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Social Monitoring Report
Semiannual Report December 2016
NEP: SASEC Road Connectivity
Prepared by the Department of Roads for the Ministry of Finance and the Asian Development
Bank.
This social monitoring report is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area.
CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS
(As of 31 December 2016)
Currency unit - Nepalese (NPR)
NPR 1.00 = $0.00918
$ 1.00 = 108.91 NPR
This social monitoring report is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not
necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be
preliminary in nature.
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.
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Acronyms
ADB Asian Development Bank
AP Affected Person
CBO Community Based Organization
CDC Compensation Determination Committee
CDO Chief District Officer
CIPRP Combined Indigenous Peoples and Resettlement Plan
DAO District Administration Office
DDC District Development Committee
DDR Due-Diligence Report
DLRO District Land Revenue Office
DLSO District Land Survey Office
DoR Department of Roads
DP Displaced Persons
EA Executive Agency
EWH East West Highway
GRC Grievance Redress Committee
HD Halesi - Diktel
HH Household
HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
IA Implementing Agency
IR Involuntary Resettlement
IP Indigenous People
LB Leguwaghat- Bhojpur
LEST Livelihood Enhancement Skill Development Training
MB Mechipul- Birtamod
MHH Mid Hill Highway
MR Manthali- Ramechhap
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
PAF Project Affected Families
PM/PIC Project Manager/Project In-Charge
RoW Right of Way
RP Resettlement Plan
CSC Construction Supervision Consultant
SASEC South Asia Sub-regional Economic Cooperation
SLCSASEC Road Connectivity ProjectSubproject Level Committee for grievance redress
SPAF Seriously Project Affected Family
TOR Terms of Reference
VDC Village Development Committee
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................................. 1
2. PROJECT BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................ 1
3. PHYSICAL PROGRESS OF SUBPROJECT ROADS ............................................................... 2
4. OBJECTIVE, APPROACH AND SCOPE OF SEMI-ANNUAL MONITORING ................. 3
4.1 Objective ....................................................................................................................................... 3
4.2 Approach....................................................................................................................................... 3
4.3 Scope of Semi -annual Monitoring ...............................................................................................4
5. CHANGES IN SOCIAL SAFEGUARD SCOPE .......................................................................... 4
6. SOCIAL SAFEGUARD MONITORING PARAMETERS......................................................... 4
7. IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENT ..................................................................................... 5
8. PROJECT IMPACT ......................................................................................................................... 6
9. STATUS OF THE SOCIAL SAFEGUARD PLAN IMPLEMENTATION ............................. 7
9.1 Compensation Payment................................................................................................................7
9.1.2 Efforts made to expedite the compensation payment.................................................................... 8
9.2 Redressal of Grievances ................................................................................................................9
9.3 Public Consultation .....................................................................................................................11
9.4 Status of Indigenous and Vulnerable Affected People ...............................................................13
9.5 Livelihood Activities ....................................................................................................................14
9.6 Perception of Project Affected people and utilization of compensation amount......................15
9.7 Budget allocation for compensation payment ...........................................................................16
9.8 Status of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and other social activities ......................17
10. ISSUES .......................................................................................................................................... 18
11. CORRECTIVE ACTIONS FOR MAJOR GAPS................................................................... 18
12. MAJOR ITEM OF FOCUS FOR NEXT REPORT ............................................................... 19
Annexes
1. Compensation Payment Status as of 31 December 2016
2. A copy of consultative meeting minutes with Aps
3. Compliance with Social Safeguard Covenants of Loan Agreement
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DEFINITION
Acquisition: Acquisition of land and other assets for the purpose of development projects in
accordance to prevailing Land Acquisition Act 1977 (2034 BS).
Displaced Persons: Affected persons are those who are physically displaced (relocation, loss of
residential land, or loss of shelter) and economically displaced (loss of land assets, income
sources, or means of livelihood) as a result of involuntary resettlement of land, involuntary
restrictions on land use or on access to legally designated parks and protected areas.
Indigenous People: Nepal indigenous/nationalities/tribal Act 2001defines Ethnic/ Indigenous
Peoples as; “people having their own mother tongue, distinct traditional values, and cultural
identities, including social structure and written/non written history are indigenous and
nationalities population.” The National Foundation of Indigenous Nationalities (NFIN) has
declared 59 groups as ethnic nationalities.
Rehabilitation: The measures taken to mitigate social impacts, including compensation,
resettlement and rehabilitation allowances where required.
Replacement Cost: The market value of a project affected assets. For agriculture land, this
includes reference to land of equal size, type and productive potentiality in the vicinity of the
affected land and land preparation costs where required. For houses and other structures, this
includes reference to the market price of materials and labor, and the cost of transporting
materials to the building site. The replacement cost further includes the cost of any registration
and transfer taxes for land and buildings.
Resettlement: Resettlement denotes the consequence that occurs due to acquisition of land and
other assets as well as the entire process and activities related to acquisition and implementation
of resettlement plan in accordance to prevailing Acts.
Right of Way: Right of way means the land acquired for the project purposes. Generally,
government declares 50 meter for National highway and 30 meter for feeder roads.
Sub project Level Grievance Redress Committee: Village Development Committee or
municipality level committee established to assist the affected people, legally constituted
committees for land acquisition and project authorities, monitoring of implementation issues and
community reactions and grievance resolution.
Severely Project Affected Family: Family having more than 10 percent loss of total
landholding or income is considered as severely affected family.
Titleholder: The person in whose name the project-affected land, structure, business is
registered and who is authorized to receive the compensation granted for the loss of business or
acquisition of the land and assets.
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Vulnerable Persons: The disadvantaged persons such as disabled, women headed households,
handicapped, independent elderly persons (70 years and above age), and households with disable
persons, ethnic occupational cast and below poverty level households.
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1. INTRODUCTION
1. This report describes the implementation of social safeguards activities, covering the period
from July to December, 2016. The Social Monitoring Report (SMR) covers in particular the
progress of the implementation of the Updated Combined Indigenous People’s Plan and
Resettlement Plans (CIPRP) 2016 approved for the project. It also describes the implementation of
other social activities, such as the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Plan, activities
related to HIV/AIDS prevention, and Livelihood restoration and support activities.
