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Northern Power subproject s Management Board

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ETHNIC MINORITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN

(EMDP)

SUBPROJECT:

HOA BINH - TAY HA NOI 220KV TRANMISSION LINE

PREPARED BY: INSTITUTE OF ENERGY

Ha Noi, January 2014

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IPP692 V2 REV

Hoa Binh - Tay Ha Noi 220kv transmission line Ethnic Minority Development Plan

Institute of Energy - IE 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1

ABBREVIATIONS 2

SUMMARY 3

I. INTRODUCTION 5

I.1. Objectives of the Subproject............................................................................................... 5

I.2. Main characteristics of the subproject ................................................................................. 5

I.3. Subproject Location ........................................................................................................... 6

II. SOCIO – ECONOMYICCONDITIONS 7

II.1. Socio – economic conditions in local area of Hoa Binh province ...................................... 7

II.1.1. Socio – economic conditions in of Hoa Binh province ................................................... 7

II.1.2. Natural, cultural and social characteristics of ethnic minorities in the subproject area .. 11

II.1.3. Ethnic minority people affected by the subproject ........................................................ 12

II.2. Socio – economic conditions in local area of Ha Noi city ................................................ 12

II.3. Ethnic minority development plan (EMDP) .................................................................... 13

III. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS ON SOCIAL ASSESSMENT 15

IV. FREE, INFORMED AND PRIOR CONSULTATION 20

IV.1. Community consulting (in the period of preparation for the subproject ) ........................ 20

IV.2. Community consulting (in the period of construction) ................................................... 20

V. CONVERSATIONS WITH ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITIES 21

VI. PROPOSED DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES 25

VI.1. Support EMs in accessing the credit support policies ..................................................... 25

VI.2. Information, Education and Communication (IEC) support ........................................... 25

VII. IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENT 26

VII.1. Institutional Arrangement ............................................................................................. 26

VII.2. Greviance Mechanism .................................................................................................. 26

VII.3. Monitoring and Evaluation ........................................................................................... 27

VIII. ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE 28



ABBREVIATIONS

AMB : Northern Power subproject s Management Board

DAĐT : Invesment subproject

DTTS : Ethnic Minorities

ĐC : End Point

ĐĐ : First Point

EMDP : Ethnic Minority Development Plan

EMP : Environmental Management Plan

ROW : Right of Way

NMTĐ : Hydropower Plant

QLDA : Project Management

TKKT : Technical Design

UBND : People's Committees

UBMTTQ : Fatherland Front Committee

RP : Resettlement Plan

VNĐ : Vietnam Dong

WB : The World Bank

HLT : Line route

TL : Transmission line



SUMMARY

� The legal basis of the report

This Ethnic Minority Development Plan (EMDP) report based on the following documents

and instructions:

- Regulations of the Government of Vietnam

- The World Bank’s OP/BP 4.10 Indigenous People

- Ethnic Minority Planning Framework prepared for Vietnam Transmission Efficiency

Project

� The target of the report

EMDP is prepared to that the development process fosters full respect for their dignity, human

rights, cultural uniqueness and that ethnic minorities do not suffer adverse impacts during the

development process and they will receive culturally-compatible social and economic benefits.

� Scope of the report

EMDP is applied in the Hoa Binh – Tay Hanoi 220kV transmission line subproject with the

total length of 50.6 km and the total land area in ROW is 1,113,200 square meters, going

through 16 communes of 4 districts of Hoa Binh province and Ha Noi capital.

� Subproject overview

The subproject “Hoa Binh - Tay Ha Noi 220kV transmission line” aims to transmit the power

from Hoa Binh hydropower to the national grid with the following targets: i) Providing the

power safely and efficiently for the western area of Hanoi, including Son Tay and 5 districts in

the north of Highway 6: Ba Vi, Phuc Tho, Dan Phuong, Hoai Duc, Thach That and Quoc Oai.

These are the important areas of additional charge and they are achieving a rapid economic and

social development. ii) Reducing the load of 220kV transmission line from Hoa Binh to Ha

Dong, Xuan Mai. iii) Enhancing the capacity to provide stable electricity for transmission

system in Hanoi and other regions; ensuring a stable operation in the national electrical.

Subproject owner: Northern Power Projects Management Board

Capital: investment loan from the World Bank.

� Main characteristics of the subproject:

- Voltage: 220kV;

- No. of circuits: 02, 04 circuits;

- Length of the line: 50.6km;

- Location: going through Hoa Binh city, Ky Son and Luong Son district (Hoa Binh

province), Quoc Oai district (Hanoi City);

- Starting point: 220kV bus of 220kV Hoa Binh hydroelectric power station’s

switchyard;

- End point: 220kV bus of 220kV Tay Ha Noi, located in Quoc Oai district, Ha Noi

city;

- Conductor: 2xACSR 330/43 (2 conductors per phase) and 2xAACSR 380/50 (for

span length getting over Da river);



- Overhead ground wire: PHLOX 116 and overhead ground wire with fiber cable

OPGW 120, 24 fiber, exclusively installed more one ground wire PHLOX 116 in 3 km head line

from Hoa Binh switchyard;

- Insulators: Insulator with suitable load, ceramic, glass or composite. Quantity of

insulators based on creeppage distance of 20mm/kV and 25mm/kV.Specification equal to type

U70B, U120B, U160B, 210B, U300B (according to IEC standard);

- Tower: Hot-dip galvanized steel tower with 4 circuits and 2 circuits Tower is 72m in

height for Da river span;

- Foundation: reinforced concrete foundation;

- Earthing: Radial and galvannized-steel earthing;

- Vibration damping for conductor and ground wire.

� Scope of the subproject

The subproject go through 16 communes of 4 districts in 2 provinces of Hanoi and Hoa Binh

including: Tan Thinh Ward, Tan Hoa Ward, Huu Nghi Ward, Hoa Binh Commune and Yen

Mong Commune of Hoa Binh City; Dan Hoa Commune, Dan Ha Commune, Mong Hoa

Commune and Ky Son Town of Ky Son District, Hoa Son Commune, Lam Son Commune,

Luong Son Town of Luong Son District in Hoa Binh Province; Dong Yen, Can Huu, Thach

Than, Dong Quang of Quoc Oai District in Hanoi.

� Characteristics of ethnic minorities affected by the subproject

The majority of ethnics living in the subproject area are Hmong people living in villages. There

have been a variety of projects supporting ethnic minorities living lower standard life such as

Program 134, Program 135, etc. Therefore, living standard of ethnic minorities has been

improved. They have the same land use rights as the Kinh. The ethnic minority households

affected by the live on farming and raising cattle.

� Impact of subproject on ethnic minorities

The long-term and short-term impacts of subproject on ethnic minorities mainly due to the

acquisition of land for construction and installation activities. The impacts include the reduction

of agricultural land and housing area, the damage to crops, houses and buildings in the

subproject area.

