Social Safeguard Monitoring Report - Asian Development Bank · 2016-03-11 · Social Safeguard Monitoring Report Project No. 38357-013 July to December 2015 Sri Lanka: National Highway

Social Safeguard Monitoring Report

Project No. 38357-013 July to December 2015

Sri Lanka: National Highway Sector Project –

Additional Financing

Prepared by the Road Development Authority, Ministry of University Education and Highways for the Asian Development Bank. This Social Safeguard 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. Your attention is directed to the “terms of use” section on ADB’s website. 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

MINISTRY OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION AND HIGHWAYS

ROAD DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

ADB LOAN 2767 - SRI

PROGRESS REPORT OONN

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Table of Contents

1. Project Description 1

1. Introduction 1

2. Status of Resettlment Plan Implementation 7

I. Institutional Arrangement and Capacity 7

3. Scope of Impacts 11

A. CP01 - Matara (0+100) Godagama (3+400) Road (A024)

B. Cp-02 Hikkaduwa (0+000) - Baddegama - Nihena (14+340) Road

C. Cp-03 Aluthgama (53+480) - Southern Expressway (42+640) Road

D. Cp-04 Katukurunda (0+000) - Nagoda (2+720) Road

E. Cp-05 Kirulapane (0+000) - Homagama (15+500) Road

F. Cp-07 Pamankada (0+520) - Kesbewa (13+400) Road

4. Income Restoration Programs (IRP) 22

5. Compliance status 24

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1. PROJECT DESCRIPTION

1. INTRODUCTION

Road density in Sri Lanka is higher than that in many developing countries. However, road network standards and conditions are inadequate to meet the rapidly growing freight and passenger traffic. This situation limits the contribution of roads to national development, economic growth, and poverty reduction. To ensure sustainable and regionally balanced economic growth within the country, the existing road infrastructure must be improved and upgraded.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has supported the reform program and finances the improvements & upgrading of national highways (NHs). On 15 December 2005, ADB Board of Directors approved a loan of $150 million from its ordinary capital resources to help

finance the National Highways Sector Project. The Project is the first sector loan in Sri Lanka. The Loan was signed in Colombo on 14 December 2006 and became effective on 20 February 2007.

A major change of project scope was approved on 9 November 2010 to meet the highway-upgrading cost increase and included (i) cancelling the component to finance land acquisition and resettlement along Colombo links and (ii) reducing the pilot performance-

based maintenance component to 300 km from the 1,500 km originally envisaged.

With a minor scope change in February 2011, the road improvement component under the original loan consists of a total of 238 km national highway sections as shown in table below, and performance-based maintenance support for 108 km of national highway, which component was completed by the end of December 2012.

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Package Section Name length

(km)

Completion

Date

ICB01

A012: Puttalam Nochchiyagama to Anuradahapura 50.0

31.08.2012 A012: Sevice and Villu road 19.1

Additional 3 small sections 13.0

ICB02 A026: Udatenna Mahiyangana 41.0 29.02.2012

ICB03 A005: Nuwara Eliya Badulla 57.5 31.07.2012

ICB04 A006: Habarana Kanthale 43.5 28.08.2010

ICB05 A004: Nugegoda Homagama 13.5 26.02.2013

Total 237.6 -

On 4 October 2010, the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) agreed to provide

a US$8 million loan and ADB agreed to administer the loan as co-financing under the project. This was targeted to upgrade about a 14 km section of a Colombo link from Nugegoda to Homagama (A004) to improve the linkage from Colombo to the Southern Highway.

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TThhee FFiirrsstt AAddddiittiioonnaall FFiinnaanncciinngg PPrroojjeecctt -- of US$85 million from ADB’s ordinary capital resources for the NHSP’s original loan was approved on 5 August 2011, signed on 14 December 2011, and became effective on 23 February 2012. The first additional financing includes rehabilitating and upgrading an additional 62 km of national highways.

2. IMPACT AND OUTCOME

The main impact of the additional financing loan is sustainable and regionally balanced economic growth contributing to reduction of poverty. The outcome is improved accessibility and connecting through an upgraded and maintained national highway that lowers transport cost and travel time.

The project will contribute significantly to the urban/semi-urban/rural communities who have been suffering from unbearable traffic congestion created by bad and narrow condition of roads with lack of road behavioral pattern and accident prone traffic environment. The six road roads have been made a links with southern expressway and the main cities in western

and southern provinces.

The interviews revealed that men and women like poor employees in beneficiary area could reach their work place early after the proposed road development. They will have more time to engage with extra earnings or spend time with family members. Inhabitants are certainly ready to increase their mobility. In this context, improved road will contribute and motivate these people to convert their impoverished houses in to semi-permanent or permanent

conditions; pit latrines to sanitary toilets; access to safe drinking water sources and electricity. The cost of land will be increased rapidly with the development, and resulting economic surplus through high cost of land will be invested in economic ventures generating accelerated economic growth.

It is anticipated to achieve 10% increase of traffic volume, 25% reduction in travel time, 15% reduction in maintenance cost per Km, reduction of staff per Km and 15% reduction in

vehicle operating cost. Other than that, the project will contribute to increase the usage of southern expressway and it may effect to development of the tourism.

3. OUTPUTS

The National Highways Sector Project (NHSP) first additional financing has been improved about 49.4 kilometers of National highways comprising 31.60 km in the Western Province and 17.80 km in Southern Province. The benefit of the road development project is gone to western and southern provinces.

The main output of the project is rehabilitation and upgrading of six road section and these

selected roads about 49.4 Km is shown in table of selected road sections of first additional financing of NHSP.

