Secondary City Development Project II (Green City) Draft Resettlement Plan for Hue City RESETTLEMENT PLAN Resettlement Plan Document Stage: Final May 2017 PPTA 8671–VIE: SECONDARY CITIES DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (GREEN CITY) Subproject in Hue City CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (As of 24 March 2017,) Currency unit – Vietnam Dong VND 1.00 = $ 22,300 $1.00 = VND 0.000047 ABBREVIATIONS ADB - Asian Development Bank AH - Affected Household AP - Affected Person CLFD - Center for Land Fund & Development CPC - City Peoples’ Committee CMG - Community Monitoring Group DMS - Detailed Measurement Survey GAP - Gender Action Plan GCAP - Green City Action Plan EMC - External Monitor consultant FS - Feasibility Study GOV - Government of Vietnam IOL - Inventory of Losses PMU - Project Management Unit RC - Resettlement Committee RCS - Replacement Cost Survey RP - Resettlement Plan SES - Socioeconomic Survey WPC - Ward People’s Committee i Secondary City Development Project II (Green City) Draft Resettlement Plan for Hue City DEFINITION OF TERMS Compensation – This is payment given in cash or in kind to affected persons (APs) at replacement cost or at current market value for assets and income sources acquired or adversely affected by the project. Cut-off date – Is the date when the Hue City’s People’s Committee and the Project Management Unit (PMU) officially inform the public about the Project and its locations. Anyone who occupies or encroaches into the defined boundaries of the Project area after this date is not entitled to compensation and other assistance for affected assets and incomes. Detailed Measurement – With the use of approved detailed engineering drawings, this Survey (DMS) activity involves the finalization and/or validation of the results of the IOL, severity of impacts, and list of APs done during the preparation of this resettlement plan (RP). Affected person (AP) – Refers to any person or persons, household, firm, private or public institution that, on account of changes resulting from the Project, will have its (i) standard of living adversely affected; (ii) right, title or interest in any house, land (e.g., residential, commercial, agricultural, and/or grazing land), water resources or any other fixed assets acquired, possessed, restricted or otherwise adversely affected, in full or in part, permanently or temporarily; and/or (iii) business, occupation, place of work or residence or habitat adversely affected, with or without physical displacement. Entitlements – Refers to a range of measures, such as compensation in cash or in kind, income restoration support, transfer assistance, relocation support, etc., which are provided to the APs depending on the type and severity of their losses to restore their economic and social base. _ Host community Community residing in or near the area to which affected people are to be relocated. Land acquisition – Refers to the process whereby an individual, household, firm or private institution is compelled by a public agency to alienate all or part of the land it owns or possesses to the ownership and possession of that agency for public purposes in return for compensation at replacement costs. Relocation – This is the physical displacement of a DP from his/her pre- project place of residence and/or business. Replacement cost – Means the amount in cash or in kind needed to replace an asset in its existing condition, without deduction of transaction costs or depreciation and salvageable materials, at prevailing current market value at the time of compensation payment. Secondary City Development Project II (Green City) Draft Resettlement Plan for Hue City Replacement Cost – This refers to the process involved in determining replacement Study costs of affected assets based on empirical data. Resettlement Plan – This is a time-bound action plan with budget, setting out the resettlement objectives and strategies, entitlements, activities and responsibilities, resettlement monitoring, and resettlement evaluation. Severely affected – This refers to AHs who are (i) physically displaced from their Households residences and have to relocate or (ii) losing from 10% or more of their income generating/productive assets. Vulnerable groups – These are distinct groups of people who might suffer disproportionately or face the risk of being further marginalized due to the project and specifically include: (i) female-headed households with dependents, (ii) household heads with disabilities, (iii) households falling under the generally accepted indicator for poverty, (iv) elderly households who are landless and with no other means of support, (v) landless households, (vi) ethnic minorities. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Executive summary ......................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. A. Introduction ....................................................................................................... viii B. Measures to Minimize Adverse Social Impacts ................................................. viii C. Scope of Land Acquisition and Resettlement impacts ....................................... viii D. Legal and Policy Framework ............................................................................. viii E. Participation, Disclosure and Grievance Redress.............................................. viii F. Vulnerability, and gender issues .......................................................................... ix G. Income Restoration Program .............................................................................. ix H. Implementation Arrangements ............................................................................ ix I. Monitoring ........................................................................................................... ix J. Resettlement Budget and Indicative Schedule of Resettlement Plan Implementation ............................................................................................................... ix I. PROJECT DESCRIPTION ............................................................................................. 1 A. Project Background ............................................................................................. 1 1. Hue City Subproject’s Components. .................................................................... 2 B. Measures Adopted to Minimize Adverse Social Impacts...................................... 6 II. SCOPE OF LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT ............................................. 8 A. Methodology Used In Determining Project Impacts ............................................. 8 B. Land Acquisition and Resettlement Impacts ........................................................ 8 1. Households affected ........................................................................................... 8 2. Land Acquisition .................................................................................................. 8 3. Affected Houses ................................................................................................ 10 4. Affected Secondary Structures ...........................................................................11 5. Affected Crops and Trees ................................................................................. 13 6. Affected Business ............................................................................................. 13 7. Land Tenure ...................................................................................................... 15 8. Other Impacts ................................................................................................... 15 III. SOCIO-ECONOMIC INFORMATION AND PROFILE ................................................... 16 A. Introduction ....................................................................................................... 16 B. Socio-Economic Information on Hue City .......................................................... 16 C. Socio-Economic Information on Affected Households ....................................... 19 IV. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE, CONSULTATION AND PARTICIPATION .................. 28 Information Disclosure and Consultations during RP preparation ...................... 28 Participatory activities in RP Updating and Implementation ............................... 30 Disclosure of the Resettlement Plan ................................................................. 30 V. GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM ........................................................................ 31 iv Secondary City Development Project II (Green City) Draft Resettlement Plan for Hue City VI. LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK ........................................................................... 33 A. Relevant Laws and Regulations of Vietnam ...................................................... 33 B. ADB Policies ..................................................................................................... 35 C. ADB Resettlement Policy Application in Vietnam .............................................. 37 VII. ENTITLEMENTS, ASSISTANCE AND BENEFITS ....................................................... 40 A. Eligibility ............................................................................................................ 40 B. Entitlements ...................................................................................................... 40 VIII. RESETTLEMENT ARRANGEMENTS .......................................................................... 48 A. Resettlement Options