The permanent impacts on houses, buildings during the construction to ensure the safety of

high-voltage grid regulated in Decree No. 106/2005/ND-CP proclaimed on August 17th, 2005

by the Government detailing and guiding a number of articles of the Electricity Law on ensuring

the safety of high-voltage grid and Decree No. 81/2009/ND-CP proclaimed on October 12th,

2009 by the Government amending for Decree No. 106/2005/ND-CP proclaimed on August

17th, 2005 by the Government. Acording to the survey reports through invesment project

period:

+ 194 households located in ROW 194 including 95 ethnic minority households will be

affected by the permanent land acquisition for the construction of the electric poles’ base (about

475 people).

During the community counseling, all people affected by the subproject wish to receive

compensation for land area, trees, crops affected by this subproject in cash instead of

relocation.



� Information Disclosure and Community Counseling

- Information Disclosure and Community consulting have been carried in the stage of

preparation for the subproject.

- Methods and implementing forms: notices, interview, discussion with the relevant agencies.

- Content: consulting unit presented about the location of subproject and compensation

policies for relocation. Participants discussed and raised opinions on the damage caused by

the subproject , compensation, relocation and development program.

� Implementation

The implementation of compensation and relocation was presented in RP report. To effectively

implement EMDP, NPPMB should actively and positively co-operate with relevant agencies or

independently carry out involving works such as participating in the subproject implementation,

monitoring and ensuring the EMDP implementation, and ensuring the participation of affected

people.

� Monitoring and evaluation

Monitoring the implementation of EMDP is a part of monitoring the implementation of the RP

report. The RP report describes the overall plan for monitoring the implementation of RP.

� Estimated costs for the specific training program in EMDP

- Dissemination of information about the subproject , compensation and relocation

policy, and EMDP subproject in 12 villages of ethnic minorities that subproject

affecting on.

- Teaching the high-voltage safety for residents and students at 16 communes in

subproject.

I. INTRODUCTION

I.1. Objectives of the Subproject

The subproject “Hoa Binh - Tay Ha Noi 220kV transmission line” aims to transmit the

power from Hoa Binh hydropower to the national grid with the following targets:

i) Safety providing the power safely and efficiently for the western Hanoi, including Son

Tay and 5 districts in the north of Highway 6: Ba Vi, Phuc Tho, Dan Phuong, Hoai Duc, Thach

That and Quoc Oai. These are important areas of additional charge and they are achieving a

economic and social development.

ii) Reducing the load of 220kV line from Hoa Binh to Ha Dong, Xuan Mai.

iii) Enhancing the capacity to provide stable electricity for transmission system in Hanoi

and other regions; ensure a stable operation in the national electrical.

I.2. Main characteristics of the subproject

The subproject only includes 50,6km of the transmission line with the scale of:

- Voltage: 220kV;

- No. of circuits: 02, 04 circuits;

- Length of the line: 50.6km;



- Location: going through Hoa Binh city, Ky Son and Luong Son district (Hoa Binh

province), Quoc Oai district (Hanoi City);

- Starting point: 220kV bus of 220kV Hoa Binh hydroelectric power station’s

switchyard;

- End point: 220kV bus of 220kV Tay Ha Noi, located in Quoc Oai district, Ha Noi

city;

- Conductor: 2xACSR 330/43 (2 conductors per phase) and 2xAACSR 380/50 (for

span length getting over Da river);

- Overhead ground wire: PHLOX 116 and overhead ground wire with fiber cable

OPGW 120, 24 fiber, exclusively installed more one ground wire PHLOX 116 in 3 km head line

from Hoa Binh switchyard;

- Insulators: Insulator with suitable load, ceramic, glass or composite. Quantity of

insulators based on creeppage distance of 20mm/kV and 25mm/kV.Specification equal to type

U70B, U120B, U160B, 210B, U300B (according to IEC standard);

- Tower: Hot-dip galvanized steel tower with 4 circuits and 2 circuits Tower is 72m in

height for Da river span;

- Foundation: reinforced concrete foundation;

- Earthing: Radial and galvannized-steel earthing;

- Vibration damping for conductor and ground wire.

* Capital: investment loan from the World Bank.

I.3. Subproject Location

The subproject will be located within 16 communes in 4 districts of Hoa Binh province

and Ha Noi capital

Table 1. Subproject's location

No. Place Length (m)

No. Place Length (m)

I. Hoa Binh province 39856.2

I. Hoa Binh province 39856.2

1 Hoa Binh city 9799.7

3 Luong Son dictrict 16582

Tan Thinh 766.7

Lam Son 5984.2

HuuNghi 1988.2

Hung Son 2876.1

HoaBinh 820

Luong Son 7721.7

Tan Hoa 2635.3

II Ha Noi 10810.9

Yen Mong 3589.5

1 Quoc Oai district 10810.9

2 Ky Son district 13474.5

Dong Yen 4726.3

Ky Son 623.2 Can Huu 3310.7

Dan Ha 4644.2

Thach Than 1615

MongHoa 3174.5

Dong Quang 1158.9

Dan Hoa 5032.6



II. Socio – economyicconditions

II.1. Socio – economic conditions in local area of Hoa Binh province

II.1.1. Socio – economic conditions in of Hoa Binh province

The plan of 220kV tranmission line from Hoa Binh – the West of Hanoi crossing Hoa Binh

province with the length of 39.8km, through Hoa Binh city, Luong Son district and Ky Son

district, shown in the following table:

Table 2.1: Socio – economy conditions in local area of Hoa Binh province

(Summerized from local socio – economy reports)

No. Local Economic development Social development

Hoa Binh city

1 Tan Thinh

commune

Agriculture: The total area of

fruit and vegetable farming is 23

hectares. The total livestock and

poultry: 71 cows, 672 pigs, 2879

poultry, a 4-hectare fish farming

area.

Forestry: Cared and protected

area is 75 hectares.

Industry and Handicraft

Industry: there are 56 small

production facilities and over 1,000

employees with stable income.

Trade – Services: there are 120

households in markets, 03

supermarkets and 451 production

facilities.

Education and training:

Improving the quality of

teaching staffs, quality of

teaching and learning in

schools.

Health: Good implementing

the national health programs.

Population: 9552 people.

Population growth rate: The

rate of natural population

growth is 0.32%.

Social policy: There are 25

poor households, making up

0.85%.

2 Tan Hoa

commune

Agriculture: Agriculture

development to communes the good

production, mainly to serve the

local people. Rice farming area is

28 hectares; corn farming area is 10

hectares. Care and protect the

livestock and poultry of the

commune.

Industry and Handicraft

Industry: Handicraft manufacture is

the main with 118 production

facilities and 304 employees.


