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AZE: Railway Sector Development Program Social Monitoring Report Social Monitoring Report Project Number: 48386-004 September 2020 AZE: Railway Sector Development Program Prepared by Azerbaijan Railways Closed Joint Stock Company for the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Asian Development Bank. This social monitoring report for the Railway Sector Development Program (Rehabilitation of the Sumgait-Yalama (Russian border) Railway Line) 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. JOINT VENTURE KOCKS-SSF LEAD MEMBER MEMBER SEMI-ANNUAL SOCIAL SAFEGUARD MONITORING REPORT JANUARY – JUNE 2020 Project Number: 48386-004, L3615-AZE September 2020 AZERBAIJAN: Railway Sector Development Project - Rehabilitation of the Sumgait-Yalama (Russian border) Railway Line (Financed by the Asian Development Bank and Agence Francaise de Development) Semi-annual Social Safeguard Monitoring Report January – June 2020 Prepared by: Juergen Meyer, Vugar Mammadov, CSC Safeguard specialists For Asian Development Bank Endorsed by: Mr.Elkhan Orujov, PIU director Ms.Vusala Rustamova, PIU Safeguard specialist Construction Supervision of Civil Works Contracts for Rehabilitation of track along Yalama - Sumgait Corridor SEMI-ANNUAL SOCIAL SAFEGUARD MONITORING REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ....................................................................................... 4 GLOSSARY .............................................................................................................................. 5 I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................ 7 1.1 Preamble .................................................................................................................. 7 1.2 Headline Information ................................................................................................ 7 II. PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES .................................................. 8 2.1 Project Description ................................................................................................... 8 Figure 1: Project Location Map ........................................................................................... 9 2.2 Project Contracts and Management ........................................................................10 2.3 Institutional Arrangements .......................................................................................11 III. OBJECTIVES OF SOCIAL SAFEGUARD MONITORING ..........................................11 3.1 General Description of Social Safeguard Monitoring ...............................................11 3.2 Methodology for Internal Monitoring ........................................................................12 3.3 Capacity of the Social Monitoring ............................................................................12 IV. SOCIAL DUE DILIGENCE .........................................................................................13 4.1 Approved Design Changes and confirmed LAR impacts .........................................13 V. RESULTS OF SOCIAL MONITORING .......................................................................13 5.1 General ...................................................................................................................13 5.2 Awareness of Population within the project influence Area ......................................13 5.3 Grievance Redress Mechanism ...............................................................................14 5.4 Public consultations .................................................................................................16 5.5 Construction Activities .............................................................................................16 VI. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION ...............................................................18 6.1 Monitoring findings ..................................................................................................18 6.2 Recommendation ....................................................................................................18 Annex 1: Land allocation and agreement documents for the Contractor’s camp site ..........19 Annex 2: List of participants of the consultation meeting, and its minutes of meeting with some photos. .....................................................................................................................29 Annex 3: Summary Table for grievance redress for the reporting period ............................32 Kocks Consult GmbH in Joint Venture with SSF Ingenieure AG - 2 - Construction Supervision of Civil Works Contracts for Rehabilitation of track along Yalama - Sumgait Corridor SEMI-ANNUAL SOCIAL SAFEGUARD MONITORING REPORT TABLES: TABLE 1: BASIC PROJECT DATA .......................................................................................................... 10 TABLE 2: GRIEVANCE MANAGEMENT PROCESS ............................................................................... 14 TABLE 3. CAMP STRUCTURES CONSTRUCTION ................................................................................ 16 TABLE 4. PLANT STRUCTURES CONSTRUCTION ............................................................................... 17 Kocks Consult GmbH in Joint Venture with SSF Ingenieure AG - 3 - Construction Supervision of Civil Works Contracts for Rehabilitation of track along Yalama - Sumgait Corridor SEMI-ANNUAL SOCIAL SAFEGUARD MONITORING REPORT ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ADB ― Asian Development Bank AP ― Affected Person DP ― Displaced Person MOF ― Ministry of Finance ADY ― Azerbaijan Railways Closed Joint Stock Company CSC – Construction Supervision Consultant AZN ― Azerbaijani Manat DMS ― Detailed Measurement Survey EA ― Executing Agency LAR ― Land Acquisition and Resettlement LARP Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan PIU ― Project Implementation Unit ID ― Investment Department of ADY PPTA ― Project Preparatory Technical Assistance ROW ― Right of Way SCPI ― State Committee on Property Issues MENR ― Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources Kocks Consult GmbH in Joint Venture with SSF Ingenieure AG - 4 - Construction Supervision of Civil Works Contracts for Rehabilitation of track along Yalama - Sumgait Corridor SEMI-ANNUAL SOCIAL SAFEGUARD MONITORING REPORT GLOSSARY Affected Person People (households) affected by project-related changes in use of land, (or household) water or other natural resources. These include permanent and temporary loss of land, assets, and income. Affected persons entitled for compensation or at least rehabilitation provisions under the Project are: all persons losing land, or access to land, permanently or temporarily either covered by legal title/traditional land rights or without legal status; tenants and sharecroppers whether registered or not; owners of affected buildings, crops, plants, or other objects attached to the land; and affected persons losing business, income, and salaries; Asset Inventory A complete count and description of all property that will be acquired; Compensation Loss reimbursement for the Project affected persons; Cash payment or in- kind compensation in the due amount in return for the loss of assets (property), resources or income; Direct impact When privately owned land parcels are physically affected by the project; Economic Economic Rehabilitation implies the measures taken for income Rehabilitation- restoration or economic recovery so that the affected population can improve or at least restore its previous standard of living; Eligibility The criteria for qualification to receive benefits under a resettlement program Expropriation Process whereby a public authority, usually in return for compensation, requires a person, household, or community to relinquish rights to land that it occupies or otherwise use; Grievance The processes established under law, local regulations, or administrative Procedures- decision to enable property owners and other displaced persons to redress issues related to acquisition, compensation, or other aspects of resettlement; Initial Baseline The population census, asset inventory, and socio-economic survey Survey- together constitute the baseline survey of the affected population; Income Re-establishing income sources and livelihoods of people affected; restoration- Involuntary Means actions that may be taken without the displaced person's informed consent or power of choice; Involuntary Development project results in unavoidable resettlement losses that resettlement people affected have no option but to rebuild their lives, income and/or assets bases elsewhere; Land Includes anything growing on or permanently affixed to land, such as buildings and crops; Land The process of acquiring land under the legally mandated procedures of Acquisition eminent domain. Land parcels When only privately-owned land parcels are physically affected by the under project project activities; impact Land parcel with When privately owned land parcels as well as residential houses are residential physically affected by the project activities and require demolition of the house attached house;
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