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No. Sections Length (km)

CP1 A024: Matara - Akuressa Road 3.4

CP2 B153: Hikkaduwa - Southern Expressway Road 14.4

CP3 B157: Aluthgama - Southern Expressway Road 10.9

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No. Sections Length (km)

CP4 B207: Katukurunda - Neboda Road 2.7

CP5 A004: Kirulapona - Godagama Road 5.3

CP6 B157: Southern Highway - Madurugoda Road 12.6

CP7 B084: Pamankada - Kesbewa Road including Piliyandala Bypass 12.7

Total 62.0

The road has been widened, upgraded and realigned as necessary to meet the projected traffic demand for the next 20 years. The pavement is designed for life up to 10 years that could be extended to 15-20 years with proper maintenance and axle load control. Bridges, drainage structures and culverts have been improved and replaced as necessary. Along the project highways, the need for axle load measurement has been identified and weight station will be provided accordingly as part of the civil works contracts. Road safety audit will be built into the engineering designs and followed through during construction.

4. PROJECT BENEFITS AND BENEFICIARIES

The Project will contribute to the improvement of the overall performance of the road sector by improving transport efficiency and widening access to economic opportunities. The beneficiaries will be people, companies, and government and nongovernment agencies in

Sri Lanka that use road transport services directly and indirectly. Communities served by the project roads will benefit from improved, lower cost, and faster transport services, and thereby obtain improved access to economic opportunities and social services. Transport operators carrying both passengers and freight will benefit from improved roads in terms of lower vehicle operating cost, time savings, improved road safety, and thereby, increase productivity.

Government and nongovernment agencies served by the project roads will improve their service delivery due to improved transport efficiency. The main quantifiable benefits of the highways improvement will be savings in transport operating costs.

5. RISKS AND ASSUMPTIONS

The benefits and positive impacts of the Project will materialize, assuming that complementary external assistance and the Government’s commitment in developing the national road network and economic infrastructure will continue. The major risks for the Project are (i) risk of flooding and the avoidance of further property acquisition; (ii)

inadequate post project road maintenance; and (iii) delays in land acquisition and resettlement due to inadequate counterpart funding. The risks have been mitigated in (i) the provision of additional cross drainage in these areas was also compromised by the limited availability of suitable lead-away possibilities, (ii) the establishment of a dedicated road maintenance trust fund, and (iii) government commitment to include the Project in its core projects starting in FY2006 to ensure that budget allocations for it will be provided and

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sustained. The Project will also finance land acquisition and resettlement expenditures of the Colombo links.

6. SCOPE OF SOCIAL SAFEGUARDS

The six sub projects have been classified as category A with respect to the Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009. There are six separate resettlement plans have been prepared for all the sub projects to mitigate and address the resettlement impacts of sub projects and associated

losses. The resettlement plans have been prepared based on the Government’s Land Acquisition Act (LAA) of 1950, ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement (2009) and National Involuntary Resettlement Policy (NIRP) 2001.

The Economic and social assessment found no indigenous people residing in the project influence area or affected by the project. Most project communities are Singhalese, the rest being majority Muslim or Tamil. The project will support the equal treatment of all groups, particularly when land acquisition is required for road widening.

Men and women engaged in construction during subproject implementation will be paid equally for equal work, which will be monitored by construction supervision consultants. Although the proposed additional financing will not directly empower women, it will provide opportunities to ensure benefits to women through improved public transport services and better access to education, health care, markets, etc.

The project has been introduced Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) associated with ADB’s safeguard policy. The GRM is support genuine claimants to resolve their problems through mutual understanding and consensus reaching process with relevant parties.

7. PURPOSE OF SEMI ANNUAL MONITORING REPORT

The monitoring process of the social safeguards compliance of the project is entrusted to Project Management Unit and Environmental & Social Management Unit of RDA. This semi Annual report is prepared by Project Management Unit to present the situation of social safeguard of the project and the monitoring results to ADB.

8. METHODOLOGY

Conduct of Socio-Economic Surveys and Preparation of Resettlement Plans for the A024, B153, B157, B207, B084 and A004 Highways under ADB Loan 2767-SRI. Socio economic

surveys were conducted for the above highways to ascertain the degree of socio-economic impact on the affected population as a result of acquisition of properties for the improvement and widening of the relevant highways

Methodology Adopted

Two sets of questionnaires were used to gather information

Land Acquisition (Census) Questionnaire

Socio Economic Questionnaire

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While total affected population was subjected to the land acquisition survey, a sample of 20% was surveyed to collect information on social issues.

During the land acquisition surveys the data was collected on all assets to be lost including plants and trees. Socio economic survey was conducted to gather information on house hold

income and expenditure patterns, health status, indebted nests, communication networks, community participation, health parameters, gender issues and migration patterns.

Two local universities were hired to conduct the surveys assisted by the Resettlement Assistants and supervised by the Resettlement Consultant attached to the project. Data was analyzed electronically by the two universities and the Environmental and Social Division of

the RDA, and required information for the preparation of resettlement plans were generated.

9. PREPARATION OF RESETTLEMENT PLANS

Resettlement plans were prepared and updated by the Resettlement Consultant hired by the

PMU and Resettlement Experts hired by the PMU, with some inputs at the later stage from External Consultants employed by the ADB which have been already dealt by the consultants hired by the PMU. The resettlement plans were reviewed by the ESD before they were submitted to ADB for approval.

10. MEASURES TAKEN TO MINIMIZE AND MITIGATE IMPACTS

In keeping with the national policy of minimizing impact on the affected and the social safeguard policies of the ADB where it categorically states that where possible acquisition should be avoided, action was taken by the PMU to revise the design of the highways without compromising the utility value of the highways to realize the intended purposes for which the project had been conceived. The strategies adopted were to reduce the platform width of the highways where buildings are located in order to avoid demolition of parts of buildings .and in certain instances to avoid buildings completely by adjusting the center lines towards the land owned by state organizations. The final land surveys are at the completion stage to accommodate the subsequent changes made to the design. This measure has

resulted in the number of affected coming down drastically.

