Social Monitoring Report Final Internal Monitoring Report September 2016
VIE: Power Transmission Investment Program,
Tranche 2
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 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.
Final Internal Monitoring Report
Project Number: 42497-01
September 2016
500 kV Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong Transmission Line
Multi-tranche Financing Facility
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam: Power Transmission Investment Program
Prepared by the Central Vietnam Power Project Management Board (CPMB) for Asian
Development Bank (ADB).
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ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
AFD Agence Francaise de Developpment
AWP Annual Work Program
AP Affected person
CARB Compensation, Assistance & Resettlement Board
CPC Commune People’s Committee
CPMB Central Vietnam Power Project Management Board
DARD Department of Agriculture & Rural Development
DP Displaced person
DPC District People’s Committee
DPI Department of Planning & Investment
DMS Detailed measurement survey
DoF Department of Finance
DoNRE Department of Natural Resources & Environment
DRR Due diligence report
GoV Government of Vietnam
LARAPs Land Acquisition and Resettlement Action Plans
IOL Inventory of losses
Km Kilometer
M&E Monitoring and Evaluation
MoT Ministry of Transport
MPI Ministry of Planning and Investment
OP Operational Policy
PAP Project Affected Person
PDoT Provincial Department of Transport
PIB Public Information Booklet
PPC Provincial People’s Committee
TL Transmission line
RP Resettlement Plan
REMDPs Resettlement Ethnic Minority Development Plan
VND Vietnamese Dong.
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Table of Contents
1. General information of the project .................................................................. 5
a. Project objectives ............................................................................................................... 5
b. Project components ........................................................................................................... 5
c. Scope of project impacts ................................................................................................... 9
d. Objectives of internal monitoring .................................................................................... 17
2. Detailed resettlement implementation progress .......................................... 18
a. DMS process (by packages or sections) ......................................................................... 20
b. Preparation and approval of compensation plans ......................................................... 21
c. Process of compensation payment ................................................................................. 21
d. Assess degree of APs’ satisfaction of compensation and resettlement ...................... 24
3. Assess the stakeholder cooperation ............................................................ 25
4. Conclusion and lession learned. ................................................................... 26
a. Conclusion ....................................................................................................................... 26
b. Lessions learned .............................................................................................................. 27
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TABLES
Table 1: Project components .............................................................................................. 5
Table 2: Specifications of the 500 kV Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong TL ........................ 6
Table 3: List of Subprojects and Status of Social Safeguard Document Preparation .... 6
Table 4: Timeframe for the project implementation .......................................................... 7
Table 5: Summary of the Subprojects’ Impacts .............................................................. 10
Table 6: Land Acquisition Impacts ................................................................................... 10
Table 6.1. Permanently acquired land area (m2)
Table 6.2. Temporaly acquired land area (m2)
Table 6.3. Temporaly acquired land area (m2)
Table 7: Affected trees in the project…………………………………………………………14
Table 8: Number of affected houses to be displaced along the transmission line ....... 15
Table 9: Number of affected HHs and affected HHs by permanent land acquisition and
HHs with displaced houses .............................................................................................. 15
Table 10: Impacts of land acquisition on the severely affected households ............... 16
Table 11: Impact of land acquisition on the vulnerable households and ethnic minority
households ........................................................................................................................ 17
Table 12: Members of the internal monitoring assignment ............................................ 18
Table 13: Consultation, Participation, and Information Disclosure by Subprojects ..... 19
Table 14: Types of consultation and participation and information .............................. 20
Table 15: DMS Status of the Subprojects ........................................................................ 20
Table 16. Operation of REMDPs/LARAPs up to June 2015 ............................................ 23
Table 17: Total amount of compensation and assistance in the project ....................... 24
Table 18: Cases in redress of grievance and complaints in the project implementation
............................................................................................................................................ 25
FIGURE
Figure 1: Location of 500 kV transmission line Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong .. 9
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A. General Information of the Project
1. Project Objectives
1. The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam received a loan from the Asian Development Bank
(ADB) for the co-financing with Agence Francaise de Developpment (AFD) towards the cost
of the Power Transmission Investment Program, Tranche 2. Part of the proceeds of the loan
will be applied for the construction of the 500 kV Pleiku-My Phuoc-Cau Bong transmission
line (TL). The National Power Transmission Corporation (NPT) is the Project Owner and
Executing Agency (EA) and the Central Vietnam Power Project Management Board (CPMB)
is the Implementing Agency (IA) for the project. The 500 kV Pleiku - MyPhuoc - Cau Bong TL
is a high priority project and is one of several projects for construction to meet its target of
connecting 90% of the population to electricity by 2020 and 100% by 2025. The TL will meet
the energy demand in the southern part of Vietnam growing at 14% per year and up to 25%
in 2015. The TL constructed together along with the expansion of Pleiku Substation (SS) will
enhance power supply reliability for the rapid development in the southern provinces of
Vietnam.
2. The 500 kV Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong TL is 437 km in length and traverses 5
provinces (Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Binh Phuoc and Binh Duong) and Ho Chi Minh City.
The line did not cross or intrude into any buffer areas or any possible planned future
extension of green conservation areas (Figure 1).
2. Project Components
3. The 500 kV Pleiku-My Phuoc-Cau Bong TL starts from the 500 kV bus-bar of the Pleiku
Substation at Chu Pah District, Gia Lai Province and terminates at the Cau Bong Substation
in Cu Chi District, Ho Chi Minh City.
