50101-002: Third Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Services Sector
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Environmental and Social Monitoring Report Semi-Annual Report December 2019 to June 2020 January 2021 CAM: Third Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Services Sector Development Program Prepared by the Ministry of Rural Development for the Asian Development Bank. CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of 31st December 2020) Currency unit - Riel (KHR) KHR1.00 = $ 0.00024396 $1.00 = KHR _4099 ABBREVIATIONS ADB - Asian Development Bank AP - Affected People CC - Commune Council CCA - Climate Change Assessment COC - Code of Conduct CPF - Community Participatory Framework DBST - Double Bitumen Sealing Treatment DP - Development Partner DRM - Disaster Risk Management ECCAS - Environment and Climate Change Adaptation Specialist EHSO - Environmental Health and Safety Officer EMAP - Environmental Management Action Plan EMP - Environmental Management Plan FS - Feasibility Study GAP - Gender Action Plan GRM - Grievance Redress Mechanism HSE - Health, Safety and Environment IEE - Initial Environmental Examination IP - Indigenous People IPPF - Indigenous People Planning Framework IR - Involuntary Resettlement KE - Key Expert MIS - Management Information System MOE - Ministry of Environment MRD - Ministry of Rural Development NGO - Non-Government Organization NKE - Non-Key Expert NSP - National Strategic Plan OHS - Occupational, Health and Safety PAM - Project Administration Manual PCU - Project Coordination Unit PDRD - Provincial Departments of Rural Development PE - Polyethylene PIC - Project Implementation Coordination PPMS - Project Performance Management System PPT - Provincial Project Team RAP - Resettlement Action Plans RGC - Royal Government of Cambodia RP - Resettlement Plan RWSS - Rural Water Supply and Sanitation RWSSH - Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene RWSSP2 - Second Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project SDP - Sector Development Program SIA - Social Impact Assessments SPS - Safeguard Policy Statement TRWSSS-SDP - Third Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Services Sector Development Program VDC - Village Development Committee WSUG - Water and Sanitation User Group WEIGHTS AND MEASURE ha - hectare m - meter km - kilometer l/s - Liters per second masl - Meters above sea level mm - millimetre oC - Degree Centigrade dBA - Decibel mg/l - Milligram per liter NOTE In this report, "$" refers to US dollars. This Semi-Annual Environmental and Social Safeguards 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. 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. Contents Executive SUMMARY ............................................................................................................... 3 I. INTRODUCTION and project Overview ............................................................................ 7 A. Project at a Glance ........................................................................................................... 7 B. DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT.................................................................................. 7 C. DESCRIPTION OF SUB-PROJECTS ............................................................................... 8 II. Environmental Performance MONITORING .................................................................... 10 A. Summary of Compliance with EMP Requirements (Environmental Performance) ............ 11 B. Issues for Further Action ................................................................................................. 15 C. Other activities ................................................................................................................ 16 III. Involuntary Resettlement Performance Monitoring ................................................. 16 A. Summary of Compliance with IR Requirements ............................................................... 21 B. issues for further action....................................................................................................... 22 IV. Indigenous Peoples safeguard Monitoring (for projects with Cham Minorities) ....... 23 A. Summary of Compliance with IP Requirements ............................................................... 24 B. issues for further action ................................................................................................... 24 V. Gender Monitoring ......................................................................................................... 25 A. Summary of Compliance with GAP Requirements ........................................................... 26 B. issues for further action ................................................................................................... 26 VI. Occupational, Health and Safety (OHS) Performance Monitoring .................................... 26 VII. Information Disclosure and Socialization including Capability Building ............................. 27 VIII. Grievance Redress mechanism ....................................................................................... 29 IX. Conclusions ...................................................................................................................... 30 A. Important Results from the Implementation of EMAP/EMP and RP Monitoring ............... 30 B. Recommendations to improve EMAP/EMP and RP management, implementation, and monitoring ............................................................................................................................... 31 C. Conclusions from the social safeguard monitoring .......................................................... 31 D. Social Safeguard follow up actions for TWRSS SDP ...................................................... 31 X. Annexes ............................................................................................................................ 32 Annex 1 - Lists of Public Participation ........................................................................................ i Annex 2 - Photographs ............................................................................................................ vii Annex 3 – Supporting Document : Change of Village Name due to Mistake – Community Pond in Kampot Province ..................................................................................................................ix Annex 4 – Locations of New Drilled Wells – Batch I Sub-Projects............................................. x figure 1 Location map of target provinces ................................................................................. 8 figure 2 Location map of batch 1 a and 1b subprojects ............................................................. 9 table 1. Number of water supply and sanitation facilities, batch i, by province ........................ 10 table 2. Community ponds under construction, batch 1 (1a&1b) as of 8th july 2020. ................ 11 table 3. Summary of ir impact assessments, batch i sub-projects (sddr july 2019) .................. 16 table 4. Area required for pond expansion .............................................................................. 18 table 5. Dates of community consultation – batch 2 ................................................................ 20 table 6. Summary- batch i sub-projects – presence of ip/ethnic minority ................................ 23 table 7. Summary of community consultations ........................................................................ 27 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY i) This report is the Semi-annual Environmental and Social Safeguards Monitoring Report for the Third Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Services Sector Development Program (TRWSS-SDP), covering the period from December 2019 to June 2020 with a note that the Project implementation activities had not started in December 2019. ii) During this reporting period the Batch 1 sub-projects have reached the stage of construction of water and sanitation facilities and Batch II sub-projects at the stage of completing the feasibility study reports. iii) The planning and preparation of Batch 1 and Batch 2 subprojects include (i) dissemination of project information to affected communities; (ii) participatory consultations including transect walks, FGDs and surveys; (iii) identification of vulnerable people, Indigenous Peoples or Ethnic Minorities, and consultations with them; (iv) signing agreement between the donor and the MRD in case voluntary donation (v) signing agreement of shared used for drilled wells that are located on an individually owned land, but will be used by a number of households via the water and sanitation users groups. iv) There are 15 sub-projects under Batch 1A and 1B. Subprojects refer to project activities at a commune level, e.g. all project activities in commune A is considered as one subproject. The Batch 1A and 1B subprojects include the following improvement of water supply and sanitation facilities 1) rehabilitation of 21 community ponds, 2) construction of 754 new drilled wells, 3) rehabilitation of 31 drilled wells, 4) rehabilitation of 70 dug wells, 5) establishment of 2 small piped-water supply systems, 6) provision of 45,211 rainwater jars, 7) subsidies for 6,462 household latrines, and 8) construction of 78 public