VIE: Power Transmission Investment Program, Tranche 2 ... Republic of Viet Nam: Power Transmission ... Gia Lai Province and terminates at the Cau Bong Substation in Cu Chi District,

Social Monitoring Report Final Internal Monitoring Report September 2016

VIE: Power Transmission Investment Program,

Tranche 2

500kV Pleiku-My Phuoc-Cau Bong Transmission

Line

Prepared by the Central Vietnam Power Projects Management Board for the National Power

Transmission Corporation and the Asian Development Bank.

This social monitoring report is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area.

Final Internal Monitoring Report

Project Number: 42497-01

September 2016

500 kV Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong Transmission Line

Multi-tranche Financing Facility

Socialist Republic of Viet Nam: Power Transmission Investment Program

Prepared by the Central Vietnam Power Project Management Board (CPMB) for Asian

Development Bank (ADB).

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ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

AFD Agence Francaise de Developpment

AWP Annual Work Program

AP Affected person

CARB Compensation, Assistance & Resettlement Board

CPC Commune People’s Committee

CPMB Central Vietnam Power Project Management Board

DARD Department of Agriculture & Rural Development

DP Displaced person

DPC District People’s Committee

DPI Department of Planning & Investment

DMS Detailed measurement survey

DoF Department of Finance

DoNRE Department of Natural Resources & Environment

DRR Due diligence report

GoV Government of Vietnam

LARAPs Land Acquisition and Resettlement Action Plans

IOL Inventory of losses

Km Kilometer

M&E Monitoring and Evaluation

MoT Ministry of Transport

MPI Ministry of Planning and Investment

OP Operational Policy

PAP Project Affected Person

PDoT Provincial Department of Transport

PIB Public Information Booklet

PPC Provincial People’s Committee

TL Transmission line

RP Resettlement Plan

REMDPs Resettlement Ethnic Minority Development Plan

VND Vietnamese Dong.

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Table of Contents

1. General information of the project .................................................................. 5

a. Project objectives ............................................................................................................... 5

b. Project components ........................................................................................................... 5

c. Scope of project impacts ................................................................................................... 9

d. Objectives of internal monitoring .................................................................................... 17

2. Detailed resettlement implementation progress .......................................... 18

a. DMS process (by packages or sections) ......................................................................... 20

b. Preparation and approval of compensation plans ......................................................... 21

c. Process of compensation payment ................................................................................. 21

d. Assess degree of APs’ satisfaction of compensation and resettlement ...................... 24

3. Assess the stakeholder cooperation ............................................................ 25

4. Conclusion and lession learned. ................................................................... 26

a. Conclusion ....................................................................................................................... 26

b. Lessions learned .............................................................................................................. 27

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TABLES

Table 1: Project components .............................................................................................. 5

Table 2: Specifications of the 500 kV Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong TL ........................ 6

Table 3: List of Subprojects and Status of Social Safeguard Document Preparation .... 6

Table 4: Timeframe for the project implementation .......................................................... 7

Table 5: Summary of the Subprojects’ Impacts .............................................................. 10

Table 6: Land Acquisition Impacts ................................................................................... 10

Table 6.1. Permanently acquired land area (m2)

Table 6.2. Temporaly acquired land area (m2)

Table 6.3. Temporaly acquired land area (m2)

Table 7: Affected trees in the project…………………………………………………………14

Table 8: Number of affected houses to be displaced along the transmission line ....... 15

Table 9: Number of affected HHs and affected HHs by permanent land acquisition and

HHs with displaced houses .............................................................................................. 15

Table 10: Impacts of land acquisition on the severely affected households ............... 16

Table 11: Impact of land acquisition on the vulnerable households and ethnic minority

households ........................................................................................................................ 17

Table 12: Members of the internal monitoring assignment ............................................ 18

Table 13: Consultation, Participation, and Information Disclosure by Subprojects ..... 19

Table 14: Types of consultation and participation and information .............................. 20

Table 15: DMS Status of the Subprojects ........................................................................ 20

Table 16. Operation of REMDPs/LARAPs up to June 2015 ............................................ 23

Table 17: Total amount of compensation and assistance in the project ....................... 24

Table 18: Cases in redress of grievance and complaints in the project implementation

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FIGURE

Figure 1: Location of 500 kV transmission line Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong .. 9

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A. General Information of the Project

1. Project Objectives

1. The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam received a loan from the Asian Development Bank

(ADB) for the co-financing with Agence Francaise de Developpment (AFD) towards the cost

of the Power Transmission Investment Program, Tranche 2. Part of the proceeds of the loan

will be applied for the construction of the 500 kV Pleiku-My Phuoc-Cau Bong transmission

line (TL). The National Power Transmission Corporation (NPT) is the Project Owner and

Executing Agency (EA) and the Central Vietnam Power Project Management Board (CPMB)

is the Implementing Agency (IA) for the project. The 500 kV Pleiku - MyPhuoc - Cau Bong TL

is a high priority project and is one of several projects for construction to meet its target of

connecting 90% of the population to electricity by 2020 and 100% by 2025. The TL will meet

the energy demand in the southern part of Vietnam growing at 14% per year and up to 25%

in 2015. The TL constructed together along with the expansion of Pleiku Substation (SS) will

enhance power supply reliability for the rapid development in the southern provinces of

Vietnam.

2. The 500 kV Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong TL is 437 km in length and traverses 5

provinces (Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Binh Phuoc and Binh Duong) and Ho Chi Minh City.

The line did not cross or intrude into any buffer areas or any possible planned future

extension of green conservation areas (Figure 1).

2. Project Components

3. The 500 kV Pleiku-My Phuoc-Cau Bong TL starts from the 500 kV bus-bar of the Pleiku

Substation at Chu Pah District, Gia Lai Province and terminates at the Cau Bong Substation

in Cu Chi District, Ho Chi Minh City.

