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The Social Assessment Report World Bank Financed Second Gansu SFG1733 REV Public Disclosure Authorized The Social Assessment Report World Bank Financed Second Gansu Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection and Development Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Gansu Yishan Yishui Center for Environmental and Social Development April 6, 2016 Social AssessmentTeam Members Educational No. Name Major Office Job Background Environmental 1 Wenguang Ding Ph. D Director & Professor Sociology 2 Jiakai Tang Dr. Physical Geography Research Assistant Environmental 3 Wenqi Gao Dr. Research Assistant Sociology 4 Li He Master Environmental Science Research Intern 5 Xingde Liu Master Environmental Science Research Intern 6 Chen Zhao Master Tourism Management Research Intern 7 Lizhen Chen Master Physical Geography Research Intern 8 Xuelian Gao Master Social Security Research Intern 9 Jiajia Wu Master Social Security Research Intern 10 Hao Xu Master Physical Geography Research Intern Administrative 11 Yihong Liu Master Research Intern Management 12 Ailu Pan Master Social Security Research Intern 13 Danlu Li Master Physical Geography Research Intern 14 Yiying Geng Master Environmental Science Research Intern Anthropological 15 Man Huang Master Research Intern Sociology The Social assessment Report of World Bank Financed Gansu Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection and Development Project Phase II PREFACE My agency was fortunate to attend and successfully win the bidding of “Social AssessmentReport of World Bank Financed Gansu Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection and Development Project Phase II”. With heavy responsibility, in passing time, in accordance with the instructions and requirements of Gansu Provincial Development and Reform Commission, we set up a strong project team immediately to ensure the quality and quantity of the project timely. In order to complete the report as scheduled, three groups of the SA team carried out research and assessment in six scenic spots of three cities (states) during October 1 to October 14 in 2015. The first group consists of the leader Professor Ding Wenguang and the team members of Li He, Yihong Liu and Guosheng Yang, whose research areas including the national 4A level scenic spot Songming Yan and Palaeotherium Fossils Museum in Hezheng County, Kongtong Mountain in Kongtong District, and Jingchuan Baili Grottoes scenic spot and so on. The second group consists of the leader Jiakai Tang and the team members Chen Zhao, Lizhen Chen, Xingde Liu and Xuelian Gao, whose research areas including Yangba ecological tourist scenic spot in Kang County, the national 4A level scenic spots Guan’e Gou in Tanchang County and so on. The third group consists of the leader Wenqi Gao and the team members Hao Xu, Jiajia Wu and Ailu Pan, whose research areas including the national 5A level scenic spots and the national geological park Kongtong Mountain in Pingliang City, Baili Grottoes in Jingchuan County, the national 4A level scenic spots Yunya Temple in Zhuanglang County and so on. During the preparation of the SA, the SA consulting Team participated in the project coordination meetins with the PMOs and World Bank mission teams, which was organized by the Provincial Development and Reform Commission. The SA team discussed with World Bank project manager Ji You and social specialist, and leaders of Provincial Development Overseas Loan Office, Provincial PMO-Development and Reform Commission Foreign Office, county/district PMO, and some other relevant government departments. In accordance with the views in the meetings, the SA Team also went to various sample project areas for two rounds of field investigation and consultation with local people. During the dates of November 9 to 13 in 2015, the leader of SA team Professor Wenguang Ding again participated in the technical seminar of World Bank's technical preparation group, successively carried out seminars and investigations in Lanzhou city, Kongtong District and Jingchuan County. During the period, the World Bank team had put forward some very good guidance about the modifications and improvement of the report. Based on the feedbacks from the Bank team, this social consulting team carried out a third research for the project areas during late November to mid-December. The team was divided into two groups， overcame the bad weather, frozen road and other difficulties, finished the needs assessment and supplemented research on minority identification and development plan of 30 village communities affected by the project and distributed in 6 scenic spots, which had laid a solid foundation for consummating the social assessmentreport. Through the three in-depth researche, SA team completed a total of 590 questionnaires, and 390 network questionnaires, collected 68 relevant materials, 9 pieces of image data and over 700 photographs from related counties. Based on the collatation and analysis of the abundant field survey data and the reference of a large number of secondary data in the writing process of the report, we completed the report timely at the end. For the inadequacies of the report, please oblige us with your valuable comments. SA Team of Gansu Yishan Yishui Center for Environmental and Social Development Mar. 16, 2016 1 The Social assessment Report of World Bank Financed Gansu Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection and Development Project Phase II Social Assessment Report of World Bank Financed Gansu Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection and Development Project II ABSTRACT Through bidding, Gansu Yishan Yishui Center for Environmental and Social Development (hereafter refers to Yishan Yishui) got the social assessment (SA) preparation work for "World Bank Financed Gansu Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection and Development Project Phase II"(Hereinafter referred to as the project). Under the leadership of Gansu Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Yishan Yishui formed a 12-person research team and had carried out SA by three groups in six counties (districts). With the methods of participatory rural appraisal(PRA), which includes field research, participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) and literature review, the team acquired much underlying data and information needed for developing SA report. Then, the SA report was worked out based on analysis and summary of the basic data and information. The report meets the requirements of the World Bank and the Ministry of Finance on Guide to the Performance Evaluation of Loan Projects of International Financial Organizations. The main conclusions drawn from the SA report cover four aspects in social benefits, the potential social risks, recommendations and related actions. The main social benefits are reflected as follows: (1) The east and southeast region of Gansu province and such surrounding area are rich in cultural and natural resources, but backward, in economic and social development. It lacks funds, ideas, technology and international cooperation in conservation and development. The implementation of the project will play an important role in the protection and development of cultural and natural heritage as well as in intangible cultural heritage. (2) The implementation of the project will benefit to improving the infrastructure inside and outside of scenic spots, to improving the scenic tourist facilities and to increasing jobs during and after the project construction. (3) The implementation of the project will be good for improving the management capacity of the scenic spots, for improving protection of the cultural relics and for improving the overall quality of tourism employees. Besides, it will also enhance the local residents’ protection awareness on cultural and natural heritage. (4) The project covers rural poverty population. Therefore, the project pays close attention to minority, women, elderly and children in the project area, and to improving their living environment and creating participation channels for them. (5)According to our conservative estimates, the project will directly affect 30 beneficiary communities with 7,381 people to be out of poverty, indirectly affect 110,715 people out of poverty by 2020 at the end of the world bank project, which will contribute 15.66% of poverty reduction to the east and southeast region of Gansu province. The potential social risks include following 5 aspects: (1) Risk of low community participation. It is found that development of social organizations (NGOs) in the six scenic spots is sluggish. Only Kongtong area exsits a few associations or organizations on cultural and natural heritage protection and development, and Songming Yan has a farmers' cooperative. NGOs have I The Social assessment Report of World Bank Financed Gansu Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection and Development Project Phase II not been found in the rest of scenic spots. In the risk assessment of the six sub-projects, the risk of low community participation is ranked the first in the 6 sub-project regions. Obviously, low community participation is likely to be one of the major social risks of the project, which would result in failure in achieving the Bank's "Twin Goals". (2) Risk of heritage damage. In addition to Kongtong Mountain scenic spot, other scenic spots are facing risk of heritage damage at different degrees, of which Baili Grottoes scenic spot in Jingchuan county suffers most serve damage. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct rescue conservation of cultural and natural heritage. (3) Risk of a large proportion of poverty population. The east and southeast area
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