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Social Monitoring Report Final Independent Monitoring Report May 2016 VIE: Power Transmission Investment Program, Tranche – 500kV Pleiku-My Phuoc-Cau Bong Transmission Line Prepared by the Central Vietnam Power Projects Management Board for the National Power Transmission Corporation and the Asian Development Bank This social monitoring report is a document of the borrower The views expressed herein 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 NATIONAL POWER TRANSMISSION CORPORATIONS CENTRAL VIETNAM POWER PROJECTS MANAGEMENT BOARD 500 KV PLEIKU – MY PHUOC – CAU BONG TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT FINAL MONITORING REPORT INDEPENDENT MONITORING ON RESETTLEMENT AND ETHNIC MINORITY May - 2016 NATIONAL POWER TRANSMISSION CORPORATIONS CENTRAL VIETNAM POWER PROJECTS MANAGEMENT BOARD 500 KV PLEIKU – MY PHUOC – CAU BONG TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT FINAL MONITORING REPORT INDEPENDENT MONITORING ON RESETTLEMENT AND ETHNIC MINORITY PROJECT OWNER IMPELEMENTATION AGENCY Central Vietnam Power Projects Management Board Investment Consultancy and Technology Transfer Co., Ltd Deputy General Director TRINH THI THANH THUY May - 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLE .5 SUMMARY I INTRODUCTION 15 1.1 Project Overview .15 1.2 Scale and scope of the Project 15 1.3 II Impact of the project 18 1.3.1 Impact on land acquisition 18 1.3.2 Impact on house and other structure acquisition 19 1.3.3 Impact on trees acquisition .20 1.3.4 Severely affected households 20 1.3.5 Vunerable households .21 1.3.6 Project classification 22 OBJECTIVES OF ASSESSMENT REPORT 22 2.1 Objective of independent monitoring 22 2.2 Objective of the final monitoring 22 III MONITORING REQUIREMENT AND METHOD 24 3.1 Monitoring Background 24 3.2 Method of assessment and information collecting 24 3.2.1 Desk Study 24 3.2.2 Participation Rapid Assessment (PRA) 24 3.2.3 Questionaire Interview .25 3.2.4 Field trip .25 3.2.5 Comparison method 25 3.3 Monitoring sampling 25 3.3.1 Sampling Principles 25 3.3.2 Structure and number of surveyed samples 25 IV RESULTS OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION .26 4.1 Information of affected households 26 4.1.1 Demographic characteristics 26 4.1.2 Occupation, income source and expenditure of affected households’ heads 29 4.1.3 Livelihood .37 4.1.4 Houses and house type .38 4.1.5 Access to infrastructure and social services 39 4.1.6 Participate in social groups or community groups 43 4.2 Compensation and resettlement 44 4.2.1 Resettlement and livelihood restoration 44 4.2.2 Comparing before and after land acquisition and resettlement of severly affected households 44 4.2.3 4.3 Income restoration models/programs .49 Community consultation and complaints solving 50 4.3.1 Community consultation, information dissemination 50 4.3.2 Grievance Redress 56 4.4 Effectiveness of the resettlement plan .58 4.4.1 Resettlement objectives (objectives, preparation of resettlement plans, DMS and valuation of assets ) 58 4.4.2 Authorities, excutive agency and process of resetllement plan implementation 73 4.4.3 Timeframe and budget allocation 76 V CONCLUSION AND RECOMENDATION 79 5.1 Conclusion 79 5.2 Recommendation 79 5.3 Lessons Learnt 79 ANNEX LIST OF OFFICERS WORKED WITH 81 ANNEX LIST OF INTERVIEWED HOUSEHOLDS .85 ANNEX ENTITLEMENTS OF THE AFFECTED HOUSEHOLDS AND IMPLEMENTATION IN PROVINCES .110 ANNEX 4: PICTURES 121 List of Table Table 1: Characteristics of the Project 16 Table 2: Summary of main features of 500 kV Pleiku – My Phuoc – Cau Bong Transmission Line 17 Table 3: Statistics on land acquisition for 500kV Pleiku – My Phuoc – Cau Bong transmission line 19 Table 4: House and structure affected by the project 19 Table 5: Total number and types of affected trees 20 Table 6: Land acquisition impact to the severely Ahs 21 Table 7: Land acquisition impact to the vulnerable AHs 21 Table 8: The specific activities of independent monitoring 22 Table 9: Schedule of monitoring phases 24 Table 10: Number of affected households surveyed 25 Table 11: Number of surveyed AHs in the project area 26 Table 12: Ethnic minority groups among the surveyed AHs 27 Table 13: The age distribution of the household head 28 Table 14: Occupation of the household head 30 Table 15: Average monthly income of the household divided by gender of household head 32 Table 16: Monthly average expenditure of households 35 Table 17: Income sources of severely affected households 38 Table 18: Type of household 39 Table 19: The common disease in households 40 Table 20: Access to other public utilities of households 42 Table 21: Current house of Ahs after rebuild 45 Table 22: Change in occupation of severely affected household 46 Table 23: The change in household income and number of people who lose jobs 48 Table 24: Information dissemination 50 Table 25: Project’ information dissemination forms 51 Table 26: Fully understanding policy, entitlements of the project 52 Table 27: Understanding the process of public consultation 53 Table 28: Entitlements of affected households in the community consultation 55 Table 29: Number of AHs understand the grievance redness mechanism 56 Table 30: The number of complaints and on the settlement