There are 4 schools in the area

including 02 kindergartens, 01

primary school, and 01

secondary school. All schools

have full classrooms, facilities,

furniture and teaching

equipment.

Health: Good

implementation of primary

health care for people in the

area.


3 Huu Nghi

commune

Agriculture: Agricultural

production and livestock and

poultry farming.

Forestry: Promote to care and

protect forests, fire prevention.

Industry – Handicraft Industry:


Compulsory education in

primary school the right age

and secondary school

compulsory education,

compulsory education.




The output value reached 45.5% in

the first 6 months of the year,

reached 45.5% compared to the

plan.

Trade - Services: 486 facilities

and individual households with

3,500 employees. Total sales of

service activities in the first 6

months of 2012 has estimated of

over 96 billion VND, increasing

28% compared with the same

period in 2011, has reached 49.2%

compared to the plan.

Health: Good

implementation of primary

health care for people in the

area.

Population - family

planning: The birth rate is

remained at 0.7%.


4 Yen Mong

commune


rice farming is 214.74 hectares,

corn farming is 45 hectares; Total

output of cereal crops has reached

785 tons, peanut output is 4

hectares and bean output is 2

hectares. Livestock: 436 buffaloes,

137 cows, 3,285 pigs; 7,966

poultry; 92 goats.

Forestry: Exploit and replant 41

hectares of acacia.

Industry – Handicraft Industry:

The output value in 9 months has

reached 13 billion, reached 77% of

the plan, increasing 12.5%

compared with the same period in

2011.

Trade - Services: Maintain the

operation of My market and the

facilities of trade – services in the

area: 95 facilities having revenue of

12.5 billion VND, comparing with

the year plan has reached 65%.

Comparing with the same period in

2011 has increased 15%.

Education - Training:

Complete the program of

compulsory education in the

area

Health: Implement the

health care for people.


Luong Son district

5 Hoa Son

commune

Agriculture: Rice: 62.6 hectares;

crops: 80.3 hectares; Veterinary

Livestock: 318 buffaloes, 104

cows; 8,085 pigs, 284,600 poultry

and aquatics...

Forestry: Plant 18.2 hectares.

Industry - Handicraft Industry:

Small production facilities are the

Education - Training: The

facilities of the 4 schools are

spacious and clean.

Health: Focus on the health

care for people.

Population: There are 6,119

people/1467 households in the

commune. The total number of




main poor households is 32

households, nearly poor

households is 35.

6 Lam Son

commune

Agriculture: rice: 6.2 hectares,

crop: 90 hectares, lemongrass: 170

hectares. Banana: 120 hectares.

Tea: there are 50 ha, output is 7

tons/hectares. Livestock: A number

of livestock and poultry: 84

buffaloes, 308 cows, 980 pigs,

18,600 poultry, 24 deers, 68 goats,

165 hedgehogs, 1630 beehives.

Forestry: The plan of

transferring 20 hectares new

planted has unfulfilled yet


The commune has a total of 132

households of trade – services


facilities of schools meet the

basic requirements of teaching

and learning.

Health: The primary health

care for people has

implemented with industry

regulations.

Population: The commune

has a total of 4,234 people

/1,072 households.

7 Lương Sơn

Commune

Agriculture: Rice: 87.3 hectares;

crops: 72 hectares; corns: 40

hectares; vegetables: 15 hectares;

beans: 5 hectares. Veterinary

Livestock: 369 buffaloes, 289 cows,

2,299 pigs, 250 goats; 250 dogs,

11,252 poultry; 1,350 beehives.

Forestry: Forest area is 20

hectares


There are 800 households and

individual business. The handicraft

value in 9 months is estimated 210

billion VND, reached 108%

comparing with the year plan and

95% comparing with the same

period.

Trade - Services: The value in 9

months: 521 billion VND, reached

130% of the year plan and 130%

comparing with the same period.




and learning.

Health: The health care for

people is always interested.

Poverty reduction program:

In the first 9 months of 2012,

the commune has more than

100 poor households = 2.66%.

81 nearly poor households are

2.17%.

Population: 13,060 people.

Ky Son district

8 Dan Hoa

commune

Agriculture: Cultivated area:

122.1 hectares, reaching 84% of the

plan.

Forestry: planting new forests

after harvesting is 15 hectares,




and learning.

Health – Family population




reached 75% of the plan.


The facilities producing items such

as block brick, wood furniture,

wine basket, brooms, soldering iron

door - aluminum chassis, clothing

productions are the main...

and children: Maintaining the

duty as prescribed, ensuring

health care for people.


9 Dan Ha

commune


spring – winter crops: 348 ha.

Livestock: 332 buffalos, 281 cows,

152 goats, 1,450 pigs, 11,200

poultry, 20 tons fish farming.

Forestry: Caring old forest is 675

hectares, new planting is 65

hectares, and mining is 46 hectares.


The handicraft industries such as

broom, cement brick, toothpick

split, forestry processing, furniture

production.




and learning.

Health: The health care for

people is always interested.

Population: 4,957 people. In

the first 6 months has no 3rd

child birth case, the rate of

natural population growth is

0.7%.

10 Mong Hoa

commune

Agriculture: The total cultivated

area: 345 hectares. Total cereal

output is 579 tons. Livestock

develops stable.

Forestry: Replanting the total

area of 40 hectares.

Industry – Handicraft Industry: 3

facilities attracting the large

numbers of local employees, the

regular employees are 260 people

with stable income.




and learning.

Health: Continue to

implement the national

program on health care, ensure

better health care for people.


The rate of natural

population growth: 0.8%. The

rate of malnutrition: 14.5%.

Poverty reduction: In the

recent the commune has 35

poor households.

11 Ky Son town

Agriculture: Mainly farming of

rice, corn and vegetables, livestock

for a stable development.

Industry - Handicraft Industry: the

traditional handicraft are still being

developed, a number of workshops

create jobs with stable incomes for

workers.

Trade - Services: small business

households not focused yet

Population: 2,439 people

Education: Compulsory

education in pre-schools,

towards to primary and

secondary schools.

Health: Good

implementation of social health

care and disease prevention

health care for local people.

Culture - information – sport

activities: Well organize




culture and sport activities.

II.1.2. Natural, cultural and social characteristics of ethnic minorities in the subproject area

The process of investigation found out that life of ethnic minorities has positively changed;

however, they still confronted difficulties. Low income, high illiteracy in high-land communes,

and low-quality infrastructure has been remained difficulty. Below is some statistic about the

life of ethnic minorities in subproject area.

� Living and producing practice of Muong ethnic group

Muong people normally live near rivers, springs or at low-hill areas. Today, Muong

people still keeps the particular trait of their ethnic group:

- Living practice

� Social relations: are mainly neighbourhood relations. Two to three generations of

Muong’s family live together. Children take their father’s family name. Muong people respect

the eldest son’s rights. At Muong’s family, son will inherit the family’s assets.

