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Social Monitoring Report

Semiannual Report September 2016

NEP: SASEC Road Connectivity

Prepared by the Department of Roads for the Ministry of Finance 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.

CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS

(30 June 2016)

Currency unit - Nepalese (NPR)

NPR 1.00 = $0.00921

$ 1.00 = 108.53 NPR

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.

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Acronyms

ADB Asian Development Bank AP Affected Person CBO Community Based Organization CDC Compensation Determination Committee CDO Chief District Officer CIPRP Combined Indigenous Peoples and Resettlement Plan DAO District Administration Office DDC District Development Committee DDR Due-Diligence Report DLRO District Land Revenue Office DLSO District Land Survey Office DoR Department of Roads DP Displaced Persons EA Executive Agency EWH East West Highway GRC Grievance Redress Committee HD Halesi - Diktel HH Household HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome IA Implementing Agency LB Leguwaghat- Bhojpur LEST Livelihood Enhancement Skill Development Training MB Mechipul- Birtamod MHH Mid Hill Highway MR Manthali- Ramechhap NGO Non Governmental Organization PAF Project Affected Families PM/PIC Project Manager/Project In-Charge RoW Right of Way RP Resettlement Plan CSC Construction Supervision Consultant SASEC South Asia Sub-regional Economic Cooperation

SLC SASEC Road Connectivity Project Subproject Level Committee for grievance redress

SPAF Seriously Project Affected Family TOR Terms of Reference VDC Village Development Committee

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

S.N. Topic Page No 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 PROJECT BACKGROUND 1

2.1 East West Highway(EWH)- Koshi Bridge- East West Highway(EWH) Road

2

2.2 Halesi- Diktel (HD) Road 3 2.3 Manthali- Ramechhap (MR) Road 3 2.4 Leguwaghat- Bhojpur (LB) Road 3 2.5 Mechipul-Chandragadi- Birtamod (MB) Road 4 3 PHYSICAL PROGRESS OF SUBPROJECT ROADS 4 4 OBJECTIVE, APPROACH AND SCOPE OF SEMI-ANNUAL

MONITORING

5

5 CHANGES IN SOCIAL SAFEGUARD SCOPE 6 6 SOCIAL SAFEGUARD MONITORING PARAMETERS 6 7 IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENT 7 8 PROJECT IMPACT 7 9 STATUS OF SOCIAL SAFEGUARD PLAN

IMPLEMENTATION 8

9.1 Progress of Land Acquisition and Compensation Payment 8 9.2 Internal Monitoring 14 9.3 Grievance Redress Committee 15 9.4 Public Consultation 16 9.5 Status of Indigenous and Vulnerable People 17 9.6 Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R&R) Activities 18 9.7 Progress in Recruitment of Implementing NGO 19 9.8 Gender Equality and Social Inclusion(GESI) / HIV/AIDS and

health protection and other social program Status 20

10 ISSUES 21 11 CORRECTIVE ACTIONS FOR MAJOR GAPS 22 12 MAJOR ITEM OF FOCUS FOR NEXT REPORT 22

Annexes 1. Social Safeguard Planning Status 2. Compliance with Social Safeguard Covenants of Loan Agreement 3. Interviewed APs during the field visit 4. Sample copy of Verified document during the field visit 5. Status of GESI Action Plan

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DEFINITION

Acquisition: Acquisition of land and other assets for the purpose of development projects in accordance to prevailing Land Acquisition Act 1977 (2034 BS).

Displaced Persons: Affected persons are those who are physically displaced (relocation, loss of residential land, or loss of shelter) and economically displaced (loss of land assets, income sources, or means of livelihood) as a result of involuntary resettlement of land, involuntary restrictions on land use or on access to legally designated parks and protected areas.

Indigenous People: Nepal indigenous/nationalities/tribal Act 2001defines Ethnic/ Indigenous Peoples as; “people having their own mother tongue, distinct traditional values, and cultural identities, including social structure and written/non written history are indigenous and nationalities population.” The National Foundation of Indigenous Nationalities (NFIN) has declared 59 groups as ethnic nationalities.

Rehabilitation: The measures taken to mitigate social impacts, including compensation, resettlement and rehabilitation allowances where required.

Replacement Cost: The market value of a project affected assets. For agriculture land, this includes reference to land of equal size, type and productive potentiality in the vicinity of the affected land and land preparation costs where required. For houses and other structures, this includes reference to the market price of materials and labor, and the cost of transporting materials to the building site. The replacement cost further includes the cost of any registration and transfer taxes for land and buildings.

Resettlement: Resettlement denotes the consequence that occurs due to acquisition of land and other assets as well as the entire process and activities related to acquisition and implementation of resettlement plan in accordance to prevailing Acts.

Right of Way: Right of way means the land acquired for the project purposes. Generally, government declares 50 meter for National highway and 30 meter for feeder roads.

Sub project Level Grievance Redress Committee: Village Development Committee or municipality level committee established to assist the affected people, legally constituted committees for land acquisition and project authorities, monitoring of implementation issues and community reactions and grievance resolution.

Severely Project Affected Family: Family having more than 10 percent loss of total land holding or income is considered as severely affected family.

Titleholder: The person in whose name the project-affected land, structure, business is registered and who is authorized to receive the compensation granted for the loss of business or acquisition of the land and assets.

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Vulnerable Persons: The disadvantaged persons such as disabled, women headed households, handicapped, independent elderly persons (70 years and above age), households with disable persons, ethnic occupational cast and below poverty level households.

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1. INTRODUCTION

1. This report is the third semi-annual report on social safeguards compliance of the Nepal South Asia Sub regional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Road Connectivity Project (SRCP). It describes the implementation of social safeguards activities, covering the period from 1 January to 30 June, 2016. The Social Monitoring Report (SMR) covers in particular the progress of the implementation of the Combined Indigenous People’s Plan and Resettlement Plans (CIPRP) 2013 approved for the project. It also describes the implementation of other social activities, such as the Gender Action Plan (GAP), activities related to HIV/AIDS prevention, and Livelihood restoration and support activities.

2. PROJECT BACKGROUND

2. The South Asia Sub-regional Economic Corporation(SASEC) Road Connectivity Project (SRCP) is upgrading about 187 km of existing five roads namely Alternate East-West Highway (EWH)- Koshi Bridge-East West Highway (EWH) in Sunsari, Udayapur and Saptari districts , Leguwaghat-Bhojpur (LB) in Bhojpur District, Halesi-Diktel (HD) in Khotang District, Manthali-Ramechhap (MR) in Ramechhap District and Mechipul-Birtamod (M-B) in Jhapa District. The Project is implemented by Project Directorate (ADB), Department of Road (DOR) and assisted by Construction Supervision Consultant (CSC). Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided the loan for financing the SRCP. During the Detail Design Phase, the project road has prepared combined indigenous peoples and resettlement plans for three project roads namely: EWE-Koshi Bridge- EWH, HD and MR, and two resettlement due-diligence reports for LB and M-B roads. These Social Safeguards documents have been prepared to mitigate and address the private and public losses due to project intervention. The Social Safeguards reports were developed based on ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement (2009), Land Acquisition Act 1977 and applicable national laws and regulations.

The Summary of Sub-projects under SRCP is presented the table below:

Table 1: Summary of subprojects under SRCP

S.N. Name of

Road

Length of

Road (km)

Types and

number of

Contracts

Contract commencement

Date

Category of the Sub-

project IR and IP

Prepared Social

Safeguard Document

No of project affected

Households(as per updated

CIPRP)

1

EWH-Koshi

Bridge- EWH

61.25 ICB 20-11-2014

A

Combined Indigenous Peoples and Resettlement

Plan

2363


S.N. Name of

Road

Length of

Road (km)

Types and

number of

Contracts

Contract commencement

Date

Category of the Sub-

project IR and IP

Prepared Social

Safeguard Document

No of project affected

Households(as per updated

CIPRP)

2 Halesi- Diktel

34.43 NCB 3 contracts

14-06-2014 A Combined Indigenous

Peoples and Resettlement

Plan

615

3 Manthali - Ramechhap

13.35 NCB 20-11-2014 A Combined Indigenous

Peoples and Resettlement

Plan

208

4 Leguwaghat -Bhojpur

65.55 ICB 20-11-2014 C Due Diligence Report

106

5 Mechipul- Birtamod

12.16 NCB 14-06-2014 C Due Diligence Report

0

3. Above table indicates, there are 5 subproject in SRCP where 3 subprojects (EWH- Koshi Bridge- EWH, HD & MR roads) have significant resettlement impacts and remaining two subprojects one have (MB road) no resettlement impact and another (LB road) have minor resettlement impact and prepared Due Diligence Report (DDR).

2.1 East West Highway - Koshi Bridge- East West Highway (EWH) Road

4. This subproject road lies in Sunsari, Udayapur and Saptari districts, eastern and western part of Kosi River of Eastern Nepal. The existing alignment of eastern part from the Koshi River passes through two VDCs of Sunsari district and the western part traverses through five VDCs of Udayapur and seven VDCs of Saptari district. Improvement of the Subproject road will: (i) provide an alternative access to maintain intact link of the Eastern Development Region (EDR) with the National Highway (East West Highway-EWH) and other road network even in case of breakdown of existing Kosi Barrage system, and (ii) enhancing the socioeconomic conditions of the people in the road alignment locations.

5. Department of Roads (DoR), under the SRCP aims to improve existing earthen road with about 12 meters average formation width or a double lane road with Asian Highway Grade II Standard within 30 meters Right of Way (RoW). The major activities to be carried out under the Subprojects includes: (i) earthworks for widening, formation raising, reshaping and grade adjustment; (ii) strengthening, resurfacing and partial reconstruction on existing sections and new construction on re-aligned sections, (iii) shoulder improvement and sealing of shoulder on hill side


along the road, (iv) lining of side drains, improvement of existing natural drainage systems, culverts and causeways (including new construction), and side drains along main market fronts, (v) new retaining structures including repair/rehabilitation of existing ones; and (vi) landslide stabilization and slope protection activities. In addition, the road also includes realignment (new alignment) of about 2.0 km road in different sections through bypasses.