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PP Lot Description of existing

structure and Impact Description of reduced impact

9259 54

Two story building. First floor slab and column to be affected

Design has been changed to preserve the column and slab. Then the above property is now situated within the service corridor

9259 73 Two story commercial building. Front columns to be affected

Centre line has been changed to preserve the building

9259 253 Two story building. One column and staircase to be removed

Centre line of the road has been changed to preserve the building and staircase

9259 336 Three story building. Centre line of the road has been

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One column to be removed

changed to preserve the column of this building

9257 173 Underground cable to be affected /removed at Boralesgamuwa

Centre line of the road has been changed to protect the cable

9257 205 A house. Slab and front wall to be removed

Centre line of the road has been changed to preserve the wall and slab

9257 240 Two story commercial building. Main structure to be affected

Service corridor has been reduced and protect the building

1258 4 Two story commercial building. Main structure to be removed

Centre line of the road has been changed to preserve the building

9358 289 Three story building. Main structure to be affected


9260 46 Single story commercial building. One column to be removed.


9260 260 Two story building. One column and wall to be demolished

Centre line of the road has been changed to preserve the building and wall

Similar to that, PMU has taken several actions to reduce the negative effects in all sub

projects.

11. ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD OFFICES

In order to ensure easy access to the affected on services and information field offices had

been established in each of the roads manned by resettlement staff they will interact with the affected and maintain a continuous dialogue with them.

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2. STATUS OF RESETTLMENT PLAN IMPLEMENTATION

I. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT AND CAPACITY

Road Development Authority being the execution agency for road development has

administrative responsibility for implementation of the project under general supervision of the Ministry of Ports and Highways (MoPH). MoPH has established Project Management Units (PMU) for execution of special projects due to their importance, priority, magnitude of investment and external collaboration etc. PMUs have to accomplish a time-bound programme through a planned set of interventions agreed upon by concerned authorities. PMUs work under the general supervision of RDA, but have direct linkages and access to MoPH to expedite their work. Thus, PMU is the focal institution responsible for RP’s implementation at operational level. PMUs have been strengthened with certain degree of financial autonomy and administrative flexibility subject to the guidance and supervision of the Ministry of Ports and Highways and directives of the General Treasury.

Opening of a new road or improving and widening existing roads involve accomplishments of several legal and social requirements in addition to their construction

related work. In this regard, several agencies have direct involvements with these activities and early identification of them has several advantages for project implementation. Following are the key state agencies that will have direct involvement with resettlement interventions;

• Ministry of Ports and Highways

• Ministry of Land and Land Development

• Divisional Secretary and his staff including Grama Niladaris

• Survey Department

• Valuation Department

• Government Printer

• Central Environmental Authority

• Urban Councils

• Ceylon Electricity Board

• Water Supply and Drainage Board

• Sri Lanka Telecom Ltd.

Contractors and consultants employed by the PMU, Community Based Organizations of DPs, NGOs and other civic organizations also play a significant role in the implementation process of the road project.

I. PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIT

The Project Management Unit is headed by Project Director, whose staff consisted of engineers, technical officers, consultants, land acquisition & resettlement staff and the administrative staff.

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II. PMU PERFORMS FOLLOWING MAJOR ACTIVITIES;

Conduct awareness meetings with stake holders to disseminate information in respect of the project and make continuous efforts to update information with necessary feedback and support two-way communication regarding information collection and dissemination.

• informative bulletins to ensure transparency

• Conduct Land Acquisition and Resettlement (LARS) and Social and Economic (SES) surveys to collect necessary data for resettlement planning

• Coordinate and assist the land acquisition process with the DS, Survey and Valuation departments and other relevant government agencies and DPs

• Prepare Resettlement Plans and implement them with the aim of restoring/improving the lives of the Displaced Persons at least to the pre project level.

• Support execution of reasonable compensation package to realize the objectives of the NIRP.

• Assist/ and coordinate with relevant agencies to restore/improve the income of the DPs

• Coordinate with the community based organizations to assist the DPs in resettlement activities.

• Identify resettlement sites in consultation with the DPs and host communities when necessary

• Assist DPs on resettlement in new sites selected jointly

• Expedite the payment of compensation by assisting the DS and the DPs

• Coordinate/monitor the activities of GRCs.

• Assist vulnerable; including women and poor.

• Monitor the resettlement plan with identifiable indicators.

• Develop a plan to address gender concerns.

• Implement the construction programme through contractors and supervision consultants.

• Monitor the construction programme.

• Prepare/submit required periodic reports to the relevant state agencies and ADB.

• Ensure flow of funds to maintain a healthy cash flow

• Maintain MIS for the project with networking to MoPH and RDA

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III. ESD & LAND DIVISION

ESD & Land Division are the focal divisions of RDA for safeguard compliances. ESD assists PMU in conducting the Land Acquisition and Resettlement and Social and Economic surveys including training of survey enumerators and data analysts. Reviewing of RPs is a

major function of ESD before they are submitted to the external authorities, including ADB. ADB has assisted to establish and improve ESD with its technical assistance support in 2006/2007.

IV. DIVISIONAL SECRETARIAT

Divisional Secretary is responsible for civil administration of the division and hence land acquisition comes under his/her purview within the division. He/ She have coordinating

responsibilities of all development work, in addition to planning and implementation of its own development projects/ programmes in the division. DS is empowered with statutory provisions to acquire land and vest them with the agencies that required land under LAA.

