Social Monitoring Report Final Independent Monitoring Report December 2017 VIE: Mong Duong 1 Thermal Power Project Prepared by the Development and Research & Consultancy Centre for Vietnam Electricity Thermal Power Project Management Unit 1 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 Resettlement Monitoring Report Document stage: Final Project number: 39595-033 December 2017 VIE: Mong Duong 1 Thermal Power Project FINAL REPORT Evaluation on Resettlement Plan and Income Restoration Program Implementation MONG DUONG ELECTRICITY CENTRE IN QUANG NINH PROVINCE Prepared by Vietnam Electricity Thermal Power Project Management Unit 1 for the Asian Development Bank.
Development Research and Consultancy Centre Address:No.1 Lieu Giai Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi. Tel: 04.6273.0414 Fax: 04.6273.0448. E-mail:drcc@fpt.vn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE FINAL REPORT Evaluation on Resettlement Plan and Income Restoration Program Implementation PROJECT MONG DUONG 1 THERMAL POWER PLANT Under MONG DUONG ELECTRICITY CENTRE IN QUANG NINH PROVINCE HANOI, 2017
TABLE OF CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS... 4 SUMMARY... 5 I. PROJECT INTRODUCTION... 7 II. EVALUATION OBJECTIVES... 8 III. EVALUATION METHODOLOGY... 8 3.1. Review of secondary documentation (desk study)... 8 3.2. Information collection... 9 IV. EVALUATION RESULTS... 10 4.1. Affected person information... 10 4.2. Evaluation on RP and IRP implementation... 13 4.3. Evaluation of Implementation of Compensation and Site Clearance...17 4.4. Evaluation on Income Restoration Program...20 4.5. Information Closure, Consultation, Participation and Grievance Redress... 22 4.6. Evaluation on Effectiveness of Resettlement Action Plan and Income Restoration Program... 23 V. LESSON LEARNED... 24 2
LIST OF TABLE Table 1.Summary of evaluation samples...10 Table 2. The number of persons and household size...11 Table 3. Age structure by gender and ethnicity...11 Table 4. Summary of affected and relocated households by components...14 Table 5. Summary of compensation, assistance, and resettlement costs...15 Table 6: Table of Houses before the Project and at present...18 Table 7: Comparison of Incomes before and after land acquisition and resettlement...19 Table 8: Occupations before and after the Project of HH Members...20 3
ABBREVIATIONS ADB AH AP Asian Development Bank Affected household Affected person TPMB1 Thermal Power Management Board 1 EMA CARB TOR RP IRP PC CLFD CSR DMS GoV FWSS FWC CWDC EVN TPP REMDP SPS External Monitoring Agency Compensation Assistance Resettlement Board Terms of Reference Resettlement Plan Income Restoration Program People s Committee Centre of Land Fund Development Compensation, Assistance and Resettlement Detailed Measurement Survey Government of Vietnam Freshwater supply system Freshwater component Cooling water discharge channel Electricity of Vietnam Thermal power plant Resettlement and Ethnic Minority Development Plan Safeguard Policy Statement 4
SUMMARY This final report (12 th monitoring) is prepared for independent monitoring results of the implementation of compensation and land acquisition and income restoration program of affected households by Mong Duong 1 Thermal Power Plant, located in Mong Duong Ward, Cam Hai and Cong Hoa Communes, Cam Pha City, Quang Ninh Province. The report aims to describe the overall progress of the project; results of compensation and site clearance implementation in main plant area; auxiliary components and freshwater supply system; evaluation on implementation of compensation and site clearance for main plant and reservoir areas; Evaluation on implementation of Income Restoration Program; and recommendations and lessons learned. The report is divided into 5 parts: o o o o o I. Project Introduction II. Evaluation Objectives III. Evaluation Methodology IV. Evaluation Results V. Lesson Learned The External Monitoring Agency (EMA) used the following evaluation methods: 1) review of secondary documentation (desk study); 2) Quantative Information Collection (Quesionnaire survey for 61 HHs); 3) Qualitive Information Collection (20 in-depth interviews, 04 group discussions) and 4) Field visit (10 cases). Key findings: A total of 349 HHs affected by the project, in which 156 serverly AHs, 56 relocated HHs. All of them received have been paid to compensation and they do not have any grievances. Information disclosure, detailed measurement survey (DMS), compensation payment and grievances address are conducted in compliance with the project policy framework. 100% of surveyed HHs said that they participated in DMS process with Compensation Board of the project and signed in the DMS records. 100% of surveyed HHs also confirmed that they participated in public meetings for project information and policy disclosure. Impacts of compensation and site clearance on people lives: o o House: There is a positive change in the type of house. Prior to the project, there are still affected households living in temporary or non-solid houses such as cottages, temporary houses and wooden houses. After the project, 100% of the households is no longer own temporary houses or houses made from bamboo and wood. Income: The incomes of households affected by land acquisition and relocation are reduced compared to pre-project (according to the mid-term evaluation). As a result of the final evaluation, the income reduction of these households is only 5