2.2 Halesi- Diktel (HD) Road

6. This subproject road located at Khotang district in the Eastern Development Region of Nepal, The road starts from Giri tole located at 100 meter ahead from the famous Halesi temple and passes through 8 VDCs of Khotang district and ends Diktel Bazar, district headquarter of Khotang district.

7. The road is a part of the Mid-Hill Highway. Now it is it is being improved as an intermediate lane feeder road standard by Department of Roads. Earlier the DFID funded Rural Access Programme (RAP) had opened the track from Hilepani (Okhaldhunga district) –Halesi - Diktel linking to Bhojpur. The SRCP intends to improve the Halesi-Diktel as an intermediate lane bituminous road having the formation width of 6.0 meter wide.

2.3 Manthali- Ramechhap (MR) Road

8. This subproject road lies in Ramechhap district of the Central Devlopment Region of Nepal. The road alignment is situated on Manthali and Ramechhap Municipalities (then VDCs). The road starts across the Ranajor River near the district headquarter at Manthali, and ends Ramechhap Bazaar(old district headquarter). The DoR under the SRCP aims to improve the Manthali Ramechhap Road as a intermediate lane bituminous road within for connecting the southwestern part of Ramechhap district to the district headquarter at Manthali. The average available formation width of the existing fair weather road is 6.0 meter. The road mostly traverses through mountainous topography and small settlements in some sections

9. The Technical design of the road is based on the Department of Roads design standard by: (i) utilizing the existing alignment on foot print basis, and (ii) acquiring minimum land based on actual need, approximately up to 6.0 meter for the road alignment except curves and junctions.

2.4 Leguwaghat- Bhojpur (LB) Road

10. This subproject road located in Bhojpur district of Eastern Development Region, it is a part of the Mid Hill Highway (MHH). The road starts from Leguwaghat across the Arun River, and passes through the 9 Village Development Committees (VDCs) of Bhojpur district. Initially DFID funded Rural Access Program (RAP) had opened 4.5 meters track for this road. Later in 2003/04, in accordance to the Government decision DOR initiated to improve this road to a Mid Hill Highway road standard, with 30.0 meter right of way (ROW) under the Hile-Leguwaghat-Bhojpur Road Project. Then DOR acquired about 99.29 ha of land along the corridor of existing alignment and started compensation distribution to the affected persons. The compensation payment activities were continued till the Detail Design Period. According to ADB Safeguard


Policy Statement 2009, Due Diligence Report (DDR) was prepared for ensuring remaining compensation payments to the all project affected persons for their affected assets.

2.5 Mechipul - Birtamod (MB) Road

11. This subproject road is located at Jhapa district in the Eastern Development Region. Jhapa is one of the Terai districts of Nepal in the bordering area of India. The road will play key role on opening a feeder road access between Nepal, India, and Bangladesh which have been expected to contribute on improving the national economy through improved and easy trade due to direct transport connection between three countries, and also to enhance the socioeconomic conditions of the people in the project locations.

12. This road was constructed initially as a single lane by Department of Roads at 1972. The road starts from Lekhnath Chok Chandragadi and ends Birtamod Bazaar. The road passes through the number of built-up areas such as Chandragadi, Garamani, Anarmani and Birtamod. As per detail design of the project, the existing single road would be upgrading as two lane feeder road. The DoR has already occupied the required land area within 50 meter right of way (RoW). Therefore, there are no issues of land acquisition and compensation payment but prepared Due Diligence Report to ensure compensation for any assets that may likely to be affected during the road implementation period.

3. PHYSICAL PROGRESS OF SUBPROJECT ROADS

13. Two international competitive bidding (ICB) contractor has been mobilized for civil works construction for EWH- Koshi Bridge- EWH Road and LB Road on 2o November 2014. Likewise, 5 national competitive bidding contractors have been mobilized for HD Road (3 packages), MR Road (1 package) and MB Road (1 package) on 14 June 2014.

The table below presents the physical progress of subprojects roads as of 30 June 2016.

Table 2: Physical Progress of Subproject Roads

S.N. Name of Roads Length(K.M.)

Physical Progress (%)

Dec 2015 June 2015

Progress during reporting period

(6 month)

1 EWH-Koshi Bridge- EWH 61.25 4.96 24.40 19.44

2 Halesi- Diktel package-01 Halesi- Diktel package-02 Halesi- Diktel package-03

12.00 12.00 11.43

17.82 24.36 12.55

32.53 35.99 30.40

14.41 11.63 7.85


S.N. Name of Roads Length(K.M.)

Physical Progress (%)

Dec 2015 June 2015

Progress during reporting period

(6 month)

3 Manthali - Ramechhap 13.35 20.87 35.24 14.37

4 Leguwaghat -Bhojpur 65.55 25.12 39.71 14.59

5 Mechipul- Birtamod 12.16 21.78

- This contract is in termination process.

4. OBJECTIVE, APPROACH AND SCOPE OF SEMI-ANNUAL MONITORING

4.1 Objective

14. The objective of the semiannual monitoring report is to assess progress on safeguard plan implementation of the subproject roads including compensation payment, grievance redress procedure, public consultation and disclosure process, evaluation of income restoration program of affected households including indigenous people and vulnerable people.

4.2 Approach

15. The following tasks were undertaken for preparing this report:

• Review the project related document that were relevant for the monitoring such as monthly, quarterly and various progress report prepared by Construction Supervision Consultant.

• Conducted Field Visit and randomly interviewed with affected people to verify compensation payment and other resettlement activities

• Review of the grievance submitted by subproject and action taken against those complaints;

• Discussions / interactions with the PIU,CSC social and technical team and other project team including contractor representatives , staffs of government line agencies regarding land acquisition, compensation payment, deed transfer and cost evaluation of affected house/structures

• Randomly interviewed with construction workers regarding safety measures, sanitation situation in labour camps, child labour status and difference of wage rate between male and female workers


4.3 Scope of Semi -annual Monitoring

16. The social safeguard monitoring is guided by the ADB Safeguard Policy Statement 2009, Land Acquisition Act of Nepal 1977 (2034 BS) and other relevant policies and guidelines. This monitoring report is focusing on the social safeguard implementation including appropriate measures to minimize the resettlement impact during project implementation. Compensation payment to the affected land and assets, measures to redress the grievance appeared during project implementation and income restoration measures to the vulnerable and indigenous project affected people are included in safeguard monitoring.

17. It has been agreed to prepare and submit social safeguard monitoring semi-annual report to provide the status of social safeguard plan implementation of SASEC Road Connectivity project. The reporting period covers 6 months from January to June 2016.

5. CHANGES IN SOCIAL SAFEGUARD SCOPE

18. The project implementation was started from June 2014. During the project implementation, land acquisition data prepared in detail design phase were changed in some places. Missing land parcels and other assets were incorporated in the project implementation. Accordingly, the number of project affected people including indigenous and vulnerable people is required to be updated. Therefore, CSC is updating the original Combined Indigenous People and Resettlement Plan of EWH Koshi Bridge- EWH Road, Halesi Diktel Road and Manthali Ramechhap Road.

6. SOCIAL SAFEGUARD MONITORING PARAMETERS

19. The following parameters have been applied during social safeguard monitoring:

• Progress on land acquisition and compensation Payment • Procedure of compensation rate determination and compensation payment delivery system

(easiness, transparency etc.) • Grievances by type and resolution status, effectiveness of GRC in local level, • Rehabilitation of public utilities, • Public consultation and disclosure activities, • Status of vulnerable and Indigenous APs after project intervention, • Status of income restoration program (skill training, employment opportunity etc.) • Resettlement Budget • Use of compensation and other rehabilitation allowances by vulnerable and indigenous

people, • APs satisfaction & perception regarding compensation amount decided by CDC, • Implementation of social awareness program (gender/HIV/human trafficking), • Compliance status of social issues such as campsite management, health and safety, wage

rate, child labor etc.


7. IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENT

20. The Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (MOPIT) is the project’s Executing Agency (EA), and Department of Roads (DoR) is the implementing agency (IA). A Project Implementation Unit (PIU) has been established as Project Directorate (PD/ADB) under DoR to supervise the overall implementation of all the Subprojects. At the subproject level, the Subproject PIUs are headed by the Project Managers (PMs)/Project In-charge (PICs) in the rank of Senior Divisional Engineer, are responsible for monitoring/supervise resettlement and other social activities.

21. The Construction Supervision Consultant (CSC), MSV International Inc. in association with Soil Test, Welink, and Beam Pvt. Ltd, is responsible to support the Project Directorate in the implementation of the Resettlement Plans (RPs), the Gender Action Plan (GAP) activities and the HIV/AIDS & human trafficking activities. For this purpose, 3 social experts and supporting staffs have been deputed from November 2014. The CSC’s social and resettlement team of experts is supported by seven field staff. Out of seven supporting social staffs currently two are working in East-West Highway Road, two in Halesi-Diktel road and one in Manthali- Ramechhap road, one in Leguwaghat- Bhojpur road and one in the MSV Office Kathmandu. Key activities under the CSC’s responsibility include supporting the Project Directorate(ADB) in: (i) facilitating the completion of the Detailed Measurement Survey (DMS); (ii) conducting consultations and disseminating the resettlement matrix and other relevant information; (iii) supporting the formation of Subproject Level Committees (SLCs) and Grievance Redress Committees (GRCs), (iv) collecting and recording regularly issues raised by project affected people and (v) motivating Project Affected Persons (PAPs) to find solutions at the local level, and if required bridge them with concerned stakeholders. Moreover, the CSC has the responsibility of monitoring health and occupational safety, environmental management and road safety.