� House: Most of Muong people live at house on stilts (house with 4 rooves; people living

on the floor; livestock, poultry living under floor; production tools also left under floor….).

Normally, there are several tens of houses at Muong village. Each family usually plants

coconut-trees and jack-fruit trees at the garden..

� Clothing: Female clothing is more varied and typical than male clothing. Head scarf is

made from rectangle white cloth without embroidery. Brassiere and short jacket normally has

cut-out at the breast area. Dress lengthens up to ankle. There are two parts of a dress: body and

the edge. Dress’ edge is normally embroidered with various partterns..

- Jewelry: Bracelets, beads, xa tich set consisting of two or four silver chains with peach-

shaped box and tiger’s claws.

� Performing arts: Muong people prefer to sing “the Xec bua”- kind of single style which

praises working and ethnic beauty. In addition, there are other kinds of singing style such as Bo

meng, Vi dum, lullaby, Dong giao….

� Games: Muong people’s games are familiar to everybody such as crossbow competition,

swinging, throwing sacre ball, danh mang, cham chi…

� Marriage: Man and woman of Muong group are free to choose their partners. Their

family will help to prepare wedding when they decide to get married. Main stages of a wedding

include sounding out, presenting betel, asking permission for wedding, first wedding, taking

bride to groom’s house. On the wedding day, match making man leads the groom’s team to

bring gifts to bride’s house. Groom wears nice clothes and white head scarf, carries a dosser

with cooked rice put on mouth of two boiled castrated cocks. Bride wears hat, nice dress coated

with black long shirt with two front flaps tied. Bride present her parents – in- law with two

blankets, two mattresses, two bearing pads.

� Funeral : When people takes his last breath, the eldest son breathlessly takes the knife

and chops the window three times at the worshipping room. Then, that family will ring the gong

to announce the burial. Dead body will be covered with several clothings in line with custom,

then put in coffin which is empty trunk of tree, then covered with dragon scale clothes.The

funeral will be led by a powwow. Son and daughter’s roles in the funeral are the same as



King’s. Especially, wife of newphew and daughter- in law of dead parents or grand-parents will

wear the special clothes named “quat ma”

- Production

� Production activities: Muong people lives in mountainous area where land for

production is large. Main job of Muong people is farming. Wet rice is main food crop. Their

main earthmoving tool is early plow and single edged rake made of wood or bamboo. When the

rice is ripen, it is cut and bound in sheaves to be carried to home. Then it is seasoned and piled

on garret. Whenver there is use, people will take each sheaf, put in wooden trough, crush to take

the grains with foot, then grind them. Besides wet rice, Muong people also cultivate other

plants, raise domestic fowls, go for hunting, catch fishes, gather and produce handmade

products (weaving textile, knitting…).

� Mean of transport: Woman usually uses dosser made of giang (dendrocalamus

patellaris) or bamboo. In addition, they also use arm with notches at 2 ends, incitier.

II.1.3. Ethnic minority people affected by the subproject

Survey result shows that most of people living at the subproject fields are ethnic

minority. Among 194 households at corridor lines influenced by the subproject , there are 95

households having their long term lands claimed back for column foundation construction. The

area at corridor lines unwithdrawn is temporarily influenced during construction period.

II.2. Socio – economic conditions in local area of Ha Noi city The project goes through territories of Hanoi with the length of 10.8 kilometers. The

socio-economic conditions of local areas where the project goes through is depicted in the table

below:

Table 2.2: The socio-economic conditions of local areas in Hanoi city.

Ordinal Local areas

Economic development

conditions

Social conditions

12

Dong Yen

Commune –

Quoc Oai

District

Agriculture: The working area is

995 ha, which rises by 1.1% in

comparison with the same period

of the previous year.

Industry: Traditional craft

villages, such as tailoring, rattan

weaving, broom making for

exporting, attract more than 200

workers. Total income from

industrial production- handicraft and

service in 9 recent months has

reached 4 billion and 500 million

Viet Nam Dong, which decreases

23.6% in the same period of the

previous year.


Schools’ infrastructure

basically meets requirements

for teaching and studying.

Healthcare: In 9 previous

months, healthcare centers

have conducted check-ups and

treatments for 4,682 visits; and

open immunization for 100%

of children in the area

Population: 10,298

inhabitants.

13

Can Huu

Commune –

Quoc Oai

District

Agriculture: Winter crops area

is 28.6 ha, spring crops area is

550.5 ha; total produce is 3260.92

tons.

Veterinary: Plans of bird flu

prevention and livestock and


Schools’ infrastructure

continues growing stably to

meet requirements

Healthcare: Ensuring to

provide people with



Ordinal Local areas

Economic development

conditions

Social conditions

poultry immunization have

achieved targets.

Industry, handicraft and service:

Knitting, broom making, rattan

weaving… have been retained and

developed stably.

healthcare, sanitation, hygiene,

as well as prevention from

disease such as influenza A.

Population: 9210

inhabitants.

14

Dong Quang

Commune –

Quoc Oai

District

Agriculture: Total working area

in 2011 is 582.32 ha. Total value

of planting in 2011 is 55,287

million VND, which accounts for

45.28% agricultural value.

Livestock and fisheries: Total

value of livestock and fisheries is

approximately 66.8 billion VND,

which is equal to 30.39% of total

agricultural value.

Industry: Construction,

carpentry, handicrafts of rattan,

mechanics, transportation and

commerce services

Commerce- Service: Total value

is 7016 million VND, which is

equivalent to 3.28% in the

economic structure.

Education and training: 01

secondary school, 01 primary

school and 03 kindergartens

with total number of 162

teachers. The number of

nationally qualified teachers at

primary schools, secondary

schools, and high schools are

100%, 100%, and 98.3%

respectively.

Healthcare: Dong Quang

Commune has 01 healthcare

center, which is 6434.6 m2 and

equipped with 03 patient

rooms and 10 patient beds.

The healthcare center is run by

10 people (01 doctor, 07

nurses, 01 midwife, and 01

pharmacist).

Population: 11870

inhabitants.

(Collected from the Socio-economic reports of local areas)

II.3. Ethnic minority development plan (EMDP)

The subproject will be implemented at Tan Thinh district, Tan Hoa district, Huu Nghi district,

Yen Mong commune, Hoa Binh commune at Hoa Binh city; Dan Hoa commune, Dan Ha

commune, Mong Hoa commune, Ky Son town at Ky Son district; Hoa Son commune, Lam Son

commune, town Luong Son at Luong Son district, Hoa Binh province. Most of people living at

subproject area are Muong people. There is few amount of Kinh people living there. It is

unavoidable to claim back lands of ethinic minority to build column foundation. Impacts caused

by subproject implementation are temporary. Households with living houses and buildings

within corridor lines will be temporarily influenced. Therefore, subproject will influence on

social economic and cultural life of those households. EMDP is developoped for subproject

220kV line from Hoa Binh to west Hà Nội because of following reasons:

- Subproject implemented on the production land of ethinic minority. RP and EMDP

establishment will help ethnic minority to stabilize their lives and develop economy,

increase living standard.