Table 1: Project components

Components Length (km) Starting point End point Number of

tower set

Transmission line

passing Gia Lai

82,768 500kV bus bar of

Pleiku substation

G15 + 403m 173

Transmission line

passing Dak Lak

74,841 G13 (Tower

827+68)

G26 (Tower

1576+09)

164

Transmission line

passing Dak Nong

115,933 G25-G26 (Tower

1576+09)

G50-G51 (Tower

2735+42)

235

Transmission line

passing Binh Phuoc

102,892 G51 (Tower

2735+42)

G69-G70 (Tower

3764+34)

201

Transmission line

passing Binh Duong

46,228 G70 (Tower

3764+34)

G81-G82 (Tower

4426+62)

99

Transmission line

passing Ho Chi Minh

14,011 G81-G82 (Tower

4426+62)

500kV bus bar of

Cau Bong SS

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Total length 436,673 926

4. The technical parameters of the 500kV transmission lines are presented in Table 2 as

follows:

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Table 2: Specifications of the 500 kV Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong TL

Parameters Technical specifications

Length (km) 436,673

- Starting point 500kV bus bar of Pleiku SS

- End point 500kV bus bar of Cau Bong SS

RoW 32 m

Earth grounding width 60 m

Voltage 500 kV

Number of circuits 2

Conductor 4xACSR-330/43

Earth wire OPGW-90 & PHLOX-116

Optical repeater cable 24

Suspension towers (number) 808

- Height of towers Average 65 m, highest - 79 m

- Coverage area /1 tower 337,62 m²

Tension towers (number) 118

- Height of Tension towers 60 m, highest 72m

- Coverage area /1 tension tower 653,4 m²

3. Social Safeguards Documents Prepared for the Subproject

5. The construction of the 500kV Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong TL began in 2012 and was

completed and put into operation in May 2014. The project implementation has complied

with the provisions of ADB and Vietnam Law on planning for land acquisition and

resettlement and ethnic minority development. From Table 3, REMDPs and LARAPs were

built and updated on a harmony between safeguard policies of the ADB and the Government

of Vietnam on involuntary land acquisition, policies for ethnic minorities, gender strategy and

communication and information dissemination requirements. There were six (06) safeguard

documents for six (06) respective provinces including four (04) Resettlement and Ethnic

Minorities Development Plans (REMDPs) for the TL segments in Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Gia

Lai, and Binh Phuoc and two (02) Land Acquisition and Resettlement Action Plans (LARAPs)

for the segments in Binh Duong and HCM City, which were built in line with safeguard

policies of the ADB and the Government of Vietnam.

Table 3: List of Subprojects and Status of Social Safeguard Document Preparation

Subproject

Segment/ Province RP/DDR

Updated

RP/DDR Construction

Gia Lai REMDP/ DDR YES YES

Dak Lak REMDP/ DDR YES YES

Dak Nong REMDP/ DDR YES YES

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Binh Phuoc REMDP/ DDR YES YES

Binh Duong LARAP/ DDR YES YES

HCM City LARAP/ DDR YES YES

Total 04 REMDP & 02 LARAP &

06 DDR

YES YES

Source: Monitoring data in CPMB

6. Four (04) REMDPs and two (02) LARAPs were developed by PECC4 in October 2010. On

May 10/2011, PECC4 submitted the second draft RAP, which was updated based on the

results of the replacement cost survey, socio-economic surveys, and community

consultations. The social safeguard consultants conducted field works with a trip on 11th

May 2011 for social assessment and review CPMB activities in the preparation of social

safeguard documents for the Pleiku- My Phuoc - Cau Bong. The technical assistance

(TA7742-VIE) for Tranche 2 was mobilized to support the CPMB and the PPMBs in

preparing projects for Tranche 2 in September 2011. During the design process, the

technical consultants worked in collaboration with local authorities to design the transmission

line going parallel with the existing 500kV line. Therefore, the land acquisition in the tower

construction has been minimized to mitigate impacts on households. The land acquisition did

not affect the basic infrastructure of the communes. These appropriate REMDPs and

LARAPs allowed reducing the number of resettled HHs in the project. Beside that the

technical consultants in supporting Tranche 1 was considered and given the additional

requirements of investigation and assessment to ensure that RAP documents complied with

the requirements of ADB Policy.

7. There is a due diligent report (DDR) for the entire project which was built in 2012; this

report was adopted on 2nd August 2012. Due to land acquisition for the construction of the

project tower foundations have been made at several locations before the loan was signed,

so the TA group (group of social safeguard consultants) carried out the DDRs that focused

on (i) determining GAPs between modes of CPMB implementation and requirements of ADB

policies; (ii) making clear whether landowners were compensated or not, and requiring their

opinions on compensation; (iii) identifying the shortcomings in the implementation of land

acquisition and finding out the reasons as a basis for the design of mitigation measures. This

report showed the compliant and non-compliant activities in a part of the land acquisition and

compensation for the construction of tower foundation before the loan was signed. Because

of some pending issues and GAPs, all they need to be filled before the project completion.

Thus, the following DDRs were continuously developed and updated for each province and

submitted dated 26 October 2015. These were approved by ADB in 12 November 2015. The

DDRs 2015 stated that the Corrective Action Plans (CAP) must be implemented by CPMB in

five provinces and one city. These 06 DDRs pointed out the existing gaps in 06 locations on

the implementation of RPs/REMDPs of projects and proposed necessary activities to

overcome the difficult issues in the completion stage in each project province (Table 3). The

timeline of the project implementation is summarized in the table below.

Table 4: Timeframe for the project implementation

Tasks Year of implementation

Establishment of Council of Compensation and Land 2011

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Clearance in district

Prepare the administrative land profile for the acquisition land area

2009

Public information campaign before the DMS 2010

Making the landmarks for land clearance 2011

Detail measurement surveys in the land clearance 2011-2014

Compensation payment, assistance and resettlement 2012- 2016

Land clearance 2012

Construction contract 2012

Source: Monitoring data in CPMB

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Figure 1: Location of Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau Bong 500 kV transmission line

4. Scope of project impacts

Pleiku - My Phuoc - Cau

Bong 500kV Transmission

line

Start at Pleiku substation

End at Cau Bong substation

Notes:

The red areas are national

parks

The yellow areas are

national reserves

The dark green areas are

Cultural- Historical areas

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8. The project impacts can be summarized in the Table 5 below. In six provinces and city,

the total affected households and organizations is 5,298. An aggregate affected land area is

11,472,977.13 m2, including 371,167.1 m2 permanently acquired area and 11,011,339 m2 of

land subject to land use restrictions within the TL’s right-of-way (ROW). And 90,472 m2 of

temporary acquired area. A total of 1,275 structures including 541 houses and 734 structures

affected by the Subproject. In addition, 371,167 m2 of crops and 471,725 trees of various

types are also affected by the TL. Details of impacts by type are presented in the following

sections.

