Resettlement External Monitoring Report Project Number: 44022-023 February 2018 PRC: Guangxi Baise Integrated Urban Environment Improvement Project – Resettlement External Monitoring & Evaluation Report (No.3) Prepared by Guangxi Guoye Project Management Consultation Company Ltd for the Baise Municipal Government and Baise Development & Investment Group Co., Ltd This resettlement external monitoring report is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB’s Board of Director, 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: Guangxi Baise Integrated Urban Environment Improvement Project Resettlement External Monitoring & Evaluation Report (No.3) Guangxi Guoye Project Management Consultation Company Ltd. Nanning .Guangxi . China February 2018 Guangxi Guoye Project Management Consultation Company Ltd. Independent Monitoring Staff Name Position Task Chief, responsible for technical guidance and review Liang Professor of the baseline investigation, external resettlement Suping monitoring report etc. Responsible for compiling TOR, finalizing Associate Tan Jianxin investigation table, providing technical guidance, Professor, PhD compiling reports etc. Responsible for baseline investigation, Liao Jing Postgraduate implementation progress follow-up, data collection and report compiling etc. Responsible for baseline investigation, Zhang Postgraduate implementation progress follow-up, data collection Yuqian and report compiling etc. Responsible for baseline investigation, Hu Postgraduate implementation progress follow-up, data collection Xuedan and report compiling etc. Ban Responsible for baseline investigation, Yiqin Postgraduate implementation progress follow-up, data collection and report compiling etc. Guangxi Guoye Project Management Consultation Company Ltd. Contents List of Tables ................................................................................................................ II List of Figures ............................................................................................................ III 1. Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1 1.1 General Description of the Project ....................................................................... 1 1.1.1 Guangxi Baise Integrated Urban Environment Improvement Project ........... 1 1.2 Resettlement External Monitoring & Evaluation ................................................. 5 1.2.1 Range of Monitoring and Evaluation ............................................................ 5 1.2.2 Contents of this Report................................................................................... 6 1.2.3 Procedures of Monitoring and Evaluation .................................................... 6 1.2.4 Methods of Monitoring and Evaluation ......................................................... 6 2 Institutional Structure ........................................................................................... 7 2.1 Relevant Institutions for Resettlement Activities ................................................. 7 2.2 Capacities of the implementing agencies ............................................................. 9 2.3 Evaluation ........................................................................................................ 10 3. Monitoring and Evaluation on Resettlement Implementation .......................... 11 3.1 Construction progress ......................................................................................... 11 3.2 Resettlement Progress ........................................................................................ 11 3.2.1 Acquisition of State-owned Land ................................................................. 11 3.2.2 Acquisition of Collective Land ..................................................................... 13 3.2.3 Demolition of Citizens' Residential Houses and Resettlement .................... 14 3.2.4 Demolition of the Houses Built on Collectively Land and resettlement ...... 17 3.2.5 Demolition of Township Non-residential Houses and Resettlement ............ 21 3.2.6 Temporary Land Occupation ....................................................................... 24 3.2.7 Impacts on Ground Attachments ............................................................... 24 3.2.8 Impacts on the vulnerable groups ................................................................ 24 3.3 Compensation Policies and Standards for Land Acquisition and House Demolition ................................................................................................................ 25 3.3.1 Occupation of State-owned Land ................................................................. 25 3.3.2 Acquisition of Collective Land ..................................................................... 25 3.3.3 House Demolition ........................................................................................ 28 3.3.4 Temporary Land Occupation ....................................................................... 34 3.3.5 Vulnerable Groups ....................................................................................... 34 3.4 Resettlement Funds and Payment .................................................................... 34 3.5 Resettlement and Development Plan for Ethnic Minorities .......................... 35 3.6 Evaluation ........................................................................................................ 39 4. Public Participation and Grievance Redress ....................................................... 40 4.1 Public Participation. ........................................................................................... 40 4.2 Complaints and grievances. ................................................................................ 40 5. Findings and Suggestions ...................................................................................... 42 5.1 Findings .............................................................................................................. 42 5.2 Suggestions ......................................................................................................... 43 I Guangxi Guoye Project Management Consultation Company Ltd. List of Tables Table 1-1 Construction Scope of River Rehabilitation Subproject ............................. 2 Table 1-2 Construction Scope of Road Network and Infrastructure Subproject ........... 3 Table 2-1 Staffing Arrangement of Resettlement Institutions at All Levels .................. 9 Table 3-1 Progress of Demolition of Township Non-Residential Houses and Resettlement under T-C01 Subproject ...................................................................... 22 Table 3-2 Standard Land Price for State-owned Land .............................................. 25 Table 3-3 Standard Compensation Prices for Demolition of Rural Residential Houses .......................................................................................................................... 29 Table 3-4 Compensation and Resettlement Scheme for Baise Integrated Urban Environment Improvement Project .............................................................................. 31 Table 3-5 Compensation Standards for Temporary Land Occupation .................... 34 Table 3-6 Resettlement and Development Plan for Ethnic Minorities ..................... 37 Table 4-1 Resettlement Complaints and Grievances Channels ................................ 41 II Guangxi Guoye Project Management Consultation Company Ltd. List of Figures Figure 1-1 Sketch Map of River Rehabilitation Subproject .......................................... 2 Figure 1-2 Road Network in Dongsun Area ............................................................... 3 Figure1-3 Sketch Map for Community Development and Upgrading ....................... 5 Figure 2-1 Resettlement Institutional Arrangement ..................................................... 10 Figure 3-1 Consultation on Status of Land Acquisition and House Demolition in Baise Land Reserves Bureau ....................................................................................... 12 Figure 3-2 House Demolition of Guangxi Jiayi Paper Mill .................................... 12 Figure 3-3 & 4 Baise Mineral Group ..................................................................... 13 Figure 3-5 Consultation with Baise Urban Construction Office .............................. 14 Figure 3-6 100 Households of Residential Building of Guangxi Jiayi Paper Mill . 15 Figure 3-7 30 Households of Residential Building of Baise Mineral Group ........... 15 Figure 3-8 21 Households of Residential Houses of Electrical Machinery Factory ...................................................................................................................................... 16 Figure 3-9 7 Households of Residential Building of Dongsun Police Office ........... 16 Figure 3-10 & 11 6 Households of Residential Building of Dongsun Post Office . 17 Figure 3-12 Comments on Selection of Relocating Sites for Dongsun Road Improvement Project ...................................................................................................