8. PROJECT IMPACT

22. The 3 subproject roads (EWH- Koshi Bridge- EWH, HD & MR) have been prepared Combined Indigenous Peoples and Resettlement Plans and 2 subproject roads (L-B & M-B) have prepared resettlement Due Diligence Reports during the detail design phase. During the project implementation, Construction Supervision Consult (CSC) conducted detail measure survey (DMS) of EWH- Koshi Bridge- EWH, HD and MR roads which revealed that there was missing many project affected household in the original CIPRP which need to be updated. The updated CIPRP of all 3 subprojects have been submitted to ADB. These CIPRP has been prepared to mitigate and address the resettlement impact which is found during the project implementation based on ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement (2009), Land Acquisition Act 1977 and applicable national laws and regulations. The table below presents the differences between Updated CIPRP (2016) and Original CIPRP (2013)


Table 3. Summary of Project Impacts between Updated CIPRP and Original CIPRP

Description Updated CIPRP (2016) Original CIPRP (2013)

EWH HD MR EWH HD MR

Total Households (No.) 2,363 615 208 1779 389 192 Affected Private Land Area (ha.)

47.36 19.04 3.20 45.6 19.44 4.39

No. of Land Parcels 1,893 907 274 1582 914 276 No. of House/Structures 1,421 156 8 1109 106 8 Private trees 1,621 1,166 452 2128 755 273 No of Indigenous Households

511 250 16 556 177 14

No of Vulnerable households

173 68 58 254 159 66

9. STATUS OF THE SOCIAL SAFEGUARD PLAN IMPLEMENTATION

23. The SASEC Road Connectivity Project (SRCP) has been undertaking compensation and resettlement/ rehabilitation activities since January 2015. These activities were carried out within the framework of Combined Indigenous People and Resettlement plan (CIPRP) and Due Diligence Report prepared during Detail Design Phase. The key progress against the CIPRP is discussed below:

9.1 Progress in Land Acquisition and Compensation Payment

24. Since PAPs are engaged in agriculture activities the subprojects could not receive good volume of applications for carrying out compensation distribution related activities however, enumeration activities were intensively carried out by CSC in all the subprojects and large number of PAPs are found to have legal disputes and out migration failing to comply with compensation distribution activities and details of which has been mentioned below table:

Table 4: Progress of Compensation Payment except Absentees and Legal Dispute Parcels

Sub-project Road

Compensation Payment Progress

Absentees & Legal

Dispute Land Parcels

Progress of Compensation excluding Absentees and

Legal Dispute Parcels

Target Achieved Progress Total

(A+B) Progress

Parcel Nos.

Parcel Nos. (A)

% No of land Parcel (B)

% Parcel Nos. %

EWH 1893 1267 67 391 21 1658 88 LB 138 55 40 62 45 117 85


HD 907 684 75 107 12 791 87 MR 274 203 74 29 11 232 85 Total 3212 2209 69 589 18 2798 87

The subproject wise details of compensation payment are presented below:

9.1.1 East –West -Highway (EWH) Road

25. According to the updated CIPRP, 2016, 2,363 households 1,893 land parcels with an area of 47.36 hectare land, 1421 structures including 1378 private structures and 43 community structures, 1621 private trees/fruit trees are affected by this subproject. The progress achieved in the distribution of compensation for affected assets as of 30 June, 2016 is presented the table below.

Table 5: Progress on Compensation Distribution for Affected Assets in EWH Road

Description

No. Affected Assets

Estimated Amount NRs

Progress Remaining (Due)

No. (%) Amount NRs

No. (%) Amount NRs

Trees and Fruits

1,621 24,566,150 212 13.1 2,753,300 1448 86.9 21812850

Structures 1,421 305,024,429 441 31.0 91,102,855 980 69 213,921,574

Land Parcel 1,893

773,160,351

1267 66.9 493,395,450

626 33.1 279,764,901 Area in

Hector 47.36 32.23 68.1 15.13 31.9

Affected HHs 2363

1,102,750,930

1478 62.5

587,251,605

885 37.5

515,499,325 Total (Amount) 53.3 46.7

26. Land acquisition and compensation distribution activities are progressing in this road. Out of 1,893 land parcels, 1267 parcels have received NRs. 493,395,450 (64%) compensation amount for 32.23 hectare of land.

27. In respect to compensation distribution for affected structures, till the date 441 (31%) private structures have received compensation NRs. 91,102,855. Moreover, compensation distribution for private trees and fruit is going on, so far 212 (13%) out of 1621 private tress received NRs 2,753,300.00.

28. There are 1924 HHs (81.4%) under the ownership of male holding 35.7 ha of land whereas 439 HHs (18.6%) under female ownership holding. Sex wise compensation payment status is presented in Table 6.


Table 6: Compensation Payment Status in EWH

S.N. Description

Total number Compensated number

Male Female Total Male Female Total

1 Households 1924 439 2363 1233 245 1478

2 Parcels 1518 375 1893 894 373 1267

3 Private Structures 1206 172 1378 314 127 441

4 Deed Transfer(in hectare) 35.7 11.6 47.3 24 8.2 32.2

5 Private Trees/Fruits 1120 501 1621 143 69 212

29. There are 173 vulnerable households in EWH Road encompassing 72 households below poverty level, 50 elderly headed households(age equal to 70 or above), and 41 women headed households and 10 households with disable person. Among them, 102 households are compensated including 27 women headed households. The Table 7 shows the compensation payment status of vulnerable households:

Table 7: Compensation Payment Status of Vulnerable households

S.N.

Description Total Households Compensated Households


1 Women headed households 0 41 41 0 27 27

2 Households with Disable members 5 5 10 3 5 8

3 Elderly Headed Households 48 2 50 23 2 25 4 Below Poverty Line 57 15 72 30 12 42

Total 110 63 173 56 46 102 (59%)

9.1.2 Halesi-Diktel (HD) Road

30. In this sub-project road, there are affected: 615 households, 907 land parcels measuring an area of 19.04 hectare private land, 156 house/structures and 1,166 private trees. The progress of compensation payment as of 30 June 2016 is presented in the table below:

Table 8: Progress on Compensation Payment in HD Road

Description No. Affected Assets

Estimated Amount

NRs

Progress Remaining (Due) No. (%) Amount No. (%) Amount

NRs Trees and Fruits

1166 1,943,000 0 0 0 1166 100 1,943,000

Structures 156 59,175,000 0 0 0 156 100 59,175,000 Land Parcel 907

285,000,000

684 75 226,839,442

(80%)

223 25 58,160,558

(20%) Area in Hector

19.04 14.5 76 4.46 23.4


Description No. Affected Assets

Estimated Amount

NRs

Progress Remaining (Due) No. (%) Amount No. (%) Amount

NRs Affected HHs

615

346,118,000

465 76

226,839,442

150 24

Total (Amount) 65.5 34.5 119,278,558

31. The subproject has affected 504 HHs (82%) under the ownership of male covering around 84% of land whereas female 111 HHs (18%) own around 16% of total affected land. The table below presents the sex wise compensation payment status of affected households:

Table 9: Compensation Payment Status in HD

S.N. Description Total Households/No.

Compensated Households/No.


1 Households 504 111 615 378 87 465

2 Parcels 732 157 907 537 147 684

3 Private Structures 115 40 155 0 0 0

4 Deed Transfer(in hector) 16.04 3 19.04 10.4 4.1 14.5

5 Private Trees/Fruits 869 287 1166 0 0 0

32. There are 68 vulnerable households among them 28 HHs are under women’s ownership. So far 52 HHs are compensated including 25 households with women ownership. The table 10 shows the compensation payment status of vulnerable households:

Table 10: Compensation Payment Status of vulnerable households in HD

S.N. Description Total Households Compensated Households

Male Female Total Male Female Total 1 Women headed households 0 28 28 0 20 20

2 Households with Disable members

6 0 6 4 0 4

3 Dalit Groups 11 1 12 11 1 12 4 Elderly Headed Households 4 0 4 3 0 3 5 Below Poverty Line HHs 13 5 18 9 4 13 6 Total 34 34 68 27 25 52 (76%)

9.1.3 Manthali - Ramechhap (MR) Road

33. The subproject is affected 208 households 274 land parcels with an area of 3.2 hectare land, 8 structures including 3 community structures and 452 private trees. The table 11 presents status of compensation payment as of 30 June 2016:


Table11: Status of Compensation Payment in MR Road

Description No.

Affected Assets

Estimated Amount

NRs


No. (%) Amount

NRs No. (%)

Amount NRs

Trees and Fruits

452 278,836 0 0 0 452 100 278,837

Structures 8 1,111,484 4 50 965,555 4 50 145,930

Land Parcel 274 62,163,790

203 74.08 51,571,752

(83%)

71 26.9 12828524

(21%) Area in Hector

3.2 2.73 85.31 0.47 14.69

Affected HHs

208

63,554,112

163 78.37

52,537,307

45 21.6

11,016,804 Total (Amount) 82.7 17.3

34. The subproject is affected 153 HHs (73.5%) under the ownership of male covering around 81.25% of land whereas female 55 HHs (26.5%) own around 18.75 % of total affected land. There are 5 structures which belong to male headed households and 73 households are lost their trees including 9 households headed by women. Sex wise compensation payment status is presented in the table below:

Table 12: Compensation Payment Status in MR

S.N. Description Total Households/No.

Compensated Households/No.


1 Households 153 55 208 121 42 163 2 Parcels 218 56 274 159 44 203 3 Private Structures 5 0 5 4 0 4 4 Deed Transfer(in hector) 2.6 0.6 3.2 2.1 0.63 2.73 5 Private Trees/Fruits 64 9 73 0 0 0

35. There are 54 households are identified as vulnerable category. The table 13 presents the compensation payment status of vulnerable households as of 30 June 2016.

Table13: The Compensation Payment Status of Vulnerable Households in MR

S.N. Description Total Households Compensated Households


1 Women headed households 0 9 9 0 6 6

2 Households with Disable members 1 1 2 1 1 2


3 Dalit 4 1 5 2 1 3

4 Elderly Headed Households 14 1 15 6 1 7 5 Below Poverty Line HHs 20 1 21 15 0 15 6 Endangered Groups 2 0 2 2 0 2 7 Total 41 13 54 26 9 35 (85%)

9.1.4 Leghuwaghat–Bhojpur (LB) Road

36. The compensation payment activities of this road have started from Project Detail Design Phase. In the project implementation phase, this subproject has continued the remaining compensation amount. There are 62 parcels (about 45%) are absentees and legal disputes. The status of compensation as of 30 June 2016 is presented in table below.