Table 5: Summary of the Subprojects’ Impacts

Sub-

project

Total

affected area

(m2)

Total of

AH/organization

Impact

on

structure

Impact on

land (m2)

Impact on tree

(Tree)

Gia Lai 2,620,899 714 88 79,108 134,292

Dak Lak 904,688 628 92 66,562 27,655

Dak Nong 3,078,059.7 1.419 636 100,390.70 101,758

Binh Phuoc 2,964,922.62 990 312 77,757.62 156,245

Binh Duong 1,388,334.81 723 99 27,699.81 42,155

HCM City 516,073 824 48 19,649 9,620

Total 11,472,977.13 5,298 1,275 371,167 471,725

Source: Final monitoring phase

4.1. Impact on land acquisition

9. The Project acquired permanently an aggregate land area of 371,167.13 m2 as shown in table 6.1 for the construction of 926 tower foundations, stations, and access roads, etc. In addition, the total land area within the RoW is 11,011,339 m2 as shown in table 6.3 The temporary land area for the construction of road and material storage area is 90,472 m2 in table 6.2.

10. From Table 6, the total permanently acquired land area is 371,167.13 m2. These land

areas affected a total of 5,298 HHs. The land acquisition had negative impacts on trees and

housing and structures and APs’ livelihoods which will be analyzed by the following items.

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Table 6: Land Acquisition Impacts

Nr. Province/City

The area of

permanent land

acquisition (tower

foundations,

stations, roads)

(m2)

Land area

affected within

the RoW (m2)

Temporary land area

for road construction,

material yard (m2)

1. Gia Lai 79,108.00 2,528,415.00 13,376.00

2. Dak Lak 66,562.00 831,838.00 6,288.00

3. Dak Nong 100,390.70 2,963,193.00 14,476.00

4. Binh Phuoc 77,757.62 2,872,805.00 14,360.00

5. Binh Duong 27,699.81 1,344,687.00 15,948.00

6. HCM city 19,649.00 470,400.00 26,024.00

Total 371,167.13 11,011,338.00 90,472.00


11. Of the total 371,167.13 m2 of permanently acquired area, by land use, the most affected

land type is agricultural land with the total affected area of 259,816.99 m2, accounting for

about 70% of the acquired area. Followed by agricultural land is other land, including public

land such as traffic land, irrigation land, with an aggregate area of 60,334.83 m2, making up

16.3%. Residential land, forest land, and aquaculture land occupy a small percent of the total

permanently affected area, accounting for 7.2%, 3.6%, and 2.9%. It is noted that forest land

is only acquired in the area of Gia Lai, Dak Lak, and Dak Nong provinces. By province, the

most affected area is in Dak Nong Province, with a total of 100,390.70 m2, equivalent to

27%, followed by Gia Lai and Binh Phuoc provinces with 79,108 m2 and 77,757.62 m2,

respectively. The least affected area is Ho Chi Minh City with 19,649 m2, occupying 5.3% of

the total permanently affected area.

Table 6.1. Permanently acquired land area (m2)

Civil works/

Packages/

components

Permanently acquired land area (m2)

Agricultural

land

Residential

land Aquaculture land

Forest

land Others Amount

TL in Gia Lai

province 55,375.60 6,328.64 1,898.59 3,638.97 11,866.20 79,108.00

TL in Dak

Lak province 46,593.40 4,659.34 1,397.80 3,927.16 9,984.30 66,562.00

TL in Dak

Nong

province

70,273.49 7,027.35 2,108.20 5,923.05 15,058.61 100,390.70

TL in Binh

Phuoc

province

54,430.33 5,443.03 4,354.43 0.00 13,529.83 77,757.62

TL in Binh

Duong 19,389.87 1,938.99 581.70 0.00 5,789.26 27,699.81

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province

TL in HCM

city 13,754.30 1,375.43 412.63 0.00 4,106.64 19,649.00

Total 259,816.99 26,772.78 10,753.35 13,489.18 60,334.83 371,167.13


12. By land use, temporarily affected land comprises agricultural land (72%), forest land (7.5%), and other lands (20.5%) whereas residential land and aquaculture land are not affected. On the contrary to the permanent land acquisition, by province, the most affected area is Ho Chi Minh City with 26,024 m2, equivalent to 28.8%, of the total temporarily affected area, followed by Binh Duong and Dak Nong provinces.

Table 6.2. Temporarily acquired land area (m2)

Civil works/ Packages/

components

Temporarily acquired land area (m2)

Agricultural land

Residential land

Aquaculture

land Forest land Others Amount

TLin Gia Lai province

9,630.72 0.00 0.00 2,675.20 1,070.08 13,376.00

TL in Dak Lak province

4,527.36 0.00 0.00 1,257.60 503.04 6,288.00

TL in Dak Nong province

10,422.72 0.00 0.00 2,895.20 1,158.08 14,476.00

TL in Binh Phuoc province

10,339.20 0.00 0.00 0.00 4,020.80 14,360.00

TL in Binh Duong province

11,482.56 0.00 0.00 0.00 4,465.44 15,948.00

TL in HCM city 18,737.28 0.00 0.00 0.00 7,286.72 26,024.00

Total 65,139.84 0.00 0.00 6,828.00 18,504.16 90,472.00


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13. The total affected area within the ROW in six provinces and city is 11,011,338 m2

distributed variably among the areas. By province, Dak Nong has the most affected area

within ROW with an aggregate 2,963,193 m2, equivalent to 26.9%, followed by Binh Phuoc

and Gia Lai provinces with 2,872,805 m2 (26.1%) and 2,528,415 m2 (23%), which can be

partly explained by the length of the TL segments in these provinces. The least affected

province is Ho Chi Minh City with 470,400 m2, or 4.3%, of land affected within the ROW.

14. By land use, similarly to the permanently acquired area, the most affected within the

ROW is agricultural land, 7,707,936.6 m2, or 70%, followed by other land (2,005,307.16 m2,

equivalent to 18.2%), and forest land (1,264,689.2 m2, or 11.5%). The residential land area

affected within the ROW is small, accounting for only 0.3% of the total land area affected by

land use restrictions within the ROW.