Table 1: Project components
Components Length (km) Starting point End point Number of
tower set
Transmission line
passing Gia Lai
82,768 500kV bus bar of
Pleiku substation
G15 + 403m 173
Transmission line
passing Dak Lak
74,841 G13 (Tower
827+68)
G26 (Tower
1576+09)
164
Transmission line
passing Dak Nong
115,933 G25-G26 (Tower
1576+09)
G50-G51 (Tower
2735+42)
235
Transmission line
passing Binh Phuoc
102,892 G51 (Tower
2735+42)
G69-G70 (Tower
3764+34)
201
Transmission line
passing Binh Duong
46,228 G70 (Tower
3764+34)
G81-G82 (Tower
4426+62)
99
Transmission line
passing Ho Chi Minh
14,011 G81-G82 (Tower
4426+62)
500kV bus bar of
Cau Bong SS
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Total length 436,673 926
4. The technical parameters of the 500kV transmission lines are presented in Table 2 as
follows:
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Table 2: Specifications of the 500 kV Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong TL
Parameters Technical specifications
Length (km) 436,673
- Starting point 500kV bus bar of Pleiku SS
- End point 500kV bus bar of Cau Bong SS
RoW 32 m
Earth grounding width 60 m
Voltage 500 kV
Number of circuits 2
Conductor 4xACSR-330/43
Earth wire OPGW-90 & PHLOX-116
Optical repeater cable 24
Suspension towers (number) 808
- Height of towers Average 65 m, highest - 79 m
- Coverage area /1 tower 337,62 m²
Tension towers (number) 118
- Height of Tension towers 60 m, highest 72m
- Coverage area /1 tension tower 653,4 m²
3. Social Safeguards Documents Prepared for the Subproject
5. The construction of the 500kV Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong TL began in 2012 and was
completed and put into operation in May 2014. The project implementation has complied
with the provisions of ADB and Vietnam Law on planning for land acquisition and
resettlement and ethnic minority development. From Table 3, REMDPs and LARAPs were
built and updated on a harmony between safeguard policies of the ADB and the Government
of Vietnam on involuntary land acquisition, policies for ethnic minorities, gender strategy and
communication and information dissemination requirements. There were six (06) safeguard
documents for six (06) respective provinces including four (04) Resettlement and Ethnic
Minorities Development Plans (REMDPs) for the TL segments in Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Gia
Lai, and Binh Phuoc and two (02) Land Acquisition and Resettlement Action Plans (LARAPs)
for the segments in Binh Duong and HCM City, which were built in line with safeguard
policies of the ADB and the Government of Vietnam.
Table 3: List of Subprojects and Status of Social Safeguard Document Preparation
Subproject
Segment/ Province RP/DDR
Updated
RP/DDR Construction
Gia Lai REMDP/ DDR YES YES
Dak Lak REMDP/ DDR YES YES
Dak Nong REMDP/ DDR YES YES
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Binh Phuoc REMDP/ DDR YES YES
Binh Duong LARAP/ DDR YES YES
HCM City LARAP/ DDR YES YES
Total 04 REMDP & 02 LARAP &
06 DDR
YES YES
Source: Monitoring data in CPMB
6. Four (04) REMDPs and two (02) LARAPs were developed by PECC4 in October 2010. On
May 10/2011, PECC4 submitted the second draft RAP, which was updated based on the
results of the replacement cost survey, socio-economic surveys, and community
consultations. The social safeguard consultants conducted field works with a trip on 11th
May 2011 for social assessment and review CPMB activities in the preparation of social
safeguard documents for the Pleiku- My Phuoc - Cau Bong. The technical assistance
(TA7742-VIE) for Tranche 2 was mobilized to support the CPMB and the PPMBs in
preparing projects for Tranche 2 in September 2011. During the design process, the
technical consultants worked in collaboration with local authorities to design the transmission
line going parallel with the existing 500kV line. Therefore, the land acquisition in the tower
construction has been minimized to mitigate impacts on households. The land acquisition did
not affect the basic infrastructure of the communes. These appropriate REMDPs and
LARAPs allowed reducing the number of resettled HHs in the project. Beside that the
technical consultants in supporting Tranche 1 was considered and given the additional
requirements of investigation and assessment to ensure that RAP documents complied with
the requirements of ADB Policy.
7. There is a due diligent report (DDR) for the entire project which was built in 2012; this
report was adopted on 2nd August 2012. Due to land acquisition for the construction of the
project tower foundations have been made at several locations before the loan was signed,
so the TA group (group of social safeguard consultants) carried out the DDRs that focused
on (i) determining GAPs between modes of CPMB implementation and requirements of ADB
policies; (ii) making clear whether landowners were compensated or not, and requiring their
opinions on compensation; (iii) identifying the shortcomings in the implementation of land
acquisition and finding out the reasons as a basis for the design of mitigation measures. This
report showed the compliant and non-compliant activities in a part of the land acquisition and
compensation for the construction of tower foundation before the loan was signed. Because
of some pending issues and GAPs, all they need to be filled before the project completion.
Thus, the following DDRs were continuously developed and updated for each province and
submitted dated 26 October 2015. These were approved by ADB in 12 November 2015. The
DDRs 2015 stated that the Corrective Action Plans (CAP) must be implemented by CPMB in
five provinces and one city. These 06 DDRs pointed out the existing gaps in 06 locations on
the implementation of RPs/REMDPs of projects and proposed necessary activities to
overcome the difficult issues in the completion stage in each project province (Table 3). The
timeline of the project implementation is summarized in the table below.
Table 4: Timeframe for the project implementation
Tasks Year of implementation
Establishment of Council of Compensation and Land 2011
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Clearance in district
Prepare the administrative land profile for the acquisition land area
2009
Public information campaign before the DMS 2010
Making the landmarks for land clearance 2011
Detail measurement surveys in the land clearance 2011-2014
Compensation payment, assistance and resettlement 2012- 2016
Land clearance 2012
Construction contract 2012
Source: Monitoring data in CPMB
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Figure 1: Location of Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong 500 kV transmission line
4. Scope of project impacts
Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau
Bong 500kV Transmission
line
Start at Pleiku substation
End at Cau Bong substation
Notes:
The red areas are national
parks
The yellow areas are
national reserves
The dark green areas are
Cultural- Historical areas
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8. The project impacts can be summarized in the Table 5 below. In six provinces and city,
the total affected households and organizations is 5,298. An aggregate affected land area is
11,472,977.13 m2, including 371,167.1 m2 permanently acquired area and 11,011,339 m2 of
land subject to land use restrictions within the TL’s right-of-way (ROW). And 90,472 m2 of
temporary acquired area. A total of 1,275 structures including 541 houses and 734 structures
affected by the Subproject. In addition, 371,167 m2 of crops and 471,725 trees of various
types are also affected by the TL. Details of impacts by type are presented in the following
sections.
Table 5: Summary of the Subprojects’ Impacts
Sub-
project
Total
affected area
(m2)
Total of
AH/organization
Impact
on
structure
Impact on
land (m2)
Impact on tree
(Tree)
Gia Lai 2,620,899 714 88 79,108 134,292
Dak Lak 904,688 628 92 66,562 27,655
Dak Nong 3,078,059.7 1.419 636 100,390.70 101,758
Binh Phuoc 2,964,922.62 990 312 77,757.62 156,245
Binh Duong 1,388,334.81 723 99 27,699.81 42,155
HCM City 516,073 824 48 19,649 9,620
Total 11,472,977.13 5,298 1,275 371,167 471,725
Source: Final monitoring phase
4.1. Impact on land acquisition
9. The Project acquired permanently an aggregate land area of 371,167.13 m2 as shown in table 6.1 for the construction of 926 tower foundations, stations, and access roads, etc. In addition, the total land area within the RoW is 11,011,339 m2 as shown in table 6.3 The temporary land area for the construction of road and material storage area is 90,472 m2 in table 6.2.