Table 14: Compensation Payment Status in LB Road

Description No.

Affected Assets

Estimated Amount

NRs


No. (%) Amount No. (%) Amount

NRs Structures 8 520,018 3 37.5 102,294.50 5 62.5 417,723.5

Land Parcel 138 2,285,388

55 39.9 1,187,939

83 60.1 1,097,449 Area in

Hector 8.78 3.48 39.6 5.3 60.36

Affected HHs

115

2,805,406

58 54.4

1290233.5

57 49.6

1515172.5 Total (Amount) 54 46

37. During the field visit, there were interviewed with 115 project affected persons from above mentioned 4 roads and asked about land acquisition, resettlement and rehabilitation related questions. About 76 percent (87 APs) interviewed APs said that they were satisfied with compensation amount decided by CDC and remaining 24 percent APs said that the compensation amount of land was not representing the actual market price. However, they thought that after completing the road upgrading works, they would get multiple benefits in their locality such as increasing land price, opportunity to conduct small types of business, easy transportation, easily access to market, health institution etc. In other words, benefits of blacktop road are invaluable comparison to receive compensation amount, so they accepted the compensation amount decided by CDC. Similarly, APs have mentioned that the compensation process is ongoing and all APs will get their compensation amount in near future.

38. Likewise, about 75 percent interviewed persons who collected compensation amount of affected structures satisfied with compensation amount and said that it covers the replacement cost. Remaining 25 percent said that the structures cost covers the price of existing structures but it would not be sufficient to construct the modern type structures. Further they added that, the house


owners are additionally benefitted because they can use salvage materials of existing house/structures to construct the new house/structures.

9.2 Internal Monitoring

39. According to Combined Indigenous Peoples and Resettlement Plans (CIPRP) of the project, the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) with the support of Subproject Office and Construction Supervision Consultant (CSC) have conducted regularly supervise and monitor the resettlement plan implementation activities at the field level. The CSC maintains records of all transactions in their Management Information System (MIS), followed by entitlement records, payment records signed by affected peoples and survey based monitoring of RP implementation progress on a monthly basis. Based on the record maintained by CSC office, the PM in the Subproject Office monitors regularly the RP implementation progress and report to PIU on quarterly basis.

As per CIPRP, the internal monitoring ensures the following activities:

• Verification that there are no outstanding or unresolved land acquisition issues with respect to the project and that property valuation and economic rehabilitation has been carried out in accordance with the provisions of the plan;

• Ensure the completion of information campaign and consultation with affected people;

• Progress on compensation payment;

• Value of entitlement received is equal to that of original approved cost;

• Payment for all types of impact and losses;

• Use of entitlement and check its misuse;

• Status of relocation, if applicable;

• Ensure all economic rehabilitation measures are implemented, as approved;

• Effective operation of the Grievance Redress Committees both a Subproject and community level;

• Funds for implementing land acquisition and economic rehabilitation activities are available in a timely manner, sufficient for the purposes, and are spent in accordance with the plan.

9.3 Grievance Redress Committee(GRC)

40. There are two levels of grievance redress mechanisms provisioned in CIPRP. One is under the chairmanship of Chief District Officer (CDO) of respective District Administration Office and other is VDC/municipality wise sub project level committee (SLC). The Project Manager (PM) in close coordination with CDO will form a GRC at Subproject level. The other members to be included in the committee are; PM as Member Secretary and representatives from the district level line agencies such as District Land Revenue Office, District Land Survey Office, Municipality or


Village Development Committee, District Development Committee, District Agriculture Office, District Forest Office, and representative from other district level agencies, and other stakeholders as required. Similarly, other members of the GRC are: Community Based Organizations (CBOs) in the districts, representatives of affected/ vulnerable households including women, local representatives (e.g. school teachers, health workers, business persons, local resource persons etc), local leaders and other relevant persons.

41. In order to facilitate the GRC on resolving grievances, Subproject Level Committees (SLCs) has been established at different locations. The SLCs facilitates the GRC and DPs on redressing the grievances and timely distribution of compensation. Project-affected persons including DPs of the respective VDC/Municipality, local representatives of political parties, religious leaders, vulnerable groups, and local CBOs, and other stakeholders as applicable represent the SLC. The SLC is playing coordinating role between project affected people and the GRC to minimize and address the grievances. The SLC assist the Subproject Office/PM, and Social/Resettlement Specialist of the Construction Supervision Consultant (CSC) on informing people about the likely resettlement impacts, provision of compensation and other assistance to the affected Persons, RP implementation and grievances redressing methods as well as to solicit their view on the RP implementation. 42. The project has formed district wise GRCs at Sunsari, Udayapur and Saptari districts and 8 VDC wise Sub project level committees (SLC) in EWH road. Likewise, one GRC and 4 SLC were formed in Leguwaghat- Bhojpur Road. Similarly, one GRC and 3 SLCs and one GRC and 2 SLC were formed in Halesi Diktel and Manthali Ramechhap Road subprojects. According to social team of Construction Supervision Consultant, the project Sub-project level committees (SLC) for grievance re-dress are working effectively in local level and assist the project to settle the local level grievances and complains. The SLCs are also providing facilitation for compensation distribution at local level. The SLC has forwarded the grievances/ complaints to the Project Manager or Project Directorate offices which were not possible to solve in local level.

The status of recorded grievances of 3 subproject roads is presented in table below:

Table 15: Status of grievances in subproject roads

S.N. Subproject

Roads

No of recorded Grievances

solved Unsolved Remarks

1 EWH 211 173 38 Remaining 38 unsolved grievances are being resolved through District Survey Office.

2 HD 50 35 15 Remaining 15 grievance are being resolved through District Survey Office


3 MR 26 15 11 11 unsolved grievances are under process to resolve

4 LB 21 20 1 1 unsolved will be resolved with the coordination of District Survey Office

Source: Subproject Office Record May 2016

43. During the field visit there were observed the grievances/ complain recording register maintained in subproject offices. However, more verbal grievances/complains are not formally recorded and the subproject offices were addressing the people’s concern timely as far as possible. The recorded grievances in subproject offices were basically related to land acquisition and compensation payment. During the discussion with Subproject level committee members regarding grievance resolution process, they said that most of the grievances were settled through discussion with project staff but some grievances which required to help of District Survey Office or Land Revenue Office were taken long time to settle.

9.4 Public Consultation

44. As the part of principal activities numbers of consultations were held with the project affected people and adjacent communities by the social team. Some of the consultations are cited here:

• A consultation meeting was held on 26th March, 2016 in participation of 32 persons from users group of the MR Road and CSC staff at Manthali. And in the consultation PAPs were instructed on social safeguards components and their relevance and importance for the community. Further, the consultation meeting made a subtle discussion on issues raised by PAPS like delay in road construction and slow pace of land acquisition activities restoration of cross-sections, water supply pipeline, and quality assurance, acceleration of compensation were major in the civil activities.

• Similarly, on following day on 28th March a consultation workshop on Resettlement and Safeguard issues was held at contractor’s camp Jadha, Udayapur in participation of 20 persons representing CSC staff and contractor staff. The consultation was focused on what are the hindrances in the implementation of the project and how can they be overcome and also how social safeguard issues are to be addressed with high priority in the project.

• Likewise, a consultation meeting was held on 18th June 2016, at Manthali in MR Road in presence of 36 PAPs and CSC representatives. The consultation was centered on identifying and verifying vulnerable categories and finding interested candidates for Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and Livelihood trainings for those vulnerable PAPs.

• In respect to the progress review meetings on 23rd and 24th March, 2016, after having a thorough inspection of the site, meeting was held at RE office, Manthali in presence of


Resettlement Specialist, GESI Specialist, contractor’s representatives, External Monitor, and other CSC personnel.

• Social Mobilizers (SMs) of Construction Supervision Consultant (CSC) have conducted meeting and interaction with affected people and they affixed the notices in public places for providing information to affected people about date of compensation payment of their affected land and structures and other project related information.

45. Project affected persons interviewed during the field visit confirmed that the social Mobilizer were informed about the dates of compensation payment and other relevant information of the project by meeting themselves or by phone. Further the affected persons added that role of social Mobilizer in the community is very positive to create positive environment for road construction. During the interview with APs, 88 (77%) APs said that they were participated in the public meeting and consultation.

46. The subproject wise CIPRP has been uploaded in the ADB website. The translated Nepali copy of Entitlement Matrix has placed in subproject offices. Similarly, notices related to compensation payment were affixed in the public places of project area. A sample copy of project related information is attached in Annex 4.

9.5 Status of Indigenous and Vulnerable Affected People

47. During the field visit, 115 Project Affected persons were interviewed, where 71 persons (about 62 %) were indigenous persons. Out of them 55 (about 77%) indigenous affected people have collected their compensation amount. During the discussion and interview with Indigenous people they expressed that they have not any collective attachments to geographically distinct habitats or ancestral territories in the project area. They do not have any indigenous ancestral land, forest, water, wildlife and other natural resources for their livelihood. Likewise, they have no customary cultural, economic, social or political institutions that are separate them from those of the dominant society and culture. Some of the indigenous people such as Newar, Rai, Tamang, Magar etc. have their own language and culture. However, they use Nepali language as a common tongue and share the similar social norms and value with other non Indigenous Peoples. Therefore, the impact of the project upon them was not significant, and they expressed their happiness that the road construction would take many positive benefits for them. All interviewed indigenous persons said that their livelihood is not deteriorated due to project. They were eager to see the blacktop road in their locality as soon as possible.