- EMDP establishment will raise ethnic minority’s awareness on high voltage system,

Government’s goals on implementing subproject through publishing subproject

information, carrying out communication and training on high voltage system...

The objective of ethnic minority development plan is to ensure that the development process

will promote all aspects of values, human rights and cultural uniqueness of ethnic minorities

simultaneously ensure (i) the ethnic minorities in the subproject area are voluntarily consulted

and prior informed (ii) ensure that negative impacts caused by the subproject are eliminated and

minimized , and (iii) ensure that affected people fully receive economic, social and cultural

benefits from the subproject. EMDP report is drawn up in line with WB’s guideline OP 4.10.

This report is made during establishing investment subproject plan to meet WB’s policy

requirements. Report is based on survey result and local community, union, ethinic people’s

consultancy at the subproject fields to gather information and their feedbacks on subproject ,

potential influences and definite influences on local people. Moreover, EMDP report also

recommends compensation plans, enhances social economic benefits for people directly

influenced by the subproject and raises local ethnic minority’s awareness and knowledge on

electric system security.

This instrument is also prepared based on policies of the Government of Viet Nam. The

Constitution states that the Ethnic People Committee has the right to submit proposals, plans or

related issues of indigenous peoples to the Assembly, monitor, control the implementation of

national policies, development programs on various areas such as, education, health care, etc.

Article 5 of the Constitution also indicates that ethnic minority people could use their own

languages to reserve its cultural distinctions. In the Government of Viet Nam, directly under the

supervision of the Prime Minister is the Committee of Ethnic Minorities Affairs (CEMA which

is equivalent to a Ministry).



III. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS ON SOCIAL ASSESSMENT

Project’s social assessment in this report aims at providing key information on social-economic features, general information about life, culture

of ethnic minority at subproject fields, other information about life, culture, sources of income, cultivation features, polulation and people’s

jobs…for better understanding and figuring out characteristics of influencing area, then having overview on development of subproject fields

and working out direct potential negative and positive impacts and subproject ’s supports to influenced people to ensure their rights and

minimize the losses.

Table 3.1. Summary table of subproject’s social assessment

Method Key findings Direct impacts and

potential impacts

Project’s supports to

local people Public consultancy

Survey - Population

+ Total disadvantaged households of ethinic

minority: 95 households/475people;

- Economy

+ Production: All of influenced minority

households at corrider lines at subproject

communes mainly make agricultural production

(do farming and cattle breeding). They mainly

cultivate wet rice crop, dry rice crop, secondary

crop, plant acacia, eucalyptus. Besides, people also

raise livestock, poultry to improve their living

quality.

+ Business, services: Major businesses or services

at subproject communes are retail. The commodity

they mainly trade is essential to people’s daily

living.

+ Source of income of local people is from

Project establishment

somehow exerts positive

and negative impacts on

local people’s environment

and life, specifically:

- Direct negative impacts

+ People’s land area is

reduced due to land

withdrawal for column

foundation construction.

+ People’s houses and

buildings at subproject

fields are influenced.

+ Trees, secondary crops,

properties on land of local

people are influenced;

(For loss data, please refer

To ensure people’s

benefits and minimize

the loss, to stabilize

people’s life, following

supports will be

provided by subproject

team:

a) Direct economic

supports

- Transportation support

- Means of living

support

- Intermittent production

support

- Job switch support and

- Before

implementing the

subproject ,

consulting party

seeks for advice of

ethnic minority and

representatives of

local authority in

term of subproject

implementation, its

potential negative

and positive impacts.

For more details

about local people

and authority’s

opinions, please refer

to item IV in this

report.




potential impacts



agricultural production (farming and breeding).

Average income per person ranges from 2 to 5

million VND/ year. No household is under poverty

line.

+ Electricity use: Most of subproject communes

use national electric system.

+ Water use: Source of living water of ethnic

minority is from wells, springs…

+ Ratio of households able to watch TV at

subproject communes is about 90%.

+ Heathcare: Local authority does care for

heathcare services to people. Most of subproject

communes has their medical aid stations to serve

people’s needs for primary medical examination

and treatment on site. National medical programs

are implemented well. Children under 6 years old

are all examined and treated medically without

charge. Standby medical activities are maintained.

Traditional medicine is employed to prevent and

treat people medically.

+ Education: Education are gradually improved,

particularly in term of teaching and learning

quality. Moreover, school’s infrastructure is also

upgraded. Ratio of children eligible to be enrolled

in first grade is increasing. Education

universalization is maintained well.

to RP report)

+ Entry of construction

workers will increase local

population as they has to

live and work at subproject

construction area.

- Potential negative

impacts

+ Cultural impacts: Each

group has its own customer,

practice and typical cultural

life which is characteristics

of ethnic minority.

Therefore, entry of

construction workers may

stimulate cultural exchange

among groups such as King

people and Muong people.

+ Local people may be

injured during construction

period.

+ Disagreements among

workers and local people

may happen: The increase

of population, and the

different living habits and

employment generation

- Reward for timely

removal

- House rental support

- Heathcare support,

- Textbook supply to

students

- Supports to certified

poor household, the

elderly, the handicap

- Electric lighting

support

(For more details about

subproject ’s supports,

please refer to Item V in

this report)

In addition, subproject

Owner also cooperate to

competent authorities

and local authority to

support local people to

get access to 135

program, 134 program

of Government.




potential impacts



- Land use right: Pursuant to Land law of Social

Republic of Vietnam, ethnic minority has the same

right as King people in term of property

possession. They are granted with long term land

use certificate.

For all households of ethnic minority living and

cultivating on their land for long time, their land

use and ownership right should be verified by local

authority.

educational qualifications

may cause the

disagreements between

local people and workers.

+ Worker’s infectious

diseases may spread to

local people and vice versa,

due to the entry of

construction workers.

+ Electric shock may

happen due to the use of

household applications

(fan, TV…)

- Positive impact of

subproject on ethnic

minority

+ Ethnic minority’s

employment will increase:

To the simple works

required unskilled worker,

subproject Owner and

Contractor may use

available local resources to

create employment for

ethnic people and help to

increase their incomes,

b) Knowledge

broadening support

- subproject Owner

cooperates to local

authority to provide

training to local people

(especially ethnic

minority) about basic

understanding about high

voltage system to ensure

their live and heath

safety. For more

information about key

items, please refer to

Item V in this report .

Observation - Infrastructure

+ At the subproject communes, it is easy to have

access to transport which is convenient to move

and exchange commodities, which consequently

boosts the social economic development. However,

as the qualification and awareness of ethnic

minority is limited, their living standard still low.