2. PROJECT BACKGROUND
2. The South Asia Sub-regional Economic Corporation(SASEC) Road Connectivity Project
(SRCP) is upgrading about 187 km of existing five roads namely Alternate East-West Highway
(EWH)- Koshi Bridge-East West Highway (EWH) in Sunsari, Udayapur and Saptari districts ,
Leguwaghat-Bhojpur (LB) in Bhojpur District, Halesi-Diktel (HD) in Khotang District, Manthali-
Ramechhap (MR) in Ramechhap District and Mechipul-Birtamod (MB) in Jhapa District. The
Project is implemented by Project Directorate (ADB), Department of Road (DOR) and assisted by
Construction Supervision Consultant (CSC). Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided the
loan for financing the SRCP. During the Detail Design Phase, the project road has prepared
combined indigenous peoples and resettlement plans for three project roads namely: EWE-Koshi
Bridge- EWH, HD and MR, and two resettlement due-diligence reports for LB and MB roads.
These Social Safeguards documents have been prepared to mitigate and address the private and
public losses due to project intervention. The Social Safeguards reports were developed based on
ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement (2009), Land Acquisition Act 1977 and applicable national
laws and regulations.
The Summary of Sub-projects under SRCP is presented the table below:
Table 1: Summary of Subprojects under SRCP
S.N. Name of Road
Length
of Road
(km)
Category
of the
Sub-
project
IR and IP
Prepared Social
Safeguard
Document
Project Affected
Households
TotalMale
Headed
Female
Headed
1EWH-Koshi
Bridge- EWH61.25
A
Combined
Indigenous
Peoples and
Resettlement
2363 1924 439
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S.N. Name of Road
Length
of Road
(km)
Category
of the
Sub-
project
IR and IP
Prepared Social
Safeguard
Document
Project Affected
Households
TotalMale
Headed
Female
Headed
Plan
2 Halesi- Diktel 34.43 A Combined
Indigenous Peoples
and Resettlement
Plan
615 504 111
3 Manthali -
Ramechhap
13.35 A Combined
Indigenous Peoples
and Resettlement
Plan
208 153 55
4 Leguwaghat -
Bhojpur
65.55 C Due Diligence
Report
106 92 14
5 Mechipul-
Birtamod
12.16 C Due Diligence
Report
0 0 0
Total 186.74 - - 3,292 2,673 619
3. Above table shows, there are 5 subproject under SRCP where 3 subprojects (EWH- Koshi
Bridge- EWH, HD & MR roads) have significant resettlement impacts, so Combined Indigenous
Peoples and Resettlement Plans have been prepared for these road and Due Diligence Reports have
been prepared for remaining two subprojects (LB & MB) which have insignificant resettlement
impact.
3. PHYSICAL PROGRESS OF SUBPROJECT ROADS
4. Two international competitive bidding (ICB) contractors has been mobilized for civil
works construction for EWH- Koshi Bridge- EWH Road and LB Road on 2o November 2014.
Likewise, 5 national competitive bidding contractors have been mobilized for HD Road (3
packages), MR Road (1 package) and MB Road (1 package) on 14 June 2014.
The table below presents the physical progress of subprojects roads as of 31 December 2016.
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Table 2: Physical Progress of Subproject Roads as of 31 December 2016
S.N. Name of Roads Length(K.M.)Progress (%)
1 EWH-Koshi Bridge- EWH 61.25 41.06
2 Halesi- Diktel package-01
Halesi- Diktel package-02
Halesi- Diktel package-03
12.00
12.00
11.43
39.01
45.09
41.29
3 Manthali - Ramechhap 13.35 49.15
4 Leguwaghat -Bhojpur 65.55 52.43
5 Mechipul- Birtamod 12.16 Contract terminated
4. OBJECTIVE, APPROACH AND SCOPE OF SEMI-ANNUAL MONITORING
4.1 Objective
5. The objective of the semiannual monitoring report is to assess progress on safeguard plan
implementation of the subproject roads including compensation payment, grievance redress
procedure, public consultation and disclosure process, evaluation of income restoration program of
affected households including indigenous people and vulnerable people.
4.2 Approach
6. The following tasks were undertaken for preparing this report:
• Review the, fortnightly, monthly, quarterly progress report of the project
• Conducted consultative meeting with project affected persons.
• Review of the grievance submitted by subprojects and action taken against those
complaints;
• Interviewed with project affected persons regarding land acquisition and compensation
activities and their satisfaction
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4.3 Scope of Semi -annual Monitoring
7. The social safeguard monitoring is guided by the ADB Safeguard Policy Statement 2009,
Land Acquisition Act of Nepal 1977 (2034 BS) and other relevant policies and guidelines. This
monitoring report is focusing on the social safeguard implementation including appropriate
measures to minimize the resettlement impact during project implementation. Compensation
payment to the affected land and assets, measures to redress the grievance appeared during project
implementation and income restoration measures to the vulnerable and indigenous project affected
people are included in safeguard monitoring.
8. It has been agreed to prepare and submit social safeguard monitoring semi-annual report to
provide the status of social safeguard plan implementation of SASEC Road Connectivity project.
The reporting period covers 6 months from July to December 2016. During this period,
resettlement plan implementation status, safeguard monitoring activities and mitigation measures
applied to achieve the goals of resettlement plan has been reported.
5. CHANGES IN SOCIAL SAFEGUARD SCOPE
9. The SASEC Road Connectivity Project (SRCP) implementation was started from June
2014. During the project implementation, land acquisition data prepared in detail design phase
were updated due to missing many land parcels and other private assets. Missing land parcels and
other assets were incorporated in the project implementation. Accordingly, the number of project
affected people including indigenous and vulnerable people is required to be updated. Hence,
Combined Indigenous People and Resettlement Plan of EWH, HD and MR Road Subprojects has
been updated.
