BI-ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING REPORT ______________________________________________________________ Project Number: 45354-002 Grant: G0352 Reporting period: January – June, 2017 TAJIKISTAN: «BUILDING CLIMATE RESILIENCE IN THE PYANJ RIVER BASIN» Component 1 и 2 (Irrigation and flood management) (Financed by the Asian Development Bank) Prepared by the Agency for Land reclamation and Irrigation under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan (Project implementation center) for Asian Development Bank. This environmental monitoring report is a borrower's document. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the ADB Board of Directors, its managers or employees, and can in fact bear only a preliminary nature. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing a project, or by any indication or reference to a particular territory or geographical area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments about the legal or any other status of any of the Territories or areas 1 The Agency for land reclamation and irrigation under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan Project management office (PMO) BCRPRB BIANNUAL PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT ON ECOLOGY for 6 months (from January 1 to June 30, 2017) " BUILDING CLIMATE RESILIENCE IN THE PYANJ RIVER BASIN, TAJIKISTAN" Components 1 and 2 (Grant 0352-TAJ) Dushanbe, 2017 2 CONTENT I INTRODUCTION 6 1.1 Project description 6 1.2 Objectives and methodology of the biannual progress report 6 1.3 Review of the project 7 1.4 Changes in project organization and the environment management team 8 1.5 Contract - Construction Supervision Services 10 1.6 Interaction with the Contractor, owners, etc. 10 II INFORMATION ON THE PROGRESS OF QUALITY CONTROL 11 2.1 Restoration of irrigation systems, collector-drainage network and pumping station 11 Baytudasht №0-jamoats Namun, Mehvar, K. Sayfuddinov and Nuri Vaidat of the Panj district of Khatlon region 2.2 A report on the progress of the inspection and audit in the pilot area of construction 12 and rehabilitation works on bank protection on Dagana sai in jamoats Dagana and Ziraki of Kulyab district. 2.3 Report on the inspection and audit in the pilot area of construction and 14 rehabilitation works of bank protection structures on the rivers Yakhsu, Kyzylsu and single-span Bridge in jamoats M. Mahmadaliyev and in Rudaki Vose district 2.4 Construction and restoration works for bank protection structures along the rivers 16 of devdar, Vishavr and Pyanj as well as irrigation system in jamoats Kalayhumb Vishkharv Darvaz district (GBAO) 2.5 Restoration of bank protection structures, cleaning of the channel and irrigation 17 network in jamoats "Chovidon" and "Vodhud" Vanjsky district (GBAO) 2.6 Restoration of the irrigation network and construction and restoration work on 19 bank protection structures in the Jamoat Dodhudoeva Rushan district (GBAO) 2.7. 20 Restoration of irrigation networks and performance of construction and restoration works to protect the village of Lakhshik and the development of economic profitable lands by terracing the unstable slope and planting trees in the Tusiön jamoat in the Roskali District (GBAO) 2.8. 21 Implementation of construction and rehabilitation works for irrigation and collector-drainage networks and bank protection structures along the Vrang and Pyanj rivers in Zong and Vrang jamoats of Ishkashim district, (GBAO) III ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING 24 3.1 Noise and vibration 24 2.2 Water quality 25 3.3 Air Quality 25 3.4 Monitoring of flora and fauna 25 3.5 Hygiene, health and safety, and HIV-AIDS monitoring 25 IV ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 25 4.1 The Environmental Management System (EMS), the Environmental Management 26 Plan for a specific facility (MEMP) and work plans 4.2 Preparation of reports on environmental assessment and environmental 26 management plans for additional work 4.3 Field inspections and audits 26 4.4 Notifications of non-compliance 27 4.5 Corrective action Plans 29 4.6 Consultations and complaints 30 MAPS Map 1. Location of pilot sites 8 3 DRAWINGS Drawing Institutional scheme of the organization on security policies 9 1. (protective measures) for the environment. TABLES Progress of construction works for the reporting period - Kulyab 13 Table 1. district Table 2. Progress of construction works for the reporting period – Vossey 15 district Progress of construction works for the reporting period – Darvaz 17 Table 3. district Progress of construction works for the reporting period – Vanch 18 Table 4. district Table 5. 20 Progress of construction works for the reporting period – Rushan district 21 Table 6. Progress of construction works for the reporting period 2017 - Roshrala district Table 7. 