Table 6.3. Land area affected within the ROW (m2)

Civil works/ Packages/

components

Land area affected within the ROW (m2)

Agricultural land

Residential land

Aquaculture land

Forest land Other Amount

TLin Gia Lai province

1,769,890.50 7,119.72 0.00 505,683.00 245,721.78 2,528,415.00

TL in Dak Lak province

582,286.60 5,990.58 0.00 166,367.60 77,193.22 831,838.00

TL in Dak Nong province

2,074,235.10 9,035.16 0.00 592,638.60 287,284.14 2,963,193.00

TL in Binh Phuoc province

2,010,963.50 6,998.19 0.00 0.00 854,843.31 2,872,805.00

TL in Binh Duong province

941,280.90 2,492.98 0.00 0.00 400,913.12 1,344,687.00

TL in HCM city

329,280.00 1,768.41 0.00 0.00 139,351.59 470,400.00

Total 7,707,936.60 33,405.04 0.00 1,264,689.20 2,005,307.16 11,011,338.00


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3.2. Affected trees

15. The total affected trees are 471,725 (Table 7), including 78.1% of industrial plants such

as rubber, cashew, and coffee, which negatively affected the livelihood of APs and thus

concrete measurements are required. The affected fruit trees accounted for 14.8% of the

total affected trees and the remaining, or 7%, comprised of different kinds of other trees. The

industrial trees are such as rubber and coffee and cashew are permanently cut down for the

construction of tower foundations. Regarding trees within the right-of-way, APs can still use

the area under the ROW to grow crops and trees provided that the vertical clearance

between the tree top and the sag of the power cable is guaranteed. Therefore, the APs have

shifted to grow lower-lying trees and crops such as pepper, other food crops under the RoW

because of a safety reason. In the temporary land area for a road construction, it has

negative impacts to trees, finally land returned to land owners, the temporarily affected area

would be restored to the original conditions, so it did not affect to the APs’ livelihoods.

Table 7: Affected trees in the project

Nr.

Pro

vince

Affected districts

and communes Number of affected tree (trees)

Nr.

District

Nr.

Commune

Industrial

trees (tree)

Fruit trees

(tree) Others

Total of

affected

trees

(tree)

1 Gia Lai 5 18 123,571 9,287 1,434 134,292

2 Đak Lak 3 9 15,081 7,446 5,128 27,655

3 Đak Nong 6 20 74,470 20,704 6,584 101,758

4 Binh Phuoc 4 16 109,137 28,435 18,673 156,245

5 Binh

Duong 3 10 37,469 3,612 1,074 42,155

6 HCM city 1 4 8,761 456 403 9,620

Total 22 77 368,489 69,940 33,296 471,725


16. The number of affected industrial trees mainly in Gia Lai province is 123,571 (affected

coffee trees – approximately 100,000 trees) that affected the APs’ economy. Also, the

affected coffee trees which are the most important industrial trees in Dak Nong province are

approximately 72,000. The number of affected rubber trees is approximately 70,000 trees;

they are the most important affected tree in Binh Phuoc province. The number of affected

rubber tree of approximately 50,000 is for Binh Duong province. All affected rubber trees in

these two provinces have been in harvested time. It is the reason why the economic loss of

APs was considered as very high.

3.3. Impacts on houses and structures

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17. 541 affected households were required to relocate due to permanent land acquisition for

construction of tower foundations as well as restrictions on land use within the ROW.

According to the Decree No. 106/ND-CP, houses and structures are not allowed to exist

within the ROW of the 500 kV TL. Impacts on houses and structures of the AHs are

summarized in the Table 6 below. 92% of removed houses and structures chose to resettle

themselves on their own land because they had enough remaining available land to relocate.

It was observed that 72 removed HHs did not have their own land, so they resettled to the

resettlement place organized by Councils. It observed that the resettlement did not affect

much to their livings because they relocated to resettlement places closer to their home

before.

Table 8: Impacts on houses and structures

r Province

Affected area (Nr) Affected houses and physical assets on

land (Nr)

Nr. District

Nr. Commune

Affected houses

Affected physical structures

Total

1 Gia Lai 5 18 48 40 88

2 Đak Lak 3 9 33 59 92

3 Đak Nong 6 20 301 335 636

4 Binh Phuoc 4 16 83 229 312

5 Binh Duong 3 10 67 32 99

6 HCM city 1 4 9 39 48

Total 22 77 541 734 1,275


18. Apart from the displaced houses, the transmission line also affected permanently 734

structures including kitchens, courtyards, temporary shelters and camps, baths/toilets or

barn of households, gates, etc. The determination of these houses affected is complied with

Decree No.106/ND-CP and Decree No.81/ND-CP of the provisions protecting the right of

way of transmission line of electrical project.

3.4. The affected households and severely affected households

19. At the end of project implementation phase, there are totally 5,298 households that have

been affected by the project, of which 985 households affected by the permanent land

acquisition and 3,772 affected households within the RoW. Of the total AHs, 541 households

have to relocate (see Table 9).

Table 9: Number of affected HHs and affected HHs by permanent land acquisition and

HHs with displaced houses

Province

Nr.

Affected

HHs

Nr. affected

households affected

by permanent land

acquisition

Nr.

households

affected within

the ROW

Nr. households with

displaced houses

Gia Lai 714 194 475 48

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Đak Lak 628 71 524 33

Đak Nong 1,419 277 899 301

Binh Phuoc 990 263 644 83

Binh Duong 723 128 528 67

HCM city 824 52 702 9

Total 5,298 985 3,772 541


20. Among the affected households, 323 households are severely affected as they

experienced 10% or more than 10% of their productive land and/or assets of which,

permanent land acquisition has severely affected 92 households. Among the total AHs, 53

HHs belonged to ethnic minority groups, of which over 30% are the ethnic minorities of Jarai,

Stieng and Nung, Tay. The numbers of severely affected households by province are listed

as follows:

Table 10: Impacts of land acquisition on the severely affected households

r

Locality Number of severely affected

households

Province Nr.

District

Nr.

Commune Kinh people

Ethnic

minority

people

Total

1 Gia Lai 5 18 34 13 47

2 Dak Lak 3 9 11 3 14

3 Dak Nông 6 20 93 17 110

4 Binh Phuoc 4 16 100 20 120

5 Binh Duong 3 10 24 0 24

6 Ho Chi Minh 1 4 8 0 8

Total 22 77 270 53 323


- Impacts on vulnerable groups

21. The vulnerable HHs affected by the project included the elderly headed households,

single women-headed households and the poor, HHs with people in disability, beneficiary

households of social policies including martyr’s and wounded soldiers’ households, Vietnamese Heroic Mothers and ethnic minority people (see table 9). The total ethnic

minority households affected by the project are 1,119 HHs; especially they are Jarai, Stieng,

Ede in which Gia Lai province has 346 households belonging to ethnic minorities with Gia

Rai: 315, Tay: 23, Nung: 8. In Dak Lak province, there are 174 households belonged to

ethnic minority groups with Dao: 72, Nung: 47, Tay: 34, E De: 21.

