Environmenta l and Social Monitoring Report
Project Number: 47046-002 July-December 2020 February 2021
PRC: Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Services System Development Project
Prepared by the Project Management Office of Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project for the Asian Development Bank.
This environmental and social monitoring 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.
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Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project
Loan Number: 3312-PRC
Safeguard Monitoring Report
Reporting Period July 1 – December 31, 2020
Prepared by the Project Management Office of Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project
Date: February 26, 2021 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告
TABLE OF CONTENTS ABREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS...... 3
I. INTRODUCTION...... 4
II. IMPORTANTACTION AND SAFEGUARD...... 8
II.1. MAJOR ACTIONS...... 8 II.2. SAFEGUARD...... 10 II.2.1. Environment Safeguards of FIs...... 10 II.2.1.1. ZRCB...... 10 II.2.1.2. Yuzhong SPD Rural Bank (RFSP)...... 11 II.2.2. Good practices of environment management...... 18 II.3. SOCIAL SAFEGUARD...... 19 II.3.1. Land acquisition and involuntary settlement...... 19 II.3.2. LAND USE RIGHT TRANSFER...... 20 II.3.3. ETHNIC MINORITY...... 20 II.3.4. SOCIAL AND GENDER...... 21 II.3.4. PROHIBITED INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES...... 23 II.4. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE...... 23 II.5. OPERATION OF IMPLEMENTING GRIEVANCE REDRESSING MECHANISM...... 23 II.6. APPLICATION OF MIS SYSTEM IN ESMS...... 25
III. EFFECTIVENESS AND IMPACT OF PROJECT ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING...... 25
IV. PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED IN ESMS IMPLEMENTATION AND SOLUTIONS...... 26
IV.1. ISSUES...... 26 IV.2. SOLUTION...... 27
V. LESSONS LEARNT AND NEXT STEPS...... 28
V.1. LESSONS LEARNT...... 28 V.2. NEXT STEPS...... 29
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LIST OF APPENDIX APPENDIX 1: SOCIALAND GENDERACTION PLAN MONITORING...... 30
APPENDIX 2: ETHNIC MINORITY DEVELOPMENT MONITORING-1...... 33
APPENDIX 3: ETHNIC MINORITY DEVELOPMENT MONITORING-2...... 34
APPENDIX 4: RECORDS OF COMPLAINTS...... 40
APPENDIX 5: CREDIT MONITORING...... 41
APPENDIX 6: CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES...... 45
APPENDIX 7: FURTHER SUBLOANS OF THE PROJECT...... 57
APPENDIX 8: SNAPSHOTS OF MIS...... 60
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ABREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
ADB AsianDevelopmentBank BARA CountyAgricultureand RuralAffairs Bureau BOF CountyBureauofFinance BOG BankofGansu BOL BankofLanzhou CNY Chinese Yuan CPMO CountyProjectManagementOffice DARA Provincial Department ofAgriculture and RuralAffairs DOF ProvincialDepartmentofFinance EES ExpenditureStatement EM EthnicMinority EMDF Ethnic Minority Development Framework EMDP EthnicMinorityDevelopmentPlan ESMS Environment andSocial Management System EUR EuropeanDollar IEE InitialEnvironmentEvaluation FI FinancialIntermediary GOC GovernmentofChina JRCB JingningRuralCommercialBank LRCB LintaoRuralCommercialBank MARA Ministry ofAgriculture and RuralAffairs M&E MonitoringandEvaluation MIS ManagementInformationSystem MOU MemorandumofUnderstanding PMO Project Management Office PPMO Provincial Project Management Office RFSP RuralFinancialServiceProvider SGAP SocialandGenderActionPlan USD United States Dollar WHO World Health Organization ZRCB ZhuanglangRuralCommercialBank COVID 19 Corona Virus Disease 19
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I. INTRODUCTION 1. Asian Development Bank (hereafter refers to as ADB) approved the Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project (hereafter refers to as the Project) on November 12, 2015. ADB and the Chinese Government signed the Loan Agreement on December 8, 2015 and the project became effective on March 29, 2016. The planned total investment of the project is EUR 184.5 million, including EUR 92 million of ADB loan, EUR 63.28 million input from Financial Intermediary (hereafter refers to as FI), EUR 22.76 million contributions of beneficiaries and EUR 6.22million input of Gansu Provincial Government. The implementation period of the loan project is five years, completion on set on December 31, 2020 and the project closure is June 30, 2021. The maturity of the loan is 15 years including 9 years of grace period. The maturity date of the loan is November 1, 2030. 2. Project resources will be used to support the achievement of four outputs as (i) inclusive and environmentally-friendly featured agricultural production bases developed; (ii) farmer cooperatives and agricultural enterprises financed and strengthened; (iii) rural financial service system developed and enhanced; and (iv) capacity for project implementation and management strengthened. The objective of the project is to enhance the participation of farmers in more productive and market-oriented agricultural activities to achieve income growth. The Implementation Kick-off Workshop convened in Lanzhou of Gansu on June 2, 2016 symbolized the official start of project implementation. 3. As an innovative project of “agriculture + financing”, the most striking difference comparing this project with other projects operated through traditional models is the incorporation of financial intermediaries (FI). Through screening intermediary banks with the required qualifications, about 90% of project loan proceeds is on-lent to the FIs. Through close cooperation between the government and FIs, the FIs via market operation will use project resources to support local featured agriculture and the development of new rural financial institutions. In this process, the government fully plays the role of macro regulation and capacity building at all levels while the banks put their advantages in fund management and operation into full play to enable recycled use of limited funds serving the development of featured agriculture maximize its effects. Meanwhile, the project is meant to explore a sustainable model for financing in support of agriculture. The project also attaches great attention to capacity building of FIs as well as support to new rural financial service providers including rural banks, micro credit companies and mutual cooperatives to enhance the capacity of rural financing services and the development of diversified rural financing system. 4. With FI model, the first batch of selected FIs, including Bank of Gansu (BOG), Bank of Lanzhou (BOL) and Yuzhong SPD Rural Bank established Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS) in June 2016. The newly selected Lintao Rural Commercial Bank (LRCB), Jingning Rural Commercial Bank (JRCB), and Zhuanglang Rural Commercial Bank (ZRCB) established Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS) in January 2019, to assess and manage the potential environment and social impacts of their lending activities, which is an important instrument to implement the environment and social safeguard policies of ADB, and also an important practice of applying ADB’s environment and social safeguard policies in credit activities of banks in China after Industrial Bank‘s adoption of Equator Principles, and this is highly aligned with the green development principles promoted by GOC. It is expected that the outcome generated through project implementation will be replicated and scaled-up in broader areas of China, which would contribute to the integrated, balanced and sustainable development of rural economy, the environment and the human society. 5. During the second half of 2020, investment delivered was EUR 29.0097 million (equivalent to CNY 232.8031 million), accounting for 136.9% of the 2020 plan, of which, the use of ADB loan was EUR 9.3336 million (equivalent to CNY 74.902 million) for 103.7% of the annual plan, recycled ADB loan funding was EUR 3.8917 million (equivalent to CNY 31.2308 million), and the domestic counterpart investment was EUR15.7845 million (equivalent to CNY 126.6704 million) for 129.55% of the annual plan. By December 31, 2020, the accumulative investment of the project delivered was EUR 241.9211 million (equivalent to CNY 1.941417 billion), accounting for 146.7% of the base cost of the project, of 4 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告 which, the use of ADB loan was EUR 85.2897 million (equivalent to CNY 684.4498 million), accounting for 100.1% of the target of base cost, recycled ADB loan funding was EUR 56.9631 million (equivalent to CNY 457.0488 million), and domestic counterpart funding investment was EUR 99.6783 million (equivalent to CNY 799.9184 million), accounting for 125.04% of the allocation plan of the base cost. In the second half of 2020, FIs issued 46 Subloans with recycled ADB funds and recycled ADB loan funds, ESMS was robustly established and implemented for all these Subloans in accordance with the project requirements. 6. After the currency conversion on May 1, 2020 and in order to make the most of the ADB loan, the PPMO submitted a request to ADB for the reallocation of EUR 3.9 million of balance of interest and commitment fees under Category 3 to Category 1b for supporting farmer cooperatives and ASMEs. During the reporting period, the funding adjustment request was submitted to ADB through MOF. On January 15, 2021, the PPMO received no objection from ADB, agreeing to adjust the EUR 3.9 million interest and commitment fees from Category 3 to Category 1B in support of farmer cooperatives and agricultural ASMEs. 7. As project implementation is approaching its completion, in addition to the establishment and implementation of simplified ESMS for end clients of RFSP as required during the reporting period, the project also focused on :(i) promoting the integration of ESMS and FIs' own businesses; (ii) strengthening the monitoring of the implementation effect of ESMS; (iii) continuously optimizing and improving ESMS practices; (iv) capturing experience and strengthening sustainable development of ESMS; and (v) capturing experiences in order to facilitate sustainable development of ESMS. 8. In the second half of 2020, whether it was imported or partial rebound, China responded quickly and precisely prevented and controlled pandemic. Therefore, COVID-19 has no impact on project that proceeded according to the 2020 plan for activity implementation. The PPMO also worked hard with project counties to advance project implementation while supervising the overall project performance. It convened on-spot working meetings, monitored ESMS activities on the ground, which will provide solid basis for project completion. 9. As we all know, COVID-19 in 2020 became a global pandemic. Since the shutdown of Wuhan City of Hubei Province on January 23, 2020, China launched a full-scale battle against the pandemic. With the joint efforts of the whole country and the people and after more than two months of fighting the pandemic, Wuhan lifted the outbound travel ban starting from 0:00 on April 8th, symbolizing a major victory for China in the battle, moving from the "containment stage" to the "epidemic mitigation stage", entering the normalized prevention and control featuring "prevention of rebound in the country and importation of cases from overseas". 10. As of December 31, 2020, Gansu Province has reported a total of 163 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 91 local cases, 73 imported cases, 2 deaths and 161 cured. The main onset time of local cases was concentrated from January 27 to March 4, 2020. From April 6 to December 31, Gansu Province had no new local confirmed cases for 271 consecutive days. From March 29 to December 31, 2020, there had been no presumptive cases for 279 consecutive days; and from April 24 to December 31, 2020, there had been no asymptomatic infections for 252 consecutive days. Since March, commercial chartered flights had successively arrived in Lanzhou of Gansu from abroad, and the passengers of the chartered flights were transferred to a centralized observation point in the New Development Zone of Lanzhou for 14 days of quarantine and observation. All confirmed imported cases were treated in quarantine at designated provincial hospitals. Therefore, during the reporting period, there were no new local cases in Gansu, and imported cases from overseas were also within the controllable range, which would not cause the spread of the pandemic in the province. 11. In accordance with national and provincial pandemic prevention requirements, the 13 project counties actively carried out various prevention and control measures. During the reporting period, none of the 13 project counties had confirmed cases of COVID-19. 5 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告
12. In the face of the sudden onset of COVID, GOC responded quickly and successively formulated a number of scientific and rigorous treatment and prevention and control systems, such as the "New Coronavirus Infection Pneumonia Diagnosis and Treatment Plan" and "New Coronavirus Infection Pneumonia Prevention and Control Knowledge Manual" etc. Governments from the central to local level and further to communities were mobilized to implement strict home isolation and designated disinfection as well as timely testing. Patients were timely treated free of charge and information of the pandemic was disclosed timely in an open and transparent manner. Epidemic prevention knowledge has been disseminated scientifically. 13. During the report period and in line with the implementation of the project, the PPMO actively communicated with the CPMOs also in consideration of the COVID control systems and measures, requesting the later to strictly follow the Project Health and Safety Plan in pandemic control during project implementation. 14. In 2020, COVID-19 generated some impact on multiple aspects of economy, social and education in China, however, such impact was within controllable range in general. By December 31, 2020, all production and services of enterprises and service sectors in Gansu had been resumed and the life of people has been back to normal, and there was limited impact on project implementation. All activities under non-FI model have been implemented. 15. During the reporting period, activities of production base development under Category 1A, supporting farmer cooperatives and ASMEs under 1B and rural financing service system under 1C have been all completed. Therefore, it is safe to draw a conclusion that COVID-19 did not cause significant impact to the implementation of the project. Once the routine businesses were affected by COVID-19, the FIs orderly delivered services through e-banking, mobile banking and other on-line approaches with the aid of supervision platform. ESMS of the project was integrated with the business of FIs. Table 1. COVID 19 – Project Health and safety plan
Item Protective Measures Implementer Supervisor Awareness Preparation of awareness materials on COVID-19 e.g., Enterprise, Farmer Disease materials signs, posters; Cooperative, PMO Control Installation of awareness signs at work sites for and FI Center and visibility to workers and the general public. PMO
Detection Control and document the entry/exit to the work site Enterprise, Farmer Disease Measures for both workers and other parties; Cooperative and FI Control Prevent sick workers from entering the site through Center and checking temperatures of workers and other people PMO entering the site; All workers to self-monitor their health, and take their body temperature regularly. Protective All workers should wear a face mask; Enterprise and Disease Measures Ventilation. Strengthen the ventilation of the Farmer Cooperative Control During workplace and maintain indoor air circulation. Natural Center and Production ventilation is preferred when the process permits, and PMO do not use central air conditioning; Handwashing. The toilet area of the production workshop and office building should be equipped with hand-washing facilities, soap, paper towels or hand dryers to ensure the normal operation of hand-washing, eye-washing and spraying facilities in the workplace. If there is no hand washing equipment, 75% alcohol hand rub should be provided;
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Item Protective Measures Implementer Supervisor Cleaning and Disinfection. Clean and disinfect the surface of objects in the workplace. Public areas such as buses, official vehicles, reception rooms, offices, elevators, tables and chairs, workbenches, floors, and surfaces of objects should be disinfected regularly by a dedicated person, twice a day. Keep textiles such as work clothes, work caps, and seat covers clean, wash and disinfect them daily. Keep the environment clean and ventilated in staff dormitories, auxiliary sanitary facilities, canteens and other places, and strengthen regular disinfection of the places; Avoid or reduce employee gatherings and collective activities as much as possible. Control the frequency and scale of meetings, and minimize the time required for meetings and trainings. When the time is too long, open windows for ventilation at least once an hour, ensure that the interval between participants in meetings or training is more than 1 meter, and wear a face mask; Eat in the office or workshop lounge. If there are many people eating at the same time, you can eat at staggered times and avoid communication during the meal. Protective All farmers should wear a face mask; Enterprise, Farmer Disease Measures of During agricultural production operation, keep a Cooperative, Farms Control Agricultural distance of at least 1 meter between farms and and PMO Center, Production minimize physical contact; PMO and Regular and thorough handwashing with soap and Village water or hand hygiene with alcohol-based hand-rub; Committee Open windows frequently in daily life to keep the indoor environment hygienic, and keep the environmental hygiene of livestock and poultry enclosures, do a good job in disinfection of livestock and poultry enclosures; The CPMO cooperates with the local disease control center to strengthen publicity of COVID-19 protection measures for farmers’ Everyone should self-monitor their health and take their body temperature regularly. If have fever, dry cough, dyspnea and other symptoms, should go to the hospital in time. Protective Everyone should wear a face mask; Enterprise, Farmer Disease Measures Cancel or postpone non-essential travel to areas with Cooperative, PMO Control During community medium and high risk of COVID-19; and FI Center and Training and Take personal protective measures, wash hands PMO Inspection frequently and exercise frequently for employees who go out for training and inspection. Advise workers to comply with instructions from local authorities where they are travelling, as well as information on whom to contact if they feel ill while training and inspection; Workers returning from an area where COVID-19 transmission is occurring should monitor themselves for symptoms for 14 days and take their temperature twice a day; if they are feeling unwell, they should
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Item Protective Measures Implementer Supervisor stay at home, self-isolate, and contact a medical professional. Protective During the establishment and implementation of the FI Disease Measures Subloan ESMS, all stuffs wear masks; Control During Loan The FI staff should keep a distance of 1 meter from Center and Business the sub-borrower; PMO FI staff take personal protective measures and wash hands frequently; Stuffs who are unwell or who develop symptoms consistent with COVID-19 to stay at home, self-isolate, and contact a medical professional or the local COVID-19 information line for advice on testing and referral.