6. SOCIAL SAFEGUARD MONITORING PARAMETERS
10. The following parameters have been applied during social safeguard monitoring:
• Progress on land acquisition and compensation Payment
• Procedure of compensation rate determination and compensation payment delivery system
(easiness, transparency etc.)
• Grievances by type and resolution status, effectiveness of GRC in local level,
• Rehabilitation of public utilities,
• Public consultation and disclosure activities,
• Status of vulnerable and Indigenous APs after project intervention,
• Status of income restoration program (skill training, employment opportunity etc.)
• Resettlement Budget
• Use of compensation and other rehabilitation allowances by vulnerable and indigenous
people,
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• APs satisfaction &perception regarding compensation amount decided by CDC,
• Implementation of social awareness program (gender/HIV/human trafficking),
• Compliance status of social issues such as campsite management, health and safety, wage
rate, child labor etc.
7. IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENT
11. The Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (MOPIT) is the project’s Executing
Agency (EA), and Department of Roads (DoR) is the implementing agency (IA). A Project
Implementation Unit (PIU) has been established as Project Directorate (PD/ADB) under DoR
to supervise the overall implementation of all the Subprojects. At the subproject level, the
Subproject PIUs are headed by the Project Managers (PMs)/Project In-charge (PICs) in the
rank of Senior Divisional Engineer, are responsible for monitoring/supervise resettlement and
other social activities.
12. The Construction Supervision Consultant (CSC), MSV International Inc. in association with
Soil Test, Welink, and Beam Pvt. Ltd, is responsible to support the Project Directorate in the
implementation of the Resettlement Plans (RPs), the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion
(GESI) Plan and the HIV/AIDS & human trafficking activities. For this purpose, 3 social
experts and supporting staffs have been deputed from November 2014. The CSC’s social and
resettlement team of experts is supported by four field staff. Out of four supporting social
staffs currently one each are working in East-West Highway Road, Halesi-Diktel Road and
Manthali- Ramechhap Road and one in the MSV Office Kathmandu. Key activities under the
CSC’s responsibility include supporting the Project Directorate(ADB) in: (i) facilitating the
completion of the Detailed Measurement Survey (DMS); (ii) conducting consultations and
disseminating the resettlement matrix and other relevant information; (iii) supporting the
formation of Subproject Level Committees (SLCs) and Grievance Redress Committees
(GRCs), (iv) collecting and recording regularly issues raised by project affected people and (v)
motivating Project Affected Persons (PAPs) to find solutions at the local level, and if required
bridge them with concerned stakeholders. Moreover, the CSC has the responsibility of
monitoring health and occupational safety, environmental management and road safety
activities.
13. The Department of Roads, Project Directorate Office through the External Monitor has been
monitoring independently the progress of social safeguard plan implementation as outlined in
the Combined Indigenous People and Resettlement Plans.
14. For the project, recruitment of a supporting NGO has been provisioned to facilitate gender
mainstreaming and promoting social inclusion, carry out community based preventative
awareness campaign in the project area especially in EWH subproject road corridor. And the
NGO will provide considerable support and capacitate community in Bio-diversity and
Livelihood protection, promotion and restoration activities. In this respect, PD/ADB has
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shortlisted half a dozen of NGOs. Selection process is in final stage and the selected NGO will
be engaged tentatively for 20 months period.
8. PROJECT IMPACT
15. The 3 subproject roads (EWH- Koshi Bridge- EWH, HD & MR) have been prepared Combined
Indigenous Peoples and Resettlement Plans and 2 subproject roads (LB & MB) have prepared
Resettlement Due Diligence Reports during the detail design phase. During the project
implementation, Construction Supervision Consult (CSC) conducted detail measure survey
(DMS) of EWH- Koshi Bridge- EWH, HD and MR roads which revealed that there was
missing many project affected household in the original CIPRP which need to be updated.
Therefore, CIPRP of above mention 3 roads subprojects has been updated to mitigate and
address the resettlement impact which is found during the project implementation based on
ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement (2009), Land Acquisition Act 1977 and applicable national
laws and regulations. The table below presents the differences between Updated CIPRP (2016)
and Original CIPRP (2013):
Table 3: Summary of Project Impacts between Updated CIPRP and Original CIPRP
Description Updated CIPRP (2016) Original CIPRP (2013)
EWH HD MR EWH HD MR
Total Households (No.) 2,363 615 208 1,779 389 192
Affected Private Land Area
(ha.)
47.36 19.04 3.20 45.60 19.44 4.39
No. of Land Parcels 1,893 907 274 1,582 914 276
No. of House/Structures 1,421 156 8 1,109 106 8
Private trees 1,621 1,166 452 2,128 755 273
No of Indigenous
Households
511 250 16 556 177 14
No of Vulnerable
households
173 68 58 254 159 66
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9. STATUS OF THE SOCIAL SAFEGUARD PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
9.1 Compensation Payment
16. The SASEC Road Connectivity Project (SRCP) has been undertaking compensation and
resettlement/ rehabilitation activities since January 2015. These activities were carried out
within the framework of Combined Indigenous People and Resettlement plan (CIPRP) and Due
Diligence Report. As of 31 December 2016, more than 90 % compensation payment of
acquired land has been completed. The compensation payment of project affected property is
still continued and subprojects has set target to complete the remaining compensation payment
by end of January 2017. The table below presents the details of compensation payment of
acquired private land parcels:
Table 4: Progress of Compensation Payment as of 31 December 2016
Sub-
project
Road
Compensation Payment
ProgressAbsentees & Legal
Dispute Land
Parcels
Compensation Payment
Progress (including
absentees & legal disputes
parcels)
Target Achieved ProgressTotal
(A+B)Progress
Parcel
Nos.
Parcel
Nos. (A)%
No of land
Parcel (B)% Parcel Nos. %
EWH 1893 1488 79 290 15 1778 94
HD 907 743 82 111 9 854 94
MR 274 223 81 25 12 248 91
LB 138 56 41 81 59 137 100
Total 3212 2510 78 507 16 3017 94
17. The deed transfer progress of compensated land parcels is going on parallel way with
compensation payment. During the reporting period more than 75 % deed transfer process of
acquired land has been completed by concern District Land Revenue Offices.
