Social Monitoring Report. Semi-annual Report August 2016 MARITIME WATERWAYS AND SAFETY PROJECT Period Covering July to December 2015 and January to June 2016. Prepared by PNG National Maritime Safety Authority for the Asian Development Bank. This Semi-annual Social 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. Your attention is directed to the “terms of use” section of this website. 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. 1 National Maritime Safety Authority Maritime and Waterways Safety Project Project Number: 44375-013 Loan Number: 2978-PNG: Maritime and Waterways Safety Project Social Safeguard Monitoring Report Period Covering; July - December 2015 and January - June 2016 Prepared by: National Maritime Safety Authority Date: August 2016. 2 Table of Contents ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................................................................... 3 1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 4 2. PROJECT OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................ 5 3. METHODOLOGY..................................................................................................................... 5 4. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM (CEP) ................................................................... 5 5. ACTIVITIES FROM PERIOD JUNE - DECEMBER 2015 ......................................................... 7 5.1 OUTPUTS FOR 2015 ACTIVTIES..................................................................................... 7 5.2 COMMUNITY MEETINGS, JULY – DECEMBER 2015 .......................................................... 8 6. ACTIVITIES FROM PERIOD JANUARY TO JUNE 2016 ......................................................... 8 6.1 OUTPUTS FOR 2016 ACTIVITIES......................................................................................... 8 6.1.1 PACKAGE 1 SITE VISITS ................................................................................................... 8 6.1.2 PACKAGE 2 SITE VISITS ................................................................................................... 8 6.2 COMMUNITY MEETINGS, JANUARY – JUNE 2016 ......................................................... 9 6.2.1 OUTCOMES ..................................................................................................................... 9 7. CONCLUSION ....................................................................................................................... 11 APPENDICES ............................................................................................................................... 12 APPENDIX A: STATUS OF CEP AND LANDS ACTIVITIES FOR PACKAGE 1 AND 2 ................ 12 APPENDIX B: SAMPLE LAR ........................................................................................................ 19 APPENDIX C: SAMPLE FPIC ....................................................................................................... 21 APPENDIX D: SAMPLE MINUTES ............................................................................................... 23 TABLES Table 1: Summary of Community Consultation from June to December 2015 ................................. 8 Table 2: Community Consultations, January to June 2016. ............................................................. 9 Table 3: COMMUNITY LIGHT HOUSE COMMITTEE ................................................................... 10 Table 4: FREE, PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT (For Package 1 and 2) .............................. 10 3 ABBREVIATIONS ADB Asian Development Bank ARB Autonomous Region of Bougainville BSP Bank South Pacific CD Community Development CDD Community Development Department CDO Community Development Officer CEP Community Engagement Program CLC Community Lighthouse Committee CLAC Community and Lands Coordinator CP Central Province DLO District Lands Officer DLPP Department of Lands & Physical Planning ENBP East New Britain Province FPIC Free, Prior and Informed Consent GoPNG Government of Papua New Guinea LARF Land and Resettlement Framework LIR Land Investigation Report LLG Local Level Government MBP Milne Bay Province MP Manus Province MWSP Maritime and Waterways Safety Project Navaid Navigational aid NGI Niugini Islands Group NIP New Island Province NMSA National Maritime Safety Authority PA Provincial Administration PIU Project Implementation Unit PNG Papua New Guinea SPS Safeguards Policy Statement VGO Valuer’s General Office WNBP West New Britain Province 4 1. INTRODUCTION 1. The Maritime and Waterways Safety Project is jointly funded by the Government of Papua New Guinea (GoPNG) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) through Loan 2978-PNG. The Loan Agreement was signed on the 29th of January 2013. The Executing Agency is the National Maritime Safety Authority (NMSA). 2. The Maritime Waterways Safety Project (MWSP) aims at improving safety and efficiency of international and national shipping in coastal areas and waterways in Papua New Guinea (PNG) by replacing, installing and maintaining navigational aids (navaids), improving maritime safety information infrastructure, improving maritime safety practice of communities, and providing efficient project management and capacity development. 3. The MWSP involves the maintenance of 99 existing navigational aids and install 33 new ones across the 14 provinces in PNG. The project is expected to have limited minor land acquisition (mostly of sea-bed, reefs, or foreshore) but is unlikely to have displacement or resettlement impacts, as most sub-projects are existing infrastructures and rehabilitation works will be undertaken in the sea and within existing location. 4. According to ADB reporting requirement as stipulated in its Safeguards Policy Statements 2009 (SPS 2009), the MWSP social sector will have to be reported on semi-annual basis though there isn’t any works on physical displacement of people. 5. This social safeguard monitoring report covers project activities from June 2015 to December 2015 and January to June 2016 of mostly community and stakeholder consultations. During January to June 2015 saw the mobilization of international and national team members and inception phase of the MWSP activities. 6. The following paragraphs describe in brief the project background, social safeguard requirements, resettlement processes and the community engagement programme, which involves two field visits to each community per navaid site as a minimum and one courtesy visit to the respective provincial government administrations, where the navaids will be installed. 7. Then a short overview is given on implemented project activities during the period. A table attached in Appendix A summary of the main outcomes and outputs per community, all signed agreements to cover resettlement and other social safeguard requirements, any disputes in the communities over the portion of land where the navaid will be located, planned mediation processes and further steps how to overcome these problems. 8. A monitoring of the consultation process has started whereas resettlement and social assessments in communities have been initiated as a prerequisite for installation of planned navaids. Any socio economic impact of people’s life in regard to project activities can be monitored after the first installation of the navaid and first installment of land lease payments to customary landowners and Community Lighthouse Committees (CLC). 9. Detailed activity reports with meeting minutes, signed agreements, due diligence reports for resettlement and photos of sites and communities are not in this report but were submitted in quarterly progress reports of the project. 10. In Appendices B-D are sample forms for Free, Prior and Informed Consent, a checklist from the LARF and minutes from community consultations. 5 2. PROJECT OVERVIEW The Project has four main outputs: I. Installation of 33 new navaids, replacement of 99 existing navaids, and maintenance of installed and replaced navaids as located in the various Maritime Provinces. II. Improvement of safety information, infrastructure, comprising hydrographic surveys, installation of 5 AIS transponders, and installation of 3 tide gauges. III. Improvement of maritime safety practice of communities, comprising of community engagement programs for maritime safety awareness activities and small craft safety training activities. IV. Provision of efficient project management and capacity development, comprising of establishment of a Project Implementing Unit (PIU), support to manage and implement the project, and engagement and training of staff in operating the safety and hydrographic information infrastructure of NMSA. 11. The impact will be safer and enhanced access to socioeconomic opportunities for communities in PNG and regional and international stakeholders. The project is expected to produce benefits for rural and remote populations as well as the national and international population. 12. The Project has been classified B under ADB SPS (2009) for environment