II. IMPORTANT ACTION AND SAFEGUARD II.1. Major actions 16. With the joint efforts of the PPMO, FIs and the 13 CPMOs, important activities implemented in the second half of 2020 related to ESMS are as follows: Continued Promoting the integration of ESMS with the FIs' own business. Up to now, ESMS has been established and implemented for all Subloans financed by ADB loans and counterpart funds of FIs in accordance with the requirements of ADB. With the implementation of the project, the sustainable development of ESMS will be a direction for the future of the project. During the reporting period, the PPMO and the consultants shifted the focus onto the strengthening and guiding the integration of ESMS into FIs' own business. Through improving ESMS of Subloans financed by FI counterpart fund and carrying out training on the sustainable development of ESMS and other activities, the staff of FIs improved their understanding of practicing green finance, and integrated the environmental and social safeguarding rationales of ESMS into the FIs’ own business practice and into each loan of the FIs. Further strengthening monitoring of ESMS effect. Starting from the establishment of ESMS for the first sub-loan of the project in 2016 and according to the progress of the project, the PPMO required the FIs to carry out a full cycle of environmental and social risk control for all Subloans, so as to strengthen the monitoring of the implementation effect of ESMS. The CPMO and the FIs in their supervision of Subloans found that, comparing with those who did not borrow from the project, the end borrowers of the project after implementing ESMS have paid more attention to the environment and social aspects while developing agricultural activities, borrowers hired higher proportion of women, minority farmers and poor farmers, demonstrating that the ESMS has been integrated into project activities. Continued establishment and implementation of the ESMS. During the reporting period, the client representatives and the environment managers of FIs followed the requirements of the Screening and Categorization of sub-projects as stipulated in the ESMS and carried out screening and categorization of 43 ADB loans under RFSP and 3 Subloans financed by recycled ADB loan. In the second half of 2020, SPD Rural Bank used 43 Subloans funded by ADB and completed 35 simplified ESMS, including 11 Subloans for vegetable, lily, potato and walnut production; 9 Subloans for livestock and poultry production such as cattle, sheep, pig and chicken; 21 Subloans for fruit and vegetable processing, wholesale, marketing, agricultural inputs production, and leisure agriculture; 2 Subloans for tree sapling production, involving 8 cooperatives, 12 enterprise, 20 farmers, 2 animal farms and 1 agricultural and by-product storage
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center. ZRCB used ADB recycled funds to have issued 3 Subloans. The three companies involved used ADB recycled funds for vegetable production and apple production, which are consistent with the activities carried out with ADB funds in 2019. Therefore, the original 3 ESMS are used. The development of all ESMS strictly followed the stipulated requirements and steps. In this process, the PPMO and FIs worked closely with the county Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, the CPMO and other relevant institutions to ensure quality control in the implementation of ESMS through irregular follow-up inspection. Deepening the scope of training and information dissemination. During the reporting period In the second half of 2020, PMOs and FIs at all levels carried out 3 sessions of ESMS training in considerations of the needs of the project. Among them, the environmental/social manager of Yuzhong SPD Rural Bank explained in details to all employees the objective, significance, implementation steps, and sustainability and the significance of integration of ESMS in its business. The PPMO successively gave LRCB and ZRCB a training titled Ponderation on the Establishment and Implementation of ESMS in the Financial Industry". By explaining the characteristics of ESMS, the thinking of FIs on the integration of ESMS and banking business was ushered, which further stimulated the thinking of FIs on the sustainable development of ESMS, facilitation of the integration of ESMS with the businesses of FIs. At the same time CPMOs are urged to strengthen supervision over the implementation of ESMS by FIs so as to jointly promote the sustainable development of ESMS. The establishment of simplified ESMS for RFSP. During the reporting period, RFSP activities advanced significantly. Yuzhong SPD Rural Bank released EUR 7.7377 million (equivalent to 60.9987 million) to four RFSPs that meet the requirements of the project. In line with the requirement of the Safeguard Statement of ADB, the four RFSPs have appointed environment/social managers and presidents’ directives have been issued to their respective subsidiaries for the integration of ESMS with the routine lending businesses of the ADB loan project. It is also required that the implementation of ESMS will serve as one of policies of FIs in the project counties. The steps of A-F of ESMS will become necessary procedures of FIs for evaluating and approving all sub-projects of the ADB project. Training and implementation of simplified ESMS for RFSP. In order to improve the ability of related personnel of the four RFSPs to understand ADB project and the ability to understand, evaluate and report ESMS, the PPMO and Yuzhong SPD Rural Bank conducted training on simplified version of ESMS and explained to them the purpose, significance, implementation steps and other related content of ESMS in detail. Relevant personnel are required to follow the policy on supporting, tending to support or not supporting sub-projects in ESMS, and all Subloan applications must be undergo strict screening, evaluation and categorization following the steps of ESMS. After the training, the PPMO and Yuzhong SPD Rural Bank jointly guided related personnel of the 4 RFSPs to have completed the "Sub-project Screening and Categorization Worksheet" for all Subloans on the spot. During the ESMS field assessment process, the final borrower is also required to implement the mitigation measures listed in the ESMS during the project implementation process. 17. During the reporting period, FIs in total disbursed 46 Subloans, of which, 43 Subloans financed by recycled ADB loan with value of EUR 7.7377 million (equivalent to CNY 60.9987 million), 3 Subloans were financed by recycled ADB loan of an amount of EUR3.2274 million (equivalent to CNY 25.900 million).
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Table 1. Disbursement of Further Subloans (as of December 31, 2020) Exchange rate: 1 EUR = 8.0250 CNY
Amount Disbursed No. of No. County Bank Funding sources Subloans CNY 10,000 EUR 10,000
Yuzhong SPD 1 Yuzhong 43 6099.87 773.77 ADB Rural Bank
2 Zhuanglang ZRCB 3 2590.00 322.74 Recycled ADB
Total 46 8689.87 1096.51
Note: ADB's fund exchange rate is the actual exchange rate that occurs in the project withdrawal appropriation bill 1 EUR = CNY 7.8833. The recycled fund exchange rate is 1 EUR = CNY 8.0250. 18. Beneficiaries of Subloans included agricultural enterprises, farm cooperatives and individual farmers who represent the largest segment of beneficiaries in terms of the number of Subloans borrowed (details are given in annex 6). II.2. Safeguard II.2.1. Environment Safeguards of FIs 19. In the second half of 2020, SPD Rural Bank assisted 4 RFSPs in issuing 43 Subloans funded by ADB and completed 35 simplified ESMS, including 11 Subloans for vegetable, lily, potato and walnut production; 9 Subloans for livestock and poultry production such as cattle, sheep, pig and chicken; 21 Subloans for fruit and vegetable processing, wholesale, marketing, agricultural inputs production, and leisure agriculture; 2 Subloans for tree sapling production, involving 8 cooperatives, 12 enterprise, 20 farmers, 2 animal farms and 1 agricultural and by-product storage center. ZRCB used ADB recycled funds to have issued 3 Subloans. The three companies involved used ADB recycled funds for vegetable production and apple production, which are consistent with the activities carried out with ADB funds in 2019. Therefore, the original 3 ESMS are used. FIs and RFSPs with the assistance of the PPMO and CPMOs developed 35 sets of ESMS for the 43 Subloans of ADB loan, and the 3 Subloans based on recycled loan funds used the original ESMS. There were 14 Subloans used for the production of vegetables, lily, potato, walnut and apple; 9 Subloans for cattle, sheep, pig and poultry as chicken production, 21 Subloans for vegetable and fruit processing, wholesale, marketing, farm input production and leisure agriculture, 2 Subloans for sapling production. These activities involved 8 farmer cooperatives, 15 enterprises, 20 farmer households, 2 animal farms and 1 agriculture and by-product storage center. II.2.1.1. ZRCB 20. During the reporting period, ZRCB used the recycled ADB loan funds for releasing 3 Subloans in support of apple production. These Subloans are renewal of the same borrower of the previous year and activities supported by the recycled ADB loan funds are the same covered by the ADB loan in 2019, therefore, the same ESMS are continued. Details are given below. Cropping: 21. Gansu Gonghe Foodstuff Company Limited and Zhuanglang County Yingyuanheng Fruit Company Limited used the recycled ADB loan funds for apple production, which are same as supported by ADB loan in 2019, and the original 2 sets of ESMS were used. The above two companies undertake similar types of production activities with similar environment impact. The production process of apple envisages use of suitable amounts of
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fertilizers and pesticides, but no pesticides gazetted in the List of Banned and Restricted Pesticides (66 type) are used, including Dimethoate and Methamidophos. Chemical fertilizers used are selected from the National Implementation Standards of Fertilizers. Apple production in Zhuanglang primarily relies on precipitation with supplementary irrigation by surface water, therefore, it does not constitute any water use conflict with other cropping activities, it does not affect the sustainable use of local water resources, and it does not generate any waste water. Apple production of the above 2 enterprises is assessed as Category C in general for environment impact. Mitigation measures adopted in apple to minimize environment impacts: (i) the amounts of pesticides and chemical fertilizer application are rationally controlled. In order to ensure that pesticides banned and restricted by the state and WHO will not be used, BARAs, quality inspection bureau, industry and commerce administration and public security bureau implement monthly inspection in spring and fall. Therefore, it can be assured that pesticides in the List of Pesticides Banned and Restricted by the State (66 pesticides) could not enter the market, including Dimethoate and Methamidophos. In the end, pesticides farmers can buy from the market are those comply with relevant regulations, which can minimize potential damage to soil and water source; (ii) surface water for irrigation with water-saving measures is rationally adopted; and (iii) FIs in cooperation with BARA and CPMO carry out multiple sample checks for the application of fertilizer and pesticides during production of apple. 22. Zhuanglang County Qinhe Tree Fruit Development Company Limited used the recycled ADB loan for vegetable production, which is the same as supported by ADB loan in 2019 and the original ESMS is used. Zhuanglang County Qinhe Tree Fruit Development Company Limited undertakes vegetable production activities. The production process of vegetables in Zhuanglang envisages use of suitable amounts of fertilizers and pesticides, but no pesticides gazetted in the List of Banned and Restricted Pesticides (66 type) are used, including Dimethoate and Methamidophos. Chemical fertilizers used are selected from the National Implementation Standards of Fertilizers. Apple production in Zhuanglang primarily relies on precipitation with supplementary irrigation by surface water, therefore, it does not constitute any water use conflict with other cropping activities, it does not affect the sustainable use of local water resources, and it does not generate any waste water. Vegetable production of Zhuanglang County Qinhe Tree Fruit Development Company Limited is assessed as Category C in general for environment impact. Mitigation measures adopted in vegetable production to minimize environment impacts: (i) the amounts of pesticides and chemical fertilizer application are rationally controlled. In order to ensure that pesticides banned and restricted by the state and WHO will not be used, BARAs, quality inspection bureau, industry and commerce administration and public security bureau implement monthly inspection in spring and fall. Therefore, it can be assured that pesticides in the List of Pesticides Banned and Restricted by the State (66 pesticides) could not enter the market, including Dimethoate and Methamidophos. In the end, pesticides farmers can buy from the market are those comply with relevant regulations, which can minimize potential damage to soil and water source; (ii) surface water for irrigation with water-saving measures is rationally adopted; and (iii) FIs in cooperation with BARA and CPMO carry out multiple sample checks for the application of fertilizer and pesticides during production of vegetables. II.2.1.2. Yuzhong SPD Rural Bank (RFSP) 23. During the reporting period, Yuzhong SPD Rural Bank used ADB loan issued wholesale loan of EUR 7.7377 million to the 4 development mutual aid fund associations of the Yuzhong. With the assistance of Yuzhong SPD Rural Bank, the 4 RFSPs issued 43 Subloans to borrowers in support of agricultural machinery marketing, fertilizer marketing, purchase of vegetable packing materials, cropping, 11 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告 animal production and leisure agriculture. In total 35 sets of ESMS have been developed including 24 sets of ESMS for 31 Subloans for the Lijiazhuang Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association (involving 9 enterprises, 5 farmer cooperatives, 2 animal farms, 1 storage center and 7 production bases with 20 farmer households), 4 sets of ESMS for 4 Subloans for Xiaping Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association (involving 1 enterprise, 1 farmer cooperative and 2 farmer households), 6 sets of ESMS for 7 Subloans for Jiangjiaying Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association (involving 2 enterprises, 1 farmer cooperatives, 1 production base with 2 farmer households and 2 individual farmer households, and 1 set of ESMS for 1 Subloan for Fengwan Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association (involving 1 farmer cooperative). The above 43 Subloans in total involved 8 farmer cooperatives, 12 enterprises, 20 farmer households, 2 animal production farms and 1 agricultural by-product storage center. Cropping: 24. Yuzhong Jiashisen Vegetable Production and Marketing Cooperative, Yuzhong Cuifeng Agricultural Company Limited, Yuzhong Yixin Crop Production Cooperative, Yuzhong Huixuan Crop Production Cooperative and farmer household Zhang Wenjian used ADB loan fund to undertake vegetable production, and 5 sets of ESMS have been developed for the above entities. Yuzhong Jiashisen Vegetable Production and Marketing Cooperative, Yuzhong Cuifeng Agricultural Company Limited, Yuzhong Yixin Crop Production Cooperative and farmer household Zhang Wenjian are borrowers Lijiazhuang Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association, Yuzhong Huixuan Crop Production Cooperative is the borrower of Xiaping Development Mutual Aid Fund Association. The above 1 enterprise, 3 farmer cooperatives and 1 farmer household undertake similar types of vegetable production activities with similar environment impact. The production process of vegetables envisages use of suitable amounts of fertilizers and pesticides, but no pesticides gazetted in the List of Banned and Restricted Pesticides (66 type) are used, including Dimethoate and Methamidophos. Chemical fertilizers used are selected from the National Implementation Standards of Fertilizers. Vegetable production of the entities primarily relies on precipitation with supplementary irrigation by water for Taohe River, therefore, it does not constitute any water use conflict with other cropping activities, it does not affect the sustainable use of local water resources, it does not generate any waste water. Apple production of the above 1 enterprise, 3 farmer cooperatives and 1 farmer household is assessed as Category C in general for environment impact. Mitigation measures adopted in vegetable production to minimize environment impacts: (i) the amounts of pesticides and chemical fertilizer application are rationally controlled. In order to ensure that pesticides banned and restricted by the state and WHO will not be used, BARAs, quality inspection bureau, industry and commerce administration and public security bureau implement monthly inspection in spring and fall. Therefore, it can be assured that pesticides in the List of Pesticides Banned and Restricted by the State (66 pesticides) could not enter the market, including Dimethoate and Methamidophos. In the end, pesticides farmers can buy from the market are those comply with relevant regulations, which can minimize potential damage to soil and water source; (ii) surface water for irrigation with water-saving measures is rationally adopted; and (iii) FIs in cooperation with BARA and CPMO carry out multiple sample checks for the application of fertilizer and pesticides during production of vegetables. 25. There is 1 lily production base with 1 set of ESMS developed, involving 4 farmer households of Lijiazhuang of Chengguan Township of Yuzhong, who are borrowers of Lijiazhuang Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association. The smallest area of lily production base is 20 mu while the largest is 60 mu and the per household average is 45mu. The production process of lily envisages use of suitable amounts of fertilizers and pesticides, but no pesticides gazetted in the List of Banned and Restricted 12 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告