48. According to updated CIPRP, there are 173, 68 and 58 vulnerable affected persons in EWH, HD and MR roads respectively. Out of them 20 (13 from HD and 7 from MR) vulnerable APs of HD and MR Road were interviewed. Out of them 14 interviewed persons were collected their compensation amount and remaining 6 were preparing document to collect the compensation amount. There were asked about impact of land acquisition due to project, all interviewed APs said that they were already given their land voluntarily for roads before this project started, and now


the project has provided compensation amount for additional land required for road construction and it has helped to manage their economic condition. All interviewed vulnerable persons expressed that their economic condition is not deteriorated after project intervention.

9.6 Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R&R) Activities

49. The Combined Indigenous Peoples and Resettlement Plan (CIPRP) has allocated budget for displacement and transportation allowances, additional assistance and skill development training for vulnerable affected people. Following livelihood related activities have been carried out during the reporting period;

50. Based on tools developed to assess livelihood options for the project affected people, the resettlement staff have carried out activities to identify the types of skill development trainings required and its duration, possible training institutes, market potentialities, unit cost, etc. Being based on the notion of fair gender balance and social inclusion, availability of local resources and skills, selection criteria of the training participants and market opportunities for employment following features for training are projected:

• The trainings related with agriculture will be of both types- off-farm or on-farm. Basically these trainings shall be designed as per the needs of the affected people.

• Skill development trainings will be conducted to focus more on practical knowledge and skills.

• The market after the training will be both at the local level, regional level and abroad so that there would be a broad scope for livelihood for the people trained with skills.

• The training will be focused to the most vulnerable people; they are below poverty level, female headed households, disables, and elderly

51. The training needs have also been identified across the road corridors. The numbers for target people have been distributed with a weightage of the vulnerable people identified in the respective road corridors.

Table 16: Types of training and no of participants

Name of training EWH-Koshi-

EWH Diktel-Halesi

Manthali-Ramechhap

Total

Masons Trainings 8 2 2 12 House wiring training 9 3 3 15 Bicycle/motorbike repair training

5 2 2 9

Mobile, Watch, TV and Radio Repairing training

12 4 4 20

High value crops/vegetable 40 10 10 60


farming training Cooking for foods (Chinese and Indian food)

12 4 4 20

Total 86 25 25 136 Total in % 63% 18% 18%

52. According to CIPRP, the project would reconstruct or rehabilitate the community /cultural structures or provide cash compensation to the concern institution/organization if any public utilities which were damaged during the construction period. During the field visit, some local people of EWH road, HD Road and MR road requested to rehabilitate the track road, irrigation canal and water supply pipeline which were partly damaged at some places during the road construction. These issues have been discussed with Residential Engineers (RE) and contractors and they said that they would rehabilitate the public utilities if they were damaged during the road construction.

9.7 Progress in the Recruitment of the Implementing NGO

53. The recruitment of NGO for SASEC Project Road especially for EWH-Koshi Bridge- EWH has been initiated by PD/ADB and RFP has been issued to shortlisted NGOs. THE engagement of NGO will be tentatively for 20 months period. The NGO providing supporting services for carrying out community based preventive awareness campaign to mitigate and minimize wildlife, community health social and environmental effects due to project implementation.

9.8 Gender Equality and Social Inclusion(GESI) / HIV/AIDS and health protection and

other social program Status

54. The project is classified as “B” for gender mainstreaming, where gender equality and women empowerment activities have been integrated into the project design even this is not an explicit outcome. The project has a Gender Action Plan which lists activities to be monitored to promote a gender mainstreaming scheme. During the reporting period following progress has been achieved:

• Organized re- orientation and gender sensitization training for EAs, CSC, contractors’ and stakeholder team at Kathmandu PD Office,

• IEC packages have been determined and designed; which include materials for training and awareness campaign on GESI, HIV, Anti-trafficking, and Child Labor.

• Information brochure for project influence areas & stakeholders has been prepared. • The list of disadvantaged groups, women-headed households, below-poverty line people have

been prepared as a potential participants and beneficiaries:


• Contractors’ management and supervisory staffs, senior technical staffs, and petti-labor contractors; and the labor of all 7 contract packages have been consulted on their roles and status in employing local labor. The difficulties faced and issues raised by the contractors in employing local labors and women have been noted. One of the major issues is that petti-contractors have major role in employing labor. The civil contractors have practice of engaging both local and non-local petti-contractors. The non-local petti-contractors have practice of recruiting non-local labor and are reluctant to employ local women

• The project has prohibited the child labor in all its activities. The contractors are provided with contract condition for not employing any child labor in its construction activities. They have been enforced through the regular monthly monitoring on the reporting of the contractors and cross- verification in the field with the labors and local people on sites.

• The petty-labor-contractors have also been provided orientation training on the consultation activities to be carried out by them with the people in the settlements along the road alignment to find the local labor and women workers; where they are provided support by the social safeguard staffs of CSCs.

• Awareness campaign on GESI, HIV, human trafficking, and child labor has been designed. Orientation and re-orientation training of and consultation with civil contractors field staffs and workers in the fields with contractors’ authorized representatives, contract managers and focal persons has been carried out.

• A total of 157 staffs including 89 management, senior technical, and supervisory staffs of the contractors in all 7 contract packages including EWH-K-EWH, LB, MB and MR roads and 3 contract packages of HD roads, together with 58 field staffs of the offices of RE/CSC have been provided orientation training covering the prevention and control of HIV, Human Trafficking and Child Labor.

• The Information Education Communication materials on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, HIV Prevention, Human Trafficking Prevention and Control and Child Labor Control have been prepared. They include posters, brochures, booklet, stickers, and flesh prints. Based on the comments from PD (ADB)/DOR, GESU/DOR, ADB-NRM, and CSC team, the materials have been improved, finalized. They have been proceeded for printing.

• The road safety awareness program has been designed by being with the road safety specialist, where school education on GESI, HIV, human trafficking, and child labor will be jointly carried out ensuring the participation of women as per target indicators.

• The road safety IEC materials have also been drafted • The guidelines relating to the GESI/DOR has been extracted. Taking into consideration of

experiences and lesson learnt of the past road projects of Department of Road, the improvements and revisions required in the guidelines have been listed and drafted to proceed with the International GESI consultants.

The status of GESI action plan is presented in Annex 5.


55. The social activities related with construction activities including campsite management, health and safety measures, wage rate to construction workers, temporarily acquisition of assets and compensation, and issue of child labor have been monitored during project implementation. During the field visit of subproject roads, the contractors have been made aware about the social provision of the project. The contractors have been respecting social safeguard issues during road construction.

10. ISSUES

56. The social safeguard activities of the SASEC Road Connectivity project are ongoing. But compensation payment and resettlement and rehabilitation activities are delaying. According to project team, the detail measurement survey conducted during project implementation shows that there was missing many land parcels including their affected assets in original Combined Indigenous Peoples and Resettlement Plans. The re- cadastral survey of road alignment had taken long time to complete. It has caused delaying to start the compensation payment activities. Likewise, ‘mega earthquake of 7.8 Richter’, April 2015 brought stagnation in all the activities of the project compelling human resources to migrate for safe place and exerting difficulty in delivery of other construction materials. Further, CIPRP implementation was hampered by a long ‘political strife in Terai region and disruption of transportation and fuel supply’ for more than 5 months. It caused a great deal of obstruction in the delivery of both the construction materials and human resources. Persistent fuel crisis caused difficulty in travel and transportation too.

57. The issues identified during the field visit based on discussion with project staff and affected people were following:

• The compensation determination and payment activities are depending on various

Government offices such as District Survey Office, District Land Revenue Office, Division Office of Urban Development and Building Construction, District Agriculture Development Office and District Forest Office. So it is difficult to coordinate the various government offices and timely finalization of compensation amount of structure and trees.

• Some affected house owners of HD road were not collecting the compensation amount of their affected land because they were waiting to collect the both compensation amount (land & house) together. It has also effect the progress of compensation payment.

• There is delaying to shift the electric poles in HD and MR Road. The projects have already deposited the estimated amount to Nepal Electricity Authority for shifting the electric poles.

11. CORRECTIVE ACTIONS FOR MAJOR GAPS

58. Following corrective actions will be followed by the project in order to further improvement on the social safeguard implementation activities:

• The compensation amount of affected house/structures and private trees/fruits will be finalized making coordination with Division Office of Urban Development and Building


Construction and District Administration Offices. To expedite the compensation payment and deed transfer process social team of the project will be mobilized to inform the affected people for collection of their respective compensation amount. Name, address, and parcel number of affected land owners will be affixed in public places,

• Details of absentees and legal dispute owners will be prepared,

• Database of displaced households and their affected assets by type of project activities will be prepared,

• Disaggregate data of construction workers will be prepared,

• Income restoration program for vulnerable affected people will be initiated.

12. MAJOR ITEM OF FOCUS FOR NEXT REPORT

59. The next report will focus on following social safeguard monitoring activities:

• Field visit of subproject roads and review/compare the compliance based on CIPRP and earlier field visit

• Review and update the status of social safeguard plan implementation,

• Assess whether the resettlement and social program objectives, particularly livelihoods and living standards of the affected people especially for vulnerable people have been restored or enhanced.

• Short out the absentees and legal disputes land parcels

• Timely submission of monthly, trimester and semiannual report

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Annexes

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Annex 1: Safeguard Planning Status

S.N.

Name of Subproject

Does screening carried out

Subproject category

Name of prepared document

Does ADB approved IR planning doc.

Budget sufficiency

Remarks

1 EWH- Koshi Bridge-EWH Road

√

A CIPRP √ √ CIPRP updating in process

2 Halesi Diktel Road

√ A CIPRP √ √ CIPRP updating in process

3 Manthali Ramechhap Road

√ A CIPRP √ √ CIPRP updating in process

4 Leguwaghat Bhojpur Road

√ C DDR √ √

5 Mechipul- Bhadrapur Road

√ C DDR √ √

Note:

EWH- East West Highway CIPRP-Combined Indigenous Peoples and Resettlement Plan DDR- Due Diligence Report

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ANNEX 2: COMPLIANCE WITH SOCIAL SAFEGUARD COVENANTS OF LOAN AGREEMENT

The status of Compliance with social Safeguard Covenants of Loan Agreement is presented in below:

Covenants Status Remarks

Resettlement

The Borrower shall ensure or cause DOR to ensure that all land and all rights-of-way required for the project are made available to the Works contractor in accordance with schedule agreed under the related Work contract and all land acquisition and resettlement activities are implemented in compliance with (a) all applicable laws and regulation of the Borrower relating to land acquisition and involuntary resettlement, (b) the involuntary Resettlement Safeguards; and (c) all measures and requirements set forth in the RP, and corrective of preventative action set forth in the Safeguards Monitoring Reports.