18. The compensation payment of project affected house/structures of MR road is completed and
almost completed of EWH- Koshi Bridge- EWH Road. Similarly in LB road about 60 %
affected house/structures owner collected their compensation and demolished the affected
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structures. In HD Road, the compensation amount of affected house/structures has been
submitted by Division Office of Urban Development and Building Construction, Udayapur.
The Compensation Determination Committee (CDC) will finalize the compensation amount as
earliest as possible. The table below presents the status of compensation payment of project
affected house /structures:
Table 5: Compensation Payment Status of house/structures
Sub-project
Road
No of affected House
/structures
No of Compensated
House/StructuresProgress in Percentage
EWH 1421 1379 97.04
HD 156 0 0
MR 7 7 100
LB 8 5 62.50
Total 1592 1391 87.37
19. The compensation payment of affected private trees of EWH- Koshi Bridge- EWH road is
almost completed and MR and HD road, the CDC has just decided the compensation amount
and these 2 subproject is preparing to distribute the compensation amount. Both subproject has
set target to complete the compensation payment of affected trees within 31 January 2017.
The subproject wise details of compensation payment is presented in Annex-1.
9.1.2 Efforts made to expedite the compensation payment
20. All subprojects are carried out continuously all possible efforts for timely disbursement of
remaining compensation amount to the affected people such as publish public notice in local
newspaper and local FM Radio, affixed the public notice in different location of project area
etc.:
• In EWH Road Subproject, the public notice was published in ‘Janata Times Saptahik’ local
newspaper on 23 July 2016 to inform project affected people who were not collected their
respective compensation amount of land, house/structures and trees. Similarly, the public
notice regarding collection of compensation amount of land, house/structures and trees were
broadcast by Saptakoshi FM (local FM Radio) from19- 25 July 2016 and by Jaya Madesh
FM from 17-25 July 2016. The notice were broadcast Nepali as well as Maithili language 3
times daily before prime time news of the FM Radio.
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• In HD Road Subproject, the public notice were published for notifying the affected people
to collect the compensation amount in national daily newspaper ‘Annapurna Post’ on 19
July 2016
• In MR Road subproject, the project office published the public notice on 30 July 2016 at
local newspaper ‘Aajako Ramechhap Dainik’ to inform the affected people for collecting
the compensation amount. Likewise, LB road subproject were also published same type of
notice at local newspaper ‘Silchung Weekly’ on 29 July 2016.
• The public notice for compensation payment were affixed in different public places of the
Subprojects road project alignment area by Social Mobilizers such as VDC/ Municipality
Offices, Schools and public resting place (Chautara).
21. The consultative meeting were conducted on October and November 2016 in all 4 subproject
roads with affected landowner who were not collected their compensation amount. During the
meeting, the affected landowner were requested to collect their compensation amount as soon
as possible and they were informed that the project would provide transportation facility for
those land owners who have low compensation amount (Less than NRs 5,000.00).The affected
people who were presented in the meeting committed that they would not disrupt the
construction work due to compensation. The copy of meeting minutes is attached in Annex 2.
9.2 Redressal of Grievances
22. A Grievance Redress Committee (GRC) at district level and project affected VDC/Municipality
wise sub project level committees (SLC) have been formed in all subprojects. In EWH Road 3
district wise (Sunsari, Udayapur and Saptari) GRC and 8 VDC wise Sub project level
committees (SLC) is formed. Likewise, one GRC and 4 SLC were formed in Leguwaghat-
Bhojpur Road. Similarly, one GRC and 3 SLCs and one GRC and 2 SLC were formed in Halesi
Diktel and Manthali Ramechhap Road subprojects. Its main objectives include receiving
complaints of affected persons (AP) and facilitate resolution of those complaints and grievances
with the aim of ensuring safeguard performance. The SLCs also facilitates the GRC and DPs on
redressing the grievances and timely distribution of compensation of affected assets. Project-
affected persons including DPs of the respective VDC/Municipality, local representatives of
political parties, religious leaders, vulnerable groups, and local CBOs, and other stakeholders as
applicable represent the SLC. The SLC is playing coordinating role between project affected
people and the GRC to minimize and address the grievances. The SLC assist the Subproject
Office/PM, and Social/Resettlement Specialist of the Construction Supervision Consultant
(CSC) on informing people about the likely resettlement impacts, provision of compensation
and other assistance to the affected persons, RP implementation and grievances redressing
methods as well as to solicit their view on the RP implementation.
23. In the last six months a number of grievances are received from project affected people and
SLCs mostly on the low valuation, missing assets out, measurement defaults, technical defects
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in Cadastral Map and field situation, and restoration of structures. The status of grievances of
subproject roads and measures taken to redress is presented in the table below:
Table 6: List of Grievances and Measures Taken to Redress
Sub-project
Road
Grievance Received Measure taken
1. EWH Road
Saptari 100 grievances regarding missing
out land, structures etc.
Verification was conducted-60 cases
found to be beyond scope and 40 cases
were eligible and given justifiable
compensation amount
Udayapur Owner of 39 structures complained
of low valuation of their structure
Re-verification is ongoing in
coordination of PIC, consultant and
DUDBC. Seven structures are found
beyond scope and the rest are being
verified.
98 HHs complained of missing out
their fruit trees in the list.
Verification is going on in presence of
representative of District Agriculture
development Office
Sunsari PAPs complained of 45 new
structures not covered for
compensation due to alignment
change at Bhandaritar in
Barahachhetra
Verified and details have been sent for
valuation
2. HD Road
Package- 1 2 structures are miss out in the list of
structure to be compensated
Verification is under process
Package- 2 Himganga Primary school, Arkhaule
demanded to heighten gabion wall.
Jalpa Secondary School, Nunthala
demanded masonry wall at its border.