Pesticides (66 type) are used, including Dimethoate and Methamidophos. Chemical fertilizers used are selected from the National Implementation Standards of Fertilizers. Lily production is located in the arid mountainous areas to the north of Yuzhong and it primarily relies on precipitation, it does not constitute any water use conflict with other cropping activities, it does not affect the sustainable use of local water resources, it does not generate any waste water. In line with the per household production area, fertilizer and pesticide use as well as water use, lily production is assessed as Category C in general for environment impact. Mitigation measures adopted in lily production to minimize environment impacts: (i) application of organic fertilizers with farm manure as the mainstream, use of pesticides that comply with the national scientific safety regulations to control pests, in order to minimize damage to land and water sources; (ii) adoption of arid agricultural production technologies and increase the efficiency of natural precipitation; and (iii) FIs in cooperation with BARA and CPMO carry out multiple sample checks for the application of fertilizer and pesticides during production of lily. 26. Yuzhong Maoyuan Potato Production and Marketing Cooperative used ADB loan for potato production with 1 set of ESMS developed. The entity is a borrower of Jiangjiaying Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association. The production process of potato envisages use of suitable amounts of fertilizers and pesticides, but no pesticides gazetted in the List of Banned and Restricted Pesticides (66 type) are used, including Dimethoate and Methamidophos. Chemical fertilizers used are selected from the National Implementation Standards of Fertilizers. Potato production in Yuzhong primarily relies on precipitation supplemented by irrigation of surface water, the yearly water use is less than 1,000 m3, therefore, it does not constitute any water use conflict with other cropping activities, it does not affect the sustainable use of local water resources, it does not generate any waste water. Potato production of the entity is assessed as Category C in general for environment impact. Mitigation measures adopted in lily production to minimize environment impacts: (i) application of organic fertilizers with farm manure as the mainstream, use of pesticides that comply with the national scientific safety regulations to control pests, in order to minimize damage to land and water sources; (ii) rationally use of surface water for irrigation with sprinkling and dripping water-saving irrigation technologies and increase the efficiency of natural precipitation; and (iii) FIs in cooperation with BARA and CPMO carry out multiple sample checks for the application of fertilizer and pesticides during production of potato. 27. Yuzhong Renhe Walnut Production Company Limited and 2 farmer households of Yue Jiao and Zhang Weifeng use ADB loan funds for walnut and nursery production with 3 sets of ESMS developed. Yuzhong Renhe Walnut Production Company Limited and Yue Jiao are borrowers of Subloans of Lijiazhuang Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association and Zhang Weifeng is the borrower of Subloan of Xiaping Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association. The production process of nursery envisages use of suitable amounts of fertilizers and pesticides, but no pesticides gazetted in the List of Banned and Restricted Pesticides (66 type) are used, including Dimethoate and Methamidophos. Chemical fertilizers used are selected from the National Implementation Standards of Fertilizers. Nursery production primarily relies on precipitation supplemented by irrigation of surface water of Taohe River, therefore, it does not constitute any water use conflict with other cropping activities, it does not affect the sustainable use of local water resources, it does not generate any waste water. Nursery production of the entity is assessed as Category C in general for environment impact. Mitigation measures adopted in nursery production to minimize environment impacts: (i) application of organic fertilizers with farm manure as the mainstream, use of pesticides that 13 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告
comply with the national scientific safety regulations to control pests, in order to minimize damage to land and water sources; (ii) rationally use of surface water for irrigation with sprinkling and dripping water-saving irrigation technologies and increase the efficiency of natural precipitation; and (iii) FIs in cooperation with BARA and CPMO carry out multiple sample checks for the application of fertilizer and pesticides during production of walnut trees and other tree species. Animal Production 28. Yuzhong Hongyuan Fishery Company Limited is the borrower of Subloan of Lijiazhuang Village Development Mutual Aid Fund association. It uses ADB loan resources to pursue fresh water fish production with 2 mu of standardized fish pond established for the production of grass carp, carp and rainbow trout. One set of ESMS has been developed. Fish farming area of Yuzhong Hongyuan Fishery Company Limited does not involve environmentally sensitive area and the construction activities comply with domestic environment assessment requirements of the Classified Administration Catalogue of Environmental Impact Assessments for Construction Projects. The base is far away (greater than 3,000 meters) from residential area and water course. The treatment of waste water, noise, dead fish and sludge complies with the requirements of fish production and environment protection. The Pollution Control Technical Code of Livestock and Poultry Production (HJ/T81-2001) will be strictly followed. Therefore, the overall environment assessment of animal production base is categorized as C. Mitigation measures of environment impact of fresh water production: (i) low noise equipment and process is adopted, the time of work is strictly controlled and the use of silent equipment during night time; (ii) water of the fish pond will be changes twice each year and the annual waste water discharge is 0.4 m3, which is discharged to crop fields in the surrounding area; (iii) dead fish resulted from mismanagement, disease or other reasons will be treated by burying as stipulated in Pollution Control Technical Code of Livestock and Poultry Production (HJ/T81-2001). After each bury, a layer of lime of 10 cm will be applied to ensure that dead fish is completely destroyed to achieve good results of disinfection; (iv) sludge from fish pond will be composted for use as manure to farm fields without any discharge. At the same time, FI in association with the BARA, County Environment Protection Bureau and CPMO will carry out regular and ad hoc supervision over noise and waste water treatment, which will be at least 3-4 times a year. Sampling monitoring will be undertaken multiple times in consideration of the needs of fish production. 29. Yuzhong Xingye Animal Production Company Limited used ADB loan for layer production with stocking size of 8,000 hens and the ADB loan is used for procurement of feedstuff and pouls with 1 set of ESMS established. The farm is located in Chengguan Township of Yuzhong and the company is a borrower of a Subloan of Lijiazhuang Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association. Yuzhong Xingye Animal Production Company Limited features facility chicken farming; chicken droppings are timely removed from the facility for crop farming. Disease control and disinfection measures are adopted strictly following the stipulations of animal disease control regardless of facility chicken farming of free range chicken farming. During production process, the company strictly implements the Standard of Pollutants Discharge of Animal Production (GB18596-2001) and Pollution Control Regulations of Scale Livestock and Poultry Production (2014). In line with the stocking size, chicken farming activities of the company is categorized as C in environment impact assessment. Mitigation measures of environment impact of layer production: (i) all types of ventilation equipment and feedstuff processing equipment are located indoors and mufflers are installed for 14 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告
all air powered equipment that produces noise; (ii) manure is timely removed for centralized fermentation as organic fertilizer for farm production; (iii) good ventilation is maintained and chicken droppings are timely removed to reduce odor; (iv) disease control is carried out strictly following the Local Standard of Animal Disease Control of Gansu Province; (v) isolation is established among function zones on the livestock farm. At the same time, FIs in cooperation with BARA, county environment protection Bureau and CPMO carry out regular and ad hoc supervision over noise control and manure treatment. The frequency of regular supervision is at least 3-4 times/year. In line with the production cycle, ad hoc sample supervision will be implemented for multiple times. 30. Gansu Zhengmao Pig Farm and Gansu Heying Breeding Company Limited used ADB loan for pig production with stocking size of 350 and 400 heads of pigs respectively. ADB loan is used for procurement of feedstuff and 2 sets of ESMS were established. Gansu Zhengmao Pig Farm is a borrower of Lijiazhuang Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association and Gansu Heying Breeding Company Limited is a borrower of Xiaping Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association. The pig production area of pig farm and the breeding company does not involve environmentally sensitive area, the construction activities comply with domestic environment assessment requirements of the Classified Administration Catalogue of Environmental Impact Assessments for Construction Projects. The sites of production are far away from residential areas and water courses. The treatment methods of manure and urine comply with the requirements of agricultural production and environment protection. All efforts are made to ensure that manure and urine are fermented for application as organic fertilizer to farm land. Disease control of pig production strictly follows Gansu Animal Disease Control Regulations. The application of chemicals (disinfectants) as well as the methods of use is standardized practices. Given the environment and disease control practices of pig production as well as the average stocking size per farmer household, the overall environment impact assessment of the pig farm and the breeding company is Category C. Mitigation measures of environment impact of pig production: (i) adoption of low noise equipment and process, the time of construction is strictly controlled and no-noise equipment will be used during night time; (ii) timely removal of manure, i.e. daily removal to temporary collection site for fermentation or sales to organic fertilizer manufacturer; (iii) maintaining the hygiene of the environment of the pig farm. Pig sheds are equipped with ventilation opening, blower and other air exchange equipment to enable regular air exchange to reduce odor; (iv) pig disease control will strictly follow the local standard of Gansu Animal Disease Control Regulation; and (v) isolation zones will be established in the surrounding area and between function zones of the pig farm. At the same time, FIs in cooperation with BARA, county environment protection Bureau and CPMO carry out regular and ad hoc supervision over noise control and manure treatment. The frequency of regular supervision is at least 3-4 times/year. In line with the production cycle, ad hoc sample supervision will be implemented for multiple times. 31. Yuzhong Shenghua Lamb Production Cooperative, Yuzhong Huifeng Lamb Production Farm, Yuzhong Wenhua Animal Production Cooperative and Yuzhong Jiahong Animal Production Cooperative used ADB loan for lamb production with lowest stocking size of 68 and highest 370 heads. ADB loan is used to procure feedstuff and 4 sets of ESMS were established. Yuzhong Shenghua Lamb Production Cooperative, Yuzhong Huifeng Lamb Production Farm and Yuzhong Wenhua Animal Production Cooperative are located in Lijia Village of Chengguan Township and they are the borrowers of Subloans of Lijiazhuang Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association. Yuzhong Jiahong Animal Production Cooperative is located in Fengwan Village of Zibao Township and it is a borrower of Subloan of Fengwan Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association.
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The lamb production areas of the three cooperatives and 1 farm do not involve environmentally sensitive area, the construction activities comply with domestic environment assessment requirements of the Classified Administration Catalogue of Environmental Impact Assessments for Construction Projects. The sites of production are far away from residential areas and water courses. The treatment methods of manure and urine comply with the requirements of agricultural production and environment protection. All efforts are made to ensure that manure and urine are fermented for application as organic fertilizer to farm land. Disease control of pig production strictly follows Gansu Animal Disease Control Regulations. The application of chemicals (disinfectants) as well as the methods of use is standardized practices. Given the environment and disease control practices of lamb production as well as the stocking size, the overall environment impact assessment of the three cooperatives and 1 farm is Category C. Mitigation measures of environment impact of lamb production: (i) adoption of low noise equipment and process, the time of construction is strictly controlled and no-noise equipment will be used during night time; (ii) timely removal of manure, i.e. daily removal to temporary collection site for fermentation and application to farm land ; (iii) maintaining the hygiene of sheep and sheds and timely removal of manure to reduce odor; (iv) sheep disease control will strictly follow the local standard of Gansu Animal Disease Control Regulation; and (v) isolation zones will be established in the surrounding area and between function zones of the pig farm. At the same time, FIs in cooperation with BARA, county environment protection Bureau and CPMO carry out regular and ad hoc supervision over noise control and manure treatment. The frequency of regular supervision is at least 3-4 times/year. In line with the production cycle, ad hoc sample supervision will be implemented for multiple times. 32. Mr Fang Zhizhang, a farmer from Xiaping Village of Qingcheng Township borrowed from ADB for beef cattle production with stocking size of 12 heads with 1 set of ESMS developed. The loan is used for procurement of feedstuff. He is a borrower of Xiaping Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association. Cattle raising area does not involve environmentally sensitive area and the construction activities comply with domestic environment assessment requirements of the Classified Administration Catalogue of Environmental Impact Assessments for Construction Projects. The base is at least 500 meters away from residential area and water course. The treatment of manure, urine and odor complies with the requirements of agricultural production and environment protects. Manure and urine are collected as much as possible for fermentation treatment before releasing as organic fertilizer for crop farming. Disease control of cattle strictly follows the Regulation of Animal Disease Control of Gansu Province. The method and the amount of chemicals (disinfectants) used are standardized. Given the strict environment and disease control requirements implemented at cattle production base as well as the number cattle kept by average farmer household, the overall environment assessment of cattle production base is categorized as C. Mitigation measures adopted by farmer households of cattle production base and cooperative: (i) low noise equipment and process is adopted, feedstuff processing is carried out in insulated workshops and the time of work is strictly controlled; (ii) cattle manure is timely removed for centralized fermentation as organic fertilizer or for sale to fertilizer manufacturer as raw material; (iii) sanitation of the farming surroundings is well maintained, cattle manure is timely treated to avoid over-piling. The structure of feedstuff has been improved, feedstuff with environment protection features are selected to reduce odor of manure; (iv) disease control is carried out strictly following the Local Standard of Animal Disease Control of Gansu Province; (v) isolation is established among function zones on the livestock farm. At the same time, FIs in cooperation with BARA, county environment protection bureau and CPMO carry out regular and ad hoc supervision over noise control and manure treatment. The frequency of regular supervision is at 16 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告
least 3-4 times/year. In line with the production cycle, ad hoc sample supervision will be implemented for multiple times. Procurement, Storage and Transport 33. Yuzhong Wanhe Lijing Agriculture Ecological Leisure Company Limited, Yuzhong Jingxing Fenghuang Agriculture Fold Culture Resort Company Limited and Mr Zhao Bo, a farmer, used ADB loan to implement activities of agricultural tourism with 3 sets of ESMS development. The operation sites of the two companies and the farmer are all located in Lijia Village of Chengguan Township of Yuzhong and are all borrowers of Subloans of Lijiazhuang Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association. This type of activities involves agricultural tourism and leisure and noise and garbage might be the sources for the environment, but such impacts are limited and neglectable. As a result, it belongs Category C in environment impact assessment. Mitigation measure; (i) adoption of low-noise equipment and process, time of construction will be strictly controlled and no-noise equipment will be used at night time; (ii) garbage from daily living will be time removed and treated in a centralized way in accordance with the principle of garbage classification. 34. Yuzhong Chengguan Supply and Marketing Cooperative, Yuzhong Shunde Green Vegetable Packing Material Company Limited, Yuzhong Supply and Marketing Company and seven farmer households used ADB loan for purchase of farm products and marketing of farm inputs with 6 sets of ESMS established. The product collection sites and farm input outlets of Yuzhong Chengguan Supply and Marketing Cooperative, Yuzhong Supply and Marketing Company and 5 farmer households are located in Lijiazhuang Village of Chengguan Township and they are borrowers of Subloans of Lijiazhuang Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association. The product collection sites and farm input outlets of Yuzhong Shunde Green Vegetable Packing Material Company Limited and 2 farmer households are located at Jiangjiaying Village of Dingyuan Township and they are borrowers of Subloans of Jiangjiaying Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association. These activities involve purchase and marketing of farm products and agricultural machinery, while the impact on the environment is primarily noise and some wastes, which have neglectable negative impact on the environment. Therefore, they belong to Category C in environment impact assessment. Mitigation measure: (i) low noise equipment and process are adopted, timing of construction is strictly controlled, and no noisy equipment is allowed at night time; (ii) wastes resulted from processing and purchase activities are timely removed and treated in centralized manner according to categorization of wastes; (iii) during transportation, all goods are well packed according to the requirements of the regulations of road transportation. 35. Mr Cheng Rui of Lijiazhuang Village of Chengguan Township borrowed from ADB for marketing of agricultural machineries with one set of ESMS established. The marketing process of agricultural machinery might produce some noise and wastes but are all temporary and can be mitigated through appropriate measures. Their impact on the environment is very limited and neglectable. Therefore, they belong to Category C in environment impact assessment. Mitigation measures: (i) business hours will be strictly controlled for transportation and marketing of machineries and noise during night time should be avoided; and (ii) timely removal of wastes that will be properly handled in accordance with the local regulations and laws.