Similarly, before commencement of construction, RDA has to wait till DS vest land in RDA after going through LAA process. Although, formally all land acquisition work has to be done by the DS office, now for acceleration of the process, PMU assists DS for various activities

of the acquisition, including arranging meetings with DPs and other stakeholders, preparation of paper work and gazette announcements for DS signature, and distribution of DS office notices to public. DSs are happy with this arrangement as it helps him to overcome DS office resource constraints with regard to land acquisition.

V. FIELD OFFICE OF THE PMU

A field office will be established to facilitate the land acquisition and resettlement inclusive of income restoration activity. This office will be located within the project area. A Resettlement Assistant will be stationed at this office with supportive staff to attend to the problems of DPs and take necessary actions to solve them under the guidance of Project Director/ NHSP. It will help DPs to have better solutions by way of coordinating DPs and relevant authorities that are functioning in the areas where DPs need attention. Especially, this field office will be an attractive resource center for DPs who need income restoration support. It will be

equipped with information required for various types of livelihood development opportunities and post product situations, including marketing. This office will help DPs to identify feasible income generating ventures and implement them successfully with the support of PMU.

VI. DISCLOSURE AND PUBLIC CONSULTATION

Twelve public meetings were conducted among the primary stake holders to disseminate

information in respect of the above projects in addition to 28 meetings conducted with the affected people of other 07 projects which are implementing under the National Highways Sector Project Additional Finance to engage in a continuous dialogue with the affected and interested people. The continuous telephone message which we receive daily from the public on the status of the roads where land acquisition has been temporarily suspended is an indication of the impact of consultations meetings PMU had with them. Sinhala version of

the entitlement matrix and the information flyer in both Tamil and Sinhala languages were distributed among the affected people.

In addition that, the consultation has been continuing in different stages of the land acquisition process. The land acquisition process has different gazette notification like Section 02, Section 38(a) and Section 7. Those gazette notification has been distributed

among the displaced persons. Moreover, the Resettlement Assistants are appointed by the

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project to each and every sub project. Those officers always work with displaced persons to solve their problems and assisted to DP’s livelihood restoration.

VII. GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM

Grievance Redress Committees were established at each sub project to attend to the socio

and environmental impacts that may be experienced by the affected during the construction period. Workshops have been conducted to apprise the GRC members on their role and systems and procedures to follow. An instruction manual was distributed among the GRC members to facilitate their activities. Resettlement Assistant attached to relevant DS division will function as the Secretary of the GRC. The following table shows present status of the GRC meetings of the project.

Table 2.1 A summary of held GRC meetings up to 31st December 2015

Package name

Project Name Divisional Secretariat

No of GRC meetings

Number of complains

considered solved pending

CP1

Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Matara – Akuressa Road (A024)

Matara Four Gravets

3 8 8 No

CP2

Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Hikkaduawa - Baddegama Road (B153)

Hikkaduwa

1 2 - 2

Gonapinuwala

To be held on

12 02 2016 2

Baddegama 3 20 14 6

CP3

Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Lewwanduwa – Aluthgama Road (B157)

Mathugama

2 2 2 No

Beruwala 3 60 56 4

CP4

Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Nagoda – Katukurunda Road (B207)

Kaluthara 2 11 11 No

CP7

Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Pamankada - Kesbewa Road (A084)

Thibirigasyaya Construction work not started yet Dehiwala Not received

Kesbewa 2 20 20 No

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3. SCOPE OF IMPACTS

A. CP01 - MATARA (0+100) GODAGAMA (3+400) ROAD (A024)

The project had been completed.

B. CP-02 HIKKADUWA (0+000) - BADDEGAMA - NIHENA (14+340) ROAD

Information of Resettlement Plan

The project road, Hikkaduwa-Baddegama-Nihena road (B 153) runs through agricultural and semi-urbanized areas, hence the influence area is reasonably rich in human settlements and commercial establishments. As per the information available with the preliminary plans prepared by the Dept. of Survey for this road section, 1202 lots have to be acquired. The total area extent of 1202 lots is 3864.3 perches; consisting of private individuals owned 1041 lots with 3176.2 perches, commonly owned 24 lots with 132.4 perches and government agencies owned 137 lots with 555.7 perches.

This entire land extent of this road section is located within Hikkaduwa, Gonapinuwela and Baddegama DS divisions of Galle district.

Table.3. 5 Distribution of affected land lots among DSDs

District DSD No. of Affected

Lots

Affected Area

( perches)

Galle

Hikkaduwa 258 671.7

Gonapinuwala 455 1339.7

Baddegama 489 1852.9

Total 1202 3864.3

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The impacts of acquiring private lands have far more effect on DPs compared to acquiring public/ common property land. Thus the RP made special focus on private lands affected by the acquisition in view of taking appropriate measures to mitigate negative impacts falling on private individuals.

Table 3.6 Number of households and lots acquired disaggregated by type of use - Private lands

Type of use No. of

Lots %

No. of

DHs %

Affected

Area

(perches)

%

Hikkaduwa

Residential 80 7.6 78 8.2 172.7 5.4

Commercial 94 9.0 91 9.6 183.9 5.7

Agricultural 10 0.9 10 1.0 38.7 1.2

Non Agricultural 45 4.3 42 4.4 154.1 4.8

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Access Roads 1 0.09 1 0.1 0.2 0.0

Sub Total 230 21.89 222 23.3 549.6 17.3

Gonapinuwala

Residential 129 12.3 126 13.3 312.8 9.8

Commercial 203 19.5 181 19.1 464.5 14.6

Agricultural 43 4.1 39 4.1 224 7.0


Access Roads 1 0.0 1 0.1 0.47 0.01

Sub Total 435 41.5 400 42.2 1230.8 38.6

Baddegama

Residential 196 18.8 164 17.3 641.4 20.1

Commercial 104 9.9 93 9.8 440.6 13.8

Agricultural 52 4.9 45 4.7 277.3 8.7


Access Roads 0 0 0 0 0 0

Sub Total 376 35.9 323 34.0 1395.7 43.7

Grand Total 1041 100 945 100 3176.2 100

Source: Field Survey September, 2011 (RP updation)

A majority of land lots to be acquired are commercial and residential properties amounting to around 77.4 percent of the land lots and 70 percent in area extent under private ownership.