10. From Table 6, the total permanently acquired land area is 371,167.13 m2. These land
areas affected a total of 5,298 HHs. The land acquisition had negative impacts on trees and
housing and structures and APs’ livelihoods which will be analyzed by the following items.
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Table 6: Land Acquisition Impacts
Nr. Province/City
The area of
permanent land
acquisition (tower
foundations,
stations, roads)
(m2)
Land area
affected within
the RoW (m2)
Temporary land area
for road construction,
material yard (m2)
1. Gia Lai 79,108.00 2,528,415.00 13,376.00
2. Dak Lak 66,562.00 831,838.00 6,288.00
3. Dak Nong 100,390.70 2,963,193.00 14,476.00
4. Binh Phuoc 77,757.62 2,872,805.00 14,360.00
5. Binh Duong 27,699.81 1,344,687.00 15,948.00
6. HCM city 19,649.00 470,400.00 26,024.00
Total 371,167.13 11,011,338.00 90,472.00
Source: Final monitoring phase
11. Of the total 371,167.13 m2 of permanently acquired area, by land use, the most affected
land type is agricultural land with the total affected area of 259,816.99 m2, accounting for
about 70% of the acquired area. Followed by agricultural land is other land, including public
land such as traffic land, irrigation land, with an aggregate area of 60,334.83 m2, making up
16.3%. Residential land, forest land, and aquaculture land occupy a small percent of the total
permanently affected area, accounting for 7.2%, 3.6%, and 2.9%. It is noted that forest land
is only acquired in the area of Gia Lai, Dak Lak, and Dak Nong provinces. By province, the
most affected area is in Dak Nong Province, with a total of 100,390.70 m2, equivalent to
27%, followed by Gia Lai and Binh Phuoc provinces with 79,108 m2 and 77,757.62 m2,
respectively. The least affected area is Ho Chi Minh City with 19,649 m2, occupying 5.3% of
the total permanently affected area.
Table 6.1. Permanently acquired land area (m2)
Civil works/
Packages/
components
Permanently acquired land area (m2)
Agricultural
land
Residential
land Aquaculture land
Forest
land Others Amount
TL in Gia Lai
province 55,375.60 6,328.64 1,898.59 3,638.97 11,866.20 79,108.00
TL in Dak
Lak province 46,593.40 4,659.34 1,397.80 3,927.16 9,984.30 66,562.00
TL in Dak
Nong
province
70,273.49 7,027.35 2,108.20 5,923.05 15,058.61 100,390.70
TL in Binh
Phuoc
province
54,430.33 5,443.03 4,354.43 0.00 13,529.83 77,757.62
TL in Binh
Duong 19,389.87 1,938.99 581.70 0.00 5,789.26 27,699.81
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province
TL in HCM
city 13,754.30 1,375.43 412.63 0.00 4,106.64 19,649.00
Total 259,816.99 26,772.78 10,753.35 13,489.18 60,334.83 371,167.13
Source: Final monitoring phase
12. By land use, temporarily affected land comprises agricultural land (72%), forest land (7.5%), and other lands (20.5%) whereas residential land and aquaculture land are not affected. On the contrary to the permanent land acquisition, by province, the most affected area is Ho Chi Minh City with 26,024 m2, equivalent to 28.8%, of the total temporarily affected area, followed by Binh Duong and Dak Nong provinces.
Table 6.2. Temporarily acquired land area (m2)
Civil works/ Packages/
components
Temporarily acquired land area (m2)
Agricultural land
Residential land
Aquaculture
land Forest land Others Amount
TLin Gia Lai province
9,630.72 0.00 0.00 2,675.20 1,070.08 13,376.00
TL in Dak Lak province
4,527.36 0.00 0.00 1,257.60 503.04 6,288.00
TL in Dak Nong province
10,422.72 0.00 0.00 2,895.20 1,158.08 14,476.00
TL in Binh Phuoc province
10,339.20 0.00 0.00 0.00 4,020.80 14,360.00
TL in Binh Duong province
11,482.56 0.00 0.00 0.00 4,465.44 15,948.00
TL in HCM city 18,737.28 0.00 0.00 0.00 7,286.72 26,024.00
Total 65,139.84 0.00 0.00 6,828.00 18,504.16 90,472.00
Source: Final monitoring phase
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13. The total affected area within the ROW in six provinces and city is 11,011,338 m2
distributed variably among the areas. By province, Dak Nong has the most affected area
within ROW with an aggregate 2,963,193 m2, equivalent to 26.9%, followed by Binh Phuoc
and Gia Lai provinces with 2,872,805 m2 (26.1%) and 2,528,415 m2 (23%), which can be
partly explained by the length of the TL segments in these provinces. The least affected
province is Ho Chi Minh City with 470,400 m2, or 4.3%, of land affected within the ROW.
14. By land use, similarly to the permanently acquired area, the most affected within the
ROW is agricultural land, 7,707,936.6 m2, or 70%, followed by other land (2,005,307.16 m2,
equivalent to 18.2%), and forest land (1,264,689.2 m2, or 11.5%). The residential land area
affected within the ROW is small, accounting for only 0.3% of the total land area affected by
land use restrictions within the ROW.