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36. Yuzhong Renhe Trading Company Limited, Yuzhong Yuanhang Agricultural By-product Storage Center, Yuzhong Taian Agricultural By-product storage Company Limited and Yuzhong Yuxiang Agricultural Product Company Limited used ADB loan for marketing, storage and transportation of vegetables with 5 sets of ESMS established. Jiang Pengxi and Hu Chengyi – two farmer households – used ADB loan for marketing, storage and transportation of vegetables with 1 set of ESMS developed. The operation sites of Yuzhong Renhe Trading Company Limited, Yuzhong Yuanhang Agricultural By-product Storage Center, Yuzhong Taian Agricultural By-product storage Company and Hu Chengyi are located at Lijiazhuang of Chengguan Township and them all borrowers of Subloans of Lijiazhuang Village Development Mutual Aid Association. Yuzhong Yuxiang Agricultural Product Company Limited and Jiang Pengxi operate in Jiangjia Village of Dingyuan Township and they are borrowers of Subloans of Jiangjia Village Development Mutual Aid Fund Association. These activities might generate some noise, waste water and waste materials, which are temporary and would not cause water pollution and water use conflict. There will be neglectable negative impact on the environment; therefore, they are classified as Category C in environment impact assessment. Mitigation measure: (i) time of operation will be strictly controlled to avoid noise at night; and (ii) timely removal of waste water and materials for proper disposal in accordance with local regulations and laws. II.2.2. Good practices of environment management 37. During the reporting period, there were 43 Subloans (of which, 43 Subloans were financed by ADB loan, 3 by recycled ADB loan proceeds) involved in the establishment or development of agricultural production bases. Extension agents of county agriculture and animal husbandry bureau and the environment managers of the FIs together with the borrowers of the Subloans screened sub-projects one by one in accordance with Step B of ESMS and based on sustainable and climate smart crop and animal production technologies, appropriate techniques for sub-projects are identified. During the process, the environment officials of CPMOs and environment consultants provided necessary services. Good practices of environment management include: (i) adoption of dripping irrigation technologies for effective use of water resources; (ii) controlled application of chemicals in quantity and no application of chemicals banned or restricted by the state; (iii) use of organic fertilizers; (iv) adoption of IPM; and (v) maintaining consistency of project livestock production with the standards of livestock farms of Gansu Province. Sustainable agricultural development measures: “soil conservation (shallow plough and disc plough) in land leveling”, “IPM” and the “use of organic manure” will reduce the application of chemicals, increase the safety of crops and maintain long-term fertility and sustainability of soil. For animal production activities, the construction of sheep and cattle sheds and feed storage facilities are consistent with the standards of livestock and poultry production parks of Gansu Province. Procurement of livestock and feed from local farmer households brings about economic benefit to local communities. Power saving device is installed on power supply equipment, surrounding landscape of production bases are utilized for cooling. Waste water and gas are collected for biogas production or organic fertilizer production. Disease control is carried out in line with domestic disease control schemes. Water and water pollution: all 46 subprojects comply with the stipulations of the Management Method of Water Withdrawal Permit and Water Resource Levy of Gansu Province. There is no water pollution. Mitigation measures to cope with potential environment impact: the construction and operation of the subprojects supported during the reporting period involve the use of chemicals (including chemical fertilizers, pesticides and diesel), noise and dust during transportation, processing and 18 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告
storage. Mitigation measures are: (i) chemicals (including chemical fertilizers, pesticides and diesel): pesticides and chemical fertilizers banned or restricted by the state will not be used; low residue and low toxic chemicals will be used for chemical control; supervision will be strengthened for the application of chemicals; entities will be supervised by PMO and other relevant agencies for the application of chemicals in the production base; (ii) noise, dust and pollution during transportation, processing and storage: raw materials will be covered during transportation and piling to reduce dust, construction waste will be used to fill in low-lying areas of farm as foundation of other structures, construction wastes will be properly treated. Hazardous wastes will be collected for centralized treatment and will not be discarded at wish; timely clean on-site droppings of dirt and spray water to eliminate dust; construction site will be fenced by solid panels to reduce noise and dust pollution. 38. The CPMOs, FIs, County Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau and Environment Protection Bureau of project counties implement monitoring and evaluation of sustainable agricultural practices and environment impact mitigation measures. Sustainable agricultural development measures: CPMO, FI and the Animal Epidemic Disease Surveillance Station of the Animal Husbandry Bureau affiliated to the County Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau supervise manure treatment measures of enterprises through regular and ad hoc inspection in general. The frequency of inspection for crop production sub-projects is twice a year and it is once a quarter for animal production sub-projects. Ad hoc inspection bases on sampling at any time. These missions aim to provide technical and skill guidance and training to rectify the noncompliant measures. Water and water pollution: CPMO, FI and the county Environment Protection Bureau supervise the amount of water use, waste water discharge and water pollution in general, which is implemented twice a year. Any noncompliance will be pointed out and rectification opinions will be offered. Once the supervision is completed, a monitoring report will be developed for submission to the PPMO and relevant leadership at county level. Mitigation measures to possible environment impact: CPMO, FI and the Inspection Station of the county Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau supervise the entities twice a year in general, which is both regular and ad hoc, and regular supervision is scheduled at spring and fall while ad hoc supervision is based sampling at any time. Technical and skill guidance and training will be provided to rectify the noncompliant measures. 39. During June 25-27, 2019, ADB fielded a mid-term review mission to the Gansu, during which, the environment specialist attended briefings of the PPMO on issues related to environment safeguard and confirmed the practices of ESMS implementation. In line with the feedback of the specialist, PMOs further stepped up efforts in environment M&E for activities related animal production. Also, with practices of 5 years, ESMS has been integrated with the daily business of FIs and most of them can carry out ESMS related works without further support of ADB. II.3. Social safeguard 40. In line with ESMS requirements, assessment and inspection should be carried out to find out the social impact of sub-projects on the neighboring communities and the public, including land acquisition, involuntary settlement, ethnic minority and land use right transfer. II.3.1. Land acquisition and involuntary settlement 41. During the reporting period, all sub-projects supported by all Subloans do not involve issues of land acquisition and involuntary settlement as defined in ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement and the ESMS of the project; and there is no resettlement and economic loss triggered by land acquisition and/or involuntary settlement. It is therefore Category C for involuntary settlement.
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II.3.2. Land use right transfer 42. In recent years, Gansu has carried out reforms of “converting resources to equity, converting capital to share and converting farmers to shareholders” (hereafter refers to as three conversions) under the precondition of maintaining collective ownership of land and minimum arable land area, of benefiting farmers. During the reporting period, there were 46 Subloans in which farmers used their contracted land as shares to join agricultural enterprises and farmer cooperatives to benefit from value chain development. These activities do not involve land use right transfer and the format of land use right transfer agreement is no longer used, therefore, these did not trigger the requirement of land use right transfer framework agreed by ADB and the government. Field study indicated that in the project of converting land to shares, there were no pending issues to be addressed. 43. Farmers become shareholders refers to a situation where farmers voluntarily invest their land use rights through consultation or value evaluation to dragonhead enterprises and farmer cooperatives or other types of actor in agriculture, as such, farmers hold shares of entities after signing by both parties the contract of land use rights as shares. Entities thereafter distribute dividends to farmers in accordance with the stipulations of the contract. 44. According to ESMS requirements, relevant CPMOs and FIs shall review and verify the land use rights transfer contracts involved in the subprojects. With the assistance of the social officials and consultants of the project office and with reference to the land transfer framework, FIs conducted due diligence on land use rights transfer involved to find out the land transfer process, the content and implementation of the land use rights transfer contract, and the scope and the number of people impacted by land use rights transfer, the price and payment method, rights protection measures, etc. Up to now, the project has involved 1478 transfer agreements, of which 1357 were land use rights transfer agreements signed by women, accounting for 91.81% of the total amount of agreements, which fully complies with the ADB’s requirement that "at least 70% of land transfer agreements are signed by women". In accordance with the changes in national policies, Gansu Province has implemented the three transformations reform as "transforming resources to equity, capital to equity, and farmers to shareholders" (hereinafter referred to as "resources to equity, capital to equity, and farmers to shareholders") on the premise that the public ownership of land remains unchanged, the red line of cultivated land is not broken, and the interests of farmers are not damaged. Therefore, starting from 2017, farmers gradually took the contracted land management rights into new farmer management entities such as leading agricultural industrialization enterprises and farmers’ cooperatives, sharing the value-added benefits of the industrial chain, and the form of land transfer agreements is no longer adopted, subsequently, land use rights transfer is no longer involved in the project. II.3.3. Ethnic Minority 45. In line with the Ethnic Minority Development Framework, the assessment of the impact on minorities needs to consider the impacts the project brings about to them and the vulnerability of the minority communities. In accordance with the Safeguard Policy Statement of ADB and the stipulations of ESMS, all sub-project activities supported through ADB recycled Subloans do not involve any issue of ethnic minority. Using the rapid assessment checklist of impacts on ethnic minority, it is concluded that all sub-products belong Category C in terms of impact on ethnic minority (no need for monitoring). 46. Against the monitoring indicators of EMDP and SGAP, project implementation not only pays sufficient attention to ethnic minorities, women and the poor through its Subloans, but also focuses on capacity building of these groups. During the reporting period, all subloans under FI model do not involve ethnic minority population, but 459 women and 5 poor. However, Hezheng, Jishishan and Yongjing CPMOs under the non-FI model supported Hui, Bao’an, Dongxiang and Sala ethnic minority residents for the establishment of 8 farmer cooperatives and 3 agricultural production bases, through procurement of agro-machineries, farm production inputs and office equipment for the entities, assistance in market promotion as well as capacity building for the management and members of the cooperatives. While delivering capacity building activities to the management of agro-enterprises, farmer households of 20 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告 production base, large households, disease control workers, technicians of crop and animal production, particular efforts are given to capacity building of ethnic minorities and women. During the reporting period, the 3 CPMOs trained 763 ethnic minority women, accounting for 55.3% of a total number of 1380 ethnic population. During the construction and production of production bases, agro-enterprise and cooperatives, 785 women and 610 ethnic minority women participated in activities, accounting respectively for 69.5% and 77.7 % of the total number of labor force of 1129. Training is provided to 1025 ethnic minority women, accounting for 58.5% of 1755 ethnic minority workforce trained. 47. The project involves the Hui, Dongxiang, Baoan, and Sala in Hezheng, Jishishan and Yongjing counties, which is consistent with the social inclusive development of the ADB policy. Therefore, in order to expand the positive impact of the project on ethnic minorities and reduce the possible negative impact, the project has prepared the Ethnic Minority Development Plan (EMDP). The specific performance is as follows: Promoting the development of ethnic minority villagers. Using ADB loan funds to establish farmer cooperatives and production bases with ethnic minority villagers as their leaders progressed well. By far, 58 cooperatives and 14 production bases have been developed. By providing employment to surrounding ethnic minority villagers and purchasing agricultural products from them, nearly 100 households with 3759 people have benefitted from the project with increased income. Improving the development capabilities of ethnic minority villagers. The three CPMOs used ADB funds under the traditional model, combined with matching funds, to provide training to 3383 ethnic minority villagers, including 1770 ethnic minority women trained, accounting for 52.3%; during 5 years, 9292 ethnic minority laborers were trained and the number of women is 3857, accounting for 41,5%. Both in terms of the number of training and the proportion of women, they far exceed the SGAP requirement of “training x ethnic minority laborers in 5 years, of which 25% are women.” Increase labor opportunities for ethnic minority villagers. According to statistics, the total number of people who participated in labor during the production and construction of the project was 5812, of which 2859 were women who participated, and 1707 were women from ethnic minorities, accounting for 49.2% and 59.7%, meeting the threshold of “women's participation during the production and the construction of the base, agribusiness and cooperative should be no less 30%, of which minority women would be no less than 35%”. II.3.4. Social and gender 48. During the reporting period, PMOs implemented over 93 sessions of capacity building activities targeting at PMO staffers, responsible persons and staffers of FIs, responsible officials of BARA and Environment Protection Bureau, the management of cooperatives and agricultural enterprises, farmer households of production bases, large households of crop and animal production, disease control workers and technicians of agriculture and animal husbandry administration. Contents of capacity building included interpretation of ADB policies, basics of the project, ESMS related knowledge, standardized management of cooperatives, agricultural industrialization technologies, farm input marketing and management, skills for women, introduction and demonstration of new varieties, medicinal herb cultivation, vegetable production technologies, potato high-yielding cultivation, fruit tree pruning, pest management, animal disease control, standardized scale production of animals, safe application of pesticides, new pesticides and biological fertilizers, safety of agricultural products, recycled use of plastic mulch, harmless treatment of waste and its use as resource, and the development of e-commerce platform. In addition, in order to broaden the vision of project implementers and learn the experiences of developed areas in developing featured agriculture and rural financing, PMOs organized study tours to other provinces to learn the development of featured agriculture and promotion of agricultural products of the project (Refer to details in Appendix 6 of Capacity Building). 21 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告
49. In line with the objectives of “establishing inclusive and environment friendly featured agricultural production bases”, the PPMO and CPMOs, during the reporting period, provided training to 9033 farmers, of which, poverty population made up 6413, accounting for 71%. The total number of beneficiaries of the construction of the base is 1185, of which, poverty population made up 875, accounting for 47.2%. Based on the objective of “supporting the development of farmer cooperatives and agricultural enterprises”, the PPMO and CPMOs have provided training to 2790 farmers, of which, poverty population made up 768, accounting for 27.53%. 2020 is a key year for poverty alleviation in Gansu Province. While training farmers, PMOs have combined the work of precision poverty alleviation to increase training for poverty population. 50. During the reporting period, in line with the objectives of “establishing inclusive and environment friendly featured agricultural production bases”, the PPMO and CPMOs have provided training to 9033 farmers, of which, women made up 6547 accounting for 72.48%; trained 1392 technicians including 657 women, accounting for 73.84%. Based on the objective of “supporting the development of farmer cooperatives and agricultural enterprises”, the PPMO and CPMOs have provided training to 1879 farmers, of which, women made up 1451 accounting for 77.22%; trained 682 technicians including 378 women, accounting for 55.43%. During the training process, according to the performance goals in the SGAP, in order to make the project performance indicators closer to the goals, PMOs paid more attention to the proportion of women participating in training. Under output 1 and output 2, the number of trained technicians is higher than the SGAP requirement, which includes village-level farmer technicians (including crop technicians, forestry technicians, water technicians, fishery technicians, animal epidemic prevention workers, and agricultural machinery technicians). 51. Such training enabled more and more poor and women to access training and education, hence helped poor women build up their own capacity for development and for resisting risks, and mobilize their enthusiasm and initiative to participate in project and poverty reduction activities. In the end, it will promote their participation in social and economic activities. 52. There are all together 452 farmer households obtained loans during the reporting period under outputs 1 and 2, of which, 447 loans were also signed by women, accounting for 98.89%. Participation in loan activities enabled rural women to due respect and equality. They also realize their rights and value through credit activities and project implementation. 53. During the reporting period, 516 staffers of the new FIs participated in training organized by the PPMO, including 232 women staffers, accounting for 44.96%. Training focused on the basics, important practices and features of the project, priority work in the coming months, the establishment and implementation of ESMS, due diligence report of land use right transfer, the preparation of IEE and EES. 54. The PPMO and CPMOs in staffing also attached attention to gender and increased the number of women staff. For instance, the PPMO has 10 staffers, women accounted for 6 or 60%; the total number of staffers of CPMOs are 96 including 46 women or 47.92%; both of which are higher than ADB’s requirement that “women staffers should be no less than 35%.” 55. Meanwhile, the PPMO and CPMOs in training related to project management and implementation and ESMS also aim at meeting the requirements of increasing women’s participation. During the reporting period, the PPMO trained 10 staffers including 6 women staffers or 60%; among the 84 CPMO staffers received training, women were 40 or 47.62%, which are higher than ADB’s benchmark that “the participation of women PMO staffers in training in project management, financial management and the implementation of ESMS/EMDP/ SGAP/M&E should be no less than 35%.” By implementing social inclusive development in the project, it has brought about benefits to ethnic minorities, women and the poor. In order to ensure that prominent social and gender issues are properly addressed during the project implementation, the project has prepared a "Social and Gender Action Plan" (SGAP). Based on the various monitoring indicators of the plan, regular monitoring is implemented for social and gender activities during project 22 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告