Interviewing

local people

in person

- Culture

+ Ethnic minority at subproject fields is Muong

People. They live together without discrimination.

Their cultural life is quite diversified which can be

seen through art performance (vi dum singing,

lullaby, dong giao singing…); festivals and

holidays (ancestor worshipping; mountain deity

worshipping; earth deity worshipping); games

(throwing a sacre ball through the ring, swinging




potential impacts



into the saddle, danh mang…); Moreover, typical

charaterictics of ethnic minority is also displayed

through their clothing, funerals, marriages,

houses…

+ Today, ethnic minority at subproject fields are

changing. The difference between their lives,

culture and King people’s is narrowed. Most of

ethnic minority can speak King’s language.

Nevertheless, their own character has still been

preserved. For details about ethnic minority’s

cultural features, please refer to Item II.2 in this

report.

raise their living standard.

+ When electric system is

expanded, local people can

expand businesses or

services.

+ Households able to use

electricity will increase:

100% households at

subproject area will be

connected to electric

system.

+ Electricity for local living

and producing needs will be

increased, therefore social

economic development will

be boosted which

consequently contributes to

the country industrialization

and modernization.

- subproject

implementation may cause

property loss to some

Muong and Kinh

households. However, off

ethnic minority’s view,

they will be provided with

more electricity; therefore

- Social relations and community activities

+ Each ethnic group will have different kinds of

community activities. For Muong people, social

relations are the relations among neighbours.

Village patriarch has the highest prestige and

power in the village.

Method of

measure and

statistic

- To measure area of each household of ethnic

group influenced by the subproject , we use on site

measure and statistic method. Involved land area

is:

+ Total land area in corrider lines: 875.600m2




potential impacts



+ Total land area to be claimed back in long term:

17.656 m2

+ Number of households with home required to

move out of corrider lines: 0

+ Number of households required to repair their

houses or fences: 0

the social and economic

benefits brought about by

the subproject outweight

the negative impacts of the

subproject .



IV. FREE, INFORMED AND PRIOR CONSULTATION

IV.1. Community consulting (in the period of preparation for the subproject )

During the stage of preparation for the subproject, the investor and counselor carried out the

information disclosure and community consulting to collect the direct feedbacks of local

authorities and people whole life affected by the subproject . The consulting process was

carried out according to the following steps:

Step 1: During the phase of exploration and agreement the direction of power line, the

consultant board reported to the local authorities about the power lines; all matter related to

the subproject including scale, location, purpose and the significance of the subproject .

Step 2: Explored the terrain; collected the information of socio-economic and cultural life of

locals and collected the damage of subproject and made a report.

Step 3: Organized a meeting with local authorities, unions, and the community of people

affected by the subproject for collecting their opinions and sharing of difficulty and desires.

The documents presented at the meeting include:

- Place and time of meetings: the CPCs that subproject put effect on.

- Language used in the meetings: Vietnamese

- Documents support for the meetings: EMDP interim report, the map of the total

land used for the subproject .

- During the counseling, the counselor presented the content as following:

+ An overview of the subproject (Main characteristics, communes affected by the

subproject )

+ The environment impact (both positive and negative impacts of subproject to

the environment)

+ Methods to eliminate the impacts

+ The compensation policy, support policy when land is recovered by the State

under the provisions of government.

+ Way to complain

+ Discover the public notices at PCs including: Tan Thinh, Tan Hoa, Huu Nghi,

Yen Mong, Hoa Binh – a part of Hoa Binh City, Dan Hoa, Dan Ha, Mong Hoa, Ky

Son Town of Ky Son District, Hoa Son, Lam Son, Luong Son Town of Luong Son

District, Hoa Binh Province to collect opinions and suggestions of locals regarding

to the issue of damage, compensation and Relocation policy, the implementing

plan, the impact arising during the subproject implementation.

IV.2. Community consulting (in the period of construction)

During the construction, construction supervision consultant will be hired to supervise the

technical as well as the implementation of EMDP, simultaneously co-operate with the

subproject owner in community counseling. The collected opinions will be conveyed to the

subproject owner then subproject owner will co-operate with the contractor at aim of better

implementing EMDP or update this EMDP (if necessary).



V. Conversations with ethnic minority communities

For ethnic minority residents better accessing and understanding the basic information about

the subproject, during the implementation, the consultant representatives investigated every

commune that the power lines go through and talked to local government representatives and

ethnic communities, provided them basic information about the subproject , the damage may

be caused by the subproject and the interest of people whose life affected by the subproject.

During the conversations between the consultant board and ethnic minority communities, the

consultant set up questions and participants discussed. Questions of locals about the

subproject will were answered by subproject owner representatives and consultants. Most of

questions related to the locals’ life and their rights as their lands recovered by the State. The

collected questions include:

1. Who are affected by the subproject

All the agencies, organizations or individual whose land and assets on land such as houses,

buildings, trees, crops directly or indirectly affected by the constructing activities in the

subproject or located in ROW.

2. Who will measure the impact of subproject on land and property

Northen Power Works Project Management Unit (PMU) will provide necessary information

for the Compensation, Support and Relocation Council at Hoa Binh City, Ky Son District

and Luong Son District including the maps of construction as the base for measure and

statistic the impact.

- The Compensation, Support and Relocation Council at Hoa Binh City, Ky Son

District and Luong Son District will be responsible for investigating the damage in

the subproject zone.

- The affected areas are the area in the safety aisle of power line system with the

standard width regulated in Decree 106/2005/ND-CP proclaimed on August 17th

,

2005 by the Government; Decree 81/2009 / ND-CP proclaimed on October 12th

,

2009 amending for 106/2005/ND-CP proclaimed on August 17th

, 2005 by the

Government.

3. Different impacts

Long-term impacts:

+ The area within the construction area of electric pole base: land, houses, buildings,

trees and other assets located on the ground.

+ Within the power line safety aisle zone

+ According to Article 6 Decree No. 106/2005/ND-CP proclaimed on August 17th

,

2005 by the Government; Decree 81/2009 / ND-CP proclaimed on October 12th

, 2009

amending for 106/2005/ND-CP proclaimed on August 17th

, 2005 by the Government,

houses and structural works with unsafe structure must be removed from the HTL (11

meters from the center line on each side).

+ Trees within 11 meters from the center line on each side and the distance from the

highest point of the tree to the lowest point of power line is no more than 4 meter

according to Article 5, Section C, Decree No. 106/2005/ND-CP proclaimed on August

17th

, 2005 by the Government.



Short-term impacts: Trees, crops and other assets affected in the construction

process.

4. Land located in the ROW will be revoked for the subproject

Yes. However, only the area used for construction of electric pole base will be revoked.