Without limiting the application of the Involuntary Resettlement Safeguards or the RP, the Borrower shall ensure or cause DOR to ensure that no physical or economic displacement takes in connection with the Project until; a. compensation and other entitlement have been provide to affected people in accordance with RP; and a comprehensive income and livelihood restoration program has been established in accordance with RP. Indigenous Peoples:

The Borrower shall ensure of cause DOR to ensure that the preparation, design, construction, implementation and operation of the Project and all project facilities comply with (a) all applicable laws and regulation of the Borrower relating to indigenous people; (b) the Indigenous people Safeguards; and (c) all measure and requirements set forth in the

Being Compiled

Being Compiled

Being Compiled

The project has complied with the ADB Safeguard Policy Statement 2009 and the Land Acquisition Act 1977 and other relevant laws and guidelines of Government of Nepal.

The compensation payment for affected people is ongoing.

The compensation payment and other resettlement and rehabilitation activities are implementing as provisioned in entitlement matrix of the project.

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IPP, and any corrective or preventative actions set forth in as Safeguards monitoring Report.

Grievance Redress Mechanism:

Within 12 months after the Effective Date, DOR shall prepare a grievance redress mechanism acceptable to ADB and establish a special committee to receive and resolve complaints/grievance or act upon reports from stakeholders on misuse of funds and other irregularities, Including grievance due to resettlement. The special committee shall (i) make public of the existence of this grievance redress mechanism, (ii) review and address grievance of stakeholders of the Project, in relation to either Project, any of the service providers, or any person responsible for carrying out any aspect of the project; and (iii) proactively and constructively responding them.

Safeguards Monitoring and Reporting

The Borrower shall do the following or cause DOR to do the following; (a) submit quarterly Safeguards monitoring reports to ADB and disclose relevant information from such reports to affected person promptly upon submission; (b) if any unanticipated environment and/or social risks and impacts arise during construction, implementation or operation of the Project that were not considered in the ElA, the EMP. the RP and the lP, promptly inform ADB or the occurrence of such risks or impacts, with detailed description of the event and the proposed corrective action plan; (c) report any actual or potential breach of compliance with the measures and requirements set forth in the EMP, the RP and the lP promptly after becoming aware of the breach.

Gender

The Borrower shall ensure that DOR adopts

Being Compiled

Being Compiled

District level and subproject level grievance redress committees is formed and working regularly.

Monthly, quarterly and semiannual monitoring report are being prepared and submitted to ADB

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and implement the GESI in a timely manner during the entire Project period, and that adequate resources are allocated for this purpose. In particular the Borrower shall cause DOR to ensure that the target stated in the GESI shall be achieved. DOR shall conduct training for all Project staff on the GESI implementation of the GESI shall be closely monitored, and the progress shall be reported to ADB.

Labor, Health and Anti Human

Trafficking

The Borrower and DOR shall ensure that the contractors comply with all applicable labor, health, and safety laws and regulation of the Borrower and, in particular, (a) do not employ child labor for construction and maintenance activities, and (b) provide appropriate facilities (latrines, etc.) for workers at construction sites. The borrower shall require contractors not differentiate wages between men and women for works of equal value. The Borrower and DOR shall ensure that specific clauses shall be included in bidding documents to ensure adherence to these provisions, and that compliance shall be strictly monitoring during project implementation

The Borrower and DOR shall ensure that the contractors shall disseminate information on the risk of transmission of sexually- transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS, in health and safety programs to all construction workers employed under the Project. Specific provisions to this effect shall be included in bidding documents and civil works contracts, and compliance shall be monitored by DOR and reported to ADB. The Borrower and DOR shall ensure that awareness campaign on anti-human

Being Compiled

Being Compiled

Being Compiled

Sensitization and re- sensitization trainings for EA, Civil Contractor and CSCs have been carried out 3 times in Katmandu.

Sensitization and re sensitization trainings for Contractor and CSCs have been carried out 7 times in all 7 contract packages in field. The awareness raising of HIV/AIDS and other social activities training are preparing to conduct for APs, construction workers and other local people.

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trafficking shall be conducted and that information and print material on anti-human trafficking shall be developed and distributed to all construction workers and the community in the Project Districts throughout the Project implementation period. Compliance shall be monitored by DOR and reported to ADB.

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Annex 3: Interviewed Affected Persons during the Field Visit

S.N. Name Address Sub-project

Road

Affected

property

1 Mr. Buddiman Bhujel Bhojpur-1 LB House 2 Mr. Bam B. Tamang Bhaisi Pankha-7 LB Land 3 Mr. Lok B. Khadka Tiwari Bhanjyang-6 LB Land 4 Mr. Rana B. Subedi Tiwari Bhanjyang-7 LB Land 5 Mr. Dhan B. Bhujel Charambi-9 LB Land 6 Mr. Sitaram Chapagai Charambi-7 LB Land 7 Ms. Laxmi Maya Karki Charambi-7 LB Land 8 Mr. Chandra B. Shrestha Jarayotar-3 LB Land 9 Mr. Umesh Shrestha Jarayotar-3 LB Land

10 Ms. Mina Shrestha Jarayotar-3 LB Land 11 Mr. Madhav Rai Mainamaini-9 EWH House/land 12 Mr. Shiba Kumar Thapa Mainamaini-9 EWH Land 13 Ms. Hira Rai Mainamaini-9 EWH House/land 14 Ms.Puspa Maya Basnet Baraha Chhetra 1 EWH House 15 Ms.Sabina Basnet Barahachhetra-1 EWH House 16 Mr. Ramesh Thapa Barahachhetra-1 EWH House 17 Mr. Jagat Rana Magar Thoksila-1 EWH Land 18 Mr. Yas Kumar Limbu Thoksila-1 EWH Land 19 Mr. Satya B. Limbu Mainamaini-9 EWH Land 20 Ms. Kalpana Thapa Thokshila-1 EWH Land 21 Mr. Surendra katuwal Thoksila-2 EWH Land 22 Mr. Subash katuwal Thoksila-2 EWH Land 23 Mr. Bhupal Karki Thokshila-2 EWH Land 24 Mr. Keshar Rai Basaha-7 EWH House/land 25 Mr. Bishnu Magar Basaha-7 EWH House/land 26 Mr. Mani Rai Basaha-7 EWH House/land 27 Mr. Imansingh Rai Basaha-7 EWH House/land 28 Mr. Ful Kumar Rai Basaha-7 EWH House/land 29 Mr. Dorje Tamang Basaha-7 EWH House/land 30 Mr. Bachhu Lal Chaudhary Dharampur-2 EWH Land 31 Ms. Durga Devi Mandal Fattepur -9 EWH Land/trees 32 Mr. Rana B. Khatri Fattepur-9 EWH Land 33 Mr. Kul B. Saru Magar Kamalpur-7 EWH Land 34 Mr. Pancheshwor Khadka Kamalpur-6 EWH Land 35 Dipendra Kumar Dahal Ghoganpur-3 EWH Land 36 Mr. Bimal Kumar Shah Ghoganpur-4 EWH Land 37 Ms. Sushila Kumari

Chaudhary Ghoganpur-4 EWH Land

38 Ms. Durga Devi Mandal Fattepur -9 EWH land

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Road

Affected

property

39 Ms. Bhola Chaudhari Bharuwakhal-3 EWH land 40 Ms. Moti Basnet Bharuwakhal-3 EWH land 41 Ms. Mohamad Salim Dharampur-3 EWH land 42 Ms. Mahendra Tharu Dharampur-3 EWH land 43 Ms. Raj Kumar Gupta Piprapurba-1 EWH House/land 44 Mr. Sahendra Shah Piprapurba-1 EWH House/land 45 Mr. Chakra B.

Tumbahamphe Brahachhetra-1 EWH House

46 Ms. Sumitra Katuwal Brahachhetra-1 EWH House 47 Mr. Prakssh Rai Brahachhetra-1 EWH House 48 Ms. Madhu Rai Brahachhetra-1 EWH House 49 Ms. Nirmala Rai Tapeshwori-9 EWH Land/house 50 Mr. Harideu Chaudhary Tapeshwori-9 EWH Land/ house 51 Mr. Bhakta B. Khadka Tapeshwori-9 EWH Land/ house 52 Mr. Ram Karki Thokshila-2 EWH Land/house 53 Mr. Hiralal Shrestha Basaha-7 EWH Land/house 54 Mr. Prithibi Kumar Rai Basaha-7 EWH Land/ house 55 Mr. Khadga B. Sapkota Thokshila-8 EWH Land/house 56 Mr. Chandra B. Aale Thokshila-9 EWH Land/house 57 Mr. Rekh Bahadur Thapa Fattepur-4 EWH Land/ House 58 Mr. Pandav Kumar Rai Fattepur-4 EWH Land/ House 59 Mr. Shankar Thapa Fattepur -4 EWH Land House 60 Mr. Rajeshwor P. Shah Dharampur-2 EWH Land/house 61 Mr. Rajendra Pd. Shah Dharampur-3 EWH Land/ house 62 Mr. Moti Kumar Mandal Kamalpur-7 EWH Land/house 63 Ms. Sita Kumari Bhujel Ghoganpur-5 EWH Land/house 64 Mr. Sonalal Chaudhary Bharuwakhal-2 EWH Land/house 65 Ms. Shova Chaudhary Bharuwakhal-8 EWH Land/ house 66 Mr.Mohan Chandra Pokhrel Kanchanrup-7 EWH Land 67 Mr. Gangaram Raut Kanchanrup-7 EWH Land/house 68 Mr. Rabilal Shah Kanchanrup-7 EWH Land/ house 69 Dhruba Shrestha Bhangeri-4 MR Land 70 Ramesh Ghimire Bhangeri-3 MR Land 71 Baburam Shrestha Bhangeri-5 MR Land/house 72 Kamala Ghimire Ramechhap-4 MR Land 73 Chhatra Kumari Shrestha Ramechhap -5 MR Land/house 74 Chhabi Bhujel Ramechhap-4 MR Land/house 75 Naresh Babu Shrestha Bhangeri-5 MR Land 76 Baburam Shrestha Bhangeri-5 MR Land 77 Laxmi Shrestha Ramechhap 4 MR Land 78 Gopi Krishna Shrestha Ramechhap-4 MR Land 79 Mr. Gobinda Hayu Ramechhap -4 MR Land

