Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan March 2020 Loan 3285-UZB: Northwest Region Power Transmission Line Project: Section 5: The power line section between “Khorezm” Substation and 3rd river-crossing of the transmission line with the Amudarya River (Khorezm region) Prepared by the Joint-Stock Company National Electrical Networks of Uzbekistan (NENU) for Asian Development Bank (ADB), Uzbekistan. The resettlement plan 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. Resettlement Planning Document Document: Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan Document Stage: Final/Updated Project Number: 47296-001 Date: March 2020 Republic of Uzbekistan: Northwest Region Power Transmission Line Project Section 5: The power line section between “Khorezm” Substation and 3rd river-crossing of the transmission line with the Amudarya River (Khorezm region) Prepared by the Joint-Stock Company Uzbekistan National Electrical Networks of Uzbekistan (NENU) for the Asian Development Bank. This is an updated version of the draft originally posted in March 2015 available on http://www.adb.org/projects/47296- 001/documents. i ABBREVIATIONS ADB – Asian Development Bank AH – Affected Household AP – Affected Person CoM – Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan DDR – Resettlement Due Diligence Report DLARC – District Land Acquisition and Resettlement Department DMS – Detailed Measurement Survey DMS – Detailed Measurement Survey EA – Executing Agency EMP – Environmental Management Plan EPC – Engineering, procurement, and construction FGD – Focus Group Discussion GRM – Grievance Redress Mechanism Ha – Hectare HHs – Households IA – Implementing Agency IA – Implementing Agency IEE – Initial Environmental Examination KMPN – North West Main Power Network LAA – Land Allocation Act LAR – Land Acquisition and Resettlement LARP – Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan NWRTLP – Northwest Region Power Transmission Line Project O&M – Operation and Maintenance PIC – Project Implementation Consultant PMU – Project Management Unit RoW – Right-Of-Way SAESP – Sredazenergosetproject JSC – Design Institute SCLRGCSC – State Committee on Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography, and State Cadaster SPS – Safeguard Policy Statement 2009 ToR – Terms of Reference UNPN – JSC ”Uzbekistan National Power Networks” UZS – Uzbek Soum CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (As of December 1, 2019) Currency Unit – Sum (UZS) $1.00 = UZS 9494 NOTE In this report, i. “$” refers to United State Dollars (USD) ii. UZS refers to Uzbekistan Soum ii Table of Contents GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................................. vii 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................... xi I.1 Project description......................................................................................................... xi I.2 Scope of Land Acquisition and Resettlement ......................................................... xii I.3 Socio-economic information and profile .................................................................. xvi I.4 Information disclosure, consultation and participation ....................................... xviii I.5 Grievance redress mechanism .............................................................................. xviii I.6 Policy and legal framework ..................................................................................... xviii I.7 Entitlements, assistance, and benefits .................................................................... xix I.8 Income restoration and rehabilitation ..................................................................... xxii I.9 Resettlement budget and financing plan ............................................................... xxii I.10 Institutional arrangements ...................................................................................... xxiii I.11 LARP Implementation.............................................................................................. xxiii I.12 Monitoring and reporting ......................................................................................... xxiii 2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION ................................................................................................... 1 2.1 General ............................................................................................................................ 1 2.2 Project components ....................................................................................................... 1 LARP and Project implementation conditions ...................................................................... 4 2.3 Approach and methodology.......................................................................................... 5 3. SCOPE OF LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT ............................................ 6 3.1. Approaches to the identification of project impacts .................................................. 6 3.1.1 Census and inventory of losses ............................................................................ 6 3.1.2 Categorization of impacts ...................................................................................... 6 3.2 Impact to AHs ................................................................................................................. 7 3.3 Construction of transmission line ................................................................................. 8 3.4 Permanent land impacts ............................................................................................... 9 3.5 Temporary land impacts.............................................................................................. 12 3.6 Loss of crops ................................................................................................................. 13 3.7 Loss of structures ......................................................................................................... 14 3.8 Loss of trees.................................................................................................................. 17 3.9 The severely affected HHs ......................................................................................... 18 3.10 The legal status of land ownership ............................................................................ 21 3.11 Unanticipated Impacts ................................................................................................. 21 3.12 Impact of construction to access roads .................................................................... 21 3.13 Socioeconomic and environmental impacts ............................................................ 21 3.14 Summary of Impact ...................................................................................................... 22 iii 4. SOCIOECONOMIC INFORMATION AND PROFILE .................................................... 23 4.1. Methodology.................................................................................................................. 23 A. Socioeconomic profile of affected households ........................................................ 23 4.2. Demography and socioeconomic characteristics ................................................... 23 B. Social impacts on AHs and their communities ........................................................ 26 4.3. The livelihood of AHs and low-income AHs ............................................................. 26 3.1 Source of Livelihood and Income .............................................................................. 28 3.2 Vulnerable Households ............................................................................................... 28 4.4. Ethnic composition and indigenous people.............................................................. 30 4.5. Gender issues ............................................................................................................... 30 5. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE, CONSULTATION, AND PARTICIPATION ............. 31 5.1. General .......................................................................................................................... 31 5.2. Disclosure ...................................................................................................................... 31 6. GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM .......................................................................... 34 6.1. General .......................................................................................................................... 34 6.2. Existing complaint handling mechanism in Uzbekistan ......................................... 34 6.3. GRM developed for NWRTLP .................................................................................... 35 6.4. Contact details .............................................................................................................. 36 6.5. GRM Records and documentation ............................................................................ 36 7. POLICY AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK .............................................................................