Social Monitoring Report Semiannual Report Loan Number: 3260 NEP July 2018 NEP: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project Prepared by the Government of Nepal for the Asian Development Bank. This Social Compliance 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. Fourth Semi-Annual Social MonitoringSemi-Annual Report, January- JuneReport, 2018 No. 4 January-June 2018 Social Monitoring Report Nepal: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project ADB Loan No. 3260 NEP and SDC TA Prepared by Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project (EEAP) Central Level Project Implementation Unit-Grant Management and Local Infrastructure (CLPIU-GMaLI) Department of Roads Project Directorate Office National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) for Government of Nepal (GoN) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) Fourth Semi-Annual Social Monitoring Report, January-June, 2018 This 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. 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. CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS Currency unit - Nepalese Rupee (NRs) NRs. 1.00 = $ 0.0091 US $ 1.00 = NRs. 109.25 Source: Nepal Rastra Bank, 30 June, 2018 NOTES (i) The fiscal year (FY) of the Government of Nepal and its agencies ends on 15 July. FY before a calendar year denotes the year in which the fiscal year ends, e.g., FY 2017 ends on 16 July 2018. (ii) In this report, "$" refers to US dollars. Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project Page i Fourth Semi-Annual Social Monitoring Report, January-June, 2018 ABBREVIATION ADB The Asian Development Bank AP(s) Affected Person(s)/People CDC Compensation Determination Committee CDO Chief District Officer CFUG Community Forest Users Group CISC Central Implementation Support Consultant CLPIU Central Level Project Implementation Unit CoI Corridor of Impact DADO District Agriculture Development Office DCC District Coordination Committee DISC District Level Support Consultants DLPIU District Level Project Implementation Unit DLSO District Land Survey Office DLRO District Land Revenue Office DoLIDAR Department of Local Infrastructure Development and Agricultural Roads DoA Department of Agriculture DoR Department of Road DPR Detail Project Report EEAP Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project EMP Environmental Management Plan FY Fiscal Year GESI Gender Equality and Social Inclusion GoN Government of Nepal GRC Grievance Redress Committee GRM Grievance Redress Mechanism GMaLI Grant Management and Local Infrastructure HHs Households IA Implementing Agency IOL Inventory of losses IR Involuntary Resettlement LEST Livelihood Enhancement Skills and Training MoFEe Ministry of Forest and Environment NRA National Reconstruction Authority NRs Nepalese Rupees PAF Project Affected Families PAP Project Affected Person PC Project Coordinator PD Project Director PIC Project in Change RP Resettlement Plan RM Rural Municipality RF Resettlement Framework RS Resettlement Specialist SMR Social Monitoring Report SSO Social Safeguard Officer Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project Page ii Fourth Semi-Annual Social Monitoring Report, January-June, 2018 SPAF Severely Project Affected Family Sq.m. Square meter Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project Page iii Fourth Semi-Annual Social Monitoring Report, January-June, 2018 Table of Contents 1. PROJECT BACKGROUND 1 2. IMPACT AND OUTCOME 1 3. SOCIAL SAFEGUARDS IN EEAP 2 4. OVERALL SOCIAL SAFEGUARD STATUS 2 5. SEMI-ANNUAL SOCIAL MONITORING REPORT 3 PART 1: 4 DISTRICT ROADS 4 1.1 RURAL ROAD BACKGROUND 5 1.1.1 Introduction 5 1.1.2 Physical Progress 5 1.1.3 Consultation, Participation and Disclosure 5 1.1.4 RESETTLEMENT IMPACTS 6 1.2 Objective, Approach and Scope of Semi-annual monitoring 60 1.2.1 Objective 60 1.2.2 Approach 60 1.2.3 SCOPE 60 1.3 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE MONITORING DATA 60 1.4 MONITORING INDICATORS AND PARAMETERS 60 1.4.1 RESETTLEMENT IMPACT CATEGORIZATION 60 1.5 COMPLIANCE with Loan and Grants Covenants 61 1.6 Progress on Documentation and Approval 61 1.7 Progress on Compensation Disbursement 61 1.8 Redressal of Grievances 62 1.9 Monitoring Plan and Activities Planned 65 1.10 Avoiding and Minimizing Impacts 65 1.11 Livelihood Restoration and Enhancement 65 1.12 Ensuring IPs’ Identify, Human Right, Livelihood and Cultural Uniqueness 66 1.13 Issues Observed 66 1.14 issues for Delay 67 1.15 Ways forward 67 Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project