Environmental Monitoring Report Project Number: 41435-013 Semestral Report (January - June 2020) June 2021 Cambodia: Tonle Sap Poverty Reduction and Smallholder Development Project - Additional Financing (TSSD- AF) Prepared by the Project Implementation Consultants (PIC) of the National Committee for Sub-national Democratic Development Secretariat and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for the Asian Development Bank. CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of July 2020) Currency Unit - Cambodian Riel (KHR) KHR 1.00 = $0.000245 $ 1.00 = KHR 4,115 NOTE (in this report, “$” refers to US Dollars) ABBREVIATIONS ADB - Asian Development Bank BMC - Banteay Meanchey BTB - Battambang CARM - Cambodia Resident Mission CC - Commune Council CDP - Commune Development Plan CEMP - Contractor’s Environmental Management Plan DDR - Due Diligence Report DED - Detailed Engineering Design DSC - Design and Supervision Consultants EA - Executing Agency EARF - Environmental Assessment Review Framework ECoC - Environmental Code of Conduct EMP - Environmental Management Plan ESME - External Safeguard Monitoring Entity ESO - Environment Safeguards Officer ESS - Environmental Safeguard Specialist GRF - Group Revolving Fund GRM - Grievance Redress Mechanism IA - Implementing Agency IEE - Initial Environmental Examination IFAD - International Fund for Agricultural Development KPC - Kampong Cham KPT - Kampong Thom LIG - Livelihood Improvement Group MAFF - Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries MIG - Marketing Improvement Group MoE - Ministry of Environment NCDDS - National Committee for Democratic Development PDRD - Provincial Department of Rural Development PDWRAM - Provincial Department of Water Resources and Meteorology PIB - Project Information Booklet PIC - Project Implementation Consultants PMU - Project Management Unit PPMA - Provincial Project Management Adviser PSG - Paddy Selling Group PST - Provincial Support Team SEMR - Semi-Annual Environment Monitoring Report SRP - Siem Reap PVG - Prey Veng SPS - Safeguard Policy Statement ToR - Terms of Reference TKM - Tbuong Khmum This environmental 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 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Background ............................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Project organizational structure............................................................................................... 2 1.3 Purpose of report .................................................................................................................... 3 1.4 Report format .......................................................................................................................... 3 1.5 Report Preparation .................................................................................................................. 3 2 PROCEDURES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF SUBPROJECTS .......................... 3 3 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ECoC, EMP AND MONITORING PLAN .......................................... 4 3.1 ECoC, EMP and Monitoring Plan objectives ........................................................................... 4 4 ENVIRONMENTAL SAFEGUARDS SUMMARY ............................................................................ 4 4.1 Summary of Project Progress ................................................................................................. 4 4.2 Summary of ECoC and EMP implementation ......................................................................... 5 4.3 Summary of ECoC/EMP monitoring ....................................................................................... 5 4.4 Summary of complaints, issues and corrective actions .......................................................... 5 4.5 Environmental Management and Monitoring Records and Reporting .................................... 6 5 ENVIRONMENTAL SAFEGUARDS STAFF, TRAINING AND DOCUMENTATION ...................... 7 5.1 Implementation arrangements ................................................................................................ 7 5.2 Training and capacity building................................................................................................. 8 5.3 ADB approvals ........................................................................................................................ 9 5.4 National approvals .................................................................................................................. 9 5.5 Construction Environment Management Plan approvals ........................................................ 9 6 ECoC/EMP IMPLEMENTATION ................................................................................................... 10 7 ECoC/EMP MONITORING ........................................................................................................... 11 7.1 Environmental Quality Monitoring ......................................................................................... 11 7.2 Construction Phase Affected Household consultation .......................................................... 13 8 COMPLAINTS, ISSUES AND CORRECTIVE ACTIONS ............................................................. 13 8.1 Information disclosure ........................................................................................................... 13 8.2 Grievance Redress Mechanism ............................................................................................ 13 8.3 Corrective Action ................................................................................................................... 14 9 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................. 14 Annex 1 - Summary of rural infrastructure subprojects under construction Annex 2 - Status of EMP compliance for Lvea irrigation core subprojects Annex 3 - Environment and Social Safeguards and GRM training Annex 4 - Summary of public consultation meetings and photos (January - June 2020) Annex 5 - Summary of ESME environmental monitoring SEMI-ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING REPORT (SEMR 4) (January - June 2020) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Semi-Annual Environment monitoring Report (SEMR4) for the Tonle Sap Poverty Reduction and Smallholder Development Project (TSSD-AF) has been prepared by the project implementation consultant (PIC) team on behalf of the Executing Agencies (EAs), National Committee for Democratic Development Secretariat (NCDDS) and Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) in compliance with the safeguard covenant (16/5) to the ADB loan (3570-CAM). The report provides a summary of the project progress during the period from January to June 2020 focussing on the rural infrastructure subprojects that were under construction during this period and the field activities for the design of the next batch of subprojects. It provides information on the environmental screening categories and the progress on the preparation of and the content of the environmental management plans (EMP) for Category B subprojects and the environmental code of conduct that is used for all Category C subprojects. There have been a total of 581 rural infrastructure subprojects identified across the 270 target communes and from there 108 were selected for implementation during 2020. For the two core subprojects that were awarded contracts in 2018 and 2019 respectively one has completed construction and the other was completed in March 2020. For the next batch of seven priority subprojects, which are for prior review of bidding and contract documents by ADB, the detailed engineering designs (DEDs) were completed in 2018 but the contracts were not awarded until 21 June 2020 when all safeguard documents had been approved by ADB. The next batch of 16 subprojects had completed the DEDs during 2019, with support from the design and supervision consultants (DSC), and there were contracts awarded in January 2020 without formal approval and disclosure of the safeguard documents. During the ADB Review Mission in February 2020, NCDDS were advised to suspend the civil works for these subprojects until the safeguard compliance had been completed and the suspension was in place during the remainder of the reporting period. The main activities for environmental safeguards during this reporting period were (i) site visits to the core subproject that was under construction; (ii) completion of the safeguard reports for the seven priority subprojects; (iii) monitoring the preparation and submission of the contractors environmental monitoring plans (CEMP) for the 16 subprojects that had contracts awarded but where civil works was subsequently suspended; (iv) commencement of the preparation of the environment screening for 77 more subprojects; and (v) conduct of public consultation meetings at the sites of ten rural infrastructure subprojects. During the ADB Review Mission in February there were