implementation. According to statistics, 36899 farmers have participated in various training under the project as of the end of the reporting period, including 18584 women and 28030 poor. The proportion of female technicians receiving training in the development of production bases was 38.30%, and the proportion of the poor among the beneficiaries was 47.55%, all meeting the requirement of 30%. The PPMO and CPMOs used counterpart funds to provide training for cooperatives and enterprise members, resulting in 13087 people received the training, which far exceeded the training requirement of 6510 members. Among them, 6927 female members were trained; accounting for 52.93%, and the poor was 5827 accounting for 44.53%. It also provided job opportunities for 4129 female employees and 3666 poor in cooperatives and enterprises, accounting for 48.16% and 42.76% of the total number of new employees of 8574 respectively. The social and gender issues of FIs are also the focus of the project. In SGAP, there are two contents concerning the social and gender issues of FIs. The first is that "270 FI employees and 35 RFSP employees participated in the training, of which 30% were women." The PMO, CPOMO and FIs have provided ESMS training to 2804 FI employees and 45 RFSP employees. Among them, there are 1158 and 27 female employees, accounting for 41.30% and 60.00% respectively. All met the 30% requirement. The second is "to establish at least 29 grassroots financial service outlets, 30% of which are female employees, and all female employees have participated in training." The six FIs have established 239 grassroots financial service outlets, with a total of 2345 employees, of which 958 are female employees, and the number of female employees participating in training is 516, and the proportion of female employees is 40.85%. According to the needs of the project, 13 CPMOs have been established in 13 project counties, and they are running well, with a total of 108 staff, including 51 female staff, accounting for 47.22%; the PPMO currently has 11 staffers and 6 are female staffers, accounting for 54.55%. The female staff in the PPMO and CPMOs has reached the 30% requirement. A total of 128 person-times of staffers of project offices at all levels participated in project management and implementation of ESMS/EMDP/SGAP/M&E training. Among them, 61 women participated in the training, accounting for 47.66%, which exceeded the project office’s “at least 35 % of female employees" to participate in the training goal. II.3.4. Prohibited investment activities 56. During the reporting period, all funds of all Subloans including working capital and counterpart funding were not used to support any prohibited activities listed in annex 5 of ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement. II.4. Information disclosure 57. FIs disclosed the basic information at the implementation site for each sub-project supported by each Subloan, including the location, activity, potential impact, end borrower and FI as well as the contact details of the environment and social officials of the CPMOs, and grievance redressing mechanism. Such disclosures are posted pubic bulletin boards of townships, villages and FIs as well as eye-catching location at the project implementation site. The duration of disclosure is for 10 days to ensure that the public has adequate time to provide writing or oral feedback to the CPMOs. II.5. Operation of implementing grievance redressing mechanism 58. In line with the circular “On Establishing Grievance Redressing Mechanism of Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Co-Financed by ADB” (GWZBH [2016] No. 15) issued by the PPMO as well as the stipulations of ADB on grievance redressing, all 13 project counties have set up their own grievance redressing mechanisms, FIs in support of the counties also established grievance redressing channels to ensure that the population that might be affected by the project can at any time file complaints on issues related to the environment and social aspects during project implementation. This also enabled timely handling of grievances and appeals of the affected 23 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告 groups to effectively protect the rights and interests of the residents of the project area. The mechanism has been disclosed at prominent locations in project counties, townships and villages in a way that the affected groups and other stakeholders particularly minorities, women, the poor and those who cannot read can understand. Such efforts are meant to make sure that the affected and stakeholders know and are familiar with the contents of grievance redressing mechanism and file their grievances through the ways prescribed in the mechanism. With specific steps given below: 59. If appeals or complaints are related to the environment, the following two steps will be adopted to timely handle the complaints or grievance of the affected: Step 1 (within 10 days): the affected individual or group can file oral or written complaints to any project agency and any other agency the complainer (s) chooses. The project agencies will directly interact with the complainer to resolve the issues. Within five days upon receipt of the complaint, the project agency will propose explicit suggestions to the affected, including the correctional measures to address the problem(s) with given time limit. If the affected person(s) accepts the correctional measures, such measures will be implemented within five days. Step 2 (within 10 days): when the issue is not resolved through step 1, CPMO within five days upon receipt of the complaint will convene stakeholder meeting (participants will be determined in accordance with the actual situation, but normally include FI, RFSP, end borrower, environment protection bureau, agriculture and rural affairs bureau and the affected group), which will focus on the correctional measures and the associated timetable for implementation. Such correctional measures shall be implemented within five days. 60. If appeals or complaints are related to the land use right transfer, the following four steps will be adopted to timely handle the complaints or grievance of the affected: Step 1 (within 15 days): hand the grievance to the villagers’ committee. If it is oral grievance, the villagers’ committee will make written records and the committee will make a decision and well handle the issue within 15 days. Step 2 (within 15 days): if the affected is not content with the result of Step 1, the complainer(s) can appeal to the township agricultural economic management station (or township government). The agricultural economic management station or township government will make a decision and resolve the issue within 15 days. Step 3 (within 15 days): if the affected is not content with the results of Step 2, the complainer(s) can appeal to the county agriculture and rural affairs bureau and CPMO, the later will make a decision and resolve the issue within 15 days. Step 4 (no time limit): if the affected is not content with the results of Step 3,the complainer(s) can appeal to the arbitration court of rural land disputes. 61. If appeals or complaints are related to ethnic minority, the following four steps will be adopted to timely handle the complaints or grievances of the affected: Step 1: if the affected is not content with the EMDP or this project, he/she or they can log oral or written grievance to the villagers’ commitment or cultural leader. If it is oral grievance, the villagers’ committee or cultural leaders shall handle the case and make corresponding records, and the issue should be resolved within 15 days. Step 2: if the affected is not content with the result of Step 1, the complainer (2) can appeal to the township government, and the later will make a decision and resolve the issue within 15 days. 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the CPMO, the later will make a decision and resolve the issue within 30 days. Step 4: if the affected is not content with the results of the above steps, the complainer(s) can appeal to relevant government bureaus applying for administrative reconsideration. 62. The PPMO has never ignored the use of new technologies to uplift project management and service. In order to ensure the timeliness and effectiveness of receiving complaints, discovering issues and handling grievances, the PPMO in its MIS established grievance redressing mechanism, the CPMOs and the branches of the FIs would record writing and oral complaints to the project as well as the results of handling, while the PPMO would track and monitor the process and visit the complaint filers. From manual recording to on-line sharing platform recording, it not only realized data sharing through the net, but also improved the timeliness of grievance redressing, which resulted higher efficiency, standardization, transparency and smoother management of the process. 63. By the end of the reporting period, the 13 project counties and the HQs and branches of FIs had not received any forms of appeals or complaints. II.6. Application of MIS system in ESMS 64. In line with the FIs’ ESMS approved by ADB and the objectives and requirements of the project, national consultants in consideration of organizational features and business process of rural financial service providers developed simplified ESMS template, which is the foundation for adoption by all RFSPs. The PPMO submitted the template to ADB on July 26, 2017. On the basis of feedback from ADB’s environment and social specialist, the PPMO improved the template and obtained no-objection from ADB on September 1, 2017. 65. During the reporting period, the PPMO has been proactively promoting the implementation of RFSP under Output 3 and an eligible RFSP implementer has been identified in Lintao. The PPMO and consultants assisted the implementer prepare simplified ESMS suitable to the operation of the implementer, which will be submitted to ADB for approval. Technical training has been provided to the ESMS staffers of the identified RFSP implementer (Refer to details in Appendix 8). 66. During the reporting period, PMOs at all levels and branches of FIs can skilfully use the information platform to record and manage sub-project activities. When difficulties encountered in practice, real-time QQ group chat renders a helping hand to discuss and share experiences and the software engineers are ready to respond to issues in a timely fashion. Meanwhile, improvement of the MIS is a continuous process. With the active participation and collaboration of PMOs and FIs, monitoring indicators of ESMS and the extraction of data source have been further optimized; also, the output of appendixes of the safeguard monitoring report and the reporting template have been improved. 67. The roll-out of MIS has greatly enhanced the tracking, management, monitoring and reporting procedures of sub-projects, it not only standardized project management process and increased efficiency, but also lower energy consumption of offices and promote green office work. The interactive and convenient QQ group chat for MIS complies with the requirement of information age, it not only can respond to various difficulties and problems encountered in operation, but also pool together good ideas and thoughts for further improving the system and solutions. It helps timely exchange and cooperation between project management and implementers, enhances communication among staffers of PMOs and FIs, indirectly achieves training effects and furthers the understanding of project staffers to issues related to environment and social safeguard of the project. 68. MIS as a project management system, the end users do not have the authority to browse the loan information, and users are limited to the project management and financial management staffers of the PPMO, CPMO and FIs. III. Effectiveness and impact of project environmental monitoring 69. Through establishing and implementing ESMS in the project, 6 FIs use ESMS to manage the 25 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告 possible environmental and social impacts of their loan activities. After more than 4 years of application, ESMS has produced certain effects and influences in environmental protection of project activities, providing a theoretical basis for the sustainable development of agricultural production in the project area. The specific performance is as follows: Establishment and implementation of ESMS. Since launch of the project in June 2016, six FIs have established and implemented ESMS. In September 2020, the four RFSPs also established and implemented the simplified ESMS. Among more than 2346 sub-loans issued to the end borrowers using ADB loan, recycled ADB loan funds and bank counterpart funds, more than 415 ESMSs have been developed for various Subloan activities, covering planting, animal production, purchasing and processing, transportation and warehousing activities. In the project implementation process, each sub-project carries out project activities in accordance with the environmental requirements in the corresponding ESMS. Development of mitigation measures. Mitigation measures have been formulated for the environmental impact of each sub-project activity. According to different project activities, through the principle of "prevention first", the environmental deficiencies of some category C projects, such as acquisition and processing, transportation and storage projects, are eliminated; by limiting and restricting the scale, intensity or scope of some category C subprojects, environmental impacts are minimized, such as planting and small-scale animal production projects; through the mitigation measures listed in the IEE, the adverse environmental impacts of Category B projects are reduced or repaired or remediated, such as environmental category B projects. Broadening the coverage and uplifting the impact. As an innovative project of similar ADB projects in China, while adopting the innovative model of financial intermediary loans (FIL) in the project, it also introduces a new concept of environmental protection in agricultural activities supported by foreign loan projects. During the implementation of the project, through continuous ESMS training, field research, information disclosure and other activities, the environmental protection awareness of CPM staff, FI staff and agricultural producers in the project area has been improved. Environmental awareness is spreading to groups outside the project, and its impact is increasing. During the reporting period, consultations between CPMOs and FIs with beneficiaries as well as field visits by the former to beneficiary production bases indicated that beneficiaries appreciated the implementation of ESMS. They voiced their opinions that it is the establishment and implementation of ESMS that increased the awareness about environment and social safeguards of beneficiaries and agricultural producers of the surrounding areas, and they benefited remarkable from these efforts. It is well aligned with the insight of the notion that “clear water and blue mountains are golden and silver mountains” – the basic rationale of ecological civilization development of China. The establishment and implementation of ESMS provided an entry point to the project areas for following the basic rationale of ecological environment production. The idea of green development has been deeply rooted in the production and life of beneficiaries. IV. Problems encountered in ESMS implementation and solutions IV.1. Issues 70. The year 2020 is the last year of project implementation. With five years of efforts, the environment and social safeguard measures of ESMS have been deeply rooted in the heart of people including PMOs at all levels, FIs and the end borrowers. However, how to continue to develop ESMS to enable it to be integrated with the agricultural production in the project area after the completion of the project is an issue that the PPMO, CPMOs, FIs and other stakeholders need to consider. Therefore, it is essential that all stakeholders continue to strengthen communications and make efforts to ensure that the
26 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告 project and ESMS are sustainable. 71. During the reporting period, major challenges faced by the FIs in implementation are largely: (i) external: most of the end borrowers of Subloans have deviated understanding about the ADB loan project that is perceived as government loan with low interest rate; (ii) internal: it is the first time for the three new FI environment and social managers to implement ADB project and their capacity and inner ability need further improvement. 72. Major problems FIs encountered in implementing ESMS include: (i) even though FIs have embedded ESMS into its credit business, but the integration of the two is yet to be fully achieved. On one hand, FIs have inadequate understanding about environment and social risks , and the grassroots credit officials need to further improve knowledge, experience and capacity on ESMS. On the other hand, grassroots client managers of FIs in the real world perceive the assessment and monitoring of ESMS as an extra layer of work that prolongs the assessment of credit business; (ii) the turnover of staffers of FI branches is significant, even though timely training has been provided, it still imposes challenges to the continuity and stability of implementing ESMS; (iii) the project requires end borrowers to provide large amount of information, and the end borrowers could not accurately understand and elaborate on issues related to ESMS assessment of the sub-project, it needs multiple and repeated confirmation of the environment manager and social manager, with high costs of communication; and (iv) some borrowers did not fully consider mitigation measures to environment impact when categorization and assessment is carried out on-site, which need to be addressed by FIs, CPMOs and the borrower. IV.2. Solution 73. Given the above issues, the following actions have been taken: (i) According to the need for the integration of the FIs’ own business and ESMS, the PPMO together with consulting experts continue to carry out training on the integration of ESMS and green finance for the FIs’ environmental managers, social managers and loan officers, and promote the integration of ESMS into the bank’s own credit business so that they will gradually master, accept and understand the concepts and practices of ESMS, improve the capacity of staff, and further expand the scope of project benefit, which will help financial institutions achieve sustainable green financial development in the future; (ii) Before the closing of the project on June 30, 2021, the combination of in house and field training will be adopted to increase the training of RFSP staff on ESMS, and strive to maximize the project implementation ability of RFSP staff within half a year, and improve their awareness about ESMS sustainable development; (iii) the PPMO strengthened its supervision and technical support to counties, FIs and borrowers, including 14 field visits to project counties totaling 35 man/day; (iv) in order to reduce turnover of FI staffers, the PPMO repeatedly requested FIs to maintain stability of staffers engaged in ADB project activities. Capacity building activities have been delivered to an extended audience of FIs to prepare them for integration of ESMS into FIs lending activities. During the reporting period, client representatives of 4 FIs participated in 5 rounds of training, which also offset to some extent the impact of staff turnover; and (iv) consultants supported FIs in comprehending, accepting and adopting ESMS in their lending activities, which will contribute to the achievement of green financing of the FIs in the future. 74. Given the challenges faced by FIs in implementing activities related to ESMS, the following measures should be considered: (i) coordinated efforts of multiple sectors will be needed to address the difficulties of guarantee of clients and actively explore alternative guarantees in addition to the regular collateral measures, such as agricultural production facility, forest rights and land use right transfer and operation as collateral, joint guarantee and mutual guarantee. Under the conditions of meeting the terms of lending of FIs, the threshold of guarantee of clients should be lowered as much as possible; (ii) breakthrough should be sought for microcredit of farmer households to effectively address the issues of insufficient collateral; (iii) communication with end borrowers should be strengthened in order to repeatedly verify related issues and make sure that there are accurate answers to related questions of the project; (iv) end borrowers will be required to provide comprehensive mitigation measures to environment impacts, technicians of PMOs will manage and guide the borrowers in environment and 27 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告 social management aspects: and (v) communication and cooperation with CPMOs should be enhanced through increasing the frequency of coordination and exchange so as to streamline project management procedures. 75. The PPMO will urge the CPMOs and FIs to strengthen and increase the frequency of supervision through regular reporting, regular supervision and monitoring to ensure that various environment and social safeguard measures and policies are implemented and that ESMS plays its due role. Also, efforts should be made to enable stakeholders of the project including agricultural and animal husbandry administration, client managers of FIs and operators of agricultural production and marketing to play more active role in protecting vulnerable groups and the environment. V. Lessons learnt AND next steps V.1. Lessons learnt 76. In the process of project implementation, FIs’ learning and accepting the systematic rationales of ADB’s ESMS for the project is conducive to increased attention to environment and social aspects in handling FIs credit business and to enhanced focus on gender equality, so that FIs will support agricultural development, promote the development of rural financing service system and generate momentum for advancing the development of agriculture, rural areas and farmers. 77. Agricultural technical support should be rendered to assist improve project design. In line with the requirements of step 2 of ESMS, agricultural technicians should provide relevant technical backstopping to borrowers of Subloans to better incorporate good environment practices into their proposals to boost environment and social effects of sub-projects. At the same time, the good practices emerged in the second step of promoting the development of sustainable agriculture and climate smart agriculture are of good value for popularization in other agricultural production areas beyond the project. Specifics include water resource use, collection of plastic mulch, construction of livestock shelters and disinfection facilities, manure treatment, soil conservation, pest management, feeding techniques and disease control. 78. Training should be implemented to increase the capacity for implementing ESMS. For project counties and FIs, ESMS is a brand new area that requires new knowledge, it would take some time for staffers to learn and independently apply ESMS in their daily business. The project management through training, meeting, on-site supervision and workshops has made great efforts to help staffers of CPMOs and FIs accurately understand ESMS operation flow, standards and management and control models to enhance their capacity of green financing business. Also, the management has been assisting FIs further understand environment and social risks and increase their consciousness and capacity of fulfilling environment and social responsibilities. On the other hand, continuous training, information dissemination and technical support will be needed to increase the awareness of agricultural production and marketing operators about environment and social safeguard. 79. During project implementation, the government will continue to play proactive role in the process of implementing ESMS by the FIs. Through project implementation, efforts will be made to push FIs to incorporate environment and social management into their strategic planning, guide FIs to conduct green financing businesses associated with agricultural production operators. In their investment and financing decision-making, FIs should consider the potential environment and social impact and effect of agriculture-related micro clients, and incorporate the potential return, risks and costs related to environment and social conditions into FIs’ daily business process. At the same time of caring about their own development, FIs should actively shoulder environment and social responsibility and promote green development of agriculture. 80. As for FIs are concerned, ESMS helped address issues such as how to incorporate environment and social elements into their strategic planning and business process, how to carry out environment and social assessment and management in agriculture, and how to balance pursuit of profit and discharging
28 Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Service System Development Project Safeguard Monitoring Report 甘肃特色农业及金融服务体系建设项目 安保监测报告 social responsibilities. For the government, ESMS responded to its concern as how to promote financial institutions to gradually establish green evaluation mechanism, how to guide green financing business in agriculture, how to shift roles to allow the market fully play its role in promoting green development of agriculture. 81. ESMS is very practical, experiences accumulated by the project from green financing system arrangement, innovative green financing products and business model to the sustainable development of green financing could be replicated and scaled up in broader area. V.2. NEXT STEPS 82. Accelerate the approval and issuance of Subloans, and continue to track and monitor the ESMS application of Subloans: in the first half of 2021, the EUR 3.9 million of interest and commitment fee of Category 3 has been adjusted to Category 1B with the approval of ADB to support farmer cooperatives and ASMEs. Some FIs need to complete the approval and issuance of EUR 3.9 million of Subloans. The establishment and implementation of the Subloan ESMS should be completed. At the same time, all FIs will continue to issue Subloans of the recycled funds of ADB loans to agricultural enterprises, farmer cooperatives and farmers that meet the requirements of the project in accordance with the changes in loan conditions. The involved banks in each project county will continue to track, monitor and report on all Subloans in accordance with the implementation steps of their respective "Environmental and Social Management System", and urge the end borrower to apply ESMS to the project implementation process to make the project activities sustainable. 83. Strengthening capacity building particularly for environment and social managers and officials: in future project implementation, training should be intensified to stakeholders particularly staffers of CPMOs, FIs and RFSP in applying ESMS steps for screening, identification and post-lending management of sub-projects and ensuring the integration of ESMS in FIs business operations. These efforts will improve their execution capacity of business as well as their understanding and management capacity of ESMS. 84. Strengthening information dissemination and training: efforts will be continued to sensitize staffers of CPMOs, grassroots staffers of the existing FIs and all staffers of the new FIs as well as RFSP implementer about the entirety of the project, its ESMS, ADB’s management requirements and annual plan. 85. Increase of the frequency and strength of supervision: PMOs at all levels and FI branches should make extra efforts to increase the frequency and strength of supervision through regular reporting procedures, regular supervision, monitoring and evaluation. Monitoring, supervision and evaluation of ESMS implementation should also be intensified to ensure that all environment and social safeguard policies and measures are genuinely executed. 86. Amendment to project documents: after currency conversion and the adjustment of categories, loan documents need to be amended. As such, the PMOs will help with the amendment of documents. 87. Safeguard monitoring: In accordance with the requirements of SPS and ESMS as well as EMDP and SGAP, PMOs will continue to monitor all indicators and make sure all M&E indicators are covered by project completion. 88. ESMS sustainable development: the PPMO will continue to monitor the implementation of ESMS, particularly the integration of ESMS in FIs’ businesses. FIs would be able to judge, assess and manage potential environment and social impact when an investment is being considered. The project advocates that FIs should perform due diligence for environment and social issues related to lending activities, as such FIs should shoulder their social responsibilities. Financing can be a good leverage to environment protection and coordinated development of the society, which will contribute to the sustainability of ESMS.