temporary and they are showing a restoration on their incomes after a period of access, change and adapt to the new lives. o Shift in occupation structure: There are several occupational sectors have insignificantly shift on number of workers as agriculture, trading, services, housewife and hired labour. Proportion of people working in other occupational sectors such as: handicraft, workers, civil servant, police officers, soldiers or students during pre-project is similar to after project. Income Restoration Program for serverly AHs and relocated HHs for both phases of site clearance, that prepared by Poyry Consultant and approved by ADB, was conducted. The IRP includes: Agricultural and Forestry Extension programs, vocational training, training on veterinary experts... for AHs in main plant area and auxiliary components. For AHs participated in IRP, 96% of them assessed the IRP is beneficial for their economic development. 6
I. PROJECT INTRODUCTION 1. Mong Duong 1 Thermal Power Project (hereinafter referred to as the Project), which is approved by the Government of Vietnam (GoV) and commenced since 2008, is located in Mong Duong Ward, Cam Pha City, Quang Ninh Province. The Project used Official Development Assistance (ODA) financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with a total amount of USD 930,710,000 USD, approved on September 21, 2007, including two loans for the construction of (i) Mong Duong 1 (MD1) thermal power plant using 1000 megawatt (MW) circulating fluidized bed boilers (CFB); and (ii) Shared infrastructure components for Mong Duong 1 plant and Mong Duong 2 plant in the same complex invested by an USA private company. Components include the main plant, freshwater supply system (FWSS), Cooling Water Discharge Channel (CWDC), ash pond, and a fence between the boundaries of MD1 and MD2. 2. The loan for Tranche 1, which is signed on 9 October 2007 with the amount of USD 27,860,000, ensures satisfactory completion of the following components: (i) Levelling the layout for constructing the power plant, intake and discharge channels; (ii) Technical consultancy services for phase 1; (iii) Electricity supply system for construction sites; (iv) TPMB1 and consultancy offices; and (v) Internal roads of Mong Duong thermal power plant complex connecting with the National Highway 18. 3. The USD 902,850,000 loan for Tranche 2 is signed on 9 November 2010 for the following components: (i), Engineering, procurement, and construction contract (EPC) for MD1 thermal power plant; (ii) Technical consultancy services for phase 2; (iii) FWSS; (iv) CWDC); (v) Ash pond and (vi) Fence surrounding MD1 thermal power plant. 4. Mong Duong 1 Thermal Power Plant Project and shared components for Mong Duong 1 and Mong Duong 2 will be constructed in Zone 3, Mong Duong Ward, Cam Pha Town, Quang Ninh Province, located in adjacent area to National Highway 18A connecting Ha Long City and Northern provinces with Mong Cai border gate. The Mong Duong 1 TPP site includes: - The inner-fence area of 55ha will be allocated to the following construction works: o o o o o Main plant area includes: turbin generator house, steam boiler area, Dedusting installation for thermal power, chimney...are allocated in the middle of the main plant area. Coal storage area is located in the western area. Adminitrative and supply areas are located in the northern area and in front of turbin area. Auxiliary construction including: water treatment area, wastewater treatment area, limestone storage, grinding station, oil storage, ash pond... are located in the southern area. Infrastructure components as road, communication system, rainwater discharge system, lighting system and plant landscapes. - The outer-fence area includes: ash pond No.1 (50ha), cooling water channel (23ha), cooling water discharge channel (6ha), staff house area and resettlement site (6ha) and work area of TPMB1 and consultant (1ha). 7
5. To date, the construction of Mong Duong 1 thermal power plant has been completed and came into operation, and officially synchronized to the national power system by the end of 2015; thereby, contributing a significant amount of power to the national grid. MD1 TPP also has the largest capacity in Vietnam compared to other thermal power plant systems of the country. MD 1 TPP is invested by the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) and assigned to Power Generation Corporation 3 (GENCO 3) to directly manage and operate the plant. 6. At the present time, the compensation, assistance, and resettlement for main plant area, cooling water channel, cooling water discharge channel, ash pond, freshwater supply system and auxiliary components have been completed in compliance with the policy framework of the Project. A total of 349 HHs affected by the Project, in which 156 of serverly AHs and 56 relocated HHs. All AHs received compensation and do not have any querries. 