5. Who will be compensated

All households, agencies, individuals and organizations own land and property affected by the

subproject and can prove the legitimate land use rights and ownership of other assets before

the regulated time will be compensated. The case of invasion, building houses or planting

perennials after the regulated time must be removed without any compensation or support.

6. The applied compensation rate

The compensation rate will be decided by the People’s committee of Hoa Binh Province.

7. Houses with one part affected

All households with houses or ancillary building partly affected will be reasonably

compensated based on the degree of influence. (The classification of influence was specified

in the RP report).

8. The time of receipt of compensation and relocation

- The displaced households will be compensated at least 1 month before the land recovery.

- The households with trees and crop affected will be compensated at least 1 month before the

construction (The compensation and construction should be immediately carried out after the

season to reduce the effect on locals’ income).

9. In addition to compensation, what are the other interests of affected households

- Yes. Affected households will be supported the replacement, career change support and

offering jobs, livelihood support, production disruptions support, health care support, text

books for children support, poor household support, reward for household giving land before

the due date. In addition, residents participate in training courses, workshops, high-voltage

safety guidelines classes.

10. During the construction, will locals be supported and offer jobs

Yes. subproject owners and contractors will offer simple jobs not asking for the special

qualification and knowledge that will be suitable for ethnic minorities such as excavation for

electric pole base, clear the corridors for creating more jobs for ethnic minorities.

11. The case of household receiving a part of compensation but have been asked to

relocate

Only after receiving full compensation, affected households will have to relocate.

12. Upon receiving land remuneration, must affected households make monetary

contribution to any organization or the CPC

No agencies or organization authorized to collect remuneration money from affected

households. If there is such a case, the affected households should immediately inform the

Compensation, Support and Relocation Council, or PMU or any local authorities.

13. Who is in charge of informing necessary information to affected households



The PMU, the Compensation, Support and Relocation Council at Hoa Binh City, Ky Son

District and Luong Son District are responsible for providing adequate and necessary

information on the Compensation and Relocation plan, remuneration pricing, land-owners’

rights, time frame for remuneration, timeline to land inquisition, etc. for the affected

households.

14. Where to logde a grievance/complaint

First Stage - At Commune People’s Committee (CPC)

An aggrieved person may bring his/her complaint to any member of the CPC, in writing or

verbally. It is incumbent upon said member of CPC to notify the CPC about the complaint.

The CPC will meet personally with the aggrieved person and will have 15 days following the

lodging of the complaint to resolve it. The CPC secretariat is responsible for documenting and

keeping file of all complaints that it handles.

Second Stage - At District People’s Committee (DPC)

If after 15 days the aggrieved person does not hear from the CPC, or if the CPC gives its

solutions, but DP is not satisfied with the decision taken on his/her complaint, the person may

bring the case, either in writing or verbally, to any member of DPC or DCB. The DCB in turn

will have 30 days to resolve the case. The DPC is responsible for documenting and keeping

file of all complaints that it handles.

Third Stage - At Provincial People’s Committee (PPC)

If after 30 days the aggrieved person does not hear from the DCB, or if the DP is not satisfied

with the decision taken on his/her complaint, the aggrieved person may bring the case, either

in writing or verbally, to any member of the PPC. The PPC has 45 days within which to

resolve the complaint to the satisfaction of all concerned. The PPC secretariat is also

responsible for documenting and keeping file of all complaints that it handles.

Final Stage - Court of Law Decides

If after 45 days following the lodging of the complaint with the PPC, the aggrieved person

does not hear from the PPC, or if he/she is not satisfied with the decision taken on his/her

complaint, the case may be brought to a court of law for adjudication. Under no circumstance,

can the aggrieved person be evicted from his/her property nor can the Government take over

his/her property without the explicit permission of the court.

15. Who supervise the remuneration process

• A group appointed by NPPMB will supervise the remuneration process

• An independent audit group will be selected by NPPMB to sign the supervising

contract for the remuneration process.

16. What are the duties of the affected households

- Be present at all meetings of the community and read all of the information related to the

local subproject .



- Prepare in advance legal documents, such as land-ownership certificate, family-listing

booklet, identification papers, low-income-family-status booklet, etc.

- Read and understand fully all information presented in sample documents such as socio-

economic investigative survey, land-measurement profile, property-listing form, leaflets

regarding compensation activities.

- Vacate and return land to the subproject upon receiving full remuneration payment and

other supporting aids.

17. Affected households can make enquiry, anytime, at any of these organizations

- Supervising Committee for the Electrical subproject s, Northern region.

- Compensation for Land-requisition Committees of Hoa Binh City, Ky Son District, or

Luong Son District

- PCs of Hoa Binh City, Ky Son District, or Luong Son District.

- PCs of the following Wards: Tan Thinh, Tan Hoa, Huu Nghi, Yen Mong, Hoa Binh; Dan

Hoa, Dan Ha, Mong Hoa, Ky Son Town; Hoa Son, Lam Son, Luong Son Town.



VI. proposed developmental activities

Other than compensation and rehabilitation packages1 offered to DPs who are ethnic minority

people, the IAs will coordinate with local agencies to implement additional supports to

communities. The activities are proposed, taking into account the actual project impact as well

as actual needs of community at local level.

VI.1. Support EMs in accessing the credit support policies

+ Credit support policies will be offered to those who were greatly affected by the subproject .

These feature several programs on resource utilisation and management.

+ The subproject director will coordinate with the PCs of Wards that are affected by the

subproject to provide opportunities for affected families to obtain loans from government-

administered Program 134, 135, etc.

+ According to ground survey, an estimated number of 154 families will be affected by the

subproject . All of these families have expressed interest in receiving cash remuneration for

their affected land.

+ Detailed payments for compensation of affected land and properties, and supporting aids for

affected families are presented in RP report.

VI.2. Information, Education and Communication (IEC) support

To increase the people’s knowledge on the subproject and equip them with necessary

information on high-voltage electrical network, there is a need to host 01 workshop for the

local residents on Safety within the High-voltage Electrical Network, especially aiming at the

minorities near the subproject site to ensure safety on life and health of these people. For the

workshop to be effective, NPPMB needs to work with the PCs of affected Wards to identify

contents for the workshop. The key activities will be carried out as followed:

• Giving out leaflets to families, communities, schools on the regulations of Safety on

High-voltage Electrical Network, spotting danger signs and first-aiding methods on

electrocuted victims.

• Demonstrating for the local residents and students to practice safety measures while

living under the High-voltage Electrical Network and first-aid methods for victims.

• Teaching local residents how to estimate the safety zones around the high-voltage

cables, the dos and don’ts under the high-voltage cables.

1 For further details, please refer to resettlement plan that was prepared for this subproject under TEP.



VII. implementation arrangement

VII.1. Institutional Arrangement

NPPMB is responsible to collaborate with relevant local authority in implementing this EMDP.