22 Progress of construction works for the reporting period – Ishkoshim district Table 8. Site visits and audits in the reporting period (February-June 2017) Notifications of non-compliance 27 Table9. Table 10. Corrective action plan for July-December 2017 30 Table 11. 31 Corrective Action Plan for July-December 2017 4 ABBREVIATIONS ADB Asian Development Bank. AAI Agency for Amelioration and Irrigation BPA Bank Protecting Activities BPS Bank Protecting Structures CDN Collector and Drainage Network CEP Committee for Environment Protection CC EPTISA Consulting Company Eptisa DI Drip Irrigation DDAI District Department for Amelioration and Irrigation EIA Environment Impact Assessment EAP Environment Action Plan EMP Environmental Management Plan EMP Environmental Management Plan. EP Environment Protection EA Executive Agency IN Irrigation Network IEE Initial Environmental examination MoA Ministry of Agriculture ME Monitoring and Evaluation NGO Non-government Organization NDRMC Natural Disaster Risk Management Committee OM Operation and Management PIC Project Implementation Centre PMO Project Management Office SEE State Ecological Expertise SSEMP Site-Specific Environmental Management Plan SLMC State Land Management Committee. WUA Water Users Association. WUA Water Users Association 5 I. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Project description 1. This third bi-annual report on environmental monitoring for the reporting period from January to June 2017 covers Pyanj, Vose, Kulyab, Darvaz, Vanj, Rushan, Roshtkala and Ishkashim districts, which are pilot areas of the ADB project "Building Climate Resilience In The Pyanj Basin" (Grant 0352 ) for component 1 and 2 - irrigation and flood management. 2. The project aims to increase the resilience of the communities located in the Pyanj River Basin to climate vulnerability and climate change. The project consists of four components: (i) more sustainable flood protection systems, including the rehabilitation of a small flood management infrastructure and building the capacity of disaster risk management committees; (ii) more sustainable irrigation systems, including rehabilitation of small irrigation infrastructure and capacity building of water user associations; (iii) more sustainable drinking water supply systems, including rehabilitation of drinking water infrastructure in highly vulnerable communities and building the capacity of water user groups; And (iv) a microfinance component to provide financial services to vulnerable groups, especially women, and promote climate resilience. 3. Funding includes the following project components Component 1. Restoration of infrastructure for flood protection and its climate resistance in 10 jamoats. Component 2. Climatic protection of irrigation systems in 8 jamoats. 4. Monitoring is carried out in accordance with environmental action plans (EMP/SSEMP) and ADB's environmental safety policies, as well as environmental legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan. 5. This report describes the results of construction works monitoring carried out during the first 6 months of 2017. 6. Environmental monitoring consists of the following two parts: (1) monitoring compliance with the environmental management plan (EMP/SSEMPs) to review the conditions necessary for compliance during the construction phase of the project; and (2) monitoring of environmental conditions. The EMP compliance assessment began with a review of the environmental management conditions required for compliance during the construction phase of the project. 7. The Executive Agency (EA) is the Agency for Land Reclamation and Irrigation under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan. The EA established the Project Management Office (PMO) to manage, on a daily basis, the coordination, monitoring and organizational arrangements of the project. 1.2. Goals and methodology of the report 8. The purpose of the report for 6 months of environmental monitoring is to monitor the compliance of the project activity with the requirements of the EMP and also meet the environmental protection requirements of the Republic of Tajikistan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) safeguardsregistered in the loan agreement with the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan (The Agency for Land Reclamation and Irrigation under the Government of the Republic Tajikistan). 9. The conclusions are based on a review of the monthly technical progress reports and quarterly monitoring reports submitted by the Contractors as well as data obtained during the monitoring and monthly inspections of the PIU experts on monitoring the environmental impact for the period from January to June 2017. In addition, environmental experts of the PIU EM regularly conducted environmental monitoring of the relevant parameters that are in charge of contractors 6 considered project design, social