7. Income restoration program for severely affected households has been conducted and achieved certain results on economic restoration for affected households. II. EVALUATION OBJECTIVES 8. The final monitoring and evaluation of the project aims to: III. - Implement monitoring on the 12th monitoring and site clearance of the consultant services; - Evaluate the implementation results on RP of the Project; - Evaluate the effectiveness of IRP of the Project; - Provide recommendations, proposals and lesson learned for the RP and IRP implementation of the Project. EVALUATION METHODOLOGY 9. The External Monitoring Agency (EMA) used the following methods: review of secondary documentation (desk study), sociological survey method, and field visit ( (interviews, observation, and consultation with local officials and affected household ) 3.1. Review of secondary documentation (desk study) 10. EMA reviewed all documents relating to compensation and site clearance at TPMB office. The objectives of desk study are aims to: - Evaluate the preservation of document: the completeness, updating of document comparing to project requirement; Evaluate staff in charge of implementation; Disadvantages and advantages in preservation of document at the office. - Consider affected types, affected assets volume and compensation, assistance rate applied for each affected type. - Provide proposals, recommendations relating to preservation of document at the office. 11. Regarding DMS document, EMA chose randomly document of serverly AHs to check the egibiity of document in details, such as: full name of household head, DMS volume, price application, signature of stakeholder representatives... 12. In addition to TPMB, EMA continued to review the document at offices of other units including: 8
- Cam Pha Town CARB at office of Cam Pha CPC. - Mong Duong Ward PC; Cam Hai CPC, Cong Hoa CPC. 13. Reviewed documents as following: - Legal document of the project (Investment decision, decision on approving compensation plan, decision on approving compensation payment, etc.) - Document on public consultation (Public meeting minutes, Project information brochure (PIB)). - Document on compensation and site clearance (DMS record; Compensation and Site clearance plan; Compensation payment record; List of compensation payment...) - Document relating to grievance, complaint (Grievance application, Grievance redress minutes, list of households having complaints, grievances, etc.) 3.2. Information collection 3.2.1. Quantitive information collection 14. Sociological survey was conducted by quesionnnaire to evaluate on compensation, resettlement and income restoration program of the Project. The Quesionnaire is made into 4 parts: i)general Information; ii) Compensation and resettlement; iii) resettlement and livelihood resoration; and iv) Comparison of before and after land acquisition and resettlement. Reason for sampling 15. Surveyed samples included 61 AHs, in which number of relocated HHs accounted for 67%, 21% of serverly AHs lossing 10% or more of agricultural landholdings. Number of slightly AHs accounted for 20%. 16. Number of interviewed houeholds belonging to vulnerable group included EM houeholds and single female-headed household with dependants. The percentage of interviewed households belonging to the vulnerable group was 20%. 3.2.2. Qualitive information collection 17. In-depth interview: The in-depth interviews with the TPMB1 staffs were conducted to find out general information on the project such as: project scale, scope of impact, implementation process, project progress, progress of compensation and site clearance, diadvantages and advantages in the process of compensation and site clearance. 18. In-depth interviews were conducted with officials of Cam Pha City CLFD, Mong Duong Ward PC, Cong Hoa CPC and Cam Hai CPC to assess the process of compensation for site clearance including preservation of document, information disclosure, DMS, compensation payment and grievances resolution. 19. In addition to in-depth interviews with leaders, the consultant also conducted in-depth interviews with AHs to find out clearly about the implementation steps of compensation and site clearance compared to the project policy, grievances and complaints of AHs on compensation and site clearance; and evaluation comments of AHs on the effectiveness of the project as well as implementation of the income restoration program. 9