Table 6.3. Land area affected within the ROW (m2)
Civil works/ Packages/
components
Land area affected within the ROW (m2)
Agricultural land
Residential land
Aquaculture land
Forest land Other Amount
TLin Gia Lai province
1,769,890.50 7,119.72 0.00 505,683.00 245,721.78 2,528,415.00
TL in Dak Lak province
582,286.60 5,990.58 0.00 166,367.60 77,193.22 831,838.00
TL in Dak Nong province
2,074,235.10 9,035.16 0.00 592,638.60 287,284.14 2,963,193.00
TL in Binh Phuoc province
2,010,963.50 6,998.19 0.00 0.00 854,843.31 2,872,805.00
TL in Binh Duong province
941,280.90 2,492.98 0.00 0.00 400,913.12 1,344,687.00
TL in HCM city
329,280.00 1,768.41 0.00 0.00 139,351.59 470,400.00
Total 7,707,936.60 33,405.04 0.00 1,264,689.20 2,005,307.16 11,011,338.00
Source: Final monitoring phase
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3.2. Affected trees
15. The total affected trees are 471,725 (Table 7), including 78.1% of industrial plants such
as rubber, cashew, and coffee, which negatively affected the livelihood of APs and thus
concrete measurements are required. The affected fruit trees accounted for 14.8% of the
total affected trees and the remaining, or 7%, comprised of different kinds of other trees. The
industrial trees are such as rubber and coffee and cashew are permanently cut down for the
construction of tower foundations. Regarding trees within the right-of-way, APs can still use
the area under the ROW to grow crops and trees provided that the vertical clearance
between the tree top and the sag of the power cable is guaranteed. Therefore, the APs have
shifted to grow lower-lying trees and crops such as pepper, other food crops under the RoW
because of a safety reason. In the temporary land area for a road construction, it has
negative impacts to trees, finally land returned to land owners, the temporarily affected area
would be restored to the original conditions, so it did not affect to the APs’ livelihoods.
Table 7: Affected trees in the project
Nr.
Pro
vince
Affected districts
and communes Number of affected tree (trees)
Nr.
District
Nr.
Commune
Industrial
trees (tree)
Fruit trees
(tree) Others
Total of
affected
trees
(tree)
1 Gia Lai 5 18 123,571 9,287 1,434 134,292
2 Đak Lak 3 9 15,081 7,446 5,128 27,655
3 Đak Nong 6 20 74,470 20,704 6,584 101,758
4 Binh Phuoc 4 16 109,137 28,435 18,673 156,245
5 Binh
Duong 3 10 37,469 3,612 1,074 42,155
6 HCM city 1 4 8,761 456 403 9,620
Total 22 77 368,489 69,940 33,296 471,725
Source: Final monitoring phase
16. The number of affected industrial trees mainly in Gia Lai province is 123,571 (affected
coffee trees – approximately 100,000 trees) that affected the APs’ economy. Also, the
affected coffee trees which are the most important industrial trees in Dak Nong province are
approximately 72,000. The number of affected rubber trees is approximately 70,000 trees;
they are the most important affected tree in Binh Phuoc province. The number of affected
rubber tree of approximately 50,000 is for Binh Duong province. All affected rubber trees in
these two provinces have been in harvested time. It is the reason why the economic loss of
APs was considered as very high.
3.3. Impacts on houses and structures
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17. 541 affected households were required to relocate due to permanent land acquisition for
construction of tower foundations as well as restrictions on land use within the ROW.
According to the Decree No. 106/ND-CP, houses and structures are not allowed to exist
within the ROW of the 500 kV TL. Impacts on houses and structures of the AHs are
summarized in the Table 6 below. 92% of removed houses and structures chose to resettle
themselves on their own land because they had enough remaining available land to relocate.
It was observed that 72 removed HHs did not have their own land, so they resettled to the
resettlement place organized by Councils. It observed that the resettlement did not affect
much to their livings because they relocated to resettlement places closer to their home
before.
Table 8: Impacts on houses and structures
r Province
Affected area (Nr) Affected houses and physical assets on
land (Nr)
Nr. District
Nr. Commune
Affected houses
Affected physical structures
Total
1 Gia Lai 5 18 48 40 88
2 Đak Lak 3 9 33 59 92
3 Đak Nong 6 20 301 335 636
4 Binh Phuoc 4 16 83 229 312
5 Binh Duong 3 10 67 32 99
6 HCM city 1 4 9 39 48
Total 22 77 541 734 1,275
Source: Final monitoring phase
18. Apart from the displaced houses, the transmission line also affected permanently 734
structures including kitchens, courtyards, temporary shelters and camps, baths/toilets or
barn of households, gates, etc. The determination of these houses affected is complied with
Decree No.106/ND-CP and Decree No.81/ND-CP of the provisions protecting the right of
way of transmission line of electrical project.
3.4. The affected households and severely affected households
19. At the end of project implementation phase, there are totally 5,298 households that have
been affected by the project, of which 985 households affected by the permanent land
acquisition and 3,772 affected households within the RoW. Of the total AHs, 541 households
have to relocate (see Table 9).
Table 9: Number of affected HHs and affected HHs by permanent land acquisition and
HHs with displaced houses
Province
Nr.
Affected
HHs
Nr. affected
households affected
by permanent land
acquisition
Nr.
households
affected within
the ROW
Nr. households with
displaced houses
Gia Lai 714 194 475 48
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Đak Lak 628 71 524 33
Đak Nong 1,419 277 899 301
Binh Phuoc 990 263 644 83
Binh Duong 723 128 528 67
HCM city 824 52 702 9
Total 5,298 985 3,772 541
Source: Final monitoring phase
20. Among the affected households, 323 households are severely affected as they
experienced 10% or more than 10% of their productive land and/or assets of which,
permanent land acquisition has severely affected 92 households. Among the total AHs, 53
HHs belonged to ethnic minority groups, of which over 30% are the ethnic minorities of Jarai,
Stieng and Nung, Tay. The numbers of severely affected households by province are listed
as follows:
Table 10: Impacts of land acquisition on the severely affected households
r
Locality Number of severely affected
households
Province Nr.
District
Nr.
Commune Kinh people
Ethnic
minority
people
Total
1 Gia Lai 5 18 34 13 47
2 Dak Lak 3 9 11 3 14
3 Dak Nông 6 20 93 17 110
4 Binh Phuoc 4 16 100 20 120
5 Binh Duong 3 10 24 0 24
6 Ho Chi Minh 1 4 8 0 8
Total 22 77 270 53 323
Source: Final monitoring phase
- Impacts on vulnerable groups
21. The vulnerable HHs affected by the project included the elderly headed households,
single women-headed households and the poor, HHs with people in disability, beneficiary
households of social policies including martyr’s and wounded soldiers’ households, Vietnamese Heroic Mothers and ethnic minority people (see table 9). The total ethnic
minority households affected by the project are 1,119 HHs; especially they are Jarai, Stieng,
Ede in which Gia Lai province has 346 households belonging to ethnic minorities with Gia
Rai: 315, Tay: 23, Nung: 8. In Dak Lak province, there are 174 households belonged to
ethnic minority groups with Dao: 72, Nung: 47, Tay: 34, E De: 21.
