Social Monitoring Report – EMDP Implementation Project Number: 40626-013 Semi-Annual Report September 2015 PRC: Yunnan Integrated Road Network Development Project Prepared by Beijing Zhongkehongce Consulting 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. Asian Development Bank External Monitoring Report - EMDP Implementation # 7 Semi-Annual Report Sep 2015 2709-PRC: Yunnan Integrated Road Network Development Project (Longrui Expressway) Prepared by Beijing Zhongkehongce Consulting Company. 1 Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 7 A. PROJECT BRIEF AND CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS........................................................................................................ 7 B. THIS REPORT .................................................................................................................................................... 7 II. METHODOLOGY ............................................................................................................................................... 7 III. EMDP IMPLEMENTATION STATUS .................................................................................................................... 8 IV. FIELD FINDINGS .............................................................................................................................................. 13 A. EMPLOYMENT OF ETHNIC MINORITY PEOPLE ......................................................................................................... 13 B. TECHNICAL TRAINING ....................................................................................................................................... 13 C. NON-FARM EMPLOYMENT SKILL TRAINING ........................................................................................................... 13 D. OVERALL INCOME RESTORATION OF EM VILLAGES .................................................................................................. 13 E. INCOME RESTORATION OF LAND LOSS EM HHS ..................................................................................................... 13 F. LEVEL OF SATISFACTION OF INTERVIEWED EM HHS ................................................................................................ 14 G. IMPLEMENTATION OF C&P PLAN ........................................................................................................................ 14 V. COMPLEMENTARY MEASURES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ............................................................................. 14 A. CONSTRUCTION OF BEAUTIFUL VILLAGES .............................................................................................................. 15 B. REVOLVING FUNDS TO HIV/AIDS AFFECTED POOR WOMEN ..................................................................................... 15 C. PREVENTION OF CULTURE LOSS .......................................................................................................................... 15 VI. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT AND CAPACITY ........................................................................................... 16 VII. GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM ............................................................................................................ 16 VIII. CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................................. 16 ANNEX 1: QUICK ASSESSMENT RESULTS OF EM HHS ...............................................................................................17 Table 1: EM Villages Surveyed ................................................................................................. 8 Table 2: EMDP Implementation Progress (as of September 2015) ......................................... 9 Table 3: Implementation of C&P Plan ..................................................................................... 14 Figure 1: Longrui Expressway and Aligned Counties and Townships ..................................... 3 Figure 2: Ethnic Minority Style Toll Gates ................................................................................. 3 Figure 3: Promoting and Inheriting Ethnic Minority Cultures ................................................... 4 Figure 4: Xiaomidi Lisu Village ................................................................................................. 4 Figure 5: Chudonggua De’ang Village...................................................................................... 5 Figure 6: Training of Ethnic Minority Farmers .......................................................................... 5 Figure 7: Cash Crops Production in Dai Villages in Mangshi .................................................. 6 Figure 8: Cash Crops and Animal Production in Dai and Jingpo Villages Ruili ....................... 6 2 Figure 1: Longrui Expressway and Aligned Counties and Townships Figure 2: Ethnic Minority Style Toll Gates 3 Figure 3: Promoting and Inheriting Ethnic Minority Cultures Figure 4: Xiaomidi Lisu Village 4 Figure 5: Chudonggua De’ang Village Figure 6: Training of Ethnic Minority Farmers 5 Figure 7: Cash Crops Production in Dai Villages in Mangshi Figure 8: Cash Crops and Animal Production in Dai and Jingpo Villages Ruili 6 I. Introduction A. Project Brief and Construction Progress 1. The proposed Longrui expressway component includes a 128.96 km expressway, 6.0 km of link roads to 7 interchanges and a 34.44 km Class II road. The expressway starts at the end of the Baoshan-Longling Expressway in Longling County, passes Mangshi (Mangshi City) and ends at Mengmao Township of Ruili City. A new Class II road will continue from the end of the expressway to Nongdao Border Port (China–Myanmar border). The expressway and Class II road traverse 4 state farms and 42 villages/communities of 14 townships/subdistricts in Longling County, Mangshi City and Ruili City. 2. Figure 1 shows the Longrui Expressway in Yunnan Province. 3. The Mangshi-Wanding section of the Longrui Expressway opened for operation on 30 May 2015 and the construction of Wanding-Ruili section is basically completed as of 25 September 2015 and is scheduled for operation on September 2015; while construction of the Longling-Mangshi section is largely done and it is scheduled to open for traffic in October 2015. 4. The toll gates were designed and constructed of ethnic minority styles (see Figure 2). B. This Report 5. This report, the seventh semi-annual monitoring report, 1 summarized EMDP implementation before September 2015. II. Methodology 6. The monitoring of EMDP implementation was combined with that for RP implementation. The monitor visited the project area in September 2015, met/interviewed about 230 persons, including APs in 12 ethnic minority (EM) natural villages, staff of LREC, staff of prefecture and county/city coordination offices, as well as township and village officials. The visited EM (natural) villages, are listed in the table below.2 As indicated in the table, the 12 natural covered 4 ethnic minority groups of Dai, De’ang, Jingpo and Lisu. Two natural villages, Xiaomidi and Chudonggua, were specifically targeted as they are dominated by two less populated ethnic minority groups of De’ang and Lisu respectively. 7. The methods used for monitoring included: (i) simple questionnaire survey of sample HHs aimed at rapid assessment of income and livelihood restorations status of EM APs (detailed survey results are presented in monitoring report on LAR); (ii) site visits of ethnic minority villages to assess income restoration and other development activities; (iii) interviewing LREC and coordination offices, township officials and village leaders to assess the implementation status of restoration measures; and (iv) literature review regarding local governments’ efforts in promoting ethnic minority development. 1 The first and second monitoring reports were termed as social monitoring reports that combined both RP and EMDP implementation monitoring. At the requirement of the ADB social specialist responsible for this project, separated mentoring reports were prepared since the third report. 2 The monitor revisited same villages as that presented in the previous monitoring report. 7 Table 1: EM Villages Surveyed County/City Township Administrative village Natural village Ethnic group Mangshi Santaishan Chudonggua 1. Chudonggua De’ang Mangshi Lahuai 2. Waimangguai Dai Zhefang Humen 3. Batuo Dai Zhemao 4. Zhexiang Dai Fengping Mangsai 5. Manghong Dai 6. Layuan Mixed Ruili Mengmao Mangling 7. Huoma Jingpo 8.Mangling Dai Jiele 9. Jiele Dai Wanding Hunban 10. Mangman Dai Jiexiang E’luo 11. Laiwu Dai Longling Longxin Huangcaoba 12. Xiaomidi Lisu III. EMDP Implementation Status 8. The EMDP implementation status, as of September 2015, is presented in the table below. As indicated, the proposed measures were implemented as scheduled with set targets