22. There are four provinces such as Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Binh Phuoc province

with an existing of ethnic minority households who were affected by the project. Ethnic

minority groups were affected including Gia Lai, E De and the ethnic minority communities

migrated from the Northern Province of Vietnam to this location such as ethnic minority

group of Nung and Tay.

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Table 11: Impact of land acquisition on the vulnerable households and ethnic minority

households

r.

Locality Number of HHs belonged to vulnerable group

Province Nr.

District

Nr.

Comm.

Women

single

headed

househo

lds

Poor

HHs

HHs

with

people

in

disabili

ty

Elderly

HHs

Merit

HHs

Ethnic

minority

HHs

Total

1 Gia Lai 5 18 13 12 0 0 0 346 371

2 Đak Lak 3 9 24 8 0 0 0 341 373

3 Đak Nông 6 20 64 19 5

5 213 306

4 Binh Phuoc 4 16 53 0 0 0 0 219 272

5 Binh Duong 3 10 23 0 0 0 0 0 23

6 Ho Chi Minh 1 4 9 0 0 1 0 0 10

Total 22 77 186 39 5 1 5 1,119 1,355


4. Objectives of internal monitoring

23. CPMB has established concrete systems for internal and external monitoring and

evaluation. The main purpose of the internal monitoring was to ensure that resettlement and

acquisition of land and properties has been implemented in accordance with the policies and

procedures of the RP. Also, in relation to external monitoring and evaluation, in particular,

has focused on social impacts on DPs and whether or not DPs have been able to restore a

standard of living equal to, if not better than, that which they had before the subprojects.

24. Related to the project policy and compliance with GoV’s regulation and ADB’s requirement, there is a need to address the discrepancies between ADB Safeguard Policy

and relevant GoVs’ regulations, the subprojects’ principles on resettlement policy are (i)

Meaningful consultations have been carried out with the APs and concerned groups and

ensure participation from planning up to implementation. The comments and suggestions of

the APs and communities have been taken into account; (ii) The REMDPs/LARAPs is

disclosed to APs in a form and language that understandable to them; (iii) Involuntary

resettlement and impacts on land, structures and other fixed assets are avoided or

minimised where possible; (iv) Compensation and assistance is based on the principle of

replacement cost; (v) Severely affected household is entitled when they are losing 10% or

more of the household’s productive land; (vi) Special assistance has been incorporated in the resettlement plan to protect socially and economically vulnerable groups such as

households headed by women, children, disabled, the elderly, landless and people living

below the provincial poverty line; (vii) Gender concerns are incorporated through RP

implementation; (viii) Reporting and independent monitoring is defined as a part of the

subproject management system. Periodically independent monitoring on implementation of

RP has been implemented.

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25. The objectives of the internal monitoring are to (i) ensure that the standard of living of

DPs is restored or improved; (ii) monitor whether the time lines are being met; (iii) assess if

compensation, rehabilitation measures and social development support program are

sufficient; (iv) identify problems or potential problems; and (v) identify methods of responding

immediately to mitigate problems.

26. The CPMB conducted the internal monitoring of RP implementation to identify as early

as possible the activities achieved and the cause(s) of problems encountered so that re-

arrangements in RP implementation can be adjusted. Results of the internal monitoring are

to be reported quarterly, semi-annually, annually to NPT and ADB as well. The semi-annual

report has been prepared to summarize all activities relevant to the implementation of RP

done during six months.

27. This final monitoring report is prepared in compliance with the ADB requirements. This

report incorporated monitoring results from Jan 2012 to June 2016 in purpose to show how

the tasks have been implemented during the project implementation and the works taken to

improve the situation, if needed. Relevant information has been collected monthly from the

field to assess the progress of RP implementation and then consolidated.

28. Based on the RF, the main indicators that regularly monitored in this period include (i)

Public consultation and information dissemination procedures to the new affected

households arise; (ii) Payment of compensation to AHs; (iii) Adherence to grievance

procedures.

29. Moreover, the field surveys were carried out until July 2016 by the team with the critical

support of the employed safeguard consultant. At each survey, the team has cooperated

with contractor in charge of clearance site, contractor of construction, local government, and

local ethnic minority communities to maintain RPs’ implementation in adequate process.

30. The internal monitoring work was done by working with stakeholders such as CPC,

DLFDC, local Electricity Transmission Companies and some in-depth interview sessions

have been done with APs to achieve the monitoring target.

31. Human resources for monitoring implementation in the report period included (See Table

12) as follows:

Table 12: Members of the internal monitoring assignment

Nr. Name Position Responsibilities

1. Mr. Le Dinh Quang Vice Director Project Management

2. Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan Vice Manager of

Compensation Department

Management of environment

and resettlement

3. Mr. Tran Đang Hai

Expert of Compensation

Department

Monitoring, assistance for

social safeguard

4. Ms. Le Hoang Ngoc Expert of Compensation

Department

Monitoring, assistance for

social safeguard

5. Mr. Do Phu Hai National safeguard specialist

for resettlement

Internal monitoring and

evaluation

B. Detailed resettlement implementation progress

1. Information disclosure, consultation, and participation

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32. The implementation of public information disclosure and participation can be summarized

in table 13 as follows:

Table 13: Consultation, Participation, and Information Disclosure by Subprojects

Subproject/ Province

Participation,

Consultation in

preparation phase

Participation,

Consultation in

implementation

phase

Public

consultation

Distribution of

PIB

Distribution

RP to DCC Meeting

Gia Lai Done Done Done Done

Dak Lak Done Done Done Done

Dak Nong Done Done Done Done

Binh Phuoc Done Done Done Done

Binh Duong Done Done Done Done

HCM City Done Done Done Done

Source: Monitoring database

33. The consultation and participation and information disclosure of the project was carried

out in accordance with Law of Vietnam and in compliance with ADB's policy. They were

done in the design process of construction planning, the public consultations and information

disclosure were carried out in all six provinces. CPMB and its consultant held some

consultations with the local authorities at provincial, district, commune, and Compensation

Committees for land clearance in districts, especially the APs in the communities were

invited to consult and disseminate information by the Commune People's Committees. The

consultation activities of project were implemented to meet relatively the strict technical

requirements. The Consultant conducted consultation in accordance to the guidance of the

TA consultant team of Tranche 1. Under the guidance, the content of the public consultation

focused on the following: Disclosure of project policy information to APs, introduction of the

project, the alignment scale of construction, and the construction schedule. The disclosure of

compensation policy of donors like involuntary resettlement policies for vulnerable groups

determined the replacement cost for assistance and compensation provisions on

compensation of the Government of Vietnam. The consultation meetings are recorded in

writing a full record of comments and recommendations of the APs and other stakeholders.