The resettlement implications with these land lots are that their values are high and mostly owned by economically and socially better off group of people whose expectations and aspirations are also high with regard to restoration of their lives. The next highest land use is seen with non-agriculture activities with the use of 12.2% of lots with an extent of 13.2% of lands in extent to be acquired, amounting to 419.7 perches. The non- agriculture lots cover

an area without a house or any other structure, but may have trees or bare land portions without generating any income. In a sense, they are potential land lots for future residential and commercial uses. As land use for agriculture purposes are not very prominent along public roads running through human settlements, only 9.9% of land lots are recorded being used for agricultural purposes with 16.9% of the total land extent, representing 540 perches.

Table 3.7 Summary of Land Acquisition/Resettlement Impacts

Impact Extent

Affected Unit No of DHs

Permanent loss of private Residential/Commercial land

10% or less of land affected 349.4

Perch

330

11-50% of land affected 659.3 240

50% -100%of land affected 691.1 128

100% of land affected 516.1 39

Permanent loss of Agricultural/Non Agricultural land


Perch

83



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Loss of Structures

Shops 169

No of

Structures

154

Houses 132 122

Shop Houses 151 109

Other secondary structures

(Parapet walls, toilets, wells,

hutsGetc.)

415 342

Relocation

Shops 6 No of

Structures

6

Houses 2 2

Shop Houses 3 3

Permanent loss of Livelihood

Owners of displaced shops 9 Persons

9

Workers from displaced shops 5 5

Loss of crops/trees 4044 Trees/crop

Plants 578

Loss of rental accommodation 87 Persons 87

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The above table shows that there are 39 DHs, owing 516.1 perches have 100 % impact while 128 DHs, owing 691.1 perches have fallen between 50% -100% impact levels with

regard to loss of residential or commercial land. In altogether, 407 DHs (43% of DHs), owing 1886.5 perches are facing with more than 10% impact level and only 330 DHs, owing 349.4 perches have impact less than 10%. The land area related to more than 10% impact level accounts for 58.7% of the total extent of 3176.2 perches belong to private individuals; requiring adequate interventions to mitigate adverse effects falling on DHs.

Present status of land acquisition

The land acquisition for the sub project started sending the acquisition application to Ministry of Land and Land Development on 10th of October 2007. The land acquisition process and

compensation payments have been completed. Summary of the Land Acquisition process of Hikkaduwa – Baddgegama - Nilhena Road is given below.

Table 3.8 Summary of present Land Acquisition progress of CP 02

Road Name Chainage Total

Length

No. of

Total

Lots

No of Gov.

Lots

No. of

HHs

Compe

nsation

Paid

Lots

14

Rehabilitation and

Upgrading of

Hikkaduawa -

Baddegama Road

(B153)

0+000 –

14+340 Km

14.340

Km 1219 121 945 1098

C. CP-03 ALUTHGAMA (53+480) - SOUTHERN EXPRESSWAY (42+640) ROAD

Information of Resettlement plan

The project road section of, Horana-Anguruwatota-Aluthgama road (B 157) runs through a semi-urban and agricultural area, and hence the influence area is reasonably rich in human settlements and commercial establishments. As per the information available with the ATs and PPS prepared by the Dept. of Survey for this road, portions of land within 632 lots have to be acquired. The total area extent of 632 lots is 3026.0 perches. The entire land extent of this road section is located within Beruwala and Mathugama DS divisions of

Kalutara district.

Table 3.9 Distribution of affected land lots among DSDs

District DSD No. of Affected

Lots

Affected Area

( perches)

Kalutara Beruwala 282 789.6

Mathugama 350 2236.4

Total 632 3026.0

Source: ATs and PPs prepared on the request of respective acquisition officers by the Dept. of Survey (2011)

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The impacts of acquiring private lands have far more effect on DPs compared to acquiring public/ common property land. Thus the RP made special focus on private lands affected by the acquisition in view of taking appropriate measures to mitigate negative impacts falling on private individuals.

Table 3.10 Number of households and lots acquired disaggregated by type of use - Private lands

Type of use No. of

Lots %

No. of

DHs %

Affected

Area

(perches)

%

Beruwala

Residential 131 21.37 122 22.34 318.6 10.86

Commercial 101 16.48 94 17.22 237.2 8.09

Agricultural 24 3.92 16 2.93 115.9 3.95

Non Agricultural 15 2.45 15 2.75 68 2.32

Access Roads 3 0.49 3 0.55 5.4 0.18

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Type of use No. of

Lots %

No. of

DHs %

Affected

Area

(perches)

%

Sub Total 274 44.70 250 45.79 745.1 25.41

Mathugama

Residential 183 29.85 154 28.21 801 27.31

Commercial 86 14.03 81 14.84 345.3 11.77

Agricultural 42 6.85 33 6.04 457.6 15.60


Access Roads 1 0.16 1 0.18 1.8 0.06

Sub Total 339 55.30 296 54.21 2187.5 74.59

Grand Total 613 100 546 100 2932.6 100

Source: ATs and PPs prepared on the request of respective acquisition officers by the Dept. of Survey (2011)

A majority of land lots to be acquired are commercial and residential properties amounting to around 81.73 percent of the land lots and 60 percent in area extent under private ownership.