Page iv Fourth Semi-Annual Social Monitoring Report, January-June, 2018 1.16 Physical Progress of the sub-Projects 69 1.3 Resettlement Impacts 69 1.4 Consultation, Participation and Disclosure 70 1.5 Objective, Approach and Scope of Semi-annual Monitoring 70 1.5.1 Objective 70 1.5.2 Scope of Semi-annual Monitoring 70 2. CHANGES IN THE PROJECT SCOPE AND ADJUSTED SAFEGUARD MEASURES 70 1. QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE MONITORING DATA 71 2. MONITORING INDICATORS AND PARAMETERS 71 4.1 Resettlement Impact Categorization 71 13. ALL SUB PROJECTS ARE IN LINE WITH PROJECT SELECTION CRITERIA AND THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF CHANGE IN RESETTLEMENT CATEGORIZATION. 71 3. SEMI-ANNUAL MONITORING RESULTS 71 5.1 Progress on Documentation and Approval 71 5.2 Progress on compensation distribution 72 5.3 Grievances Redress Mechanism 72 4. IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES 74 6.1 Institutional adjustment and Activities Planned 74 6.2 Grievance record system 75 6.3 Training on safeguard and GESI 75 6.4 RP implementation & Monitoring 75 6.5 Livelihood Restoration and Enhancement 76 6.6 Delayed in compensation distribution 77 5. STATUS OF OTHER SOCIAL ACTIVITIES 77 6. MAJOR ISSUES 77 7. PROPOSED ACTIONS ADDRESSING ISSUES 77 8. PROPOSED MAJOR FOCUS FOR NEXT REPORT 78 Table Table 1: Resettlement Impact in Details ................................................................................ 7 Table 2: Status of Submitted Grievances and Their Resolution .......................................... 63 Table 3: Progress on Livelihood Improvement Training ....................................................... 66 Table 4: Key Issued Summarized........................................................................................ 66 Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project Page v Fourth Semi-Annual Social Monitoring Report, January-June, 2018 Figure Figure 2: Grievances in Graph ............................................................................................ 64 Appendixes Appendix I: Status of Involuntary Resettlement Planning 82 Appendix II: Details of Compensation Disbursement and Deed Transfer of Resettlement Plan (16 RPs & 1 DDR) 83 Appendix III: Fortnightly Report 86 Appendix IV: Status of Compliance with Relevant Covenants 92 Appendix V: Details of Consultation Meeting Minutes 97 Appendix VI: Photographs 103 Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project Page vi Fourth Semi-Annual Social Monitoring Report, January-June, 2018 1. PROJECT BACKGROUND 1. Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project (EEAP) is a project being implemented by covenant loan assistance from Asian Development Bank (ADB) and counterpart funding from Government of Nepal (GoN). The goal of the project is to support Government of Nepal to accelerate rehabilitation and reconstruction following the devastating earthquake of 25 April 2015 and the major aftershock of 12 May 2015. The project will support the rebuilding of schools, roads, and district-level government buildings, and strengthen resilience to future disasters. EEAP, Loan 3260 for $200 M was approved on 24 June 2015, signed on 21 August 2015 and became effective on 10 September 2015. Revised project completion date is 23 June 2019 corresponding with a 9 month extension of the implementation period. The Project covers 12 districts spread over eastern, middle and western development regions of Nepal. 2. The project will restore and strengthen the resilience of critical public and social infrastructures and services and has four outputs. Output 1: Schools are rebuilt and upgraded, Output 2: roads and bridges are rehabilitated and/or reconstructed, Out 3: District- level government facilities constructed and/or rebuilt; and Output 4: Disaster preparedness and management capacities strengthened. 3. Under Output 2 ;the initial target of district roads component was rehabilitation and reconstruction of 450 km. A total of 25 potential road sub-projects (474.7 km)had been identified for rehabilitation and reconstruction in 12 sub-projects districts under EEAP. However,17 road sub-projects (290 km) has been prioritized for rehabilitation and reconstruction due to budget constraint (please refer Figures 1 and 2 for project location). 4. National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) is executing agency for EEAP. NRA has established Central Level Project Implementation Unit-Grant Management and Local Infrastructure