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Appendix 1: Social and Gender Action Plan Monitoring (Reporting period: July 1 – December 31, 2020)
Output Social and gender output activities Accumulative July 1 –December 31, 2020
1a. Training of 14,130 farmers, 50% of participants are women and 30% of participants are poor
－ total number of farmers trained 36899 9033
－ women farmers trained 18584 6547
－ poor farmers trained 28030 6413
－ proportion of women 50.36% 72.48%
－ proportion of poor 75.96% 71.00%
1b. Training of 450 technicians, 30% are female, 30% of beneficiaries of production base development is poor
－ Technicians trained 7235 1392
－ women technicians trained 2771 657
－ total number of beneficiaries of base development 38072 1185
－ number of poor beneficiaries of base development 18102 875 Output 1: Inclusive and － Proportion of women technicians training 38.30% 73.84% environmentall y-friendly － 47.55% 47.20% featured Proportion of poor beneficiaries agricultural production bases developed 1c. Women’s equal access to project sub-loans，50% of loans from the FIs to individual farmer household with women’s signature
－ HH got Subloans 3550 452
－ HH Subloans signed by women 3396 447
－ Proportion (%) 95.66% 98.89%
1d. Women’s signature on land use rights transfer agreement，70% land use rights transfer agreement signed during the project implementation period with women’s signatures
－ Total number of land use right transfer contracts 1478 24
－ Contracts signed by women 1357 18
－ Proportion (%) 91.81% 75.00%
1e. At least 50 staffers participate in soil and water conservation monitoring, of which, women should be no less than 30%
－ Total participants 198 25
－ Women participants 89 12
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Output Social and gender output activities Accumulative July 1 –December 31, 2020
－ Proportion (%) 44.95% 48.00%
2a. Training of 6,510 members, 50% of participants are women and 30% for the poor
－ Farmers trained 13087 1879
－ Women farmers trained 6927 1451
－ Poor farmers trained 5827 432
－ Women proportion (%) 52.93% 77.22%
－ Poor proportion (%) 44.53% 22.99%
Output 2: 2b. Training of 868 technicians and managers, 30% are technicians are females Farmer cooperatives － Total number of technicians trained 4795 682 and agricultural 2003 enterprises － Women technicians trained 378 financed and strengthened － Proportion of women 41.77% 55.43%
2c. Priority to women and the poor for new job opportunities in enterprises and farmer cooperatives, 40% for women, 30% for the poor
－ Total new employees 8574 988
－ Women new employees 4129 691
－ Poor new employees 3666 523
－ Proportion of women 48.16% 69.94%
— Proportion of poor 42.76% 52.94%
3a. Training of 270 staff of FIs and 35 staff of RFSPs, 30% of females
－ FI staffer trained 2804 516
－ Women staffer trained 1158 232
－ Proportion of women 41.30% 44.96%
Output 3: 45 Rural financial － RFSP staffer trained 20 service system developed and － Women RFSP staffers trained 27 11 enhanced
－ Proportion of women staffers (%) 60.00% 55.00%
3b. Establishment of 29 grassroots financial service units, 30% of female staff, all female staff trained
－ Service units built 239 69
－ Total employees 2345 617
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Output Social and gender output activities Accumulative July 1 –December 31, 2020
－ Women employees 958 268
－ Female employees trained 516 0
－ Proportion of female employees (%) 40.85% 69.00%
4a. Training on gender and development: (i) concepts and practices of gender and development, (ii) ADB’s gender policies; (iii) ESMS for FIs; and (iv) SGAP, All staff of PPMO and CPMOs, Staff of FIs operating the Project 4b. Gender disaggregated data collection for project documentation, M&E, Assigning responsible persons for documentation and M&E in PPMO, CPMOS and FIs, Establishment of gender disaggregated database
4c. With adequate budget, establish PPMO and 11 CPMOs with women staffers no less than 35%
－ Total number of staff at PPMO 11 10
－ PPMO women staffers 6 5
－ Proportion of women staffers at PPMO 54.55% 50.00%
－ Number staffers of CPMOs 108 96 Output 4: Capacity for 51 project － Women staffers of CPMOs 46 implementatio n and － Proportion of women staffers at CPMOs 47.22% 47.92% management strengthened 4d. Training provided to 76 PMO staffers in project management, FM and implementation of ESMS/EMDP/SGAP/M&E, women staffer should be no less than 35%
－ PPMO staffers trained 11 9
－ Women staffers trained at PPMO 6 4
－ Proportion of women trained at PPMO 54.55% 44.44%
－ CPMO staffers trained 117 84
－ Women staffers trained at CPMOs 55 40
－ Proportion of women staffers trained at CPMOs 47.01% 47.62%
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Appendix 2: Ethnic Minority Development Monitoring-1
Ethnic Minority Development Monitoring
Bank of Gansu, Bank of Lanzhou, Yuzhong SPD Rural Bank, LRCB, ZRCB, JRCB Consolidated by the PPMO Reporting period: July 1 – December 31, 2020
Activity* Project village Involved minority** Number of minority HHs Minority population Positive/negative impact
None
*Title of each loan contract **Ethnic minorities: Dongxiang, Sala, Baoan and Hui
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Appendix 3: Ethnic Minority Development Monitoring-2
Ethnic Minority Development Monitoring
Yongjing CPMO, Hezheng CPMO and Jishishan CPMO Consolidated by: PPMO Reporting Period: July 1 – December 31, 2020
Action and measures Target group Implementer Time of Implementation Specific Activity Budget Fund Source Monitoring Indicator A. Strengthening Project Management Training of project PMOs and PPMO and 2015.9-2020.12 Training on project implementation Including Project Number of participants and times implementation agencies facilitators consultants management for PMOs and project budget of training at townships township and village staff training, and Number of participants and times and villages Training of project workers on land no additional use right transfer, at least once budget Training of FI staff and FI staff PPMO, FI 2015.9-2020.12 Training on loan procedures and Including Project Number of client representatives environment and social and business operation of FI staff project budget and image information management system consultants FIs establish environment and social training, and Person/month of consultants hired manager no additional and number of times of training Training of environment and social budget provided managers of FIs by consultants Narrative of FIs on the results of environment and social assessment of lending activities Implementation of social Farmers, PMOs, 2015.9-2020.12 PMOs designate full time officials Additional Additional Number of officials appointed and safeguard action plan enterprises country for internal monitoring of social budget budget proportion and government safeguard action plan Monitoring report on the effects of cooperatives and other implementation of social of project departments safeguard measures area B. Mitigation of negative impact
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Action and measures Target group Implementer Time of Implementation Specific Activity Budget Fund Source Monitoring Indicator Prevention of conflict after Farmer PMOs, local 2015.9-2020.12 Information dissemination on land No additional Project Number of copies of LURT land use right transfer households government use right transfer framework budget budget framework distributed involved in and other Signing of agreement in accordance Number of people outreached land use department with the framework Monitoring report on number of right Through consultation to resolve conflicts and result of handling transfer in conflict or follow grievance redress the project procedure area Prevention of conflict with All farmer PMOs, local 2015.9-2020.12 Outreach to farmers, enterprises, Government Project The participation of farmers, farmers of the neighboring households government cooperatives and production base project, no budget cooperatives and enterprises area of the and other with project influence additional beyond those recommended by the project area department Providing the same level of training budget feasibility study and technical service Number of training and technical service received by farmers and provided by agro-enterprises and coops Benefits of farmers of project area that are related to agro-enterprises and coops） Prevention of environment Animal PMOs, 2015.9-2020.12 Compliance with animal farm No additional Animal Animal farm design plan pollution and the spread of production DARA, design code, manure treatment and budget, production Disease control plan zoonotic disease base and BARA, disease control measures animal farm base Manure treatment facility farmers of Provincial Develop and implement ESMS and construction established the and County appoint responsible persons and recurrent Number of complaints of farmers surrounding Environment Develop and implement disease funding of the surrounding area area Project control plan, appoint responsible Monitoring results of local Bureau persons, regular health examination environment and disease control of staff bureaus Guidance and supervision of local environment and disease control bureaus C. Measures of enhancing positive impact
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Action and measures Target group Implementer Time of Implementation Specific Activity Budget Fund Source Monitoring Indicator Support to the establishment Hezheng PMOs, 2015.9-2020.12 Establish 20 new coops 3.50 million Government: Report on the establishment of new of farmer coops and bases of and provincial Establish 5 new production bases 1 million coops ethnic minority Jishishan – and county Technical training National Materials applying for government Bao’an, government project: 2.5 project Dongxiang and million Training and technical service and Sala department record Priority support to farmers, Jishishan: PMOs and 2015.9-2020.12 Further selection of projects with No additional Regular Number of incremental projects coops and enterprises of farmers, FIs features of ethnic minorities budget need budget of with EM features ethnic minority coops and FIs disseminate information to Ems PMOs and Proportion of EM borrowers enterprises on lending procedures and policies FIs of Bao’an, and provide convenient services at Dongxiang villages and Sala Enhancing technical training Ethnic PMOs, 2015.9-2020.12 Training of 2000 person/time EM No additional Project Training plan implementation data and guidance minority provincial farmers with women accounting for budget need, budget of quarterly project report farmers and and county 50% but provided coops of government Project farmer households access at project Hezheng and least 2 sessions of training budget department
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Action and measures Target group Implementer Time of Implementation Specific Activity Budget Fund Source Monitoring Indicator Encouraging women to EM women PMOs, 2015.9-2020.12 During project implementation, Included in Social and Monitoring report on the participate in project of the 2 DARA, consulting with women on their social and gender implementation of Social and project BARA, WF needs, opinions and expectations at gender action action plan gender action plan counties different stages of project plan implementation Providing job opportunities of non-technical and light labor of production base, agro-enterprises and coops during production phase to women and EM women in particular or woman-headed households; when women are willing, their participation during project construction and production should be no less than 30% and EM women should be no less than 35% of the total number of women WF and poverty reduction offices provide training to enable them to acquire skills in catering industry and handcraft making Off-farm employment training EM farmers County 2015.9-2020.12 1,000 EM labors are trained in 5 500,000 Rain and Report of Rain and Dew Training of the 2 Poverty years, of which, women account Dew Program project Reduction for 25% Program counties Office and (government (with or WF program)） without participating in the project) Accumulative C1. Monitoring indicators for measures to enhance positive impacts January 1 – June 30, 2020 (As of June 2020) Support to new establishment Hezheng PMOs, of EM coops and production and provincial 2015.9-2020.12 Establish 20 new coops 58 8 bases Jishishan – and county
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Action and measures Target group Implementer Time of Implementation Specific Activity Budget Fund Source Monitoring Indicator Bao’an, governments Dongxiang and other Establish 5 new production bases 14 3 and Sala departments
PMOs, Train 2,000 person/time EM farmers, of which, 50% should be women Ethnic provincial minority Enhancing technical training and county Number of EM farmers trained 3383 1380 farmers and 2015.9-2020.12 and guidance governments coops of and other Number of EM women trained 1770 763 Hezheng departments Proportion of EM women among 52.3% 55.3% the trained Providing job opportunities of non-technical and light labor of production base, agro-enterprises and coops during production phase to women and EM women in particular or woman-headed households; when women are willing, their participation during project construction and production should be no less than 30% and EM women should be no less than 35% of the total number of women
EM women PMOs, Total number of persons Encouraging women to of the 2 DARA, participated in project construction 5812 1129 2015.9-2020.12 participate in project project BARA, WF and production counties Number of women participated 2859 785 Number of EM women participated 1707 610 Proportion of women participated 49.2% 69.5% Proportion of EM women 59.7% 77.7% participated EM farmers Train 1000 EM labors in 5 years, of which, women account for 25% of the 2 County project Poverty counties Number of EM labors trained 9292 1755 Reduction Off-farm skill training (with or 2015.9-2020.12 Number of EM women labors Office, 3857 1026 without trained CPMOs and participating WF in the Proportion of EM women trained 41.5% 58.5% project) D. Ensuring informed and participatory action plan
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Action and measures Target group Implementer Time of Implementation Specific Activity Budget Fund Source Monitoring Indicator Strengthening public EM farmer PMOs, 2015.9-2020.12 Included in consultancy and No additional Routine Time and location of participation participation households, DARA, participation budget operation Participant record enterprises BARA, funding Number of complaints of EM and and coops Township results of redressing Government and Villagers Committee E. Contingency Contingency Jishishan PMOs 2015.5-2020.12 During the entire process of the Included in Project Actual payment incurred and project, public participation is project contingency Hezheng highly encouraged, it is no possible contingency. project area to have fundamental conflict. It is estimated However, in order to timely and that each proper handle unforeseeable issues county has and ensure smooth project progress CNY 100,000 during project implementation, the for 2 counties project provided with contingency respectively F. Monitoring expenses 2015.9-2020.12 Actual payment incurred Monitoring expenses External PMOs and 2015.9-2020.12 External agency carries out Included in Project Actual payment incurred monitoring external semi-annual independent project budget report of monitoring monitoring in association with the consultancy EMDP agency monitoring of the implementation budget of other social action plans
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Appendix 4: Records of Complaints Consolidated by: PPMO Reporting period: July 1 – December 31, 2020
Date received Handling unit and results ** No. Name Scope RFSP FI TWNS CPMO RFSP FI TWNS CPMO Brief description Affected population Type of complaints * Villagers’ Villagers’ Others*** Others*** Committee Committee
1 None
RFSP= rural financial service provider *1 writing, 2 oral ** 1 environment, 2 social *** if yes, please indicate the name of the agency
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Appendix 5: Credit Monitoring
Filed by: BOG, BOL and Yuzhong SPD, LRCB, ZRCB, JRCB Consolidated by: PPMO Reporting period: July 1 –December 31, 2020
Funding Source (CNY Note 10,000