Gabion wall erected to the appropriate
height
Masonry wall constructed
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Sub-project
Road
Grievance Received Measure taken
3 AP complain about re-measurement
of acquired land
Application has been forwarded to
District Land Surveyor Office
Package- 3 2 application regarding re-
measurement of land
Application has been forwarded to
District Land Surveyor Office
3. MR Road
One application for re- measurement of acquired
land
Application submitted to District
Survey Office.
Demand compensation for house which was
damaged by big stone fall at the time of
construction works.
Contractor has committed to repair the
damage house.
One application claimed compensation for
damage of cowshed.
Inspection team verified that cowshed
was not damaged by the project and
beyond scope.
Some people demanded protection of Chautaro
(resting place)
Required conservation measures taken
and people satisfied
24. The grievances/ complain recording register have been maintained by all subproject offices.
However, number of verbal grievances/complains are recorded highly than written grievances.
The Social Mobilizers receives verbal complains directly from affected persons and by phone.
Likewise, the affected people register their written complaint in project offices or submits
through Social Mobilizer. The subproject offices are addressing the people’s
grievance/complain timely as far as possible. Most of the grievances are settled through
consultation and discussion with affected people but some grievances which is related to legal
cases or required to help of District Survey Office/Land Revenue Office are taken some more
time to settle.
9.3 Public Consultation
25. As the part of principal activities numbers of consultations were held with the project affected
people and adjacent communities by the social team. Some of the consultations are cited here:
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• The public consultation meetings in EWH- Koshi Bridge- EWH Road for preparing
Supplementary Environment Impact Assessment (SEIA) are held in three different
locations from July 25th to 27th along the road alignment in presence of 159 participants
representing project affected people, consultant and clients. Further, the consultation
meetings made a subtle discussion on issues raised by affected people like delay in road
construction and slow pace of land acquisition activities restoration of cross-sections, water
supply pipeline, and quality assurance, acceleration of compensation were major in the
civil activities.
• The consultation meeting was conducted on 21 October 2016 with affected land owner of
Manthali -2, MR Road, who did not collect their compensation amount due to re-
measurement problem of their acquired land. During the meeting, it was discussed that
notice publication of re-verified land parcels was delaying, so Project Office would settle
this problem in close coordination with District Administration Office and Land Revenue
Office.
• Likewise, a consultation meeting was held on 24 October 2016, at LB Road in presence of
16 affected people. During the consultation meeting, the affected people said that most of
the affected people have already collected their compensation amount. The landowners
who were not collecting the compensation amount till date, either they were absentees or
legal disputes at their acquired land parcels. The project team informed that the project
would provide transportation facility for those landowner who have low compensation
amount. The local people who were presented in the meeting expressed that the road
construction would not be disrupt due to compensation.
• Two consultative meeting held at HD road on 9 October 2016. During the meeting, Social
Mobilizer and Assistant Resident Engineer requested the affected people to collect the
compensation amount of their acquired land and support to expedite the road construction
work. Most of the participants said that they would only collect the compensation amount
of land after getting compensation of their affected house/structures. They also requested to
decide the compensation amount of affected house/ structures as soon as possible. Further,
the affected people expressed that they would provide positive support to the road
construction activities.
• Similarly, two Consultative meetings were conducted with land owner of EWH- Koshi
Bridge- EWH road. During the meeting the affected people said that most of the land
owners who have all complete document have already collected their compensation amount
and rest of the land parcel owners do not have complete document or legal problems to
collect the compensation. The project social team informed the affected people that project
would provide transportation facility for those landowners who have very low
compensation amount. The landowners who presented in the meeting expressed that they
do not want to obstruct the development activities, so the road construction work would not
be disturbed due to compensation.
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9.3.1 Awareness Campaigns
26. In the month of November, various awareness campaigns have been organized among school
students along the road corridors, project affected community members, transport and
construction workers within the undergoing project sites MR, EWH, LB and HD Roads. The
focus of the programs was:
• Road safety awareness to School students, Community Members and Transport
Workers/entrepreneurs
• Use of Child labor : School students, Contractor's Camp and community members
• Compensation/ Resettlement issues : PAPs and Community Members
27. A total of 9 awareness programs were conducted for school students in 9 different schools in all
subproject road sites having a total of 893 participants in the programs. The participation of
girls is found significant in all of the programs in which number of girl students is 523 whereas
the number of boy students is 370.
28. Seven community awareness campaigns were conducted at different places in all the
subproject roads sites having a total of 436 participants, where the participation of male
population is higher compared to female participation. However, the participation of female
population is significant. Besides, the programs emphasized the participation of Dalit
community people and indigenous people
29. All together 3 programs were conducted for Transport Workers/Entrepreneurs in all the project
sites excluding MR Roads, in participation of 92 persons including 7 persons from
disadvantaged group and 48 persons from indigenous groups; where participation of female
transport worker is insignificant.
9.4 Status of Indigenous and Vulnerable Affected People
30. This indigenous people in subprojects area mostly belong to Rai, Tharu, Tamang, Magar and
Newar ethnicity. They have been living in these areas from years. The improvements of these
roads are not only important for the people living in the locality but also for Indigenous Peoples
(IP) living in the same locality. A large number of IP people of the area would be using this
road to augment their income generating activities. The social team of each subprojects has
been contacting regularly with indigenous and vulnerable people. During consultation,
observation and discussion it is noted that the ongoing project and land acquisition process does
not adversely affect to indigenous peoples' knowledge management system, community
resources, customary practices and cultural heritage. Furthermore, the project is upgrading the
existing road hence; there is no significant impact on assets, income and livelihood of
indigenous people. As of 31 December 2016, more than 80 % indigenous affected people have
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collected their compensation amount and mostly they used their received compensation amount
to construct new houses and buying land in nearby area.
