Due Diligence Report – Social Safeguards Document Stage: Draft for Discussion Project Number: 39295-013 October 2017 BAN: Third Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project (UGIIP-III) – (Window B) Shibchar Pourashava Roads and Drainage Improvement Subproject (Phase 2) Package Number: UGIIP-III-2/W-B/SHIB/ (UT+DR)/01/2016 Prepared by the Local Government Engineering Department, Government of Bangladesh, for the Asian Development Bank. This due diligence 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. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of February - 2017) Currency Unit = Tk. Tk.1.00 = $0.0126 $1.00 = Tk. 78.95 ABBREVIATIONS ADB –- Asian Development Bank AP – Affected Person ARIPO– Acquisition and Requisition of Immovable Properties Ordinance CCL – Cash Compensation under Law DC – Deputy Commissioner DDR Due Diligence Report DPHE – Department of Public Health Engineering EMP – Environmental Management Plan FGD – Focus Group Discussion GICD Governance Improvement and Capacity Development GRC – Grievance Redress Cell GRM – Grievance Redress Mechanism IR – Involuntary Resettlement LGED – Local Government Engineering Department PDB – Power Development Board PIU – Project implementation unit PMU – Project Management Unit PPTA – Project Preparatory Technical Assistance ROW – Right Of Way RF – Resettlement Framework RP – Resettlement Plan SPS – Safeguard Policy Statement ToR – Terms Of Reference RCC Reinforced Cement Concrete CC Cement Concrete BC Bituminous Carpeting HBB Herring Bone Boned GLOSSARY OF BANGLADESHI TERMS I core – 10 million (= 100 lakh) Ghat – Boat landing area along a river Hat, hut, or haat Market (bazaar) operating certain afternoons during the week when – sellers establish temporary shops. There are also some permanent shops in a Hat. Markets usually represent a significant source of income for municipalities Hartal – General strike Khal – Drainage Ditch/Canal Khas or khash – Land/Property Belonging To Government Kutcha, katchha or kacca – Structures Built Without Bricks And Mortar Or Without Concrete Lakh or lac – 100,000 Moholla or mohalla – Sub-Division Of A Ward Mouza map – Cadastral Map Of Mouza Showing Plots And Their Numbers Nasiman – A 3-Wheeler Motorized Vehicle Parshad – Councilor Pourashava or Paurashava – Government-Recognized Land Area Pucca or Puccha, puccha Structures Built Partly With Bricks And Mortar Or Concrete – Thana – Police station Upazila administrative – unit below the district level. A district is called a Zila ii | P a g e WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Km – kilometer M – meter 2 m – square meter Mm – Millimeter 3 m – cubic meter NOTES (i) In this report, “$” refers to US dollars, (i) BDT refers to Bangladeshi Taka This social safeguard assessment- Due Diligence Report (DDR) 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. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any Project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. PREFACE The premises of this Due Diligence Report (DDR) are the MDS Consultant services presentation of an analysis of data and conclusions, together with its appendices. While MDS consultants have been deputed to assist the Pourashava/Executing Agency (EA) for the preparation of the DDR, the responsibility and ownership of the DDR rest with the EA. The key elements of the Due Diligence Report focus on: Assessment of Compliance Guidelines of Social Safeguards according to ADB and GoB policy. DISCLAIMER This Due Diligence Report (DDR) of Shibchar Pourashava under Third Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project (UGIIP-III (W-B) has been prepared under the guidance of Team Leader and Deputy Team Leader of MDS consultant. All the data used to prepare this Due Diligence Report (DDR) have been collected from the Pourashava Development Plan (PDP). Some of the information’s have also been collected from the Pourashava personnel over telephone. Moreover some information’s have been collected by the respective experts of MDS consultant through intensive field visit which have been used in writing this report. If any information or data or any other things coincide with other Project documents that are beyond our knowledge and fully coincidental event and we express apology for that. iii | P a g e Executive Summery Cities in Bangladesh are growing at an unprecedented speed. Bangladesh’s urban population has grown rapidly and has reached 50 million. Rapid urbanization, while improving economic productivity through agglomeration benefits, is placing severe strains on the natural environment and is fuelling demand for urban infrastructure and services. One principal cause of such rapid growth is the presence of better opportunities spanning economic, communication, education, health