The comments recorded in the consultation process are mainly the recommendations on

compensation and resettlement assistance. During LARAP/REMDP development, the

consultant team in technical assistance of Tranche 2 also conducted an additional

consultation with the district Compensation Committees to interview a number of APs

including all the APs who are ethnic minorities, disadvantaged group. The time of

consultation carried out in November, 2010. In May 2012, social experts and consultants in

ADB consultants jointly carried out a fieldwork to develop the DDRs.

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34. District Council of Land Clearance and Compensation and CPCs implemented properly

information dissemination campaign. The project documents such as Policy Framework

(entitlement matrix) and compensation plans were publicly posted at the CPCs. Several

rounds of public consultations and meetings were organized prior to the conduct of the

detailed measurement survey and entitlement. Ending of detailed measurement survey and

entitlement after a period of announcement of public schemes, the task of public

dissemination was fully implemented under REMDPs/LARAPs. Through the implementation

of common types of information dissemination campaigns to APs (Table 13, 14), most

households assessed that they understood the land acquisition and compensation policy as

well as the assistance to support them in the project and how to proceed GRM in a complaint

if necessary. It means the ADB’s policy on social safeguard was strictly followed by the project.

Table 14: Types of consultation and participation and information

Nr Types of consultation and participation

and information

Performance REMDPs/ LARAPs

Actual implementation

1 Meetings with APs to inform about the project Yes Completed

2 Information dissemination through the commune

louder speakers

Yes Completed

3 Public posting of the Policy Framework are relevant

CPCs’ offices

Yes Completed

4 Provide guidance on the complaints and grievance

redress mechanism

Yes Completed


2. Detail measurement survey process

35. The DMS started in 2011, it continued to be completed by the end of 2014 as

summarized in the table 15 as follows:

Table 15: DMS progress of the Subprojects

Subproject/

Province

DMS was

completed

by the end

of 2011

DMS was

completed

by the end

of 2012

DMS was

completed

by the the

end of 2013

DMS was completed by the end of 2014

Total

Gia Lai 122 214 159 219 714

Dak Lak 128 120 198 182 628

Dak Nong 234 355 487 343 1.419

Binh Phuoc 152 276 201 361 990

Binh Duong 101 225 164 233 723

HCM City 117 262 215 230 824

Total 854 1452 1424 1568 5298


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36. All DMS plans were agreed by AHs and commune leaders and community leaders and

declared and published in the affected communities. The poster and official documents were

presented in the commune office and village houses of the affected communities. The plans

specified the date of the survey and the date of published results of DMS. The plans

included the specific name of the participants who conducted the DMS. Women were

encouraged to participate in the DMS from requirement of a couple must accompany their

wives.

37. The guidance for survey and questionnaires were also disseminated to the affected

communities by the District Council of Land Clearance and Compensation effectively. The

DMS activities were done in a transparent manner with participation of affected community

leaders and the APs. The representatives of communities were invited to participate into the

DMS tasks as well as full involvement in the process including AHs, staff of the Councils of

Land Clearance and Compensation, representatives of grassroots government and

representatives of investors, and representatives of construction units. After the detailed

measurement, all parties confirmed by the meeting minutes of work as a basis for the

application of price on the damaged property and assets. Based on the minutes of the DMS

in the field work, the Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation applied the

compensation prices for property and assets and assistance activities (if any) for each AH,

and then set up the package of compensation and assistance. The compensation plans were

all listed in CPC offices, households may have any problems related questions who may

contact local government representatives or staff of Councils of Land Clearance and

Compensation for solving any problems. These records have been sent to the Provincial

Council of Land Clearance and Compensation and Resettlement as well as CPMB.

38. The Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation followed the regulatory rules to

adopt independently investigated price for each item in the compensation plans. As

discovering in the monitoring trips, some APs complained about the low compensation price,

and the Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation worked in collaboration with different

stakeholders to organize public meetings to discuss again the proposed compensation plans

with these APs, and then they submitted these packages for the appraisal and the approval

of competent local authorities in a favor for the APs to ensure their highest benefits.

According to the monitoring results at the completion date of project, it is shown that the all

APs accepted the applied prices which were approved in compensation plans.

3. Preparation and approval of compensation plans

3.1. Establishment of compensation packages

39. At the time of inventory, AP representatives involved in monitoring the detailed

measurement process, actually they had full participation in the process of detailed

measurement survey. They are APs, senior staff of the Councils of Land Clearance and

Compensation, representatives of local authorities (communes/wards/town), staff of CPMB,

and staff of construction companies. After the detailed measurement survey, counting the

affected assets completed, all parties confirmed by working minutes as a basis for installing

compensation price for affected properties. All affected households had their representatives

who substantially involved in monitoring of DMS. Based on the working minutes of DMS, the

Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation set the compensation price for the affected

assets, supported assistance (if any) for APs. The compensation plans were all listed in CPC

offices and available in community centers as well.

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Also, any complaints from APs on the preparation and approval of compensation plans, they

would have contacted by representatives of local government (CPCs or DPCs) through the

Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation for solving their problems. These working

minutes have been kept in order by the Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation.

They are also available in CPMB office. From above steps of the implementation, it means

that the DMS activities followed strictly the ADB and GoVN policy.

40. The Project has been implemented with the application of the 2003 Land Law and

compensation rates for affected land and assets in accordance with the price list issued

annually by the PPCs after the market price valuation results in each area are in place.

Regarding compensation rates for affected trees, the rates are applied per the decisions by

the PPCs. However, in the areas where rubber trees are significantly affected, CPMB has

cooperated with the PPCs to re-conduct the valuation of the rubber trees and proposed

compensation rates closer to the market prices.