31. Significant progress has been noted in relation to the progress in compensation distribution to
the households of vulnerable groups in the project. The summary includes progress record of
EWH, HD and MR in which EWH covers 91.33 per cent (158 out of 173hhs), followed by HD
85.29 per cent (58 out of 68 HHs), and MR 66.67 per cent (36 out of 54HHs) respectively. 100
percent progress has been achieved in paying compensation for households with disable
member and endangered ethnic group in MR and Dalits in HD are also compensated
completely.
9.5 Livelihood Activities
32. Training needs are assessed based on the types of skill development trainings required and its
duration, possible training institutes, market potentialities, unit cost etc. and also being based on
the notion of fair gender balance and social inclusion, availability of local resources and skills,
selection criteria of the training participants and market opportunities for employment- for
which six types of trainings are determined as in the table below.
33. A total of 65 vulnerable people are selected for ‘skill development trainings’ and ‘trainings on
income generation activities’ to help them recover the loss caused by the project or enhance
livelihood. Following list of trainings and participants are finalized according to needs of PAPs
in the project districts.
Table 7: List of Trainings and Number of Participant
S.N. Training EWH LB HD MR Total
1 Carpentry Training 2 1 1 1 5
2 House wiring Training 3 2 3 2 10
3 Auto Mechanics Training 1 1 2 1 5
4 Mobile/TV/Radio Repair 3 2 3 2 10
5 High Value Crops (agro. based) 4 3 5 3 15
6 Enhance Hospitality Business 7 4 6 3 20
Total 20 13 20 12 65
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34. The numbers for target people have been distributed based on remoteness of the area, poverty
level, weight-age, and interest of the vulnerable people identified in the respective road
corridors. The EWH Road and HD Road have larger number of target people in the livelihood
training that is 31% each, followed by LB Road corridors 20% and MR Road 18%.
35. Training institute has been finalized; Training Center Nepal, Swoyambhu, Kathmandu has been
selected for the purpose following the procurement procedure. The trainings are being held
from January 2017.
9.6 Perception of Project Affected people and utilization of compensation amount
36. During the consultative meeting/ discussion with project affected people, they were asked about
the land acquisition, resettlement and rehabilitation activities of the subprojects and response
of affected people were as follows:
• Most of the project affected people were satisfied with compensation amount decided by CDC,
which was expressed during local level consultative meeting. Likewise, they have used
received compensation amount at constructing new house, buying land in periphery area of the
project. Similarly, some affected people have invested their compensation amount in business
and some have paid the outstanding loan.
• The project have provided compensation amount of affected house/structures at replacement
cost. The affected house owners who collected the compensation amount have use their
compensation amount to construct new house, some of them have built RCC(Reinforced
Cement Concrete) type modern house as they were receive compensation of their traditional
house( Zink sheet roofing with mud plaster).
• In EWH Road demarcation of RoW is completed by pegging concrete pillar (15 m each side
from centerline of the road). Many affected people have appreciated this work, as they clearly
know about the acquired land area of the project and know about their remaining land area after
land acquisition.
• In EWH Road, 13 project affected people of Kamalpur VDC ward no-6, who were land less
and staying adjacent to the existing road in public land since many years. This road Project had
acquired their house/structures which was constructed with in road ROW. At the same time the
project provided compensation amount of their affected structures at the current market price.
These 13 affected people have use their compensation amount for buying land (at least 169
square meter) in the nearby village and now had become a land owner. These people said that
they would like to thank to the project, because they would never become a landowner if
project not acquired their residential structures.
• Indigenous and vulnerable people, in HD road corridor, have started new business activities
like hotels and restaurants business, shops, handicraft enterprise, and mineral water factory
established. A random study of 16 project affected people has shown that four persons: Ram
Bdr. Shrestha, Arkhaule-05; Durgamani Shrestha, Arkhaule-05; Khem Chandra Rai, Nunthala-
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04; Agnima Sherpa, Nunthala-08 started business. Furuwa Sherpa has set up his own water
distillation industry. Ram Bdr. Khatri, Diktel-02; Chitra Bdr. Tamang, Nunthala - 4;
Bhageshwor/ Tila Rai , Nunthala-04; Tikaram Puri, Arkhaule -2 purchased land in urban areas.
Kumar Puri, Arkhaule-02 built up a house. Raj Kumar Shrestha, Arkhaule-05 deposited money
in saving account. Four persons out of 16, Prakash Shrestha, Arkhaule-05; Gangamaya/Krishna
Bdr. Puri, Arkhaule-02; Dhan Bdr. Puri, Arkhaule-02 and Naresh Tamang, Nunthala-09
purchased vehicles. Only one of them, Kalpana Tamang, Nunthala-04 found to have spent the
amount for education of her son. The study shows that the majority of people are spending on
plot of land for house construction and vehicle. Although, the investment will be helpful in
uplifting living standard of the people, investment in non-productive or non-farm sectors cannot
recover the loss of agriculture production caused by land acquisition that was the land used for
agriculture practice. At the same time, some of them are found to have invested in business and
enterprises sector which would be helpful in employment generation and long term economic
return.
• In MR Road, PAPs including indigenous and vulnerable people have invested the compensated
amount in income generation activities like animal husbandry. Some of them gone for saving in
bank and with the interest received helping themselves to maintain their daily expenses. Surya
Bahadur Bhujel, one of the vulnerable, has purchased a house in Manthali Bazar and has
planned to open up a business entity.