The resettlement implications with these land lots are that their values are high and mostly owned by economically and socially wealthier group of people whose expectations and aspirations are also high with regard to restoration of their lives. The next highest land use is seen with agriculture activities with the use of 10.77% of lots with an extent of 19.55% of lands in extent to be acquired, amounting to 573.5 perches. The agricultural lands are mainly paddy and rubber. The land use for non-agriculture is not very prominent along this road as

its only 6.85% with 22.16% of the total land extent, representing 649.8 perches. The non-agriculture lots cover an area without a house or any other structure, but may have trees or bare land portions without generating any income. In a sense, they are potential land lots for future residential and commercial uses.


Impact Extent



10% or less of land affected 303

Perch

300



100% of land affected 815 20

Permanent loss of Agricultural/Non Agricultural/Access Road land


Perch

20


50% -99%of land affected 321 28

100% of land affected 510 11

Loss of Structures

Shops 80 No of 67

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Impact Extent


Houses 69 Structures 6

Shop Houses 39 36


(Parapet walls, toilets, tombs, wells,

hutsGetc.)

117 71

Relocation

Shops 3 No of

Structures

3

Houses 1 1

Shop Houses 0 0



11


Loss of crops/trees 3028 Trees/crop plants 188


Source: Field Survey January, 2012 (RP updating)

The above table shows that there are 20 DHs, owing 815 perches have 100 % impact while

80 DHs, owing 316.3 perches have fallen between 50% -99% impact levels with regard to loss of residential or commercial land. Altogether, 2013 DHs owing 1399.0 perches are facing with more than 10% impact level and only 300 DHs, owing 303 perches have impact less than 10%. The land area related to more than 10% impact level accounts for 37.03% of the total extent of 1120.7 perches belongs to private individuals.


The land acquisition for the sub project started sending the acquisition application to Ministry of Land and Land Development on 03rd of October 2007. The land acquisition process was completed for the entire length. Payment of compensation has also been completed. Summary of the Land Acquisition process of Aluthgama – Southern Expressway Road is given below.

Table 3.12 Summary of the present Land Acquisition

Road Name Chainage Total

Length

No. of

Total Lots

No of Gov.

Lots

No. of

HHs

Compens

ation

Paid Lots

Rehabilitation

and Upgrading

of Aluthgama

Southern

Expressway

42+100 –

53+680 Km

11.580

Km 692 66 486 623

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Road (B157)

D. CP-04 KATUKURUNDA (0+000) - NAGODA (2+720) ROAD

The resettlement activities and road constructions have been completed. The road handed over to the Executive Engineer of Kaluthara.

E. CP-05 KIRULAPANE (0+000) - HOMAGAMA (15+500) ROAD

Information of Resettlement Plan

Kirulapona – Homagama section of A 004 road runs through a densly populated and

urbanized area, and hence the influence area of the project is rich in housing stock and commercial establishments. Considering the impact to the society (economic and social impacts) and the urgency of developing the road section, the designs were completed in such a way that four operational lanes could be accommodated within the available Right of Way (ROW).

This road section is located within the DS divisions of Timbirigasyaya, Dehiwala, Kotte, Maharagama and Homagama. Although land acquisition was not required few impacts to the public occurred during construction. These issues were resolved through GRC.

F. CP-07 PAMANKADA (0+520) - KESBEWA (13+400) ROAD

Information of resettlement plan

The project road, i.e the section from Pamankada to Kesbewa of Colombo-Horana (B 084) road runs through densely populated urban and semi urban areas, and hence the influence

area is reasonably rich in human settlements and commercial establishments. As per the information available with the ATS and PPs prepared by the Dept. of Survey for this road section, 1532 lots have to be acquired. The total area extent of 1532 lots is 7337.4 perches; consisting of private individuals owned 1404 lots with 6822.3 perches, corporately owned 27 lots with 99.2 perches, commonly owned 24 lots with 132.5 perches and government agencies owned 77 lots with 283.5 perches.

This entire land extent of this road section is located within Thimbirigasyaya, Dehiwala and Kesbewa DS divisions of Colombo district.

Table 3.17 Distribution of affected land lots among DSDs

District DSD No. of Affected Affected Area

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Lots ( perches)

Colombo

Thimbirigasyaya 90 278.5

Dehiwala 341 875.4

Kesbewa 1101 6183.6

Total 1532 7337.5

Source: Advance Tracing/Preliminary Plans prepared on the request of respective acquisition officers by The Dept. of Survey (2011)

IImmppaacctt ttoo PPrriivvaattee LLaanndd aanndd SSttrruuccttuurreess

The impacts of acquiring private lands have far more effect on DPs compared to acquiring public/ common property land. Thus the RP made special focus on private lands affected by the acquisition in view of taking appropriate measures to mitigate negative impacts falling on private individuals. Thus table below is gives the distribution of private lands on different uses.

Table 3.18 Number of households and lots acquired disaggregated by type of use - Private owned

lands

Type of use No. of

Lots %

No. of

DHs %

Affected

Area

(perches)

%

Thibirigasyaya

Residential 24 1.7 23 1.8 107.3 1.6

Commercial 49 3.5 46 3.4 124.8 1.8

Agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 0

Non Agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 0

Access Roads 10 0.7 10 0.7 10.6 0.1

Sub Total 83 5.9 79 5.9 242.7 3.5

Dehiwala

Residential 47 3.3 46 3.4 119.3 1.8

Commercial 228 16.2 210 15.6 633.4 9.2

Agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 0


Access Roads 44 3.1 44 3.2 51.6 0.7

Sub Total 324 23.0 305 22.7 819.6 12.0

Kesbewa

Residential 222 15.8 216 16.1 1152.5 16.9

Commercial 636 45.3 610 45.6 1843.5 27.0

Agricultural 83 5.9 75 5.6 2207.6 32.4


Access Roads 24 1.7 22 1.6 239.8 3.5

Sub Total 997 71.0 954 71.3 5760.0 84.4

Grand Total 1404 100 1338 100 6822.3 100

Source: Advance Tracing/Preliminary Plans prepared for B084 road and Field Survey October, 2011