22. There are four provinces such as Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Binh Phuoc province
with an existing of ethnic minority households who were affected by the project. Ethnic
minority groups were affected including Gia Lai, E De and the ethnic minority communities
migrated from the Northern Province of Vietnam to this location such as ethnic minority
group of Nung and Tay.
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Table 11: Impact of land acquisition on the vulnerable households and ethnic minority
households
r.
Locality Number of HHs belonged to vulnerable group
Province Nr.
District
Nr.
Comm.
Women
single
headed
househo
lds
Poor
HHs
HHs
with
people
in
disabili
ty
Elderly
HHs
Merit
HHs
Ethnic
minority
HHs
Total
1 Gia Lai 5 18 13 12 0 0 0 346 371
2 Đak Lak 3 9 24 8 0 0 0 341 373
3 Đak Nông 6 20 64 19 5
5 213 306
4 Binh Phuoc 4 16 53 0 0 0 0 219 272
5 Binh Duong 3 10 23 0 0 0 0 0 23
6 Ho Chi Minh 1 4 9 0 0 1 0 0 10
Total 22 77 186 39 5 1 5 1,119 1,355
Source: Final monitoring phase
4. Objectives of internal monitoring
23. CPMB has established concrete systems for internal and external monitoring and
evaluation. The main purpose of the internal monitoring was to ensure that resettlement and
acquisition of land and properties has been implemented in accordance with the policies and
procedures of the RP. Also, in relation to external monitoring and evaluation, in particular,
has focused on social impacts on DPs and whether or not DPs have been able to restore a
standard of living equal to, if not better than, that which they had before the subprojects.
24. Related to the project policy and compliance with GoV’s regulation and ADB’s requirement, there is a need to address the discrepancies between ADB Safeguard Policy
and relevant GoVs’ regulations, the subprojects’ principles on resettlement policy are (i)
Meaningful consultations have been carried out with the APs and concerned groups and
ensure participation from planning up to implementation. The comments and suggestions of
the APs and communities have been taken into account; (ii) The REMDPs/LARAPs is
disclosed to APs in a form and language that understandable to them; (iii) Involuntary
resettlement and impacts on land, structures and other fixed assets are avoided or
minimised where possible; (iv) Compensation and assistance is based on the principle of
replacement cost; (v) Severely affected household is entitled when they are losing 10% or
more of the household’s productive land; (vi) Special assistance has been incorporated in the resettlement plan to protect socially and economically vulnerable groups such as
households headed by women, children, disabled, the elderly, landless and people living
below the provincial poverty line; (vii) Gender concerns are incorporated through RP
implementation; (viii) Reporting and independent monitoring is defined as a part of the
subproject management system. Periodically independent monitoring on implementation of
RP has been implemented.
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25. The objectives of the internal monitoring are to (i) ensure that the standard of living of
DPs is restored or improved; (ii) monitor whether the time lines are being met; (iii) assess if
compensation, rehabilitation measures and social development support program are
sufficient; (iv) identify problems or potential problems; and (v) identify methods of responding
immediately to mitigate problems.
26. The CPMB conducted the internal monitoring of RP implementation to identify as early
as possible the activities achieved and the cause(s) of problems encountered so that re-
arrangements in RP implementation can be adjusted. Results of the internal monitoring are
to be reported quarterly, semi-annually, annually to NPT and ADB as well. The semi-annual
report has been prepared to summarize all activities relevant to the implementation of RP
done during six months.
27. This final monitoring report is prepared in compliance with the ADB requirements. This
report incorporated monitoring results from Jan 2012 to June 2016 in purpose to show how
the tasks have been implemented during the project implementation and the works taken to
improve the situation, if needed. Relevant information has been collected monthly from the
field to assess the progress of RP implementation and then consolidated.
28. Based on the RF, the main indicators that regularly monitored in this period include (i)
Public consultation and information dissemination procedures to the new affected
households arise; (ii) Payment of compensation to AHs; (iii) Adherence to grievance
procedures.
29. Moreover, the field surveys were carried out until July 2016 by the team with the critical
support of the employed safeguard consultant. At each survey, the team has cooperated
with contractor in charge of clearance site, contractor of construction, local government, and
local ethnic minority communities to maintain RPs’ implementation in adequate process.
30. The internal monitoring work was done by working with stakeholders such as CPC,
DLFDC, local Electricity Transmission Companies and some in-depth interview sessions
have been done with APs to achieve the monitoring target.
31. Human resources for monitoring implementation in the report period included (See Table
12) as follows:
Table 12: Members of the internal monitoring assignment
Nr. Name Position Responsibilities
1. Mr. Le Dinh Quang Vice Director Project Management
2. Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan Vice Manager of
Compensation Department
Management of environment
and resettlement
3. Mr. Tran Đang Hai
Expert of Compensation
Department
Monitoring, assistance for
social safeguard
4. Ms. Le Hoang Ngoc Expert of Compensation
Department
Monitoring, assistance for
social safeguard
5. Mr. Do Phu Hai National safeguard specialist
for resettlement
Internal monitoring and
evaluation
B. Detailed resettlement implementation progress
1. Information disclosure, consultation, and participation
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32. The implementation of public information disclosure and participation can be summarized
in table 13 as follows:
Table 13: Consultation, Participation, and Information Disclosure by Subprojects
Subproject/ Province
Participation,
Consultation in
preparation phase
Participation,
Consultation in
implementation
phase
Public
consultation
Distribution of
PIB
Distribution
RP to DCC Meeting
Gia Lai Done Done Done Done
Dak Lak Done Done Done Done
Dak Nong Done Done Done Done
Binh Phuoc Done Done Done Done
Binh Duong Done Done Done Done
HCM City Done Done Done Done
Source: Monitoring database
33. The consultation and participation and information disclosure of the project was carried
out in accordance with Law of Vietnam and in compliance with ADB's policy. They were
done in the design process of construction planning, the public consultations and information
disclosure were carried out in all six provinces. CPMB and its consultant held some
consultations with the local authorities at provincial, district, commune, and Compensation
Committees for land clearance in districts, especially the APs in the communities were
invited to consult and disseminate information by the Commune People's Committees. The
consultation activities of project were implemented to meet relatively the strict technical
requirements. The Consultant conducted consultation in accordance to the guidance of the
TA consultant team of Tranche 1. Under the guidance, the content of the public consultation
focused on the following: Disclosure of project policy information to APs, introduction of the
project, the alignment scale of construction, and the construction schedule. The disclosure of
compensation policy of donors like involuntary resettlement policies for vulnerable groups
determined the replacement cost for assistance and compensation provisions on
compensation of the Government of Vietnam. The consultation meetings are recorded in
writing a full record of comments and recommendations of the APs and other stakeholders.