9.7 Budget allocation for compensation payment
37. According to the updated Combined Indigenous People and Resettlement Plan of EWH, HD
and MR Roads and updated record LB Road, the total compensation amount required for 4
subprojects is 1,521.74 million NPR. The subproject road wise summary of compensation
amount is presented in the table below:
Table 8: Summary of Estimated Compensation Amount
Amount in NPR/million
S.N.Name of Road Land Structures Trees Total
1EWH- Koshi
Bridge- EWH
773.16 305.02 24.56 1,109.02
2HD 285.00 59.17 1.94 346.11
3MR 62.16 1.11 0.27 63.83
4LB 2.28 0.52 0 2.28
Total 1,122.6 365.82 26.77 1,521.24
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38. The compensation payment for land acquisition, structures/ trees are ongoing on all subproject
roads. However compensation payment of affected structures in HD road and trees/fruit trees of
MR and HD road is on the process of finalizing the compensation amount by Compensation
Determination Committee. The summary of compensation payment as of 31 December 2016 is
presented in table 9 below:
Table 9: Summary of Compensation Disbursement Amount in NPR/million
S.N.Name of Road Land Structures Trees Total Paid
Amount
1EWH 567.84 227.76 17.63 813.23 (73%)
2HD 240.15 0 0 240.15 (69%)
3MR 54.03 0.97 0 55.00(86%)
4LB 1.21 0.30 NA 1.51 (66%)
Total863.23 228.94 17.63 1109.89(73%)
39. The above table shows that as of 31 December 2016, about 73 % compensation amount has
been completed by subproject roads. There are a total of 507 absentees and legal disputes land
parcels in 3 subproject roads, NRs 30.88 million has been allocated for these land parcels.
40. According to discussion with Project Manager of all subprojects, they are trying to complete
the compensation payment except absentees and legal complication cases by 31 January 2017.
9.8 Status of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and other social activities
41. The social activities related with construction activities including campsite management, health
and safety measures, wage rate to construction workers, temporarily acquisition of assets and
compensation, and issue of child labor have been monitored during project implementation.
During the field visit of subproject roads, the contractors have been made aware about the
social provision of the project. The contractors have been respecting social safeguard issues
during road construction.
42. A total of 38 awareness trainings and campaigns participated by 2294 participants from
community organizations, women groups, schools, transport workers and other stakeholder
organizations and people in all 4 project sites. The campaign covered gender equality, social
inclusion, HIV prevention, anti-trafficking, child labor control, environment management,
resettlement social safeguard, livelihood, and road safety.
43. A total of 167 Contractors’ field staffs, petti-contractors; & labor leaders in all 6 contract
packages have been provided re-orientation training on employing local labor with at least 10%
women, and paying equal wages to male and female for same job. Consultations with locals
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including women groups have been continued in all 4 project sites regarding the issues of
employing locals & women, & paying equal wages. The collection & verification of monthly
monitoring data has been continued. A total of 129,992 person days with 12.9% women
employment has been recorded. Equal wages paid to male & female workers for same job are
reported. Field verification has noted few cases of performance-based wage rate paid to male
and female for the same job.
44. The vulnerable households have been made aware of importance & ways of proper &
productive use of compensation amount. The families have been randomly interviewed and
have been found doing new business activities like hotels, restaurants, grocery shops,
handicrafts, purified water production, purchase of vehicle, animal husbandry. Some have
reported of purchasing new land, building new house and others carried out saving and fixed
deposits in the banks.
45. The child labor control issues have been included in the re-orientation training of contractors
and community groups on HIV, anti-trafficking, and GESI. The contractors are enforced
through the monitoring requiring reporting their employed labors with their age-group. The
cross-verification in the field with the labors and local people on sites has been continued.
10. ISSUES
46. The issues identified during the field visit based on discussion with project staff and affected
people were following:
• The compensation determination and payment activities are depending on various
Government offices such as District Survey Office, District Land Revenue Office, Division
Office of Urban Development and Building Construction, District Agriculture Development
Office and District Forest Office. So it’s difficult to coordinate the various government
offices and timely finalization of compensation amount of structure and trees.
• Some affected house owners of HD road were not collecting the compensation amount of
their affected land because they were waiting to collect the both compensation amount (land
& house) together. It has also effect the progress of compensation payment.
• There is delaying to shift the electric poles in HD and MR Road. The projects have already
deposited the estimated amount to Nepal Electricity Authority for shifting the electric poles.
11. CORRECTIVE ACTIONS FOR MAJOR GAPS
47. Following corrective actions will be followed by the project in order to further improvement on
the social safeguard implementation activities:
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• The compensation amount of affected house/structures and private trees/fruits will be
completed without absentees and legal disputes land parcels. Absentees land owner will be
contacted or informed as far as possible to collect their compensation payment.
• Database of displaced households and their affected assets by type of project activities will
be prepared,
• Disaggregate data of construction workers will be prepared,
• Income restoration program for vulnerable affected people will be initiated.
• Timely submission of monthly progress report
12. MAJOR ITEM OF FOCUS FOR NEXT REPORT
48. The next report will focus on following social safeguard monitoring activities:
• Regular field visit of subproject roads and review/compare the compliance based on CIPRP
and earlier field visit
• Record keeping system of safeguard will be strengthen
• Timely submission of monthly, trimester and semiannual report.