A large number of land lots to be acquired are commercial and residential properties amounting to around 85.9 percent of the land lots and 58.3 percent in area extent under

private ownership. The higher percentage value in land lots (85.9%) and comparatively less percentage value in area extent (58.3%) represent smallness of area extent of individual lots

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located in urban and semi-urban areas. Land is the most scare resource in the affected area. The average size of an individual land lot in project area spread over three DSDs is small as 4.8 perches. The resettlement implications with these land lots are that their values are high and mostly owned by economically and socially better off group of people whose

expectations and aspirations are also high with regard to restoration of their lives. The next land uses such as agriculture, non-agriculture and access roads play a comparatively low role occupying 5.9%, 2.6% and 5.5% respectively. The non-agriculture lots cover an area without a house or any other structure, but may have trees or bare land portions without generating any income. In a sense, they are potential land lots for future residential and commercial uses. As land use for agriculture purposes are not very prominent along public

roads running through human settlements, only 5.9% of land lots are recorded being used for agricultural purposes with 32.3% of the total land extent, representing 2207.6 perches. Unlike to residential and commercial lots, the size of agriculture lots is comparatively larger showing an average extent of 26.5 perches. The agriculture (paddy) land use is seen only in Kesbewa DS division which is the end section of the road towards Horana away from Colombo, approaching country side gradually.


Impact Extent




Perch

444


50% -100%of land affected 1131.4 221


Permanent losses of Agricultural/Non Agricultural land


Perch

66




Loss of Structures

Shops 488

No of

Structures

456

Houses 180 168

Shop Houses 120 103


(Parapet walls, toilets, wells,

hutsGetc.)

878 807

Relocation

Shops 67 No of 65

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Impact Extent


Houses 28 Structures 27

Shop Houses 15 13



78


Loss of crops/trees 275 Trees/crops 57


Source: Advance Tracing/Preliminary Plans prepared for B084 road and Field Survey October,2011

The above table shows that there are 65 DHs, owing 1154.8 perches have 100 % impact while 647 DHs, owing 2213 perches have fallen between 11% -100% impact levels with regard to loss of residential or commercial land. In altogether, 712 DHs (53.2% of DHs),

owing 3467.8 perches are facing with more than 10% impact level, and only 444 DHs, owing 513 perches have impact less than 10%. The land area related to more than 10% impact level accounts for 51.0% of the total extent of 6822.3 perches belong to private individuals; requiring adequate interventions to mitigate adverse effects falling on DHs.

PPeerrmmaanneenntt lloosssseess ooccccuurrrriinngg ttoo aaggrriiccuullttuurraall//nnoonn aaggrriiccuullttuurraall llaannddss,,

2781.2 perches owing to 122 DHs will have more than 10% impact level while only 60.3 perches owing to 66 DHs will have impact less than 10%. The land area under agricultural/non agricultural use having more than 10% impact level accounts for 40.7% of the total private land to be acquired. Although agricultural and non agricultural lands contain sizable portion (40.7%) of the total extent of private land, this portion is owned by only 8.5% of the total DHs units (1404). This disproportional relationship between the extent of land

and the number of owners reminds us the smallness of land available for residential and commercial purposes and the use of more land per unit of agricultural production. Agriculture being a land base production system, it needs more land for a production unit than for non-farm activity.

Displaced Households amounting to 727 have lost 788 primary structures in the categories of shops, houses and shop cum houses while 807 DHs have lost 878 units of secondary structures like parapet walls, toilets and wells etc. As revealed in the survey, 67 shops belong to 65 DHs, 28 houses belong to 27 DHs, and 15 shops cum houses belong to 13 DHs need relocation. Permanent displacement will occur to 78 shops belong to 78 DHs and 54 workers belong to 54 DHs. Rental accommodation is lost for 384 DHs. The loss of trees is around 275 belong to 57 DHs. Apparently, PMU has taken precautionary measures to

minimize adverse effect of the project, and therefore need for relocation elsewhere has been reduced to 110 units of houses, shops and shop cum houses (all primary structures) belong to 105 DHs, out of 1338 total DH units, representing a small fraction as 7.8% of the total DHs units.

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The land acquisition for the sub project started sending the acquisition application to Ministry of Land and Land Development on 30th of January 2008. The land acquisition process has almost been completed but few retention payments are being carried on.

Summary of the Land Acquisition process of Pamankada - Kesbewa Road is given below.

Table 3.20 Summary of the present Land Acquisition

RRooaadd NNaammee CChhaaiinnaagg

ee TToottaall

LLeennggtthh NNoo.. ooff

TToottaall LLoottss NNoo ooff GGoovv..

LLoottss NNoo.. ooff

HHHHss CCoommppeennssaattiioonn

PPaaiidd LLoottss

RReehhaabbiilliittaattiioonn aanndd UUppggrraaddiinngg ooff

PPaammaannkkaaddaa -- KKeessbbeewwaa RRooaadd

((AA000044))

00++552200 –– 1133++880000

KKmm

1133..228800 KKmm

22332277 550044 11333388

11006677 LLAARRCC ppaayymmeenntt ddoonnee

&& AAwwaaiittiinngg 7733

lloottss

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4. INCOME RESTORATION PROGRAMS (IRP)

The Income Restoration Programme for National Highways Sector Project (NHSP) has been

completed. Under this program, the NHSP had conducted three programs for the

Pamankada – Kesbewa road(B084), Aluthgama-Southern Expressway Road(B157) and

Hikkaduwa-Baddegama road(B153) projects respectively. The IRP has been prepared and

implemented to uplift the affected families’ income and livelihood activities due to road

widening. The program has been started in 2nd of September 2013 and completed on

December 2014. The progarmm had been conducted by the consultant hired by the project.