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Road

Affected

property

80 M. Ananda Shrestha Ramechhap-4 MR Land 81 Mrs. Sita Bhujel Ramechhap-3 MR Land 82 Mr Krishna Pd Ghimire Ramechhap-3 MR Land 83 Mr. Tulsi Prasad Subedi Ramechhap-3 MR Land 84 Mr. Ganesh Ghimire Ramechhap-3 MR Land 85 Mr. Dipak Shrestha Ramechhap-4 MR Land 86 Mr. Magandhwoj Karki Diktel -9 HD Land & house 87 Ms. Krishna Maya Tamang Diktel-5 HD Land & house 88 Mr. Kabin Tamang Nunthala-9 HD Land & house 89 Mr. Bir B. Tamang Kuvinde-5 HD Land & house 90 Mr. Birash Tamang Nunthala-4 HD House 91 Mr. Pema Chhettar Sherpa Nunthala-8 HD Land & house 92 Ms. Som Maya Tamang Nunthala-9 HD Land & house 93 Ms. Shanti Devi Tamang Nunthala -9 HD Land 94 Mr. Chandra Bdr Tamang Nunthala-9 HD House 95 Mr. Bam B. Tamang Kharpa-1 HD Land & house 96 Mr. Fiste Tamang Kharpa-1 HD Land & house 97 Mr. Bodh Kumar Shrestha Arkhaule-2 HD Land & house 98 Mr. Chetnath Puri Arkhaule-2 HD Land 99 Mr. Padma Kumari shrestha Arkhaule-5 HD Land & house

100 Mr. Chandra B. Shrestha Arkhaule-5 HD Land & house 101 Mr. Naba Raj Basnet Mahadevsthan-4 HD Land & house 102 Mr. Kumba Raj Rai Mahadevsthan-4 HD House 103 Mr. Tirha B. Tamang Kharpa 1 HD Land and house 104 Mrs. Yani Maya Tamang Nunthala HD Land 105 Mr. Debendra Tamang Nunthala-9 HD Land 106 Mr Dambar B. Damai Bamrang -6 HD Land 107 Mr. Jagat B. Shrestha Arkhaule-5 HD Land 108 Mrs Purna Shova Darji. Nunthala-2 HD Land 109 Mr. Harka B. Tamang Nunthala-9 HD Land 110 Mrs Som Maya Tamang Nunthala-9 HD Land 111 Mrs Man maya Pulami Arkhaule 5 HD Land 112 Mr. Nir B. Damai Bamrang-6 HD Land 113 Mrs Basanti Tamang Kharpa-1 HD Land 114 Mr. Naresh Tamang Nunthala-9 HD Land 115 Dipak Kumar Rai Nunthala-1 HD Land

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Annex 4: Sample copy of Verified documents during field visit

4.1 Grievance recording register and minutes EWH Road

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4.2 Compensation payment receipt-MR Road

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4.3 Compensation payment receipt-HD Road

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Annex 5: Status of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Action Plan

1. The project is classified “B – Effective Gender Mainstreaming (EGM)” where gender equality and women empowerment (GEWE) activities have been substantially integrated. The project directly supports the GEWE activities. The project has accomplished the following cumulative progress on GESI action plan by this quarter April - June 2016.

Output 1: Roads upgraded to all weather standard with strong local community

participation

GESI AP 1: Engage 40% participant beneficiaries from BPL and disadvantaged groups

with at least 50% women in coordination with community groups and local NGO.

2. EWH road traverses through 13 VDCs, of which 5 VDCs are in KTWR buffer zone. Below Poverty Level (BPL) and disadvantaged groups households with women together with women-headed households impacted by the project in EWH road have been identified and listed as follows for proceeding their involvements in compensatory tree plantation.

BPL households: 72 Elderly aged HH head: .50 HHs with disable: .10 Women-headed: 41

3. The total trees to be cut have been estimated 87,750 numbers in KTWR/EWH.

Table 22: List of Training Types and Allocation of Target People

Compensatory Plantation Road Target (Nos.) Replanted (Nos.) EWH 87,750 No

LB 6,888 No HD 20,025 No MR 14,350 No MB 220 No

4. Coordination and planning meetings and workshop with the involvement of the followings have been designed to be organized at the first week of August, 2016:

� District Forest Office (DFO) � Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve Management Office (KTWRMO) � Community Forestry User Groups (CFUGs)

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� District Development Committees (DDCs) � Chief District Offices (CDOs) � Department of National Parks & Wildlife Conservation � Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wetlands of Nepal (CSUWN) � Buffer Zone Management Committee (BZMC) � Women Group Network Organizations (WGNOs) � Project Management Office/PD (ADB) � Construction Supervision Consultants (CSC)

5. The workshop participants will prepare and agree on the modality and action plan of compensatory tree plantation to be carried out by involving BPL, other disadvantaged groups with women. The participants will also prepare and agree on plantation management and its proceedings with resource and responsibility sharing modality. 6. It has been planned that the workshop will be followed by consultation with community groups in the immediate settlements of VDCs under the KTWR areas to prepare the enabling environment for participation of Below Poverty Level Households, and other disadvantaged groups with women in compensatory tree plantation.

7. It has also been planned to propose the management of the planting stocks by District Forest Office with Community Forest User Groups using following three alternative sources of seedlings:

� District Forest Office nursery � Private nursery owner � Fruit trees from horticulture farms in the district or private lands

8. The survey & identification of plantation areas will be the joint responsibility of District Forest Office, Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve Office and Community Forest User Groups. 9. It has been planned that the following tasks to be carried out by involving Below Poverty Level households and other disadvantaged groups with women will be the joint responsibility of District Forest Office, Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Community Forest User Groups, with the involvement of Project Management Office/PD (ADB), Construction Supervision Consultants & Civil Contractor:

� Fencing of plantation areas. � Pitting of 30cm x 45cm x 45 cm for plantation. � Transportation of seedling from nursery to the planting sites. � Plantation activities

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� Weeding to reduce competition by weeds. � Survival count for casualty replacement before next monsoon.

10. EWH / EIA report has provisioned Rs. 2,701,170 for compensatory plantation in KTWR/EWH. 11. On recruitment of the NGO by DOR, the roles for above-mentioned tasks will be accordingly adjusted.

GESI AP 2: Conduct skill development trainings of 200 persons with at least 40% women

to become eco-guardians and partners in the protection of KTWR.

12. Key bio-diversity activities include training of selected members of the affected communities to become eco-guardians and promote wildlife conservation & stewardship amongst the local people for the KTWR.

13. Coordination and planning meetings and workshop to be organized at the first week of October 2016, by involving the stakeholders as listed above under the community tree plantation will also work out the modality and methodology conducting the skill development trainings of 200 persons with at least 40% women. 14. It is planned to carry out the following activities as to be guided the coordination and planning meetings and workshop:

� Design the program of engaging the affected communities to become eco-guardians & to promote wildlife conservation & stewardship amongst the local people for the KTWR.

� Assess and define the roles of eco-guardians and partners. � Identify the interest people including 40% women to be eco-guardian and partners in the

protection of KTWR. � Design and organize the skill development training program.

15. Provided that the DOR recruit the NGO as guided by the project documents, the tasks for this activity will be accordingly adjusted.

GESI AP 3: Encourage contractors to employ local labor, including at least 10% local

unskilled workers as women, in road upgrading works.

All women workers hired shall receive the same wages as their male counterparts for the

same work done.

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16. Contractors’ management and supervisory staffs, senior technical staffs, and petti-labor contractors; and the labor of all 7 contract packages have been consulted on their roles and status in employing local labor. The difficulties faced and issues raised by the contractors in employing local labors and women have been noted. One of the major issues is that petti-contractors have major role in employing labor. The civil contractors have practice of engaging both local and non-local petti-contractors. The non-local petti-contractors have practice of recruiting non-local labor and are reluctant to employ local women.

17. Consultations with local women groups and local people have been carried out in all 5 project sites regarding the issues of employment of local labor and women. The issues of interest women and locals have been noted to find out the way out of employing locals and women. 18. The contractors’ management and supervisory staffs, senior technical staffs, and petti-labor contractors have been provided orientation training in all 5 projects and 7 contract packages on the requirement and way out of employing locals and women. They have been provided orientation on needs of paying equal wages to all women workers against their male counterpart for the same work done. 19. The petti-labor-contractors have also been provided orientation training on the consultation activities to be carried out by them with the people in the settlements along the road alignment to find the local labor and women workers; where they are provided support by the social safeguard staffs of CSCs. 20. Recording and reporting formats to be submitted with monthly progress update have been developed, ensuring the sex-disagregated and other required specification of data. Concerned staffs and focal persons of the contractors in all 7 contract packages have been provided the orientation training on the recording and reporting formats which covers the following data/information:

1. Construction Worker: Name, caste, ethnicity; sex, age, skilled or unskilled, wage rate a

day, engagement period with start and end date; and home address.

2. Operator, Technician & Transport Worker: Name, caste, ethnicity; sex, age, skilled or unskilled, salary per month or wage rate a day, engagement period with start and end date; and home address.