No Client Name Nature Use Maturity 10,000) covered covered covered covered covered
(CNY 10,000) ADB Equity Villages covered Poverty population Population covered Number of EM HH Farmer Households Overdue Loan (CNY Amount (CNY 10,000) use rights transfer (mu) Land are involved in land Number of EM population Number of women covered Poverty farmer households Balance of loan in the bank
Yuzhong Hongyuan 1 WS Fishery 299.00 12 months 299.00 1 5 20 - - 11 - - - 299.00 Yuzhong Fishery Co Ltd
Lilly 2 Bao Xibin WS 152.75 12 months 152.75 1 2 5 - - 2 - - 15 152.75 Yuzhong Production Lilly 3 Wang Zongwen WS 152.75 12 months 152.75 1 6 16 - - 7 - - 20 152.75 Yuzhong Production Lilly 4 Wang Zongxi WS 152.75 12 months 152.75 1 3 9 - - 5 - - - 152.75 Yuzhong Production Lilly 5 Zhang Li WS 152.75 12 months 152.75 1 7 12 - - 6 - - 2 152.75 Yuzhong Production Yuzhong Wanhe Leisure 6 Lijing Ecological WS 188.50 12 months 188.50 1 - - - - - 188.50 Yuzhong Agriculture Leisure Co Ltd Yuzhong Yuxiang Cold Chain 7 Agricultural Product WS Storage of 126.37 12 months 126.37 1 30 88 - - 45 - - 200 126.37 Yuzhong Co Ltd Vegetables Farm input 8 Li Yanrong WS 65.00 12 months 65.00 1 5 15 - - 8 - - 300 65.00 Yuzhong production Yuzhong Jiahong WS Sheep 12 months Yuzhong 9 Animal Production 195.00 195.00 1 18 45 - - 22 - - 300 195.00 production Copo
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Yuzhong Chengguan Farm input 10 Supply and Marketing WS 130.00 12 months 130.00 1 - - - - - 130.00 Yuzhong sales Coop Cold storage 11 Jiang Pengxi WS 178.75 12 months 178.75 1 5 20 - - 10 - - 0 178.75 Yuzhong of vegetables Yuzhong Shunde Production of Green Vegetable vegetable 12 WS 188.50 12 months 188.50 1 3 8 - - 4 - - - 188.50 Yuzhong Packing Material Co packing Ltd materials Yuzhong Maoyuan Potato 13 Potato Productioand WS 188.50 12 months 188.50 1 40 133 - - 70 - - - 188.50 Yuzhong production Marketing Coop Production of vegetable 14 Guo Degang WS 97.50 12 months 97.50 1 5 16 - - 8 - - - 97.50 Yuzhong packing materials Gansu Heyiying Pig 15 WS 182.00 12 months 182.00 1 15 50 - - 26 - - - 182.00 Yuzhong Breeding Co Ltd production Yuzhong Jiashisen Vegetable 16 Vegetable Production WS 39.00 36 months 39.00 1 12 41 - - 21 - - - 39.00 Yuzhong production and Marketing Coop Cattle 17 Fan Zhizhang WS 31.20 12 months 31.20 1 12 37 - - 15 - - - 31.20 Yuzhong production Farm input 18 Li Xinghuan WS 65.00 36 months 65.00 1 2 6 - - 3 - - - 65.00 Yuzhong product Purchase of 19 Hu Chengyi WS 123.50 12 months 123.50 1 4 13 - - 6 - - - 123.50 Yuzhong vegetables Yuzhong Renhe Cold storage 20 WS 292.50 12 months 292.50 1 2 7 - - 3 - - - 292.50 Yuzhong Trading Co Ltd of vegetables Yuzhong Cuifeng Vegetable 21 WS 187.85 12 months 187.85 1 5 16 - - 8 - - - 187.85 Yuzhong Agricultue Co Ltd production Yuzhong Shenghua Sheep 22 WS 149.50 12 months 149.50 1 9 25 - - 12 - - - 149.50 Yuzhong Lamb Coop production Yuzhong Qixin Crop Vegetable 23 WS 169.00 12 months 169.00 1 11 29 - - 14 - - - 169.00 Yuzhong Production Coop production Yuzhong Huixuan Vegetable 24 Crop Production WS 169.00 12 months 169.00 1 14 30 - - 15 - - - 169.00 Yuzhong production Coop Yuzhong Yuanhang Agricultual Cold storage 25 WS 175.50 12 months 175.50 1 6 20 - - 10 - - - 175.50 Yuzhong by-prodduct Storage of vegetables Center
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Sheep 26 Zhao Bo WS 57.85 36 months 57.85 1 1 2 - - 1 - - - 57.85 Yuzhong production Yuzhong Huifeng Sheep 27 WS 182.00 12 months 182.00 1 7 16 - - 7 - - - 182.00 Yuzhong Lamb Farm production Yuzhong Wenhua Pig 28 Animal Production WS 191.75 12 months 191.75 1 6 13 - - 7 - - - 191.75 Yuzhong production Coop Gansu Zhengmao Pig Cold storage 29 WS 139.75 12 months 139.75 1 4 12 - - 5 - - - 139.75 Yuzhong Farm of vegetables Yuzhong Taian Agricultural Walnut 30 WS 139.75 12 months 139.75 1 4 14 - - 6 - - - 139.75 Yuzhong By-product Storage production Co Ltd Yuzhong Renhe Vegetable 31 Walnut Production WS 139.75 12 months 139.75 1 4 13 - - 6 - - - 139.75 Yuzhong production Co Ltd Leisure 32 Zhang Jianwen WS 133.25 12 months 133.25 1 5 15 - - 9 - - - 133.25 Yuzhong agriculture Yuzhong Jingxing Fenghuang Folk Leisure 33 WS 286.00 36 months 286.00 1 11 36 - - 19 - - - 286.00 Yuzhong Tourism and Resort activity Co Ltd Farm input 34 Jinjing WS 188.50 12 months 188.50 1 2 4 - - 2 - - - 188.50 Yuzhong production Farm input 35 Yang Yimin WS 84.50 12 months 84.50 1 2 5 - - 2 - - - 84.50 Yuzhong production Farm input 36 Yangying WS 84.50 12 months 84.50 1 3 6 - - 3 - - - 84.50 Yuzhong production Nursery 37 Yang Zhengui WS 91.00 12 months 91.00 1 2 4 - - 2 - - - 91.00 Yuzhong production Chicken 38 Yue Jiao WS 104.00 12 months 104.00 1 2 6 - - 3 - - - 104.00 Yuzhong production Yuzhong Xingye 39 Animal Production WS Leisure 81.25 12 months 81.25 1 11 37 - - 15 - - - 81.25 Yuzhong Co Ltd Agricultural 40 Chen Rui WS machinery 91.00 12 months 91.00 1 2 4 - - 2 - - - 91.00 Yuzhong sales Nursery 41 Zhang Weifeng WS 15.60 36 months 15.60 1 2 4 - - 2 - - - 15.60 Yuzhong production Farm input 42 Tao Lilong WS 55.25 12 months 55.25 1 2 5 - - 2 - - - 55.25 Yuzhong production
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Yuzhong Supply and Farm input 43 WS 182.00 12 months 182.00 1 - - - - - 182.00 Yuzhong Marketing Co sales Zhuanglang, Gansu Gonghe Fruit 44 Retail 1,500.00 18 months 1,500.00 1 5 31 3 5 10 - - - 1,500.00 ADB recycled Foodstuff Co Ltd processing loan fund Zhuanglang Qinhe Zhuanglang, Vegetable 45 Tree Fruit Retail 100.00 12 months 100.00 1 - - - - 15 - 100.00 ADB recycled production Development Co Ltd loan fund Zhuanglang Zhuanglang, Fruit 46 Yiyuanheng Fruit Co Retail 990.00 12 months 990.00 1 - - - - 10 - - - 990.00 ADB recycled production Ltd loan fund
Grand Total 8,689.87 8,689.87 46 296 888 3 5 459 8,689.87
* It refers to wholesale or retail loan ** It refers only to the total number of farmer households, registered poverty households, total poor population, total women population and total minority population.
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Appendix 6: Capacity Building Activities Reporting period: July 1 – December 31, 2020
Province
No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants Staff of Zhuanglang MIS specific training for Zhuanglang 2020-10-29 1 Lanzhou PPMO ADB Project MIS 4 CPMO and other CPMO and other implementers implementers Directors, Deputy Project Management Training for ADB Project Directors, Financial 2020-12-04 2 Lanzhou PPMO Directors, Deputy Directors, Financial 50 Management Workshop Officials and M&E Officials and M&E Officials of CPMOs Officials of CPMOs
Kongtong No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants Study tour on Observation of advanced experiences of Kongtong agricultural agricultural industrialization in Guiyang, 2020-12-06 7 Guizhou BARA and 16 Kongtong BARA industrializatioin (first Anshun, Qiannan, Xjiang, Zunyi and CPMO batch) Maotai of Guizhou Study tour on Observation of advanced experiences of Kongtong agricultural agricultural industrialization in Guiyang, Kongtong BARA and 2020-12-16 7 Guizhou BARA and 16 industrializatioin Anshun, Qiannan, Xjiang, Zunyi and members of coops CPMO (second batch) Maotai of Guizhou
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Jingchuan No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants
Promotion of products Shanghai CPMO staff, of Gansu at Yangtze Financial Gansu technicians, River Delta Poverty Promotion of agricultural products 2020-09-23 7 Information Government 8 management of reduction through Center enterprises and coops consumption
Xiamen Technicians and 21st China Green Food 21st China Green Food Expo and 14th International Gansu DARA management of 2020-11-03 7 Expo China International Organic Food Expo 6 Exbhition Center enterprises and coops Jingchuan Shaanxi Weinan Technicians, farmers, CPMO, Study tour on persimon Management of standard persimmon Fuping County, others and members Luohantong industryin Fuping of production facility, processing and 2020-11-20 3 Zhuangli 40 of enterprises and Township Shaanxi marketing Township coops Government Hu Shuangxiong, Senior Agronomist of Pingliang BARA Jingchuan Li Xingmin, Senior Vet of county Jingchuan, Yanglin CPMO, Fruit tree planting, vegetable production, animal husbandry and veterinary of Shaanxi, Lintai Jingchuan Training of high quality Farmers and animal production, coop management service center 2020-09-06 23 and Chongxin of Agricultural farmer 113 management of coops and e-commerce Ma Zuohu, Senior Agronomist of Pingliang Broadcast County Vegetable Office School Lei Zhilin, Senior Agronomist of County Vegetable Office Wang Dechun, Senior Vet of county animal husbandry and Jingchuan, Jingchuan veterinary service center Liangdang of CPMO, Beef cattle production techniques, Ma Zuohu, Senior Agronomist of Longnan, Jingchuan Training of high quality greenhouse vegetable production, Farmers and County Vegetable Office 2020-07-15 20 Qianyang, Taibai Agricultural farmer marketing of farm produces, 29 management of coops Wang Xiujuan, Associate and Meixian of Economic e-commercie, management of coops Professor of Northwest Shaanxi Service Center Agriculture and Forestry University
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Lintai No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants Zhongtai, Zhaozhai, Xinkai, Training of farmers of Chaona, Xinghuo, Training of farmers of cash crop 2020-12-11 7 Lintai CPMO cash crop production 1370 Farmers Dudian, Shenzi, production base base Shangliang, Longmen Training of farmers on Training of farmers on livestock Farmers, members of 2020-12-11 7 Baili, Liangyuan Lintai CPMO 316 livestock production production enterpirse and coops
Training of farmers on Training of farmers on fruit, forest and Technicians and 2020-12-11 7 Puwo Lintai CPMO fruit, forest and fodder 110 fodder farmers production base County Party Training of coop Mangement of 2020-12-07 3 Lintai CPMO Training of coop councilor 1 165 School councilor 1 enterprise and coop
County Party Training of members of Member of enterprise 2020-12-11 7 Lintai CPMO Training of members of coops 50 School coops and coop
Staff of CPMO, County Party Training of coop technicians and 2020-12-10 3 Lintai CPMO Training of coop councilor 2 90 School councilor 2 management of enterprise and coops Staff of CPMO, 2020 Trade Talks of 2020 Trade Talks of Gansu Featured others and 2020-08-09 2 Lanzhou Lintai CPMO Gansu Featured 8 Agricultural Products management of Agricultural Products enterprises and coops Staff of CPMO, 21st China Green Food 2020-12-10 1 Xiamen Lintai CPMO 21st China Green Food Expo 6 management of Expo enterprise and coops Skill training of 2020-07-13 15 Dudian Lintai CPMO Skill training of farmers in Dudian 103 Farmers farmers in Dudian Capacity building training of poverty 2020-08-20 15 Zhongtain Lintai CPMO Zhongtai livestock farmer training 100 Farmers farmer households of Zhongtai
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No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants Capacity building Technicians and Chaona, Shizi, training of poverty 2020-07-02 14 Lintai CPMO Training of women 115 members of Shangliang farmer households of enterprise and coops Xindian Township
Huanxian No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants
Xiamen CPMO staff, related 21st China Green Food Expo and 14th 202-11-03 7 International DARA of Gansu Taking part in expo 8 personnel of China International Organic Food Expo Exbhition Center enterprises and coops
Zhenyuan No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants Zhenyuan Technicians and Agricultural Training on beef cattle 2020-08-13 19 Zhenyuan Training on beef cattle production 70 members of Broadcast production enterprise and coops School Zhenyuan Taiping Township Agricultural Zhenyuan High Quality Training on apple production and 2020-08-14 17 45 Technicians of Zhenyuan Broadcast Farmer Training (apple) management of orchard School Pingquan Zhenyuan High Quality Management and Zhenyuan Facility vegetable production 2020-07-07 17 Township of Farmer Training 35 members of BARA technologies Zhenyuan (facility vegetabel) enterprise and coops Training on collective Yongchang and Zhenyuan Training on collective ownsership system Staff of CPMO and 2020-09-17 4 ownsership system in 40 Gaitai BARA in rural areas others rural areas Study tour on Pengyang, agricultural Zhenyuan agricultural industrialization and Staff of CPMO and 2020-08-07 5 Jingning and industrialization and 63 CPMO environment improvement others Zhuanglang environment improvement
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No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants Zhenyuan High Training of farm input 2020-08-19 13 Zhenyuan Quality Farmer Training of farm input traders 50 Others traders Training Zhenyuan Farmers and Agricultural Training of responsible Training on mangement of coops and 2020-08-08 15 Zhenyuan 75 management of Broadcast persons of coops technical training of production skills enterprises and coops School 2020 Trade Talks of Others, management Zhenyuan 2020-08-07 4 Yuzhong Gansu Featured 4 of enterprises and CPMO Agricultural Products coops Training of Branding of 2020-08-08 10 Zhenyuan Zhenyuan WF 308 Farmers and others Labour Zhenyuan Management and Agricultural Training of animal 2020-6-28 15 Zhenyuan Training on managing animal production 75 members of Broadcast production coops enterprises and coops School Zhenyuan Farmers and Agricultural Training on medicinal 2020-6-29 15 Zhenyuan Training on animal production 75 management of Broadcast herbs and milk goat enterprises and coops School Zhenyuan Farmers and Agricultural 2020-6-30 15 Zhenyuan Meat rabbit production Training on animal production 75 management of Broadcast enterprises and coops School
Minxian No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants Staff of CPMO, 2020 Trade Talks of 2020 Trade Talks of Gansu Featured Others, members and 2020-08-20 1 Yuzhong Minxian CPMO Gansu Featured 7 Agricultural Products management of Agricultural Products enterprises and coops Staff of CPMO and 2020 China Potato 2020-09-23 5 Dingxi of Gansu Minxian CPMO 24 management of Conference enterprises and coops
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No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants China Anhui Trade Staff of CPMO, Talks for Famous and technicians and 2020-10-14 6 Hefei of Anhui Minxian CPMO Exbhition of production 4 Quality Agricultural management of Products enterprises and coops Training of farmers in Production techniques of medicinal 2020-09-01 60 Townships Minxian CPMO 2784 Farmers S&T herbes and pest management
Training facilities High quality farmer Planting, processing and pest 2020-10-10 15 of production Minxian CPMO 100 Farmers training management of medicinal herbs bases Training facilities Mingxian High quality Planting, processing and pest 2020-10-10 15 of production Minxian CPMO 62 Farmers farmer training management of medicinal herbs bases Training facilities Economic Management Planting and processing management of 2020-10-10 15 of production Minxian CPMO Station High quality 6 Farmers medicinal herbs bases farmer training Training facilities Economic Management Planting and processing management of 2020-10-10 15 of production Minxian CPMO Station High quality 10 Farmers medicinal herbs bases farmer training Training facilities Agricultural Broadcast Planting and processing management of 2020-10-10 15 of production Minxian CPMO School High quality 25 Farmers medicinal herbs bases farmer training Training in plant PMO staff and 2020-12-07 4 Minxian Minxian CPMO Plant protection 76 protection technicians
Training for study tour Planting and management of summer PMO staff and 2020-12-16 3 Dingxi Minxian CPMO on highland vegetable 51 vegetables in highland technicians production in summer High quality farmer Technical training on business iniation of 2020-09-07 12 Gaotai Minxian CPMO training – youth 13 Farmers farrms business initation Featured agricultural PMO staff and production show and 2020-12-21 3 Longnan Minxian CPMO Exbhition 4 management of promotion through BR enterprises and coops initiative
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No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants CPMO, Senior Agronomist of the Horticulture Capacity building for Provincial Quality and Safety Training Center of Sation and Capacity building for standarded lilly 2020-12-10 2 standarded lilly 107 Farmers Supervion Center and Sanrong Company Quality production techniques production techniques Researchers of the Provincial Supervision Academy of Agricultural Sciences Station
