co-financiers ----------------------------------------------------------- 14 7. Partnership with Current Active and on-pipeline Development Project ------------------------------- 15 8. Mechanism and benchmarks for M&E and reporting -------------------------------------------------- 15 9. Cost estimates and financing plan for EPP --------------------------------------------------------------- 16 10. Grievance redress mechanism ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 11. Implementation arrangement and capacity building ---------------------------------------------------- 17 Ethnic Peoples Plan (revision as per the updated MSP document dated June 21, 2012) 1. Background and Objectives 1.1 Project Description The project for Developing and Demonstrating Replicable Protected Area Management Models at Nam Et -Phou Louey National Protected Area (“The Project”) aims to test, in selected areas of the Nam Et-Phou Louey National Protected Area (NE-PL NPA), targeted activities for sustainable natural resource use and protection of selected species threatened by human interaction. The project is comprised of three core project components, including i) management and conservation working models, within NE-PL NPA including implementation of co-management of infrastructure in sensitive habitats, ii) working models of ecotourism for community engagement and sustainable financing, and iii) dissemination and replication working models of NE-PL NPA within Lao PDRs. The NE-PL NPA is operated under the authority of the Nam Et-Phou Louey Protected Area Management Unit (PAMU) with technical support from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) (Figure 1). The project covers the Nam Et-Phou Louey National Protected Area (NE- PL NPA) landscape in northern Lao PDR, which harbors biodiversity of national and global significance, including the only known breeding population of Indochinese Tiger in Laos, and has been managed by the PAMU since 2000. The NPA covers 422,900 ha of mountainous terrain (Figure 2). The northern boundary of the NPA borders Vietnam and a proposed expansion of the protected area spans three provinces and seven districts including Luang Prabang Province (Viengkham and Phonxay districts), Houaphan province (Viengthong, Huamuang, Xamneua, and Xiengkhor districts), and Phoukoud district in Xieng Khuang province. Approximately 80% of the land area in Viengthong district alone is NE-PL NPA. This district is known to be one of 47 poorest in Lao PDR. Approximately a total of 30,000 people in 98 villages are known to live in and adjacent to the NPA. The NE-PL NPA landscape has a long history of human settlement by people from three major ethno-linguistic groups, including the Lao-Tai (Tai Lao, Tai Dam, and Tai Deng), the Mon-Khmer (including Khmu), and the Hmong-Iu Mien (including Hmong and Iu Mien), who today remain largely engaged in subsistence agriculture activities with limited integration in the market economy. Rice is the staple food and is primarily produced through rotations of shifting cultivation on steep mountainous slopes. Meat and vegetables are raised or harvested from the forest. Figure 1. Institutional Arrangements for Nam Et-Phou Louey National Protected Area (after Appleton et al. 2003). 1 N a m E t – Phou Louey Protected Area Advisory Com m ittee NPA Manager W CS Technical Assistance W C S S i t e Coordinator R e s e a r c h & L a n d U s e Adm inistration Enforcement Conservation Ecotourism Monitoring Management S e c t i o n S e c t i o n Outreach Section S e c t i o n S e c t i o n S e c t i o n - F in a n c e - 1 C h e c k p o in t District Team s working - T ig e r & P r e y - Visitor Inform ation - ADB Livestock Project in : M onitoring C e n te r - E q u ip m e n t - 3 M obile Units - German Development 54 V illa g e s - Biodiversity - W ild life - based Tourism Service Technical - Transportation & - 8 Forest Substations M onitoring / R e s e a r c h S u p p o r t Maintenance 37 S c h o o ls - M onitoring Natural - W orld Bank projects 9 M ilitary Bases Resource Use on rural developm ent - 1.2. Project components Component 1: Management and conservation working models, within NE-PL NPA including implementation of co-management of infrastructure in sensitive habitats. (US$ 678,000). Under this component, the project will strengthen Protected Area Management Unit (PAMU) capacity to monitor and manage harvests of managed species for sustainable use in the Controlled Use Zone within the NE-PL NPA. Activity includes a) Community Awareness Raising in 30 NPA villages aimed to raise community awareness and understanding of, and ultimately their compliance with, NPA regulations; b) Village Natural Resource Agreements with approximately 20 communities including those in the controlled use zone near the Phathi Road to map village use areas and ratify village agreements with the NPA for wildlife and land-use management; c) Monitor Change in Harvest of Wild Foods and Estimate Sustainability of Wildlife Off-take. Results of monitoring will be incorporated into campaign messages and used to adapt agreements for PA zoning and wildlife use; and d) Expand patrolling effort and ranger substations to secure Totally Protected Zone, reduce illegal/unsustainable wildlife trade, and encourage villages to graze their livestock at their village’s area rather than in the core zone. These activities will allow the Protected Area Management Unit, WCS, the Province and District to work together to ensure that access to the core zone along Phathi Road is managed and monitored. Furthermore, this component will demonstrate best practices to mitigate anticipated impacts from the use of Phathi Road through supporting the implementation of the Co- Management Plan which includes awareness raising on the use of Phathi road; establishing a lock gate and check point at the two ends of the road; establishing one substation along the road and financing permanent staff at the two check points and substation to carry out 2 patrolling activity; establishing access monitoring system; conducting training staff on patrolling along the road; supporting land use planning in the villages near to the road; and supporting the development of long term Phathi road management plan. This component will include developing alternative community livelihoods within and near the NE-PL NPA to help local villagers including ethnic minorities minimize their dependency on wild meat consumption and collection of NTFPs and mitigate potential short-term negative impact following the introduction of restricted access to natural and forest resources under the GEF project. Two co-financiers will provide the financing for to the development of alternative community livelihood. KfW/GiZ funded Climate Protection through Avoided Deforestation Project (CliPAD) will support the Participatory Land Use Planning (PLUP) in all 30 target villages, and develop alternative community livelihood in 15 of them through providing training and demonstration as well as the provision of in-kind inputs. PLUP will help target villagers demarcate various categories of land based on the existing land use patterns. Based on the results, villagers will be assisted identifying and developing alternative community livelihoods. Initial
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