3. Petti-Labor Contractor: Name, caste, ethnicity; sex, age, skilled or unskilled, wage rate a day, engagement period with start and end date; home address; numbers of construction workers employed by the petti-contractors including sex of the employees, local or non-local with the wage rate paid to the workers including male and females.

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4. Staffs and contractors: Name, caste, ethnicity; sex, age, skilled or unskilled, salary per

month or wage rate a day, engagement period with start and end date; and home address.

21. Field verification of reports/ data provided by the contractors have been a part of the works of the CSC team including field-based CSC staffs and concerned Specialists during the site work activities. GESI AP 4: Ensure at least 50% participation of women and those from poor and

excluded groups in training, awareness building and slope protection bioengineering

related activities.

22. Unstable slopes have been identified. The estimate has been done for slope protection bio-engineering activities on actual cost estimate basis for the provisional sums as given below:

Table 23: Cost Estimate for Slope Protection Bio-engineering Activities

Road Project Actual Cost Estimate Provision in EIA/IEE Reports

EWH 1,837,320 4,282,180

LB 1,966,410 21,877,775

HD01 HD02 HD03

360,000 360,000 342,930

11,822,020

MB 364,710 NA

MR 400,530 32,26,600

Total 5,631,900 37,981,975

23. The plan has been worked out for community organization, awareness building, and livelihood enhancement through slope protection especially the bioengineering works. 24. The NGO shall be involved in implementing the biodiversity enhancement activities. 25. Planning by involving the environmental focal persons of the contractors has been started for the bio-engineering works. The contractors will submit the slope protection bio-engineering work plan; which will be approved by the CSC.

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26. The profiles of women, poor, and excluded groups have been prepared for ensuring their participation in slope protection works through bio-engineering works. 27. The contractors have been oriented to prepare the profile of the sites requiring the slope protection bioengineering activities.

GESI AP 5: Ensure that contractors’ documents prohibit the hiring of child labor.

28. The project has prohibited the child labor in all its activities. 29. The contractors are provided with contract condition for not employing any child labor in its construction activities. 30. They have been enforced through the monitoring on the reporting of the contractors, where the contractors require reporting their employed labors with their age-group. The cross-verification in the field with the labors and local people on sites has been continued. 31. The child labor control awareness training is a part of HIV, human trafficking, and GESI awareness training activities.

GESI AP 6: Ensure that negative impact on vulnerable female-headed households due to

road construction is mitigated through Resettlement Entitlement Matrix containing

additional mitigation measures as special provisions for indigenous groups and female

headed households.

32. The entitlement - matrix has provision that women-headed households; household with differently-abled people and elderly headed households; ethnic occupational caste (Dalit); endangered indigenous peoples groups (Bankariya, Kusunda, Kushbadia, Raute, Surel, Hayu, Raji, Kisan, Lepcha, Meche); officially below poverty level households (having per capita income less than NRs. 19,261), whose household income have been affected as a result of road construction are entitled.

� Cash assistance for 90 days at the local agricultural wage rate of respective district.

� Special assistance of NRs. 10,000 to the affected vulnerable persons for restoring their livelihoods.

� Skill development training per family to be organized by Supervision Consultant for any productive activity at the rate of NRs. 8,000.

� Temporary employment in the project construction work to the people displaced by the land acquisition with particular attention to displaced peoples (DPs) who consider as vulnerable group by the project contractor to the extent possible.

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33. The list of the entitled households including women-headed households, below-poverty-line households, households with disable members, and elderly-aged households has been prepared. 34. The plan has been developed to implement the facilities entitled to women-headed households during the process of livelihood, resettlement entitled facilities implementation and GESI activities. The plan is integral of activities under the livelihood, implementation of resettlement entitled facilities, and GESI activities. 35. The process involves consultation and re-orientation of the FHH on the potential scopes for the productive use of the facilities. The plan include their involvement in livelihood and entrepreneurship training for the proper and productive use of the compensation paid & provisions and mitigation facilities provisioned to vulnerable female-headed households.

GESI AP 7: Conduct HIV/AIDS, STI and Human Trafficking awareness-raising

campaigns for project communities with 50% women participants and all contractor’s

field personnel.

36. Sensitization trainings of and consultation with civil contractors field staffs and workers in the fields with contractors’ authorized representatives, contract managers and focal persons have been carried out in all 7 contract packages. 37. A total of 157 staffs including 89 management, senior technical, and supervisory staffs of the contractors in all 7 Contract packages including EWH-Koshi Bridge-EWH, LB, MB and MR roads and 3 Contract packages of HD roads, together with 58 field staffs of the offices of RE / CSC have been provided orientation training covering the prevention and control of HIV, Human Trafficking and Child Labor; and GESI issues. 38. Awareness campaign of the Project Affected People and People in the Project Impact Zone with mainstreaming activities has been designed. The implementation plan has been worked out by being with the PD (ADB). 39. The field training plan and guidelines with approach and methodology have been prepared. 40. The programs and cost estimate required for the implementation of the activities. The approval by the PD (ADB) for provisional sum for the ceiling of 2.5 million has been achieved on April, 2016. The implementation plan and process has been accordingly revised.

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41. The Information Education Communication materials on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, HIV Prevention, Human Trafficking Prevention and Control and Child Labor Control have been prepared. They include posters, brochures, booklet, stickers, and flesh prints. Based on the comments from PD (ADB)/DOR, GESU/DOR, ADB-NRM, and CSC team, the materials have been improved, finalized. They have been proceeded for printing.

GESI AP 8: Ensure women’s participation in community orientation and road safety

awareness programs. At least 40% of the 2,000 targeted participants of 20 awareness-

raising seminars will be women.

42. The road safety awareness program has been designed by being with the road safety specialist, where school education on GESI, HIV, human trafficking, and child labor will be jointly carried out ensuring the participation of women as per target indicators. The road safety IEC materials have also been drafted. Output 2:

GESI AP 2.1: Appoint a full time social & GESI consultant at DOR with effective

engagement of social and GESI focal officer at the DOR throughout project period.

43. The GESI Specialist has been coordinating with government line agencies and other stakeholders ensuring the sharing of cooperation.

GESI AP 2.2: Finalize the GESI guidelines for the road sector.

44. The GESI guidelines “The Guidelines for Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Infrastructure Sectors under Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (MPIT)” have been reviewed. 45. The guidelines relating to the GESI/DOR has been extracted. Taking into consideration of experiences and lesson learnt of the past road projects of Department of Road, the improvements and revisions required in the guidelines have been listed and drafted to proceed with the International GESI consultants. 46. The lesson learnt and feedbacks from the field experience will be utilized in developing the GESI guidelines of DOR.

GESI AP 2.3: Train staff of DOR, Regional Directorate, Divisions, contractors & other

relevant organizations and NGOs, on gender and social inclusion using MPIT GESI

guidelines developed with ADB’s assistance and project specific GESI elements.

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At least 6 training sessions will be carried out in five regions and centre which will include

gender focal points and women staff.

47. Sensitization and Re-Sensitization Trainings of EA, Civil Contractors & CSCs for 3 times in Kathmandu and 7 times in all of 7 contract packages have been carried out. 48. The program was organized in 16 January 2015 in PD (ADB) office, Kathmandu by involving the following participants.

� EAs: PD, DPDs, Under Secretary, Engineers, Finance/Account/Admin staffs of Project Directorate / DOR Office.

� Project Managers/Project In-Charges of all 5 projects sites, � CSC Team: Team Leader with Management Team, Subject Specialists (Gender,

Resettlement, Safety, Livelihood, Environment, Social Mobilizers & other staffs), � Contractors’ Team including Authorized Representatives, Contract Managers and Focal

Persons.

49. This training was followed by the safeguard training conducted by the ADB Mission in 23 January 2015. The Training on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion with its action plan was carried out together with resettlement and environmental safeguard. The participants include the followings:

� ADB Mission Leader/ Senior Transport Specialist, Social Development Specialist, Environment Expert;

� Project Director, Deputy Project Director, Under Secretary, Engineers, Admin staffs of Project Directorate / DOR Office; and Project Managers / Project In-Charges of all 5 projects sites.

� CSC Team: Team Leader & Management Team, Subject Specialists (Gender, Resettlement, Safety, Livelihood, Environment, Social Mobilizers & other staffs),

� Contractors’ Team including Authorized Representatives, Contract Managers and Focal Persons.

50. Further training of PD/DOR participated by PD, DPDs, Engineers and Admin Staffs; and CSC Specialists and staffs has been organized in April 2016. 51. Preparation of the guidelines and training has been proceeded. 52. The guideline preparation process include the followings:

i. Review of Draft GESI Guideline of MOPIT developed with ADB’s assistance in 2012 and extracts of relevant contents of guidelines for DOR guidelines.

ii. Review of Geo-Environment and Social Framework and extracts of relevant guidelines for DOR GESI guidelines.

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iii. Preparation of Concept Paper and Issues for Consultation on Preparation of DOR GESI guidelines.

iv. Consultation proceedings v. Training of staff of DOR, Regional Directorate, Divisions, contractors & other

relevant organizations and NGOs vi. and project-specific GESI elements will be carried out. The lesson learnt and

experience of the field implementation of the GESI activities will be utilized. Additional Accomplishment

53. Apart from and in line with the GESI action plan, the following additional activities have been carried out.

Synopsis Profile: Project site-based GESI-related synopsis profile with compilation of GESI-related data & information has been prepared.

Work Plan: Detail work plan with specific breakdown of activities and milestones has been prepared. Walkover Survey: The walkover survey along all 5 projects and 7 contract packages in 7 districts have been carried by undertaking ield familiarization and appraisal

Consultation: Consultation with local leaders, field staffs of CSC and civil contractors, local governance bodies, national and local government offices, civil contractors, communities, women groups, CBOs, NGOs, Grievances Redress Committees, Sub-project Level Committees along the road alignments have been carried out.

Guidelines: Guidelines for training on GESI, HIV, Anti-trafficking and Child Labor Control has been prepared. Baseline Study: Baselines study including the GESI-related socio-economic indicators has been completed covering all project roads and settlements along the road alignment. The report has been prepared.

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