Yuzhong No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants Yuzhong Baifan Potato Cooperative Alliance Technicians and Working meeting of Yuzhong Potato 2020-07-12 1 Dingxi of Gansu CPMO Participated in the 20 management of Yuan Junfeng Industry Alliance China Potato enterprises and coops Conference Yuzhong Animal Quarantine of origin, slaughter, Health Yuzhong Official 2020-08-21 1 CPMO transportation of animal and animal 48 Technicians Ji Quanfu, Li Jinglong, Du Lijuan Supervision Veterinary Training products Station Capturing potato industry development Technicians and Potato Alliance Sun Yumin, Yuzhong Seed 2020-07-12 1 Yuzhong CPMO in 2020 and making arrangement of 20 management of Meeting Station works for the second half of the year enterprises and coops Ma Yicheng, Xu Weiqian, Yang Haixing, Wei Hongxia, Zhang Yuzhong Technical Training on Xingquan, Bai Rencai, Zhang Standardized planting techniques, green Township of Agricultural Standardized Technicians and Guangquan, Huo Yujie, Yan 2020-07-01 18 pest control techniques, increase of 750 Yuzhong Technological Production of Featured farmers Junlu, Li Yue, Li Tao, Chen organic matter, land quality protection Center Products Zhengren, Zhao Fan, Li Zhudan, Kang Rong, Wei Zhihua, Cui Yinhua
Project management capacity 2020-09-08 1 Yuzhong BARA CPMO Capacity building 7 PMO staff Duan Qibin, Zhao Dongqing improvement
Yuzhong SPD PMO staff and rural 2020-09-29 1 Yuzhong BARA PMO training Training in ESMS and capacity building 5 Zhao Dongqing, Duan Qibin Rural Bank finance workers
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No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants Zhang Liping, Li Qiulan, Mo 2020-07-04 1 Yuzhong Yuzhong CPMO Skill training Skill training 45 Farmers Wenxiao, Fan Yongqing, Fang Mulan, Cui Junmei Zhang Liping, Li Qiulan, Mo 2020-07-13 1 Yuzhong Yuzhong CPMO Skill training Skill training 60 Farmers Wenxiao, Fan Yongqing, Fang Mulan, Cui Junmei Zhang Liping, Li Qiulan, Mo 2020-08-10 1 Yuzhong Yuzhong CPMO Skill training Skill training 30 Farmers Wenxiao, Fan Yongqing, Fang Mulan, Cui Junmei Zhang Liping, Li Qiulan, Mo 2020-08-10 1 Yuzhong Yuzhong CPMO Skill training Skill training 45 Farmers Wenxiao, Fan Yongqing, Fang Mulan, Cui Junmei Zhang Liping, Li Qiulan, Mo 2020-8-26 8 Yuzhong Yuzhong CPMO Skill training Skill training 135 Farmers Wenxiao, Fan Yongqing, Fang Mulan, Cui Junmei Zhang Liping, Li Qiulan, Mo 2020-09-02 3 Yuzhong Yuzhong CPMO Skill training Skill training 112 Farmers Wenxiao, Fan Yongqing, Fang Mulan, Cui Junmei Zhang Liping, Li Qiulan, Mo 2020-09-21 1 Yuzhong Yuzhong CPMO Skill training Skill training 142 Farmers Wenxiao, Fan Yongqing, Fang Mulan, Cui Junmei Zhang Liping, Li Qiulan, Mo 2020-09-27 19 Yuzhong Yuzhong CPMO Skill training Skill training 90 Farmers Wenxiao, Fan Yongqing, Fang Mulan, Cui Junmei Zhang Liping, Li Qiulan, Mo 2020-11-20 1 Yuzhong Yuzhong CPMO Skill training Skill training 80 Technicians Wenxiao, Fan Yongqing, Fang Mulan, Cui Junmei Zhang Liping, Li Qiulan, Mo 2020-11-23 1 Yuzhong Yuzhong CPMO Skill training Skill training 80 Technicians Wenxiao, Fan Yongqing, Fang Mulan, Cui Junmei Zhang Liping, Li Qiulan, Mo 2020-12-14 1 Yuzhong Yuzhong CPMO Skill training Skill training 50 Farmers Wenxiao, Fan Yongqing, Fang Mulan, Cui Junmei
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Yongjing No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants Study tour on advanced experiences and MARA and 18th China International practices of agricultural industrialization Management of 2020-11-27 4 Chongqing Chongqing Agricultural Product 2 in Guiyang, Anshui, Qiannan, Xijiang, enterprises and coops Government Trade Conferenc Zunyi and Maotai Incubator of Liujiaxia Poverty Reduction by Industrialization, Wang Xinhua, Wang Xueqin, Cao honey sucker Gansu Yellow River Poverty Reduction Zhiqiang, Jing Yuxia, Liu Shixian, production base of 2020 Training of New Development Co Ltd participated in the Farmer and 2020-09-13 15 Yongjing BARA 200 Kong Lingcai, Luo Zhigang, Han Santiaoyan Type of Career Farmer 18th China International Agricultural technicians Liping, Si Cailiang, Han Taiqing, Township, Production Trade Show Li Shuxiong Sanyuan Agricultural Park, Zhang Ye and Wu Wei Incubator of Liujiaxia Poverty Reduction by Industrialization, Wang Xinhua, Wang Xueqin, Cao honey sucker Zhiqiang, Jing Yuxia, Liu Shixian, production base of 2020 Training of New Medicinal herb training and coop Farmer and 2020-12-24 15 Yongjing BARA 50 Kong Lingcai, Luo Zhigang, Han Santiaoyan Type of Career Farmer management training technicians Liping, Si Cailiang, Han Taiqing, Township, Li Shuxiong Sanyuan Agricultural Park, Zhang Ye and Wu Wei Technicians of Yellow River Nonggu Training Center and Yongjing Agri-technological Training on migrantion 17 Townships of Farmer and extension center, and technicians 2020-1-12 180 Yongjing BARA labor for poverty Training on edible fungis 2296 Yongjing technicians of animal supervision station, reduction in 2020 animal husbandry center, agricultural broadcast school and agricultural inspection center
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Hezheng No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants Hezheng Luyuan Technical training Disease control and feeding techniques Members of coops Senior veterinary: Zhang Long 2020-07-02 2 Animal Production Hezheng CPMO on meat rabbit 45 of meat rabbit and farmers Coop manager: Ma Junliang Coop industry Lanzhou Gansu Taste Agricultural MARA and Gansu Promotion and exbhition of Gansu Taste CPMO staff and 2020-08-08 2 Agricultural 6 Product Trade Government Agricultural Products members of coops Product Exbhition Center 2020 China Farmer 2020 China Farmer Harvest Festival – Harvest Festival – 20202020 China Farmer Harvest Festival Zheqiao Township poverty reduction poverty reduction CPMO staff and 2020-09-21 41 – poverty reduction through consumption 19 of Linxia through through members of coops and exbhition consumption and consumption and exbhition exbhition Consultatioin with Jimei District of Xiamen of Fujian for poverty reduction, Fujian, Henan and Linxia Prefecture 2020-10-21 8 Study tour market study of mushroom in Gutian of 1 CPMO staff Guangdong Government Fujian, Xixia of Henan, Shenzhen and Shaoguan of Guangdong Study tour on CPMO staff and Jinan, Linyi and Study tour and promotion of featured 2020-09-28 10 Hezheng CPMO featured industry in 6 other government Qingdao industry Linxi personnesl Training on marketing of Meeting facility of poverty reduction Building up featured products and CPMO staff and 2020-10-27 2 Prefecture BARA 6 the prefecture products in 5 product promotion through the Internet members of coops counties and 3 prefectures Study tour to Inner Study tour on animal production Baotou of Inner Mongolia on CPMO staff and 2020-10-31 6 CPMO techniques and environment of featured 10 Mongolia production of technicians animal industry featured products Exbhition of 18th International Agricultural Product agricultural CPMO staff and 2020-11-25 7 Chongqing CPMO Trade Talks and Promotion of Pite Fruit 8 featured products in technicians Products and Red Matsutake Chongqing Yunhai Xianting Mushroom production techniques: pest Training on edible Members of coops Qiu Lanqing 2020-10-31 2 Meeting Room of CPMO management, processing and storage, 133 fungis and farmer Coop manager Hezheng marketing
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No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants Study tour to Xixia of Henan on Study out to Xixia of Nanyang he Henan 2020-11-12 3 Xixia CPMO 3 CPMO staff mushroom on mushroom production production Yunhai Xianting Cao Zhiqiang Training on honey Honey suckle production techniques, pest Members of coops 2020-11-18 2 Meeting Room of CPMO 105 Senior Agronomist of Dingxi sucher production management, development perspectives and farmer Hezheng BARA Yunhai Xianting Training of Study tour on structure adjustment of Facilitator of featured Zhong Shixiong 2020-11-19 2 Meeting Room of CPMO technicians on featured industry, incentive plan and 74 industry Senior Veterinary of BARA Hezheng featured industries production techniques 18th International Chongqing Agricultural 2020-11-25 4 International CPMO Product exbhition and trade talks 6 Members of coops Production Trade Expos Center Talks Study tour to Study tour on the development and Linchuan, Linchuan and management model of mushroom sector, CPMO staff and 2020-11-29 7 CPMO 10 Gongxian Gongxian of demonstration of production and others Guanxi management techniques Yunhai Xianting Training on Biological features, planting techniques, Bai Fengyuan Members of coops 2020-12-01 2 Meeting Room of CPMO raspberry product development and market 59 Hezheng County Agricultural and farmer Hezheng production perspective of red raspberry Technology Association Meeting Room of Overall development of coops, project Gansu Yumanyuan Training of coop Management of 2020-12-08 4 CPMO support, system development and routine 149 Hezheng BARA Culture Tourism mangement coopos financial management Co Ltd Meeting Room of Workshop on Specialized development of livestock Gansu Yumanyuan Technicians of 2020-12-10 1 CPMO Livestock secotr through changing ideas and 36 Culture Tourism BARA Development achieving scientific management Co Ltd Technical training Detailed training on theories and Land Court of Technicians of 2020-12-25 1 CPMO of AI of frozen practices of AI of beef cattle for 49 Building No 3 BARA semen for cattle grassroots technicians of the county Meeting Room of Qinghai IFAD PPMO fielded a study tour IFAD project CPMO Staff and 2020-12-11 1 Gansu Yumanyuan CPMO to the county for learning advanced 20 exchange meeting others Culture Tourism experiences, case study and innovations Study tour to Medicinal herb production, marketing, CPMO Staff and 2020-12-13 7 Jiangxi CPMO Jiangxi on featured technical backstopping, demonstration 8 others industry and popularization of new varieties
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No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants Flower market Study tour on flower market to Yunnan Yuannan and CPMO Staff and 2021-12-20 7 CPMO study in Yunnan and Guangdong and inviting funds to the 2 Guangdong others and Guangdong coounty
Jishishan No. of No. of Time (yyyy-mm-dd) Venue Host Theme Main Contents Participants Trainer Days Participants 2020 Gansu Featured Demonstration, promotion and trade CPMO staff, others 2020-08-01 10 Yuzhong Gansu DARA Agricultural Product talks of Gansu Taste Agricultural 4 and management of Trade Talks Products enterprise and coops 2020 15th East Asia CPMO staff, others Building up international market for 2020-08-19 7 Laishan of Yantai Yantai BARA International Foodstuff 4 and management of local products and poverty population Trade Expo enterprise and coops Seed Law, Gansu Crop Seed Management Regulation Training on business CPMO staff, Sun Xinwen Pesticides Management Regulation and 2020-09-15 3 Xinhai Hotel Jishishan CPMO management of 79 technicians and Senior Agronomist of Gansu Implementation Method of Pesticides pesticides and seeds others Plant Protection Station Management Regulation Basics of ADB project Wang Sanxi, Senior Engineer of High quality farmer Gannan Prefecture Agricultural training – training on Muslim Mansion Mushroom production and pest Academy 2020-11-15 15 Jishishan CPMO mushroom production 99 Farmers of Xining management technologies Sha Wei, Shang Qianhan, Liang as a carrier of poverty Jiang reduction Professor of Qinghai University
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Appendix 7: Further Subloans of the project Reporting period: July 1 – December 1, 2020
Yuzhong spd rural bank Yuzhong
Number of Amount disbursed Loan Applicant Source Activity Subloans (CNY 10,000) (EUR 10,000)
Yuzhong Hongyuan Fishery Co Ltd 1 299.00 37.93 ADB Output 3: Credit capital
Bao Xibing 1 152.75 19.38 ADB Output 3: Credit capital
Wang Zongwen 1 152.75 19.38 ADB Output 3: Credit capital
Wang Zongxi 1 152.75 19.38 ADB Output 3: Credit capital
Zhang LI 莉 1 152.75 19.38 ADB Output 3: Credit capital
Yuzhong Wanhe Lijing Ecological Leisure Co Ltd 1 188.50 23.91 ADB Output 3: Credit capital
Yuzhong Yuxiang Agricultural Proudct Co Ltd 1 126.37 16.03 ADB Output 3: Credit capital
Li Yanrong 1 65.00 8.25 ADB Output 3: Credit capital
Yuzhong Jiahong Animal Production Coop 1 195.00 24.74 ADB Output 3: Credit capital
Yuzhong Chengguan Supply and Marketing Coop 1 130.00 16.49 ADB Output 3: Credit capital
Jiang Pengxi 1 178.75 22.67 ADB Output 3: Credit capital
Yuzhong Shunde Green Vegetable Packing Material Co Ltd 1 188.50 23.91 ADB Output 3: Credit capital
Yuzhong Maoyuan Potato Production and Marketing Coop 1 188.50 23.91 ADB Output 3: Credit capital
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Guo Degang 1 97.50 12.37 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Gansu Helying Breeding Co Ltd 1 182.00 23.09 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yuzhong Jiashisen Vegetable Production and Marketing Coop 1 39.00 4.95 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Fan Zhizhang 1 31.20 3.96 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Li Xinghuan 1 65.00 8.25 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Hu Chengyi 1 123.50 15.67 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yuzhong Renhe Trading Co Ltd 1 292.50 37.10 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yuzhong Cuifeng Agriculture Co Ltd 1 187.85 23.83 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yuzhong Shenghua Lamb Cooop 1 149.50 18.96 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yuzhong Qixin Crop Coop 1 169.00 21.44 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yuzhong Huixuan Crop Coop 1 169.00 21.44 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yuzhong Yuanhang Agricultural By-product Storage Center 1 175.50 22.26 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yuzhong Huifeng Lamb Farm 1 182.00 23.09 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yuzhong Wenhua Animal Productioin Coop 1 191.75 24.32 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Gansu Zhengmao Pig Farm 1 139.75 17.73 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yuzhong Taian Agricultural By-productt Storage Co Ltd 1 139.75 17.73 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yuzhong Renhe Walnut Production Co Ltd 1 139.75 17.73 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Zhang Jianwen 1 133.25 16.90 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yuzhong Jingxing Fenghuang Folk Tourism Resort Co Ltd 1 286.00 36.28 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Jin Jing 1 188.50 23.91 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yang Yimin 1 84.50 10.72 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yang Ying 1 84.50 10.72 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yang Zhenggui 1 91.00 11.54 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yue Jiao 1 104.00 13.19 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yuzhong Xingye Livestock Co Ltd 1 81.25 10.31 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Zhao Bo 1 57.85 7.34 ADB Output 3: Credit capital
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Chen Rui 1 91.00 11.54 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Zhang Weifeng 1 15.60 1.98 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Tao Lilong 1 55.25 7.01 ADB Output 3: Credit capital Yuzhong County Supply and Marketing Company 1 182.00 23.09 ADB Output 3: Credit capital
ZRCB Zhuanglang
Recycled ADB Gansu Gonghe Foodstuff Co Ltd 1 1500.00 186.92 Output 2: Industrial development fund funding Recycled ADB Zhuanglang Qinghe Tree Fruit Developoment Co Ltd 1 100.00 12.46 Output 1: Greenhouse funding Recycled ADB Zhuanglang Yingyuanheng Fruit Co Ltd 1 990.00 123.36 Output 1: Tree nursery funding
TOTAL
46 8689.87 1096.51
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Appendix 8: Snapshots of MIS Figure 1: Templates for progress report and ESMS report
Figure 2: Subloans for water-saving measures and smart agriculture
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Figure 3: Subloan monitoring information
Figure 4: Outputs of reports
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