The completed work programme is mentioned as below;

I. COMPLETED TASKS

The Consultant has conducted pilot Social, Economic Surveys for the each project area prior

to the program implemented. Then the details were collected from land owners and families

who are going to be affected by the road constructions. They were given their consent for

livelihood trainings under the IRP program. Accordingly the progamm had been designed

and implemented.

The Consultant conducted several discussions with the selected families to obtain their

expectation form the livelihood trainings.

Business Development officer and social development officer had met needy families

regularly and discussed their social and business problems.

After that the office premises had been established at Katuwawala and Gonapinuwala for a

B084 and B157, B153 roads respectively with easy accessibilities.

According to the training plan prepared by the Income Restoration Team, they had started

the livelihoods development training programs and had successfully been completed. The

following table shows the summary of the conducted program under the NHSP additional

loan 01.

Table: 8.1 The completed training programs details under NHSP

Related field Theme of the training No of participants

Apparel production

Saree Jackets sewing and T-shirts 18

Saree Jackets sewing 10

T-Shirt sewing 11

Short term Sewing training 30

Sewing and Batik 13

Screen printing 19

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Domestic Item Production

LED bulb production 18

Mobile phone repairing 15

LED bulb production @ Mobile phone repairing

10

Panel Board Production 11

Mosquito net production 14

Ladies Accessories production

Ladies shoe production 37

Covered Shoe production 12

Ladies Bag production 14

Beauty Culture Beauty culture 14

Short term Beauty culture training 30

Education

English language for livelihoods 15

Information Technology 6

Light vehicle driving 31

Child accessories

School bag and pencil production 12

School bag production 20

Food industry Food technology 17

Milk base production 30

Orchid cultivation 1

Home Gardening 1

Mushroom production 15

In addition to that the IRP team made a linkage between trainers and stakeholders/institutes

in various field to continue their livelihood activities without further involvement of the IRP

team.

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55.. CCOOMMPPLLIIAANNCCEE SSTTAATTUUSS

The status of compliance with loan covenants with regard to social safeguards as at 31st December of 2015 is summarized as in table 5.1 below.

Table 5.1 Compliance status with loan convents

Reference Description Status as at 31st December 2015

Schedule 5, Para 2 Environment:

Environment

The borrower shall ensure and cause RDA to ensure that the preparation, design, construction, implementation and operation of the Project and the all project facilities comply with (a) applicable laws and regulations of the Borrower related to environment, health and safety; (b) the environment Safeguards; and (c) all measures and requirements set forth in the IEE, the EMP and any corrective or preventive actions set forth in a Safeguards Monitoring Report

Environmental Method Statements and Safety Management Plans based on the provided EMPs had already been submitted to the client by all contractors.

The contractors activities are being investigated by PMU and holds periodically site visits

Observation of selected environmental parameters (ambient Air quality, Noise quality and, Water) for baseline data/Construction stage and operation stage have been completed by ongoing and completed projects.

The only reaming task is observation of environmental parameters for project completing stage.

Tree planting programs were conducted with participation of School children/community by CP-02, CP 03 and CP 07 sub- projects.

Road side tree planting program was implemented by CP 02, Cp 03, CP 05 and CP 07, sub-projects.

Shedule 5, Para 3

Land Acquisition and involuntary resettlements

The activities are conducting according to the ADB guideline such as (a) all applicable laws and

The land acquisition and resettlement works of proposed seven (06) projects have been completed.

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regulations of the Borrower relating to land acquisition and involuntary resettlements; (b) the involuntary resettlements Safeguard; and (c) all Resettlements plan and any corrective or preventive actions set forth in the safeguards Monitoring Report.

Shedule 5, Para 4

Land Acquisition and involuntary resettlements

Without limiting the application of the Involuntary Resettlement Safeguards or the RP,

No physical or economic displacement in connection with project acquisition works

(a) Compensation and other entitlements have been provided to affected people in accordance with project RP; and

(b) a comprehensive income and livelihood restoration program has been established in accordance with project RP

No physical or economic displacement due to land acquisition works; only a loss of land plots or a partial of structures.

The compensations are being paid to the land plots which including building structures and other land use of all sub-projects.

The land acquisitions works are fully completed in all projects.

Schedule 5, Para 08 Safeguard Monitoring and Reporting:

(a)Submit semi-annual safeguard Monitoring Reports to ADB and disclose relevant information from such reports to affected persons promptly upon submission

(b) if any unanticipated environmental and/or social risks and impacts arise during the construction, implementation of operation of the Project that were not considered in the IEE, the EMP and the RP.

Semiannual Progress Report on environmental monitoring for the month of August-December 2015 will be submitted to the ADB on month of January 2016.

The environmental meetings and field visits are being conducted on monthly basis to observe the project activities.

Shedule 5, Para 10 Labour stand and bid documents: Scheduled all programs on HIV/AIDS were conducted

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All works contract documents negotiated under the project incorporate provisions and budget to the effect that contractors (i) comply with all applicable labour laws and related international treaty obligations of the Borrower and do not employ child labour, as defined under Sri Lanka law; (ii)Provide safe working conditions for male and female workers; (ii) carry out HIV/AIDS and human trafficking prevention and awareness campaigns in the campsites and corridors of influence; (iv) engage women workers as wage labores depending on their skills; and (v) provide equal wages for equal work between men and women

during the reporting period by all projects successfully except cp 07.

Only one program will be held on CP 07 sub-projects during the month of January 2016.

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