3.2. Setting up unit price in compensation package and its application

41. Regarding unit price applied in compensation packages, the Councils of Land Clearance

and Compensation have adopted the current regulations of the provinces at the time of

applying for the compensation schemes. Some APs had complaints about the unit price of

the compensation packages, as that the Councils worked in collaboration with different

stakeholders; they had official meetings to discuss about these compensation unit price with

APs. If without any complaint, they started a submission for an appraisal and approval to the

competent authority. As it observed that the approval process ensured the maximum

benefits of the APs. According to the monitoring results, it is shown that all APs agreed on

the compensation package with investigated unit prices which are practically applied in

compensation plans. Thus, APs are satisfied with the preparation and approval of

compensation plans. Contributing for the satisfaction of APs, the CPMB provided a high

effort to promote the higher unit price in the compensation packages.

3.3. Procedure of approval process of compensation package

42. The approval of compensation packages were often very slow that is why it caused the

delay in the compensation and assistance payment. The procedure was applied in a

compliance with public administration, so it become complicated under multi-tasks at local

government.

4. Process of compensation payment

43. The implementation of REMDPs and LARAPs in 6 project provinces was completed as

the operation of compensation, assistance and resettlement of the project continued to be

carried out in compliance with ADB's policies on social safeguard policies and REMDPs,

LARAPs given and DDRs (2012) and DDR (8/2015). The assistance of the project was done

mainly for land, crops and structures outside the ROW that would be risk adversely affecting

the line. Up to now, all GAPs on compensation and assistance discovered during the

monitoring activities in semi-annual reports were successfully resolved by high effort of

CPMB and local stakeholders.

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Most of outstanding cases due to some objective reasons in the compensation process such

as (i) land owners lost the land certificates (ii) the land certificates were held by commercial

banks for a provided loan (iii) request for acquiring small land area which is no longer viable

for cultivation; and (iv) simultaneously the project continued to implement additional

assistance to support severely APs as well as solving all complaints from outstanding cases.

The results as shown in Table 16 as follows:

Table 16: Operation of REMDPs/LARAPs up to June 2016

Province Gia Lai Dak Lak Dak

Nong

Binh

Phuoc

Binh

Duong

Ho Chi

Minh Activities

Information disclosure Done Done Done Done Done Done

Detailed measurement

survey and entitlement

Done Done Done Done Done Done

Compensation and

resettlement development


Public consultation, advise

for APs about the

compensation plans


Finalised the compensation

plans and submitted for the

approval


Supervision and approval for

the compensation plan


Compensation payment and

assistance


Site clearance Done Done Done Done Done Done

External monitoring Done


44. The activities of compensation are mainly done for trees and land located in/outside

ROW, such as the trees may fall down into the line causing a danger for the line located in

03 provinces of Dak Nong and Binh Phuoc, Binh Duong. The activities of compensation

were carried out until December 2015.

45. The reports on replacement cost of Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Binh Phuoc, Binh

Duong, HCM were properly and independently established. The reports of replacement cost

were prepared by the independent parties; the services were provided by private companies

independently for these investigations on the market prices for specific market places.

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46. The Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation in districts conducted the payment

on compensation and assistance by cash, compensation of agricultural land for AHs to

reduce negative impacts of the project. In the project completion period , the activities were

mainly focused on completion of compensation and assistance for AHs. Thus, the HHs

numbers accounted for 5,298 households with exact amount for receiving compensation and

assistance reached: VND 870,327,950,681. In which, there are 714 households who

received the compensation and assistance in Gia Lai with the amount of VND

81,160,968,569. There are 628 households in Dak Lak received a total amount of VND

34,922,084,147. There are 1,419 households in Dak Nong received a total VND

97,916,254,287. There are 990 households in Binh Phuoc received VND 223,220,624,723.

There are 723 households in Binh Duong received a total amount of VND 289,432,867,431.

There are 824 households in HCM city received a total amount of VND 143,675,151,524

(see Table 17 below).

Table 17: Total amount of compensation and assistance in the project

Province/City Total amount of

compensation (VND)

Total amount of

assistance (VND)

Total amount of

compensation and

assistance (VND)

Gia Lai 78,333,294,540

2,827,674,029

81,160,968,569

Đak Lak 34,089,796,894

832,287,253

34,922,084,147

Đak Nông 91,941,899,181

5,974,355,106

97,916,254,287

Binh Phuoc 219,533,105,844

3,687,518,879

223,220,624,723

Binh Duong 283,839,651,103

5,593,216,328

289,432,867,431

Ho Chi Minh 140,506,174,179

3,168,977,345

143,675,151,524

Total 848,243,921,741 22,084,028,940 870,327,950,681

Source: Final Monitoring Phase

47. In the project implementation phase, CPMB with a support of LIC has conducted many

necessary activities to address the existing gaps and problems of the last 6 months report

2015 and the first 6-month report 2016. The operations of CPMB were to send the

dispatches, official letters, and field trips to require all Councils to work in a coordination to

settle definitively the remaining problems related to existing complaints. LICs have worked in

the field to organize meetings with the Councils to support and work out their tasks. So far

we had all provinces reported results to complete the compensation, assistance and

resettlement (See Table 17).

5. Assess degree of APs’ satisfaction of compensation and resettlement

48. In the project implementation, the APs are satisfied with the results of detailed

measurement survey. Most of APs are satisfied with the compensation price set up by

Councils of Land Clearance and Compensation as well as compensation payment.

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49. Related to APs’ livelihoods, most of the existing GAPs in DDR 2015 and monitoring reports were resolved.73% complaints were to concentrate around the compensation unit

price while 21% complaints were came from compensation in the ROW. The complaints on

unit price happened to focus on a period of year 2011-2014, but the complaints on

compensation and assistance happened to focus on a period of year 2014-2016.

50. The complaints and grievances mentioned in the DDRs have been resolved. As a result,

up to date of project completion, all complaints have been sufficiently resolved. There are

1733 cases of redress of grievance and complaints found during the project implementation.

As a result shown in table 18, up to date of the end of the project completion, the redress of

grievance and complaints have been sufficiently resolved.

Table 18: Cases in redress of grievance and complaints in the project implementation

Nr Province

Cases of redress of

grievance and

complaints

Status

1 Gia Lai 53 Completely resolved

2 Đak Lak 139 Completely resolved

3 Đak Nông 767 Completely resolved

4 Binh Phuoc 426 Completely resolved

5 Binh Duong 270 Completely resolved

6 Ho Chi Minh 78 Completely resolved

Ethnic minority groups

51. According to REMDPs/LARPs of this project, the ethnic minority groups are the

vulnerable. The numbers are figured out in the Para. 17, they were treated with high

attention from the beginning. At the completion date, they were all satisfied with the

compensation and assistance because that they were carefully consulted before the DMS

and during the implementation of the compensation and assistance as well as completely

resolving of grievance and complaints (Table 18), none of them had any complaints and

grievance until the project completion.

