Social Monitoring Report Project Number: 43031-013 Semi-Annual Report August 2017 PRC: Hunan Xiangjiang Inland Waterway Transport Project Prepared by Hunan Yuhui Hydraulic and Hydropower Construction Supervision and Consulting Co., Ltd. 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. Asian Development Bank SJJZZ Certificate for No. 20010176 Loan No.: 2962-PRC Hunan Xiangjiang River Tugutang Navigation & Hydropower Complex Monitoring and Evaluation Report of Land Acquisition and Resettlement No.8 Hunan Yuhui Hydraulic and Hydropower Construction Supervision and Consulting Co. Ltd August 2017 Approved by: Xiong Zhifeng Reviewed by: Xiao Lu Checked by: Xu JinYuan Prepared by: Xu JinYuan Luo Zhilong Peng Hongwu 2 Introduction Entrusted by Hunan Provincial Water Transportation Construction & Investment Group Co. Ltd. (hereinafter called the construction unit, i.e. HPWTCIG), Hunan Yuhui Hydraulic and Hydropower Construction Supervision and Consulting Co. Ltd.(hereinafter called our company), as the independent external monitoring and evaluation unit, is responsible for independent external monitoring and evaluation on land acquisition and resettlement for ADB loaned Tugutang Navigation and Hydropower Complex Hunan of Xiang River Inland Water Transportation Project. Our company established Monitoring and Evaluation Department of Land Acquisition and Resettlement for Tugutang Navigation and Hydropower Complex (hereinafter called the M&E Department) in Dec. 2012. In April, 2013, the M&E Department worked out Terms of Reference for Monitoring and Evaluation on Land Acquisition and Resettlement for Tugutang Navigation and Hydropower Complex, and started monitoring and evaluation work from May of 2013. The M&E Department has performed seven field monitoring respectively in June 10~13, 2013, June 3~6, 2014, Jan. 4~31, 2015, July 10~13, 2015, Dec.26~30, 2015, June 26~30, 2016, and Dec.27~31, 2016, and has relevantly submitted the M&E reports for seven times to HPWTCIG and ADB. In Aug. 27~31, 2017, the M&E Department has organized the investigators to perform a 5-Day on-site investigation: the monitoring personnel, the construction unit (HPWTCIG), the migration management institution in the project site, the design unit, the migration integrated monitoring and some of the affected people's representatives have participated the meeting, collected the resettlement relocation data, and knew the resettlement progress. On this basis, the M&E Department prepared this M&E Report (No.8), with the date due to end of August, 2017. The M&E Department personnel have sincere thanks to the active cooperation and support from the ADB, the construction unit (HPWTCIG) and the migration management agents in the project site and other relevant units and personnel. 2 Contents 1. GENERAL ....................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 BACKGROUND .............................................................................................................. 1 1.2 INFLUENCE RANGE FOR RESETTLEMENT ...................................................................... 2 1.3 RESETTLEMENT PLANNING .......................................................................................... 5 1.4 RESETTLEMENT IMPLEMENTATION STATUS................................................................... 6 1.5 RESETTLEMENT IMPLEMENTATION MONITORING OBJECTIVES AND WORK CONTENT . 12 2 RESETTLEMENT IMPLEMENTATION ASSESSMENT ......................................... 13 2.1 MONITORING METHOD ............................................................................................... 14 2.2 MONITORING AND EVALUATION O N PERMANENT LAND ACQUISITION ........................ 15 2.3 MONITORING AND EVALUATION O N HOUSE DEMOLITION AND RESETTLEMENT ......... 17 2.4 MONITORING AND EVALUATION O F RESIDENTS RELOCATION ..................................... 22 2.5 M&E OF TEMPORARY LAND OCCUPATION ................................................................. 23 2.6 M&E OF SPECIAL WORKS AND PROTECTION WORKS ................................................. 25 2.7 M&E OF RESETTLEMENT COMPENSATION ................................................................. 26 3. EVALUATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATIONS OF RESETTLEMENT IMPLEMENTATION AND THEIR OPERATION CONDITIONS30 3.1 ORGANIZATION SETUP ................................................................................................ 30 3.2 ORGANIZATION RESPONSIBILITIES ............................................................................. 