Public Disclosure Authorized Hunan Integrated Management of Agricultural Land Pollution Project Loaned by the World Bank Public Disclosure Authorized Social Assessment Report Public Disclosure Authorized July, 19, 2018 Public Disclosure Authorized Project hosting unit：School of Public Administration, Hunan Normal University Project responsible person ： Professor CHEN Chengwen, School of Public Administration, Hunan Normal University Main writers： CHEN Chengwen, Professor of sociology, School of Public Administration, Hunan Normal University CHEN Yunfan, Associate professor of sociology, School of Public Administration, Hunan Normal University Main participators in research： CHEN Haiping, Lecturer in sociology, School of Public Administration, Hunan Normal University GUO Qing, Lecturer in sociology, School of Public Administration, Hunan Normal University Contents 1. Introduction ··················································································· 1 1.1 Project brief introduction .................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Project social assessment .................................................................................................... 5 2. Basic Social-Economic Status Analysis of Project Counties······················· 11 2.1 Social-economic status analysis of Hunan Province ......................................................... 11 2.2 Social-economic status analysis of project counties ......................................................... 14 2.3 Analysis of Farmland Cultivation in Demonstration Area ................................................ 51 3. Analysis of the stakeholder groups and requirements of the project ············ 55 3.1 The definition of stakeholder groups of the project ......................................................... 55 3.2 Analysis of stakeholder groups’ cognition ......................................................................... 55 3.3 Analysis of the demands of stakeholder groups ............................................................... 61 4. Poverty Analysis in Demonstration Areas ············································· 67 4.1 Analysis of poverty situation in the demonstration area ................................................... 67 4.2 Analysis of knowledge and demand of poverty-stricken group in the demonstration area ......................................................................................................................................... 71 5. Analysis of Social Gender in the Demonstration Area ······························ 74 5.1 Analysis of women development status quo in the demonstration area ............................ 74 5.2 Analysis of women’s participation methods of agricultural activities in the demonstration area .............................................................................................................................................. 77 5.3 Analysis of project cognition and need of women group in the demonstration area......... 78 5.4 Social gender action plan in various construction phases ................................................. 80 6. Analysis of Ethnic Minority in Demonstration Areas ······························ 81 6.1 Overview ........................................................................................................................... 81 6.2 Customs and culture of ethnic minority dominated in the demonstration area ................. 82 6.3 Identification of ethnic minority in the demonstration area .............................................. 90 7. Social Impact and Risk Analysis of the Project ······································ 93 7.1 Analysis of social impact of the project ............................................................................ 93 7.2 Analysis of social risks of the project ............................................................................... 96 8. Public Participation and Information Disclosure of the Project ················ 102 8.1 Principle of public participation and information disclosure .......................................... 102 8.2 Participation of stakeholders in the project preparation stage ......................................... 103 8.3 Public participation in project execution stage ............................................................... 108 8.4 Information disclosure of the project .............................................................................. 109 9. Conclusions and Suggestions···························································· 112 9.1 Basic conclusions ............................................................................................................ 112 9.2 Suggestions ..................................................................................................................... 121 10. Social Action Plan of the Project ····················································· 123 10.1 Logical Framework ....................................................................................................... 123 10.2 Consultation Framework ............................................................................................... 124 10.3 Subsidy Scheme ............................................................................................................ 128 10.4 Implementation of Study on Hunan Agricultural Environment Pollution Compensation Mechanisms .................................................................................................................. 132 10.6 Appeal Mechanism ........................................................................................................ 135 Appendix 1: Social Assessment Questionnaire of Hunan Integrated Management of Agricultural Land Pollution Project with World Bank Loan ···················· 137 Appendix 2: Questionnaire of Hunan Integrated Management of Agricultural Land Pollution Project with World Bank Loan (Crop restructuring) ············ 142 Appendix 3: Ethnic Minority Development Planning ································ 145 Appendix 4: (Village) Cadre Interview (Symposium) Outline of Hunan Integrated Management of Agricultural Land Pollution Project ·················· 146 Appendix 5: Villager Symposium (Interview) Outline of Hunan Integrated Management of Agricultural Land Pollution Project ································ 149 Abstract Project summary The serious land heavy metal pollution in Hunan Province is the important reason for cadmium in rice exceeding the standard. In this context, in order to curb the heavy metal pollution in farming products producing areas, improve the farming products quality and safety, guarantee people’ health, Hunan Provincial Agricultural Committee plans to use the World Bank’ loan to implement the Hunan Integrated Management of Agricultural Land Pollution Project. The project will adopt whole area advance implementation method and select project areas to carry out intensive and integrated treatment. The project has 4 components: agricultural polluted soil management, sustainable soil management practice, environmental management and agricultural environmental monitoring, project monitoring, evaluation and management. Social assessment objectives and process The objectives of social assessment are to identify main stakeholders and their needs, opportunities and risks of stakeholders brought by project, to work out the action plan to avoid or mitigate social risks, to improve project design and execution, to encourage the participation of individuals or groups who are most directly affected by the project. In order to facilitate project design and execution, with the support and cooperation from relevant authorities, social assessment team carried out the social assessment survey in the first batch of project counties from Dec, 1st to 25th, 2017. The whole process adopted the participatory method. Information were collected by information disclosure, public consultation and etc. 12 project counties carried out the social assessment, including structural interview, group interview, participatory rating and sorting, matrix analysis of project impact, community resources survey, resources maps drawing and etc. 12 meetings were held and the participants were from county bureaus of agriculture, environmental protection, livestock husbandry, civil affairs, ethnic and religious affairs, human resources and social security, land resources, poverty alleviation office, women federation, dismantlement office and etc. 24 meetings were held and the participants were from township agricultural technology extension stations, township government, project village committee. 24 villager groups meetings were held(totaled 240 persons, of which 18 poor villagers or 30%),2 poor villagers meetings were held(totaled 144 persons), 24 women meetings were held(240 persons), intensive interviews 120 persons, of which 40 women or 33.3%, ethnic minorities 40 or 33.3%, poor villagers 40 or 33.3%. In addition, according to the certain sampling proportion, 3 categories questionnaires surveys were carried out in 12 counties, 1,800 social assessment survey questionnaires were released in 12 project counties, the effective recovery questionnaires reached 1,540 or 85.6% of questionnaire reclaiming efficiency. For 8 project counties which have the need to plant alternative crops, 600 questionnaires with alternative crops were released, the effective recovery questionnaires reached 541 or 90.2% of questionnaire reclaiming