of the complaint 57 Table 31: The adequacy of asset quantity of AHs 62 Table 32: Assets Valuation 63 Table 33: The adequacy of asset quantity of AHs 68 Table 34: Satisfaction levels about compensation cost of Ahs 69 Table 35: Benefit of relocated households 70 Table 36: The amount of money severely affected households received 71 Table 37: Entitlements of the vulnerable households 71 Table 38: The amount of money vulnerable households received 73 Table 39: Compensation for AHs 73 Table 40: The organization and implementation structure 74 Table 41: The timeframe of the project 76 Table 42: Payment Budget for the AHs 78 List of Chart Image 1: Diagram of 500kV Pleiku – My Phuoc – Cau Bong transmission line a 18 Chart 2: Education attainment of household’s head 29 Chart 3: Income source and expenditure 31 Chart 4: Monthly average income of female headed household 33 Chart 5: Monthly average income of ethnic minority-headed households 33 Chart 6: Monthly average income of severely affected households 34 Chart 7: Monthly average expenditure of female headed household 36 Chart 8: Monthly average expenditure of ethnic minority-headed households presented in the following graph 36 Chart 9: Monthly average expenditure of severely affected households 37 Chart 10: Head of household livelihoods lost over 10% of agricultural land 38 Chart 11: The number of households using energy 39 Chart 12: The main water source 40 Chart 13: Loan situation of households 43 Chart 14: Loans purposes of households 43 Chart 15: Changes of domestic appliances of households 49 ABREVIATIONS ADB : Asian Development Bank AHs : Project Affected Households APs : Affected People CARB : Compensation, Assistance and Resettlement Board CLFD : Center for Land Fund Development CPC : Communal People’s Committee CPMB : Central Power Management Board CSB : Community Supervision Board DCARB : District Compensation, Assistance and Resettlement Board DMS : Detailed Measurement Survey DPC : People Committee of District IOL : Inventory of Losses LURC : Land Use Right Certificate MAH : Marginal Affected Households MARD : Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development NPT : National Power Transmission Corporation PC : People’s Committee PPC : People Committee of Province REMDP : Resettlement and Ethnic Minority Development Plan ROWs : Right of Ways LARP : Land Acquisition Resettlement Plan SAH : Severally Affected Household SPS : Safeguard Policy Statement SUMMARY I GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 Project overall The Government of Vietnam (GOV) has requested the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to provide a loan to construct new electricity distribution system including a 437,230 km-long Pleiku to Cau Bong The loan of 730 million USD is prepared as a multi-funded financing facility (MFF) and will delivered as a series of four tranches that will be released over years until 2020 The construction of the Pleiku- My Phuoc- Cau Bong transmission line together with the extension of the Pleiku substation will be finded under the second tranche Objective of the project includes main tasks as follows: - 500KV Pleiku- My Phuoc- Cau Bong transmission line project is to ensure power provision for development demand in the South in the period of 20142015, concurrently ensure power network of Vietnam- Laos- Cambodia in 2015 - The project also contributes to increase the reliability in power provision, reducing power loss, ensuring the maximum mobilization of capacity of power companies to provide safety and continuously power for the additional charge in the South in particular and in the whole nation in general 1.2 Project scale and scope 500KV Pleiku- My Phuoc- Cau Bong transmission line has total length of 437,230 km In Gia Lai province, the transmission line traverses 18 communes in districts with the length of 82,365 km and 173 towers In Dak Lak province, the transmission line traverses communes in 03 districts with the length of 74,593 km and 163 towers; in Dak Nong province, the transmission line traverses 20 commune in 06 districts with the length of 119,749 km and 237 towers; in Binh Phuoc province, the transmission line traverses 15 communes in 04 districts with the length of 98,125 km and 200 towers; in Binh Duong, the transmission line traverses 10 communes with the length of 47.68km and 99 towers and in HCMC, the transmission line traverses 04 communes in Cu Chi district with the length of 14,718 km and 54 towers 1.3 Project impacts The impacts of 500KV Pleiku- My Phuoc- Cau Bong transmission line are presented as follows: + Impacts on land acquisition: 371,167.13 m is permanently acquired for the purpose of pole construction; 11,011,338 m of land is ROWs and 90.472,00 m2 of land is temporarily affected + Impacts on houses and other structures: 541 houses are relocated, line routes impact on 734 other structures + Impacts on tree- crops: 368,489 industry trees, 69,940 fruit trees and 33,296 other trees + Severely affected households: 323 severely AHs, in which 270 Kinh households and 53 ethnic households + Vulnerable households: 186 female headed households, 39 poor households, households having disable person, elderly household, households under social policy and 1,119 ethnic households