Social Monitoring Report Semi-Annual Report March 2017 PRC: Shaanxi Mountain Road Safety Demonstration Project Prepared by Shaanxi Kexin Consultant Company for the People’s Republic of China and 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. 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. Shaanxi Mountain Road Safety Demonstration Project Loan NO.3294-PRC External Monitoring Report for Resettlement δXunyang Countyε Report No. 1 Shaanxi Kexin Consulting Company Date: 10 March 2017 Contents 1 PROJECT INTRODUCTION AND IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS ....................................................... 1 1.1 PROJECT OVERVIEW ......................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1.1 Xunyang County Highway Subproject and external monitoring scope of Xunyang County LA&R Project . 2 1.1.2 Impact of LA&R and working progress of project ...................................................................................... 6 1.1.3 Executing and implementing agencies ...................................................................................................... 8 1.2 AFFECTED AREA OF THE PROJECT IN XUNYANG COUNTY ............................................................................. 11 2 IMPACT OF LA & HD IN XUNYANG COUNTY ..........................................................................................13 2.1 AFFECTED TYPE ............................................................................................................................................... 13 2.2 AFFECTED QUANTITY ....................................................................................................................................... 13 2.3 AFFECTED VULNERABLE GROUPS ................................................................................................................... 21 3 MONITORING ON PROJECT LA & HD ......................................................................................................24 3.1 SCOPE OF MONITORING ................................................................................................................................... 24 3.2 INTRODUCTION OF MONITORING AGENCY........................................................................................................ 25 3.3 MONITORING METHODS ................................................................................................................................... 26 3.4 MONITORING PROCEDURE ............................................................................................................................... 27 3.5 MONITORING INFORMATION AND DATA ANALYSIS .......................................................................................... 28 3.5.1 Introduction for socioeconomic status of the project affected area ........................................................ 28 3.5.2 Survey of women in project areas ............................................................................................................ 31 3.5.3 Survey on impoverished people in project areas ..................................................................................... 32 3.5.4 Survey data of project affected villages ................................................................................................... 32 4 LAND ACQUISITION, HOUSING DEMOLITION AND RESETTLEMENT ...............................................37 4.1 AFFECT AND COST OF LA & HD ..................................................................................................................... 37 4.2 COMPENSATION STANDARD AND RESETTLEMENT OF LA & HD .................................................................... 37 4.2.1 Permanent Land Acquisition .................................................................................................................... 37 4.2.2 Affected House Demolition ...................................................................................................................... 38 4.2.3 Resettlement plan and economic recovery measure ............................................................................... 39 5 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ............................................................................................................................46 6 CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS .......................................................................................................48 6.1 ASSESSMENT ON PROJECT ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT ..................................................................... 48 6.2 PROBLEMS AND SUGGESTIONS ....................................................................................................................... 48 APPENDIX 1 ON-SITE PHOTOS OF EXTERNAL MONITORING SURVEY ....................................................50 APPENDIX 2 RESETTLEMENT POLICIES OF SOUTHERN SHAANXI AREA ............................................52 List of tables Table 1-1 Basic Information of External Monitoring Scope of Project LA&R in Xunyang County Highway Subproject and Xunyang County Highway Project ............................................................................................................................. 4 Table 1-2 List of towns and administrative villages affected by LA&R ............................................................................ 12 Table 2-1 Table for permanent land acquisition of collective land in this project ............................................................. 15 Table 2-2 Table for permanent land acquisition of main collective land in this project (based on construction content of the project) ............................................................................................................................................................... 18 Table 2-3 Table for impact on rural resident housing of LA & HD .................................................................................... 18 Table 2-4 Ground appendages affected by the project ................................................................................................... 20 Table 2-5 Basic information of affected vulnerable groups in Xunyang County .............................................................. 21 Table 3-1 Social and economic status of Ankang City .................................................................................................... 28 Table 3-2 Social and economic status of Xunyang County ............................................................................................. 29 Table 3-3 Socioeconomic status of the affected community ........................................................................................... 31 Table 3-4 Socioeconomic status of the affected communities ........................................................................................ 33 Table 3-5 List for Sampling Proportion (February 2017) ................................................................................................. 34 Table 3-6 Survey summary sheet for basic information of sampling families .................................................................. 36 Table 5-1 Public consultation and participating activity ............................................................................................... 46 List of figures Figure 1-1 Project distribution ........................................................................................................................................... 6 Figure 1-2 Project Relocation Organizations .................................................................................................................. 11 Figure 4-1 Planning map for centralized resettlement community in Jinshuiwan of Duanjiahe Town ............................. 44 Figure 4-2 On-site photos of centralized resettlement community in Jinshuiwan of Duanjiahe Town ............................. 44 Figure 4-3 On-site photos of centralized resettlement community in Ganxi Town .......................................................... 45 1 Project introduction and implementation progress 1.1 Project Overview Shaanxi Province is one of the least developed provinces with per capita GDP, per capita urban income and per capita rural income at about 36.9%, 84.7% and 76.1% of the national averages in 2015, ranking in 16th, 16th and 25th respectively among the 31 administrative provinces and regions in PRC. Fifty of Shaanxi’s 107 counties have been officially designated national poverty counties. The proposed Shaanxi Mountain Road Safety Demonstration Project (the Project) is located in Qinba Mountain of Shaanxi. Qinba Mountain is one of the 11 poorest regions targeted for concentrated interventions under the 2011−2020 poverty reduction strategy of PRC Government. The Project will have direct impact on three counties (Xunyang County, Hanbin District and Shangnan County), all of which have been designated as national poverty counties since the 1990s. The overall poverty incidence of Shaanxi is 10.7%, and county/district of Xunyang, Hanbin and Shangnan is 40%, 38.6%