Social Monitoring Report Project Number: 48404-003 April 2020 PAK: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor Development Investment Program – Tranche 1 Ratodero–Shikarpur Additional Carriageway Section II Prepared by the National Highway Authority Pakistan for the Asian Development Bank. 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. 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. NATIONAL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY (N -5 5) Ratodero – Shikarpur Additional Carriageway Section-II Internal Monitoring Report Of RP Implementation April 2020 st 1 Quarterly Report (Nov – Jan) 2020 Internal Monitoring Report Nov to Jan 2020, Ratodero Shikarpur Additional Carriageway Section II – - - Contents 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 1.1. Objectives of the IMR ........................................................................................ 2 1.2. Monitoring Methodology .................................................................................... 2 2. Updated Resettlement Plan and RP implementation process. ......................................... 3 2.1.Project Description ............................................................................................. 3 2.2.UpdatedResettlement Plan................................................................................. 3 2.3.RP costs and availability of Funds ...................................................................... 5 2.4.Institutional Set-up and RP implementation process .......................................... 5 2.5.Grievances Redress Committee ......................................................................... 6 3. Progress on Payment of compensation ....................................................................... 7 4. RP disclosure and Consultations and Grievance Redress. ........................................ 8 4.1. Public Consultations / Meetings ........................................................................ 8 4.2. Grievance Recording and Redress .................................................................... 9 5. Conclusion and Recommendations ............................................................................10 Internal Monitoring Report Nov to Jan 2020, Ratodero – Shikarpur Additional Carriageway Section II 1 Quarterly Internal Monitoring Report of Ratodero – Shikarpur Additional Carriageway – Section II 1. Introduction 1. Construction of additional carriageway for Ratodero Shikarpur Section - of the N-55 Highway is planned as Ratodero-Shikarpur Section-II (Km 0+000 to Km 43+200) sub-project of ADB financed Tranche-1 project under Multi-tranche Financing Facility (MFF) CAREC Corridor Development Investment Program (CAREC-CDIP). through Implementation of Ratodero-Shikarpur Section-II (Km 0+000 to Km 43+200) sub-project will convert existing two lane carriageway into a 4-lane dual carriageway. The total length of the project road section is 43.20 km. 2. The available ROW in project road section ranges between 126 feet (38.5 meter) to 134 feet (40.8 meter) and the construction of additional carriageway followed the existing alignment and RoW, except for 2.3 km by pass road section where new ROW is acquired to avoid Dakan urban area. Except for acquisition of ROW land for bypass section, the construction works of additional carriageway are restricted in the available ROW limits and clearance of assets encroached within ROW will cause involuntary resettlement (IR) impacts. In accordance with the final detailed design, the land acquisition and resettlement plan (LARP) has been updated by the EALS Wing of the National Highway Authority (NHA) - the Executing Agency (EA) for the program to ensure that the displaced persons (Local community) are compensated for all their lost assets on replacement cost basis and are assisted for resettlement and restoration of their livelihood sources for the vulnerable Local community. 3. This updated LARP is fragmented into two components i.e. A) Component-1: (construction of 41.1 km of additional carriageway), and B) Component-2: (Construction of 2.3 Km Bypass Road Section at Dakan City). The project works for Component-1 (41.1 km of additional carriageway) followed the existing alignment and available ROW for N-55 as confirmed by the respective land revenue authorities. While, the Component-2 is designed through green fields to avoid urban section of N-55 through Dakan City. IR impacts for Component-1 are limited to clearance of assets encroaching the ROW limits and thus this updated LARP including inventory of losses and entitlements is final and implementation ready to the extent of Component-1. For the acquisition of ROW for Component-2, the exact number of DHs and DPs with entitlements can be confirmed as and when land acquisition process as per the LAA 1894 is in the advance stage i.e the ROW land is notified under Section 6 of LAA 1894. Therefore, the LAR impacts and entitlements to the extent of Component 2 will be reviewed and addendum to LARP will be prepared and submitted for ADB’s review and concurrence as and when the land award has been announced. 4. The updated LARP was cleared by ADB in October 2019 and immediate after clearance, its implementation process and monitoring was started. Accordingly, this quarterly internal monitoring report highlighting implementation progress achieved during monitoring period (November 2019 to January 2020) is compiled. Internal Monitoring Report Nov to Jan 2020, Ratodero – Shikarpur Additional Carriageway Section II 1 1.1. Objectives of the IMR 5. The objective of this internal monitoring report is to: • Review and assess progress on payment of compensation for assets and entitled allowances to the DPs; • Review progress on efforts implemented and co-ordination activities/actions performed to outreach affected communities for information dissemination and facilitate them in compensation processing and payment. • Consultations, recording, tracking and handling of grievances at local and GRC levels. • Recommend actions for improved RP implementation and execution of project works. 1.2. Monitoring Methodology 6. Methodology for this monitoring report includes a review of LARP implementation progress data and consultations with key informants and the displaced persons. The monitoring instruments included review of progress on the a) institutional set-up placed for RP implementation, b) RP disclosure and community outreach efforts implemented, c) compensation payment progress achieved for impacted assets, d) consultations progress and meeting proceedings by DPC and project GRC etc. Based on the review the results are summarized in the sections below explaining the achieved progress and actions required to improve the progress. Internal Monitoring Report Nov to Jan 2020, Ratodero – Shikarpur Additional Carriageway Section II 2 2. Updated Resettlement Plan and RP Implementation Process 2.1. Project Description 7. The total length of the additional carriageway is 43.20 km. The sub-project road falls in the jurisdiction of two districts of the Sindh province i.e. Larkana District and Shikarpur District. The road alignment of the subproject road section starts at Ratodero (start point of M-8) District Larkana and terminates at Shikarpur Sehwan which have an available ROW from 126 feet (38.4 m) to 134 feet (40.8 m). The existing road is 7.3 meters wide single carriageway with a formation width of 13.30 meters. The construction of the additional carriageway separated by a new Jersey Barrier is designed mostly on the left side of the existing carriageway, however in urbanized sections, site specific design adjustments including both sides widening or shifting of additional carriageway on the right side are incorporated in the design to avoid and minimize the IR impacts. At one location, i.e. Dakan City (Km 10+100 to Km 12+200), a 2.3 Km long bypass road through new alignment is designed to avoid congested urban section. 2.2. Updated Resettlement Plan 8. During detailed design and subsequent design review efforts were ensured to avoid and minimize the adverse impacts on privately owned land and properties along the road. Accordingly, except for 2.3 Km by pass road section where ROW land is being acquired through new alignment, the additional carriageway was aligned within the available ROW limits for avoiding acquisition of additional ROW land strip. Further, by making adjustments in vertical and horizontal alignment of additional carriageway, resettlement impacts on the private assets encroached in the ROW limits have been minimized to the best possible extent. Based on the detailed design, the draft LARP (prepared based on preliminary design) was reviewed and updated as implementation ready final LARP for the componenet-1 (construction of 41.1 km of additional carriageway). While the LARP impacts to the extent of Component-2 (Construction of 2.3 Km Bypass Road Section at Dakan City) were subject to review and updating after publication of section-6 notification