Gender issues

52. Gender issue was paid high attention in the process of project implementation. The

consultation of women was taken into consideration and focused by Councils of Land

Clearance and Compensation for solving grievances, complaints as well as providing

assistance to support the APs. Many opinions came from women who wanted additional

compensation and additional support; they also suggested that to receive loan with low

interest rates for their production development.

53. The poor women received appropriate assistance in income and livelihood restoration.

Also the gaps and problems related to poor women with the evidence are solved which are

shown in the semi-annual internal reports. CPMB was active working with local stakeholders

to correct these GAPs discovered during the monitoring period. The poor women are

satisfactory with the compensation price and the assistance.

C. Assess the stakeholder cooperation

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54. From institutional arrangement in the project, CPMB worked in collaboration with the

local stakeholders such as Provincial/district People Committees and Councils of Land

Clearance and Compensation and Land Development Fund Centers, local Electricity

Transmission Companies and local ethnic people communities in the project province. From

stakeholder cooperation, it helped to work out many weaknesses and bottleneck and

constraints during the project implementation, especially it is effective for solving redress of

grievance and complaints.

55. During the project implementation, under leadership in CPMB project management, a

team with good interpersonal skills working in collaboration with multi-stakeholders at

different level to work out many difficult tasks. The operational tasks were kept informed of

all stakeholders in the project from DMSs and development of compensation packages and

compensation payment, and assisted activities in the project. The tasks are all under

adequate control and getting consensus in decision making.

56. In the implementation, the local partners are empowered to work closer with ethnic

minority groups as well as APs in the compensation and livelihood assistance. As a result,

making the more effective and efficient in solving the problems related to compensation and

the redress of grievance and complaints.

D. Conclusion and lesson learned

a. Conclusion

57. So far, the implementation of REMDPs/LARAPs is completed, as a result of the project

implementation, the operations of compensation, livelihood assistance and resettlements

were done in full compliance to the ADB policy and GOV Law for the implementation of

REMDPs/LARAPs. The activities of public consultation and information dissemination

procedures to arising APs, all activities of the payment of compensation and assistance to

affected households are carried out in a compliance with procedures for resolving complaints

and grievances of ADB's social safeguard policy and the GOV Law. The social service

provision such as infrastructure, health, education was well performed.

58. The implementation, gender inclusive was done in a satisfactory manner as well as

attention giving to severely APs and ethnic minority APs. Actually, there were great changes

affect women not being recognized and planned in the REMDPs/LARAPs. From appropriate

coordination and resource mobilization help overcome weaknesses that the vulnerable APs

could mitigate well from their difficulties. From deliberative discussion within internal

monitoring session, the GAPs in the implementation were defined and to be filled out in the

corrected actions.

59. On the whole compensation process was properly done under the REMDPs/LARAPs,

the project provided relevant livelihood assistance for severely AHs gaining livelihood

restoration as before the project. The livelihood assistance for vulnerable households as

poor HHs, disadvantage HHs is very valuable to restore their income as well as enhance

their living standard. If some APs did not agree to receive the compensation at unexpected

compensation rate, the redress of grievance and complaints were properly solved. The

monitoring data is shown that the severely APs and vulnerable APs are paid high attention to

correct the GAPs during the implementation. The DMSs were strictly conducted in

accordance with the Law of Vietnam and ADB policies in compliance. The process of setting

compensation package development was well carried out in accordance with Law of Vietnam

and in compliance by ADB policy. On the complaints related to the inventory, the problem

could be solved by full APs participation.

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60. The consultation on AP decision making of relocation in the resettlement site and

participation and information disclosure is strictly done to demonstrate in the monitoring data

which also appeared on livelihoods and living standards as well as access to social services

with high degree of satisfaction in APs. It performed relatively strictly on technical

requirements for consultation. The capacity consultation increased from support of safeguard

consultant in overcoming the limitation access from their language barriers. The

communication constraints caused by shy and timid characteristics was reduced from high

effort to raise the consultation participation.

61. During the implementation, the published materials of social safeguard, information and

community meetings were well carried out and their complaints received in time the

response and feedback from the Councils and CPMB.

62. Considering that the mechanism for resolving the redress of grievance and complaints

work effectively and properly to improve the situation at the beginning. The procedures

hindered resolving the redress of grievance and complaints through the levels of the

CPC/DPC to PPC, the monitoring on resolving the redress of grievance and complaints

within GRM is the best solution is that promoting 'dialogue' between the Councils and APs,

that is why the redress of grievance and complaints were carefully resolved under the

participatory system.

63. The internal monitoring was conducted on the post resettlement focusing on severely

APs and vulnerable households, especially for serious ethnic minority APs. Monitoring

information for these households were collected, especially for the vulnerable groups

including the elderly, single headed women, disabled, indigenous minorities. The collected

information are done on a change of livelihood, living standards, social services such as

education, health, water sanitation schools, electricity, and transportation. The monitoring

data focused on social capital, social network, and emerging community problems such as

number of social evils. The internal monitoring sessions paid attention to unintended impacts

such as to settle temporary impacts from construction, the phenomenon of illegal benefits

from encroachment to the safety corridor of the project line. The internal monitoring data also

collected data on cultural issues of ethnic minority APs, a change of community structure,

gender equality and women's development.

b. Lessons learned

64. The implementation must follow the ADB policy and national government Law in a

relevant harmonization that is effective in the implementation. The capacity building for local

stakeholders is also important to ensure the best quality of the implementation of

REMDPs/LARAPs.

65. The land acquisition can be done before the approval of REMDPs/LARPs giving a

chance to keep up in progress, however it can not be a good lesson learned to follow so that

the REMDPs/LARPs must be completed prior to the implementation. The REMDPs/LARAPs

developed in line with project progress are the advantage.

66. The REMDPs/LARAPs should be developed as early as possible help the CPMB can

manage the project implementation as well as census and socio-economic survey should be

able to be done together with the inventory of loses to ensure the whole picture before

project.

67. The high participation of all stakeholders can happen if the institutional arrangement

established as early as possible in a combination with capacity building for the key project

stakeholders;

68. The employment of LIC to support the project implementation should be done at the

start-up of the project implementation.