32 3.3 OPERATION CONDITIONS OF ORGANIZATIONS ............................................................ 38 4 MONITORING & EVALUATION OF MEASURES ON RESTORATION OF LIVING STANDARD OF RELOCATEES ...................................................................... 41 4.1 RESTORATION PLAN OF LIVING STANDARD OF RELOCATEES ...................................... 41 4.2 IMPLEMENTATION CONDITIONS OF RECOVERY MEASURES OF LIVING STANDARD OF RELOCATEES .................................................................................................................... 42 4.3 EVALUATION OF RECOVERY CONDITIONS OF LIVING STANDARD OF RELOCATEES ...... 43 5 ALTERATION OF ACCESS ROAD AT SONGBAI KILOTON TERMINAL AND EXECUTION ...................................................................................................................... 44 6. EVALUATION OF AID TO VULNERABLE GROUPS ........................................... 46 6.1 STATUS QUO OF VULNERABLE GROUPS ...................................................................... 46 6.2 VULNERABLE GROUPS AID PLAN ............................................................................... 46 6.3 ASSISTANCE IMPLEMENTATION OF VULNERABLE GROUPS .......................................... 47 7 RELOCATEE COMPLAINT AND GRIEVANCE MECHANISM EVALUATION .. 49 1 7.1 EXISTING GRIEVANCE MECHANISM ............................................................................ 49 7.2 GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM ............................................................................ 50 7.3 COMPLAINT RECORDS ................................................................................................ 51 7.4 EFFECTIVENESS OF GRIEVANCE .................................................................................. 53 8. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE EVALUATION54 8.1 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ................................................................................................ 54 8.2 INFORMATION DISCLOSURE ........................................................................................ 54 8.3 FOLLOW-UP WORK ...................................................................................................... 55 9 RESULTS OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION .................................................. 55 9.1 EVALUATION OF RESETTLEMENT IMPLEMENTATION ................................................... 55 9.2. EVALUATION ON RESETTLEMENT IMPLEMENTATION & MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR OPERATION CONDITIONS ..................................................... 56 9.3 MONITORING & EVALUATION ON MEASURES FOR RESTORATION OF LIVING STANDARD OF RELOCATEES ............................................................................................. 56 9.4. EVALUATION ON AID TO VULNERABLE GROUPS ........................................................ 56 9.5 EVALUATION ON RELOCATEE'S COMPLAINT AND GRIEVANCE MECHANISM ................ 56 9.6. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE EVAL UAT IO N ...................... 56 9.7 PROBLEMS AND FOLLOW-UP WORK ........................................................................... 57 10 COMPLIANCE OF LOAN AGREEMENT ............................................................... 57 ANNEX TABLE 1:SUMMARY TABLE OF PERMANENT LAND REQUISITION ANNEX TABLE2: SUMMARY OF HOUSING DEMOLITION ANNEX TABLE 3:TABLE OF LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT INFLUENCES ANNEX TABLE4: COMPENSATION AND RECOVERY OF TEMPORARY LAND OCCUPATION ANNEX TABLE5: INVESTMENT OF LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT COMPENSATION ANNEX TABLE 6: SUMMARY OF SAMPLE SURVEY ON PRODUCTION AND LIVING IN RESETTLEMENT VILLAGE ANNEX TABLE 7: SUMMARY OF SAMPLE SURVEY ON PRODUCTION AND LIVING OF RESETTLEMENT HOUSEHOLDS ANNEX TABLE 8: SUMMARY OF SAMPLE SURVEY ON PRODUCTION AND LIVING OF RELOCATED HOUSEHOLDS 2 ATTACHMENT1:NAME LIST OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION MEETING STAFF ATTACHMENT2: MAIN DATA CONTENT FOR SUPERVISION AND EVALUATION CONSULTING ATTACHMENT 3: NAME LIST OF AFFECTED PEOPLE BEING CONSULTED ATTACHMENT 4: SITE PHOTOS 3 1. General 1.1 Background The dam site of Hunan Xiangjiang Tugutgang Navigation Complex is located in Yunji Town, Hengnan County, Hunan Province, and 39km away from Hengyang City. The Complex belongs to a Grade II project; main permanent hydraulic structures are in Class 3. The main structures of the Complex include: one kiloton single-line ship lock, with annual through capacity of 14.2 million ton; 17-sluice gate, with