RP863 v2 Public Disclosure Authorized Chongqing Urban and Rural Integrated Pilot Project Resettlement Policy Framework Public Disclosure Authorized Chongqing World Bank Project Management Office Chongqing Technology and Business University Dec. 2009 Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized 1 18 1 Project Introduction In August 2008, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) formally approved the 84 million USD Chongqing Integrated Urban and Rural Development project (Phase 1) and enlisted it into the Three-year Rolling Plan (2009~2011) of the World Bank Project to facilitate the process and the key tasks of the Chongqing integrated urban and rural development and reform. On the basis of this, the Project management Office (PMO) of the World Bank-funded Chongqing Integrated Urban and Rural Development and Reform Pilot Project under the Chongqing Municipal Development and Reform Commission have reviewed and screened 16 pilot projects based on the principles of “ urgency”,” “ representativeness”, “ effectiveness” and “ public welfare”. The estimated total investment of these projects is 1.31758 billion CNY and 84 million USD will be applied from the World Bank loan. These projects include: • Urban infrastructure construction, including 4 road subprojects and 3 water supply subprojects; • New countryside construction pilot village, including 4 subprojects regarding village road, comprehensive service, safe drinking water, ecological environment, new energy development, rural water resource infrastructure etc; • The capacity building for improving the employing capacity of the migrant workers, including 3 subprojects concerning the employment training centers for the rural surplus labor force; • The grassroots sanitation service system, including 2 subprojects with regard to constructing urban community service center, urban community service station, rural town (township) sanitation station and village sanitation offices etc. The specific names of these subprojects are listed in the table 1 below. Table 1: Subproject Lists of the Project Types of Subproject Names of the Subprojects Huiyi Road Extension Project in Banan District Highway from Nie’ao to Liangting in Xiushan County Phase I Road Road Infrastructure Construction Project In Tongliang County Urban Banqiao Township Road Infrastructure Construction Project Infrastructure in Yongchuan District Construction Zhuyi Township Water Supply Work in Fengjie County Huangshui Township Water Supply Project in Shizhu County Water Supply Shiye, Rongxi and Longchi Three Townships Water Supply Project in Xiushan County Construction of Training Base for Skill Training of Migrant Workers for Urban Employment in Yubei District Construction of Training Base for Skill Training of Migrant Workers for Urban Employment in Wushan County The Capacity Building for the Construction of Training Base for Skill Training of Migrant Migrant Workers Workers for Urban Employment in Tujia Minority Autonomy Prefecture in Shizhu County Construction of Training Base for Skill Training of Migrant Workers for Urban Employment in Chongqing Industrial and Commercial University New Countryside Construction New Countryside Demonstration Project in Xishan, Qingshui Pilot Village and Chuijiao Villages of Qijiang County New Countryside Demonstration Project in Wutu Village of Dazhou Town in Wanzhou District 2 18 Types of Subproject Names of the Subprojects New Countryside Demonstration Project in Chengkou County The Grass-root Sanitation Service System in the District and Grassroots Sanitation Service Counties System The Community Sanitation Service System in Yubei District Among these 16 subprojects, 5 of 7 urban infrastructure construction projects have land acquisition and house demolition and the relevant RAPs have been prepared. The Zhuyi Township Water Supply Project has no land acquisition and house demolition. Banqiao Township Road Infrastructure Construction Project in Yongchuan District is to build the roads within the village and this will cover land acquisition. The New Countryside Construction Pilot Village Subprojects including Qijiang, Wanzhou and Chengkou have land acquisition but the needed land areas will be adjusted within their respective villages on the basis that these subprojects will be developed and driven by the local communities. The detail of this land adjustment is presented in Appendix 1. The capacity building subprojects have no land acquisition and house demolition and all of them are basically to purchase the equipment except for some minor road updating and rebuilding and decoration of the existing plants in the Subproject of Construction of Training Base for Skill Training of Migrant Workers for Urban Employment in Chongqing Industrial and Commercial University. The sanitation subprojects also have no civil works and therefore no land acquisition and house demolition because 1000 village clinics and 40 town (township) sanitation offices will be operated in the existing buildings. In the Banqiao Township Road Infrastructure Construction Project in Yongchuan District and The three New Countryside Construction Pilot Village Subprojects including Qijiang, Wanzhou and Chengkou, there will be internal land adjustment. The needed land areas for roads, the water purifying plant, the water storage tank, the comprehensive service center and the waste collection stations etc in these subprojects will be obtained through internal land adjustment based on the willingness of the villagers and also on the condition that villagers will be benefited from these projects and manage these facilities by themselves. During the project preparation stage, the project owner and the design institute have conducted the detailed survey on the affected villagers and their villages. They have collected the opinions of local people on the subprojects through public consultation. The villagers are willing to contribute their land for the project construction after the consultation and discussion of the village representative meetings to improve the local infrastructure. At the same time, the project owner will also try its best to minimize the negative impact on the local people. For example, the needed land areas for the project will use the wasteland or the land reserved by the village groups. In the new rural construction pilot project in Dazhou Town of Wanzhou County, the road hardening, the sidewalk upgrading and the road evanescence will be done in the existing ones and no additional land is required. The proposed 1 drinking water tank will be built on the village- reserved land and no any individual farmers will be affected. The most of the infrastructure projects will be built on the existing sites or on the wasteland. Only few of farmers will be affected by land acquisition. When these farmers are affected, the village will mobilize the land reserved to compensate them and therefore, the impact of land acquisition is nearly zero and their income won’t be affected. The ownership of these acquired land for the subproject construction won’t be changed and still belong to the village collectives. So, the subprojects will not have the negative impact on the local people, rather they will benefit from these subprojects by improved road conditions, reducing the traveling or transportation costs and improved living standards. During the project implementation and the monitoring stage, the project owner will keep local people informed of the project and establish the good appeal mechanism (see Attachment 1) to ensure that all the relevant appeals and complaints from local people could be handled appropriately and timely. 3 18 According to the current design, these subprojects won’t cover land acquisition and house demolition. However, these may become possible during the project implementation. In case any of these subprojects cover unexpected land acquisition and house demolition, this RPF must be followed to prepare the relevant document. 2 Principles and Objectives In the World Bank funded project, the borrower or the project owner must take all the necessary measures to mitigate the negative social impacts that brought out from the project. The WB OP 4.12 “Involuntary Resettlement” has provided the relevant objectives and the principles. The project owner must compensate the project-affected people to offset their costs of the losses due to the project negative impact for instance, the relocation, the rehabilitation of the their production and lives. All the necessary measures must be taken to avoid or reduce the land acquisition and all the related negative impact. When land acquisition and the relevant negative impact are not feasible to avoid, the principal objective of this RPF is to ensure that the affected properties of all the affected persons (hereafter “the affected persons”) will be compensated at the replacement value and granted with all the possible rehabilitation measures or the other possible assistances to improve or at least restore their income levels and the living standards. Definition of “Project-affected Persons”: refers to group which is affected, for the implementation of project, in the following fields: a) The living standard is affected or would-be-affected unfavorably; or b) The ownership of any house, rights or interest, land (include housing plot, cultivated land and pasture) or other movable estates or real estates are temporarily or almost permanently taken over or occupied; c) the people whose productive assets temporarily or almost permanently