All activities of the EMDP implementation throughout a subproject should take place in a

culturally appropriate way for affected EM people. The NPPMB will set up routines for regular

dialogue and meetings with local authorities, representative community groups, and

traditional leaders representing EMs. Mass organizations, particularly the Women’s Union,

will play an active role in implementing and monitoring of the EMDP.

The capacity of the executing agencies at province and district levels for social safeguard

implementation should be strengthened and improved to meet the WB’s requirements. It also

needs to build capacity of local communitieson implementation and monitoring of RP and

EMDP. Therefore, NPPMB is responsible for providing training courses and workshops on

the implementation and monitoring of RP and EMDP for local executing agencies and

communities. The training should be organized before starting any activities relating to the

implementation of RP and EMDP. Training courses should be held at each level including

province, district and commune so that different stakeholders could be involved in. The

training courses given to ethnic peoples should be in a culturally appropriate manner for them.

VII.2. Greviance Mechanism

The grievance mechanism is established to resolve complaints of EMs, which will pass

through 3 stages before they could be elevated to a court of law as a last resort.

Stage 1, at the commune people’s committee level.

An aggrieved affected household may bring his/her complaint before the receiving

department of a Commune People’s Committee to be received and guided for necessary

procedures. The CPC will meet personally with the aggrieved affected household and will

have 5 days following the lodging of the complaint to resolve it (Note: in remote and

mountainous areas, the complaint should be resolved within 15 days. The CPC secretariat is

responsible for documenting and keeping file of all complaints that it handles. Upon

issuance of decision of CPC, the complainants can make an appeal within 30 days. If the

second decision has been issued and the household is still not satisfied with the decision, the

household can elevate his/her complaint to the DPC.

Stage 2, at the district people’s committee level:

Upon receipt of a complaint from a household, the DPC will have 15 days (or 45 days in

remote and mountainous areas) following the lodging of the complaint to resolve the case.

The DPC is responsible for documenting and keeping file of all complaints that it handles.

Upon issuance of decision of DPC, the complainants can make an appeal within 30 days. If

the second decision has been issued and the household is still not satisfied with the decision,

the household can elevate his/her complaint to the PPC.

Stage 3, at the provincial people’s committee level:

Upon receipt of complaint from the household, the PPC will have 30 days (or 45 days in

remote and mountainous areas) following the lodging of the complaint to resolve the case.

The PPC is responsible for documenting and keeping file of all complaints. Upon issuance

of decision of PPC, the household can make an appeal within 45 days. If the second

decision has been issued and the household is still not satisfied with the decision, the



household can elevate his/her complaint to the court within 45 days.

Stage 4, the Court of Law:

Should the complainant file his/her case to the court and the court rule in favor of the

complainant, then provincial government agency will have to increase the compensation at

a level to be decided by the court. In case the court will rule in favor of PPC, the

complainant will have to receive compensation as described in the approved compensation

plan and obey all requirements of land clearance.

To assure that the mechanism described above is pragmatic and acceptable to affected EMs,

consultations with local authorities and affected communities about this mechanism is in need,

particularly consultations with vulnerable groups.

VII.3. Monitoring and Evaluation

To ensure that the EMDP is transparently implemented and complies with the EMPF and the

World Bank’s Indigenous People Policy (OP4.10), a monitoring and evaluation mechanism

is necessarily established for all project components throughout the process of the project

implementation. Monitoring and evaluation is a continuous process. The NPPMB will be in

charge of the internal monitoring and an external agency recruited by NPPMB will be in

charge of the independent monitoring and evaluation. To the extent possible, NPPMB will

consider to integrate the internal and external monitoring required under OP 4.10 into

similar task under OP 4.12. The findings of both RP monitoring and EMDP monitoring

should be included in one report to submit to the NPT and the WB for review.

The internal monitoring will be monthly conducted by the NPPMB, with the following

objectives:

a. ensure that all negative impacts of the subprojects on EMs are mitigated, minimized

or compensated in compliance with EMPF and EMDP.

b. ensure that measures of benefit maximization and adverse impact mitigation are

implemented in culturally appropriate way for ethnic peoples.

c. identify whether the free, prior and informed consultations for ethnic people

communities are conducted in culturally appropriate manner for ethnic peoples or

not.

d. determine if complaint procedures are followed the EMPF and propose solutions if

there are pending issues.

e. conformity between relocation and land clearance and construction commencement

to ensure that affected EMs have been provided with compensation, allowance, and

relocation satisfactorily before construction commencement.

The external monitoring will be conducted by an external agency specialized in the social

science. Key indicators of external monitoring and evaluation is presented as follow:

a. Public consultation and awareness of project benefits, resettlement policy and

entitlements of affected EM (if relevant);



b. Level of satisfaction of affected EMs with the provisions and implementation of

the EMDP;

c. Grievance redress mechanism (documentation, process, resolution);

d. Effectiveness and sustainability of entitlements and income rehabilitation measures

for affected EMs;

e. Gender impacts and strategy;

f. Capacity of affected EMs to restore/re-establish livelihoods and living standards.

Special attention provided or to be provided to severely affected and vulnerable

households;

g. Resettlement impacts caused during construction activities;

h. Participation of affected EMs in EMDP planning, updating and implementation;

i. Institutional capacity, internal monitoring and reporting; and

j. Channeling of government funds for compensation payment and allowances for

severely affected EMs if any.

ViII. Estimated Expenditure

Some expenditures in EMDP had been mentioned in RP’s expenditures (on land

compensation and relocating supports)

- Hiring fees for Independent Auditors, as subproject Manager works directly with

the Independent audit group.

- Costs for educational programs are listed below.

- Costs for recovery methods as mentioned in Contractor’s documents while

carrying out the subproject .

- Reserved costs as mentioned in RP.

Below is the estimated costs for some educational programs and fees for hiring independent

auditors of EMDP.

Table 8.1. Estimated costs for educational programs and hiring fees for independent

auditors of EMDP.

No. Program Amount Payer Total

1 Providing information on

subproject , compensation

for relocation and EMDP at

12 wards in subproject

area: Tan Thinh, Tan Hoa,

Huu Nghi, Yen Mong, Hoa

Binh, Dan Hoa, Dan Ha,

Mong Hoa, Ky Son, Hoa

Son, Lam Son, Hung Son.

10,000,000

VND/ward * 12

wards

NPPMB VND 120,000,000

2 Demonstrating for local

residents and students on

safety regulations at 12

10,000,000

VND/ward * 12

NPPMB VND 120,000,000



wards in subproject area wards

3 Summary charts,

documents, stationeries, etc.

2,000,000

VND/ward * 12

wards

NPPMB VND 24,000,000

4 Hiring fees for independent

auditors of EMDP

(estimated)

6,000

USD/person/year

* 5 years *

20,000

VND/USD

NPPMB VND 600,000,000

5 Grand Total VND 864,000,000