and other social aspects in the urban areas. It is worth noting that by one account, in countries of Bangladesh’s standing, around 55-60% of a country’s aggregate economic activities takes place within the urban confines. Poverty rates of Shibchar, Mymensingh districts and Rangpur region’s are above 50 %, which is much higher than the national average 40% (BBS 2005). In this context, the Government of Bangladesh set a strategy to reduce the regional disparities; thus Third Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) project (UGIIP- III) is keen to accomplish the plan. The project is being implemented as a sector loan approach with financial assistance of Asian Development Bank (ADB); ADB Loan NR-3142 BAN (SF)/1626P together with co-financing from OFID to improve governance and urban service provision in two sets of Pourashavas over a period of 6 years (2014 to 2020). The first set is 31 pre-selected target Pourashavas are marked as Window-A Pourashava, in which full set of support will be provided under the project. The 2nd set of Pourashava that have been selected through the performance evaluation of governance improvement, have been undertaken for improvement in phase-2, are called – Window B Pourashava and will be financed at a prescribed allocation for infrastructure (i.e. roads & drains) development in phase-2 under UGIIP-III. This Due Diligence Report has been prepared for Shibchar Pourashava; Package Nr: UGIIP- III-2/W-B/SHIB/ (UT+DR)/01/2016 that aims to improve roads and drainage system. The schemes are (i) improvement/construction of 9 roads of length 7981 metre (including 325 Street Lights) and 03 drains of length 1440 metre. The report is prepared based on the feasibility study and details engineering designs developed by MDSC design team and field verifications occurred by the MDS Social Safeguard team. During field visit, it was found that people of Shibchar Pourashava expressed dissatisfaction of service of the Pourashava. Peoples welcomed ADB funding for Development of infrastructure in the Pourashava especially roads, drains & Street Lighting. Improvement of roads and drainage is a long felt popular demand of the Pourashava people. Shibchar is a flood prone area and is being frequently affected by flood during monsoon; roads & houses of low lying areas are inundated. Improvement of the roads and drains will help smooth transportation movement and will have positive impact on employment, creation of better business environment, marketing of agricultural products and promoting education facilities as well as health facilities. All these factors have incremental value on socio-economic aspects in general and social aspects in particular. A project-specific grievance redress mechanism (GRM) has been established at Shibchar Pourashava to receive, evaluate, and facilitate the resolution of AP’s concerns, complaints, iv | P a g e and grievances about the social and environmental performance. The GRM aims to provide a time-bound and transparent mechanism to voice and resolve social and environmental concerns linked to the project. No private land and homesteads on the road sides have been kept unaffected and out of purview of involuntary resettlement for the construction of the road. There are no religious institutes, archaeological sites and protected areas, wetlands, mangroves, or estuaries in or around the sub-project location. There are no forest areas within or near the Pourashava. Important findings of the study in connection to social safeguard issues are (i) improvement of the roads will be carried out on the existing alignments and will not require land acquisition and thus no IR will be occurred due to expansion of the roads and drains; (ii) no road needs resettlement, dislocation or relocation. So only 04 (Fore) strip maps are provided as a sample; (iii) there is no structure, houses, shops, trees or any other establishments on the ROWs of the proposed roads and drains alignments; (iv) the required land for construction work is owned by Shibchar Pourashava; (v) there is no possibility of any adverse impact in terms of losing income or livelihood; (vi) as a result no dislocation, demolition of houses or structures will be required due to the development activities; (vii) the local people unanimously welcomed the Project and showed positive attitude to the improvement of the proposed Sub-Project. None was found to oppose the Sub-Project; (viii) urban residents and the rural residents in surrounding hinterland will benefit from improvement of the propose roads for creating better access to urban markets & social services provided in the Project town; (ix) no potential negative impact could be identified and (x) business or economic activities will not be impeded resulting losses in income or asset.