The comments recorded in the consultation process are mainly the recommendations on
compensation and resettlement assistance. During LARAP/REMDP development, the
consultant team in technical assistance of Tranche 2 also conducted an additional
consultation with the district Compensation Committees to interview a number of APs
including all the APs who are ethnic minorities, disadvantaged group. The time of
consultation carried out in November, 2010. In May 2012, social experts and consultants in
ADB consultants jointly carried out a fieldwork to develop the DDRs.
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34. District Council of Land Clearance and Compensation and CPCs implemented properly
information dissemination campaign. The project documents such as Policy Framework
(entitlement matrix) and compensation plans were publicly posted at the CPCs. Several
rounds of public consultations and meetings were organized prior to the conduct of the
detailed measurement survey and entitlement. Ending of detailed measurement survey and
entitlement after a period of announcement of public schemes, the task of public
dissemination was fully implemented under REMDPs/LARAPs. Through the implementation
of common types of information dissemination campaigns to APs (Table 13, 14), most
households assessed that they understood the land acquisition and compensation policy as
well as the assistance to support them in the project and how to proceed GRM in a complaint
if necessary. It means the ADB’s policy on social safeguard was strictly followed by the project.
Table 14: Types of consultation and participation and information
Nr Types of consultation and participation
and information
Performance REMDPs/ LARAPs
Actual implementation
1 Meetings with APs to inform about the project Yes Completed
2 Information dissemination through the commune
louder speakers
Yes Completed
3 Public posting of the Policy Framework are relevant
CPCs’ offices
Yes Completed
4 Provide guidance on the complaints and grievance
redress mechanism
Yes Completed
Source: Monitoring database
2. Detail measurement survey process
35. The DMS started in 2011, it continued to be completed by the end of 2014 as
summarized in the table 15 as follows:
Table 15: DMS progress of the Subprojects
Subproject/
Province
DMS was
completed
by the end
of 2011
DMS was
completed
by the end
of 2012
DMS was
completed
by the the
end of 2013
DMS was completed by the end of 2014
Total
Gia Lai 122 214 159 219 714
Dak Lak 128 120 198 182 628
Dak Nong 234 355 487 343 1.419
Binh Phuoc 152 276 201 361 990
Binh Duong 101 225 164 233 723
HCM City 117 262 215 230 824
Total 854 1452 1424 1568 5298
Source: Monitoring database
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36. All DMS plans were agreed by AHs and commune leaders and community leaders and
declared and published in the affected communities. The poster and official documents were
presented in the commune office and village houses of the affected communities. The plans
specified the date of the survey and the date of published results of DMS. The plans
included the specific name of the participants who conducted the DMS. Women were
encouraged to participate in the DMS from requirement of a couple must accompany their
wives.
37. The guidance for survey and questionnaires were also disseminated to the affected
communities by the District Council of Land Clearance and Compensation effectively. The
DMS activities were done in a transparent manner with participation of affected community
leaders and the APs. The representatives of communities were invited to participate into the
DMS tasks as well as full involvement in the process including AHs, staff of the Councils of
Land Clearance and Compensation, representatives of grassroots government and
representatives of investors, and representatives of construction units. After the detailed
measurement, all parties confirmed by the meeting minutes of work as a basis for the
application of price on the damaged property and assets. Based on the minutes of the DMS
in the field work, the Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation applied the
compensation prices for property and assets and assistance activities (if any) for each AH,
and then set up the package of compensation and assistance. The compensation plans were
all listed in CPC offices, households may have any problems related questions who may
contact local government representatives or staff of Councils of Land Clearance and
Compensation for solving any problems. These records have been sent to the Provincial
Council of Land Clearance and Compensation and Resettlement as well as CPMB.
38. The Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation followed the regulatory rules to
adopt independently investigated price for each item in the compensation plans. As
discovering in the monitoring trips, some APs complained about the low compensation price,
and the Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation worked in collaboration with different
stakeholders to organize public meetings to discuss again the proposed compensation plans
with these APs, and then they submitted these packages for the appraisal and the approval
of competent local authorities in a favor for the APs to ensure their highest benefits.
According to the monitoring results at the completion date of project, it is shown that the all
APs accepted the applied prices which were approved in compensation plans.
3. Preparation and approval of compensation plans
3.1. Establishment of compensation packages
39. At the time of inventory, AP representatives involved in monitoring the detailed
measurement process, actually they had full participation in the process of detailed
measurement survey. They are APs, senior staff of the Councils of Land Clearance and
Compensation, representatives of local authorities (communes/wards/town), staff of CPMB,
and staff of construction companies. After the detailed measurement survey, counting the
affected assets completed, all parties confirmed by working minutes as a basis for installing
compensation price for affected properties. All affected households had their representatives
who substantially involved in monitoring of DMS. Based on the working minutes of DMS, the
Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation set the compensation price for the affected
assets, supported assistance (if any) for APs. The compensation plans were all listed in CPC
offices and available in community centers as well.
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Also, any complaints from APs on the preparation and approval of compensation plans, they
would have contacted by representatives of local government (CPCs or DPCs) through the
Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation for solving their problems. These working
minutes have been kept in order by the Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation.
They are also available in CPMB office. From above steps of the implementation, it means
that the DMS activities followed strictly the ADB and GoVN policy.
40. The Project has been implemented with the application of the 2003 Land Law and
compensation rates for affected land and assets in accordance with the price list issued
annually by the PPCs after the market price valuation results in each area are in place.
Regarding compensation rates for affected trees, the rates are applied per the decisions by
the PPCs. However, in the areas where rubber trees are significantly affected, CPMB has
cooperated with the PPCs to re-conduct the valuation of the rubber trees and proposed
compensation rates closer to the market prices.