20. Group discussion: Group discussions were conducted with APs to collect feedbacks on implementation of RP, IRP as well as assessment on project effectiveness. 3.3. Field visit 21. The consultant conducted field trips through visiting and meeting with AHs to evaluate the current status of affected assets, consultation on participation process of AHs in the project stages such as information disclosure, DMS, price application and compensation payment. In addition, directly meetings with AHs were conducted to evaluate the current status of livelihood, economic restoration degree for AHs, especially vulnerable households and consultation on gender were also carried out. 22. The priority subjects for field visits are: Severely AHs, vulnerable households, relocated households, households having complaints. 23. The total number of households in 12th field visit was 61 households in Mong Duong Ward, Cam Hai Commune, Cong Hoa Commune, Cam Pha City, Quang Ninh Province. The list of people met and interviewed in detail in Appendix 1. 3.4. Evaluation sample 24. Summary of evaluation samples was conducted by each method as following: Table 1.Summary of evaluation samples Components Questionnaire In-depth Group interview discussion Field visit Main plant area 33 10 2 5 Freshwater component 28 10 2 5 Total 61 20 4 10 Reason for sampling: 25. According to the evaluation requirement of the project, samples must including 100% relocated HHs and 10% of serverly AHs. Total number of relocated HHs of the entire project is 56 HHs but at the evaluation time, there were only 43 HHs living in the project area, 13 HHs moved to further places. Therefore, the consultant chose sample of these 43 HHs to evaluate the after-project level. Moreover, the Project have 156 serverly AHs so the consultant chose 16 serverly AHs for evaluation. The consultant also chose 20 slightly AHs for evaluation. IV. EVALUATION RESULTS 4.1. Affected person information 4.1.1. Demographic features Population and Ethnicity 26. There are 251 persons with average household size of 4.1 members per household. In particularly, number of HHs with 2 member account for 3%, HHs have 3 members make up to 39.4%. HHs with 4 members and 5 members account for 30.3% and 18.2% respectively. HHs with 6-7 members account for 13%. 27. 10
Table 2. The number of persons and household size Number of persons Number of HHs Percentage (%) 2 2 3 Sources: Survey data in January 2016. 3 20 33 4 19 31 5 12 20 6 5 8 7 3 5 Total 61 100 28. In which of 251 APs, there are 129 Kinh persons accounting for 51% and the rest is Tay and Dao people with 122 persons accounting for 49%. 29. Results of data processing showed that group in working age account for the majority with 161 out of 251 persons belong to 61 AHs (64%), out of which, 18-30 age group accounts for 27% with 69 persons. The 31-60 age group had 92 persons accounting for 37%. 30. Regarding gender aspect, the proportion of male APs is higher than female ones. However, this difference is not significant and it is suitable with population structure on overall gender of Vietnam. There are 134 male APs accounting for 53% while female ones are 47% with 117 persons. Table 3. Age structure by gender and ethnicity Age 0-5 years old 6-10 years old 11-14 years old 15-17 years old 18-30 years old 31-60 years old Gender Ethnicity Male Female Total Kinh people Tay, Dao people Total 9 8 17 9 8 17 53% 47% 53% 47% 10 8 18 8 10 18 56% 44% 44% 56% 16 9 25 10 15 25 64% 36% 40% 60% 6 9 15 5 10 15 40% 60% 33% 67% 37 32 69 36 33 69 54% 46% 52% 48% 48 44 92 56 36 92 52% 48% 61% 59% 11
Age Over 60 years old Total Gender Ethnicity Male Female Total Kinh people Tay, Dao people Total 8 7 15 5 10 15 53% 47% 33% 67% 134 117 251 129 122 251 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% Sources: Survey data in January 2016. Education attainment 31. The results show that members finished secondary school and high school make up the majority with 39% and 33 % respectively, following by primary school level accounts for 19.7%. Number of persons having immerdiate and college, university level account for 20.8%, they are mainly APs from the younger generation of these households. There is only one illiterate elder, accounting for 0.3%. 4.1.2. Income a. Agriculture (farming) 32. There are 39 AHs engaging agricultural activities accounts for 64%. In which, 35 AHs cultivate rice and crops accounting for 57% of surveyed HHs and 4 AHs plant flower and ornamental plants accouting for 7%. Income of AHs cultivating rice, crops is quite low with 4,583,897 VND/HH/year. Income of AHs planting flowers and ornamental plants is higher than AHs cultivating rice, crops with 7,438,524 VND/HH/year; however their incomes are not assessed as high income. b. Livestock breeding 33. There are total of 38 AHs having incomes from livestock breeding account for 62% of surveyed AHs. Mode of livestock breeding is mainly in-house breeding with common livestocks of chicken, pig, buffalo and cow. Their average incomes are quite higher than agriculture-based AHs with 10,534,831 VND/HH/year. c. Business, services 34. Number of AHs having incomes from business, services account for a little figure of surveyed HHs. In which of 61 surveyed HHs, there are only 16 AHs engaging in business, services. However, comparing other sectors, they have the highest incomes with 95,328,042 VND/HH/year. d. Forestry 35. There are 21 AHs having incomes from forestry out of 61 surveyed HHs account for 34%. Their average incomes are about 10,696,580 VND/HH/year, including activities as forest plantation, tending the forest and income source from forest protection. e. Non-agricultural acitivities 12