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Annex 1: Compensation Payment Status as of 31 December 2016
Asset Description EWH HD MR LB Total
Land
No. of Total Parcels 1893 907 274 137 3211
No of Paid Parcels (A) 1488 743 223 56 2510
Absentees & Legal disputesparcels (B)
290 111 25 81 507
Total (A+B) 1778 854 248 137 3017
Progress (%) 93.92 94.16 90.51 100.00 93.96
Total Area (ha.) 47.36 19.04 3.20 8.78 78.38
Paid area (ha.) 42.59 15.67 2.90 3.60 64.76
Paid Area Progress (%) 89.93 82.30 90.63 41.00 82.62
Total Amount/million NRs 773.16 285.00 62.16 2.28 1122.6
Paid amount/million NRs ( C) 567.84 240.15 54.03 1.21 863.23
Amount of absentees & legalDisputes parcels (D)
10.80 16.20 3.50 0.38 30.88
Total (C+D) 578.64 256.35 57.53 1.59 894.11
Paid Amount Progress (%) 74.84 89.95 92.55 69.74 79.65
Structures
Total Number 1421 156 7 8 1592
Paid number 1379 0 7 5 1391
Progress of paid nos. % 97.04 0 100.00 62.50 87.37
Total Amount/million NRs 305.02 59.17 1.11 0.52 365.82
Paid amount/million NRs 227.76 0 0.97 0.21 228.94
Progress (%) 74.67 0.00 87.39 40.38 62.58
Trees/Fruits
Total Nos. 1621 1166 452 0 3239.00
Paid Nos. 1617 0 0 1617.00
Paid Nos. Progress (%) 99.75 0.00 0.00 0.00 49.92
Total Amount/million NRs 24.56 1.94 0.27 0 26.77
Paid amount/million NRs 17.63 0 0 0 17.63
Paid Amount Progress (%) 71.78 0.00 0.00 0.00 65.86
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Annex 2: Copy of meeting minutes of consultative meeting with Affected Persons
1. ManthaliRamechhap Road (meeting held on 21 October 2016)
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2. Leguwaghat- Bhojpur Road (meeting held on 24 October 2016)
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3. Halesi- Diktel Road (meeting held on 9 October 2016)
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4. EWH- Koshi Bridge- EWH Road ( meeting held on 14 & 15 November 2016)
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ANNEX 3: Compliance with Social Safeguard Covenants of Loan Agreement
The status of Compliance with social Safeguard Covenants of Loan Agreement is presented in below:
Covenants Status Remarks
Resettlement
The Borrower shall ensure or cause DOR to ensure thatall land and all rights-of-way required for the projectare made available to the Works contractor inaccordance with schedule agreed under the relatedWork contract and all land acquisition and resettlementactivities are implemented in compliance with (a) allapplicable laws and regulation of the Borrower relatingto land acquisition and involuntary resettlement, (b) theinvoluntary Resettlement Safeguards; and (c) allmeasures and requirements set forth in the RP, andcorrective of preventative action set forth in theSafeguards Monitoring Reports.
Without limiting the application of the InvoluntaryResettlement Safeguards or the RP, the Borrower shallensure or cause DOR to ensure that no physical oreconomic displacement takes in connection with theProject until; a. compensation and other entitlementhave been provide to affected people in accordancewith RP; and a comprehensive income and livelihoodrestoration program has been established in accordancewith RP.Indigenous Peoples:
The Borrower shall ensure of cause DOR to ensure thatthe preparation, design, construction, implementationand operation of the Project and all project facilitiescomply with (a) all applicable laws and regulation ofthe Borrower relating to indigenous people; (b) theIndigenous people Safeguards; and (c) all measure andrequirements set forth in the IPP, and any corrective orpreventative actions set forth in as Safeguardsmonitoring Report.
BeingCompiled
BeingCompiled
BeingCompiled
The project has complied with
the ADB Safeguard Policy
Statement 2009 and the Land
Acquisition Act 1977 and other
relevant laws and guidelines of
Government of Nepal.
The compensation payment for
affected people is about to
complete.
The compensation payment and
other resettlement and
rehabilitation activities are
implementing as provisioned in
entitlement matrix of the project.
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Grievance Redress Mechanism:
Within 12 months after the Effective Date, DOR shallprepare a grievance redress mechanism acceptable toADB and establish a special committee to receive andresolve complaints/grievance or act upon reports fromstakeholders on misuse of funds and otherirregularities, Including grievance due to resettlement.The special committee shall (i) make public of theexistence of this grievance redress mechanism, (ii)review and address grievance of stakeholders of theProject, in relation to either Project, any of the serviceproviders, or any person responsible for carrying outany aspect of the project; and (iii) proactively andconstructively responding them.
Safeguards Monitoring and Reporting
The Borrower shall do the following or cause DOR todo the following;(a) submit quarterly Safeguards monitoringreports to ADB and disclose relevant information fromsuch reports to affected person promptly uponsubmission; (b) if any unanticipated environmentand/or social risks and impacts arise duringconstruction, implementation or operation of theProject that were not considered in the ElA, the EMP.the RP and the lP, promptly inform ADB or theoccurrence of such risks or impacts, with detaileddescription of the event and the proposed correctiveaction plan; (c) report any actual or potential breach ofcompliance with the measures and requirements setforth in the EMP, the RP and the lP promptly afterbecoming aware of the breach.
Gender
The Borrower shall ensure that DOR adopts andimplement the GESI in a timely manner during theentire Project period, and that adequate resources areallocated for this purpose. In particular the Borrowershall cause DOR to ensure that the target stated in theGESI shall be achieved. DOR shall conduct training forall Project staff on the GESI implementation of theGESI shall be closely monitored, and the progress shallbe reported to ADB.
BeingCompiled
BeingCompiled
BeingCompiled
District level and subproject
level grievance redress
committees is formed and
working regularly.
Monthly, quarterly and
semiannual monitoring report
are being prepared and submitted
to ADB
Sensitization and re-
sensitization trainings for EA,
Civil Contractor and CSCs have
been carried
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Labor, Health and Anti Human Trafficking
The Borrower and DOR shall ensure that thecontractors comply with all applicable labor, health,and safety laws and regulation of the Borrower and, inparticular, (a) do not employ child labor forconstruction and maintenance activities, and (b)provide appropriate facilities (latrines, etc.) for workersat construction sites. The borrower shall requirecontractors not differentiate wages between men andwomen for works of equal value. The Borrower andDOR shall ensure that specific clauses shall be includedin bidding documents to ensure adherence to theseprovisions, and that compliance shall be strictlymonitoring during project implementation
The Borrower and DOR shall ensure that thecontractors shall disseminate information on the risk oftransmission of sexually- transmitted diseases includingHIV/AIDS, in health and safety programs to allconstruction workers employed under the Project.Specific provisions to this effect shall be included inbidding documents and civil works contracts, andcompliance shall be monitored by DOR and reported toADB.
The Borrower and DOR shall ensure that awarenesscampaign on anti-human trafficking shall be conductedand that information and print material on anti-humantrafficking shall be developed and distributed to allconstruction workers and the community in the ProjectDistricts throughout the Project implementation period.Compliance shall be monitored by DOR and reportedto ADB.
BeingCompiled
BeingCompiled
Sensitization and re sensitization
trainings for Contractor and
CSCs have been carried out in
all contract packages in field.
The awareness raising of
HIV/AIDS and other social
activities training are conducting
APs, construction workers and
other local people.