3.2. Setting up unit price in compensation package and its application
41. Regarding unit price applied in compensation packages, the Councils of Land Clearance
and Compensation have adopted the current regulations of the provinces at the time of
applying for the compensation schemes. Some APs had complaints about the unit price of
the compensation packages, as that the Councils worked in collaboration with different
stakeholders; they had official meetings to discuss about these compensation unit price with
APs. If without any complaint, they started a submission for an appraisal and approval to the
competent authority. As it observed that the approval process ensured the maximum
benefits of the APs. According to the monitoring results, it is shown that all APs agreed on
the compensation package with investigated unit prices which are practically applied in
compensation plans. Thus, APs are satisfied with the preparation and approval of
compensation plans. Contributing for the satisfaction of APs, the CPMB provided a high
effort to promote the higher unit price in the compensation packages.
3.3. Procedure of approval process of compensation package
42. The approval of compensation packages were often very slow that is why it caused the
delay in the compensation and assistance payment. The procedure was applied in a
compliance with public administration, so it become complicated under multi-tasks at local
government.
4. Process of compensation payment
43. The implementation of REMDPs and LARAPs in 6 project provinces was completed as
the operation of compensation, assistance and resettlement of the project continued to be
carried out in compliance with ADB's policies on social safeguard policies and REMDPs,
LARAPs given and DDRs (2012) and DDR (8/2015). The assistance of the project was done
mainly for land, crops and structures outside the ROW that would be risk adversely affecting
the line. Up to now, all GAPs on compensation and assistance discovered during the
monitoring activities in semi-annual reports were successfully resolved by high effort of
CPMB and local stakeholders.
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Most of outstanding cases due to some objective reasons in the compensation process such
as (i) land owners lost the land certificates (ii) the land certificates were held by commercial
banks for a provided loan (iii) request for acquiring small land area which is no longer viable
for cultivation; and (iv) simultaneously the project continued to implement additional
assistance to support severely APs as well as solving all complaints from outstanding cases.
The results as shown in Table 16 as follows:
Table 16: Operation of REMDPs/LARAPs up to June 2016
Province Gia Lai Dak Lak Dak
Nong
Binh
Phuoc
Binh
Duong
Ho Chi
Minh Activities
Information disclosure Done Done Done Done Done Done
Detailed measurement
survey and entitlement
Done Done Done Done Done Done
Compensation and
resettlement development
Done Done Done Done Done Done
Public consultation, advise
for APs about the
compensation plans
Done Done Done Done Done Done
Finalised the compensation
plans and submitted for the
approval
Done Done Done Done Done Done
Supervision and approval for
the compensation plan
Done Done Done Done Done Done
Compensation payment and
assistance
Done Done Done Done Done Done
Site clearance Done Done Done Done Done Done
External monitoring Done
Source: Monitoring database
44. The activities of compensation are mainly done for trees and land located in/outside
ROW, such as the trees may fall down into the line causing a danger for the line located in
03 provinces of Dak Nong and Binh Phuoc, Binh Duong. The activities of compensation
were carried out until December 2015.
45. The reports on replacement cost of Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Binh Phuoc, Binh
Duong, HCM were properly and independently established. The reports of replacement cost
were prepared by the independent parties; the services were provided by private companies
independently for these investigations on the market prices for specific market places.
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46. The Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation in districts conducted the payment
on compensation and assistance by cash, compensation of agricultural land for AHs to
reduce negative impacts of the project. In the project completion period , the activities were
mainly focused on completion of compensation and assistance for AHs. Thus, the HHs
numbers accounted for 5,298 households with exact amount for receiving compensation and
assistance reached: VND 870,327,950,681. In which, there are 714 households who
received the compensation and assistance in Gia Lai with the amount of VND
81,160,968,569. There are 628 households in Dak Lak received a total amount of VND
34,922,084,147. There are 1,419 households in Dak Nong received a total VND
97,916,254,287. There are 990 households in Binh Phuoc received VND 223,220,624,723.
There are 723 households in Binh Duong received a total amount of VND 289,432,867,431.
There are 824 households in HCM city received a total amount of VND 143,675,151,524
(see Table 17 below).
Table 17: Total amount of compensation and assistance in the project
Province/City Total amount of
compensation (VND)
Total amount of
assistance (VND)
Total amount of
compensation and
assistance (VND)
Gia Lai 78,333,294,540
2,827,674,029
81,160,968,569
Đak Lak 34,089,796,894
832,287,253
34,922,084,147
Đak Nông 91,941,899,181
5,974,355,106
97,916,254,287
Binh Phuoc 219,533,105,844
3,687,518,879
223,220,624,723
Binh Duong 283,839,651,103
5,593,216,328
289,432,867,431
Ho Chi Minh 140,506,174,179
3,168,977,345
143,675,151,524
Total 848,243,921,741 22,084,028,940 870,327,950,681
Source: Final Monitoring Phase
47. In the project implementation phase, CPMB with a support of LIC has conducted many
necessary activities to address the existing gaps and problems of the last 6 months report
2015 and the first 6-month report 2016. The operations of CPMB were to send the
dispatches, official letters, and field trips to require all Councils to work in a coordination to
settle definitively the remaining problems related to existing complaints. LICs have worked in
the field to organize meetings with the Councils to support and work out their tasks. So far
we had all provinces reported results to complete the compensation, assistance and
resettlement (See Table 17).
5. Assess degree of APs’ satisfaction of compensation and resettlement
48. In the project implementation, the APs are satisfied with the results of detailed
measurement survey. Most of APs are satisfied with the compensation price set up by
Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation as well as compensation payment.
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49. Related to APs’ livelihoods, most of the existing GAPs in DDR 2015 and monitoring reports were resolved.73% complaints were to concentrate around the compensation unit
price while 21% complaints were came from compensation in the ROW. The complaints on
unit price happened to focus on a period of year 2011-2014, but the complaints on
compensation and assistance happened to focus on a period of year 2014-2016.
50. The complaints and grievances mentioned in the DDRs have been resolved. As a result,
up to date of project completion, all complaints have been sufficiently resolved. There are
1733 cases of redress of grievance and complaints found during the project implementation.
As a result shown in table 18, up to date of the end of the project completion, the redress of
grievance and complaints have been sufficiently resolved.
Table 18: Cases in redress of grievance and complaints in the project implementation
Nr Province
Cases of redress of
grievance and
complaints
Status
1 Gia Lai 53 Completely resolved
2 Đak Lak 139 Completely resolved
3 Đak Nông 767 Completely resolved
4 Binh Phuoc 426 Completely resolved
5 Binh Duong 270 Completely resolved
6 Ho Chi Minh 78 Completely resolved
Ethnic minority groups
51. According to REMDPs/LARPs of this project, the ethnic minority groups are the
vulnerable. The numbers are figured out in the Para. 17, they were treated with high
attention from the beginning. At the completion date, they were all satisfied with the
compensation and assistance because that they were carefully consulted before the DMS
and during the implementation of the compensation and assistance as well as completely
resolving of grievance and complaints (Table 18), none of them had any complaints and
grievance until the project completion.
Gender issues
52. Gender issue was paid high attention in the process of project implementation. The
consultation of women was taken into consideration and focused by Councils of Land
Clearance and Compensation for solving grievances, complaints as well as providing
assistance to support the APs. Many opinions came from women who wanted additional
compensation and additional support; they also suggested that to receive loan with low
interest rates for their production development.
53. The poor women received appropriate assistance in income and livelihood restoration.
Also the gaps and problems related to poor women with the evidence are solved which are
shown in the semi-annual internal reports. CPMB was active working with local stakeholders
to correct these GAPs discovered during the monitoring period. The poor women are
satisfactory with the compensation price and the assistance.
C. Assess the stakeholder cooperation
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54. From institutional arrangement in the project, CPMB worked in collaboration with the
local stakeholders such as Provincial/district People Committees and Councils of Land
Clearance and Compensation and Land Development Fund Centers, local Electricity
Transmission Companies and local ethnic people communities in the project province. From
stakeholder cooperation, it helped to work out many weaknesses and bottleneck and
constraints during the project implementation, especially it is effective for solving redress of
grievance and complaints.
55. During the project implementation, under leadership in CPMB project management, a
team with good interpersonal skills working in collaboration with multi-stakeholders at
different level to work out many difficult tasks. The operational tasks were kept informed of
all stakeholders in the project from DMSs and development of compensation packages and
compensation payment, and assisted activities in the project. The tasks are all under
adequate control and getting consensus in decision making.
56. In the implementation, the local partners are empowered to work closer with ethnic
minority groups as well as APs in the compensation and livelihood assistance. As a result,
making the more effective and efficient in solving the problems related to compensation and
the redress of grievance and complaints.
D. Conclusion and lesson learned
a. Conclusion
57. So far, the implementation of REMDPs/LARAPs is completed, as a result of the project
implementation, the operations of compensation, livelihood assistance and resettlements
were done in full compliance to the ADB policy and GOV Law for the implementation of
REMDPs/LARAPs. The activities of public consultation and information dissemination
procedures to arising APs, all activities of the payment of compensation and assistance to
affected households are carried out in a compliance with procedures for resolving complaints
and grievances of ADB's social safeguard policy and the GOV Law. The social service
provision such as infrastructure, health, education was well performed.
58. The implementation, gender inclusive was done in a satisfactory manner as well as
attention giving to severely APs and ethnic minority APs. Actually, there were great changes
affect women not being recognized and planned in the REMDPs/LARAPs. From appropriate
coordination and resource mobilization help overcome weaknesses that the vulnerable APs
could mitigate well from their difficulties. From deliberative discussion within internal
monitoring session, the GAPs in the implementation were defined and to be filled out in the
corrected actions.
59. On the whole compensation process was properly done under the REMDPs/LARAPs,
the project provided relevant livelihood assistance for severely AHs gaining livelihood
restoration as before the project. The livelihood assistance for vulnerable households as
poor HHs, disadvantage HHs is very valuable to restore their income as well as enhance
their living standard. If some APs did not agree to receive the compensation at unexpected
compensation rate, the redress of grievance and complaints were properly solved. The
monitoring data is shown that the severely APs and vulnerable APs are paid high attention to
correct the GAPs during the implementation. The DMSs were strictly conducted in
accordance with the Law of Vietnam and ADB policies in compliance. The process of setting
compensation package development was well carried out in accordance with Law of Vietnam
and in compliance by ADB policy. On the complaints related to the inventory, the problem
could be solved by full APs participation.
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60. The consultation on AP decision making of relocation in the resettlement site and
participation and information disclosure is strictly done to demonstrate in the monitoring data
which also appeared on livelihoods and living standards as well as access to social services
with high degree of satisfaction in APs. It performed relatively strictly on technical
requirements for consultation. The capacity consultation increased from support of safeguard
consultant in overcoming the limitation access from their language barriers. The
communication constraints caused by shy and timid characteristics was reduced from high
effort to raise the consultation participation.
61. During the implementation, the published materials of social safeguard, information and
community meetings were well carried out and their complaints received in time the
response and feedback from the Councils and CPMB.
62. Considering that the mechanism for resolving the redress of grievance and complaints
work effectively and properly to improve the situation at the beginning. The procedures
hindered resolving the redress of grievance and complaints through the levels of the
CPC/DPC to PPC, the monitoring on resolving the redress of grievance and complaints
within GRM is the best solution is that promoting 'dialogue' between the Councils and APs,
that is why the redress of grievance and complaints were carefully resolved under the
participatory system.
63. The internal monitoring was conducted on the post resettlement focusing on severely
APs and vulnerable households, especially for serious ethnic minority APs. Monitoring
information for these households were collected, especially for the vulnerable groups
including the elderly, single headed women, disabled, indigenous minorities. The collected
information are done on a change of livelihood, living standards, social services such as
education, health, water sanitation schools, electricity, and transportation. The monitoring
data focused on social capital, social network, and emerging community problems such as
number of social evils. The internal monitoring sessions paid attention to unintended impacts
such as to settle temporary impacts from construction, the phenomenon of illegal benefits
from encroachment to the safety corridor of the project line. The internal monitoring data also
collected data on cultural issues of ethnic minority APs, a change of community structure,
gender equality and women's development.
b. Lessons learned
64. The implementation must follow the ADB policy and national government Law in a
relevant harmonization that is effective in the implementation. The capacity building for local
stakeholders is also important to ensure the best quality of the implementation of
REMDPs/LARAPs.
65. The land acquisition can be done before the approval of REMDPs/LARPs giving a
chance to keep up in progress, however it can not be a good lesson learned to follow so that
the REMDPs/LARPs must be completed prior to the implementation. The REMDPs/LARAPs
developed in line with project progress are the advantage.
66. The REMDPs/LARAPs should be developed as early as possible help the CPMB can
manage the project implementation as well as census and socio-economic survey should be
able to be done together with the inventory of loses to ensure the whole picture before
project.
67. The high participation of all stakeholders can happen if the institutional arrangement
established as early as possible in a combination with capacity building for the key project
stakeholders;
68. The employment of LIC to support the project implementation should be done at the
start-up of the project implementation.