36. Non-agricultural income generating activities are quite diverse, such as workers, repairers, handicraftsmen, drivers, hired labour, soldiers, polices, civil servant, pension...there are 131% of households with non-agricultural income, with an average income of 41,462,056 VND/ HH/ year. 4.1.3. House 37. The percentage of households having solid one-storey or two storey houses with flat roof occupies the highest proportion out of house types accounting for 69.9%. Currently, 14.8% of survey HHs are having houses with brick wall and titled roof and 15.2% of surveyed HHs are having houses with brick wall and corrugated iron roof. There is no household still owning temporary houses or cottages, bamboo, wooden houses. 4.1.4. Access to infratructure and social services 38. All surveyed households indicated that they easily access to the infrastructure system such as electricity, roads, schools, hospitals and markets. 100% of surveyed households use national grid and clean water system. The distance from home to schools, national highways, medical facilities and markets are less than 5km. 4.1.5. Participating in mass, social and community organizations 39. 100% of the surveyed households have members who are currently participating in social and mass organizations such as the Women's Union, the Farmer's Association, the Veterans Association, the Youth Union or the Fatherland Front. When being interviewed, they said that their family members had good relationships with neighbors, and community intergration. 4.2. Evaluation on RP and IRP implementation 4.2.1. Results on RP implementation Current status of impacts on resettlement compensation 40. The site clearance of Mong Duong thermal power plant was divided into 2 phases: (i) Phase 1: Site clearance implementation for main plant area and auxiliary components; (ii) Phase 2: Site clearance implementation for freshwater component including pipeline and freshwater reservoir. The number of affected households by components is shown in Table 4. 13
Table 4. Summary of affected and relocated households by components No. Components Number of AHs Number of APs Number of relocated HHs Number of serverly AHs Number of AHs received compensation, assistance Note I Main plant area 53 270 15 27 53 1.1 Main plant 21 111 5 13 21 1.2 River diversion 2 9 0 0 2 1.3 Cooling water channel 1 4 0 0 1 1.4 Discharge channel 16 53 6 8 16 1.5 Ash pond 13 93 4 6 13 II Auxiliary components 101 315 4 12 101 2.1 Management house and staff house area 19 67 3 9 19 2.2 35kV Electricity Line 24 72 0 0 24 2.3 110kV Transmission Line 4 15 0 0 4 2.4 Spoil disposal site 15 36 0 0 15 2.5 Discharge channel (end part) 19 52 1 3 19 2.6 Additional discharge channel (acquire 11 42 0 0 11 more land) 2.7 Additional discharge channel (flood) 4 14 0 0 4 2.8 Containment dyke for ash pond 4 16 0 0 4 2.9 Connection to the National Highway 1 1 0 0 1 18 III Freshwater Component (FWC) 195 731 37 117 195 Total 349 1316 56 156 349 Source: Provided by TBMB1 41. Phase 1: Site clearance of 154 AHs was carried out for construction of the main plant area and auxiliary components. Out of which, 53 households are affected at the main plant area including 15 relocated households; and 101 households affected by the auxiliary components, including four (04) relocated households. Site clearance for phase 1 started in 2008 and completed by the end of 2013. 42. Phase 2: Site clearance of 195 households for the implementation of the FWC. Out of which, a total of 65 AHs are affected by the pipeline component and 130 are affected by the freshwater reservoir in the Zone 10 of Mong Duong Ward, including 37 relocated households. 14
Regarding land acquisition of phase 2, DMS was carried out in 2010 and finished by the end of 2014. 43. The site clearance process for both phases has complied with the procedures and legal framework of the Project. During project preparation, the Social and Environment Safeguards documents (RP and EIA) have been fully and properly prepared. During site clearance process, activities including DMS, compensation plan preparation, submission of compensation plans for appraisal and approval, and compensation/assistance payment, have been seriously and properly carried out under the policy framework of GoV, Quang Ninh PPC, and ADB). No Table 5. Summary of compensation, assistance, and resettlement costs Components Number of AHs Affected land area by Decision of land acquisition (ha) Compensation amount I Main plant area 53 269,40 91,349,972,800 II Auxiliary components 101 70,25 67,090,328,500 III Freshwater component 195 187,19 108,100,507,500 IV Cost for compensation implementation 5,441,106,400 Total 349 526,84 272,048,045,700 Source: Provided by TBMB1; September 2017 44. Total land area planned for the construction of Mong Duong TPP was 534.45 ha. The total land area of HHs/organizations acquired in accordance with land acquisition decisions of Quang Ninh PPC for both phases was 526.84ha. In which: Land area acquired for main plant area, auxiliary components, and freshwater reservoir system were 269.40 ha, 70.25 ha, and 187.19 ha, respectively. 45. Total amount for compensation/assistance payment was VND 272,048,045,700. Out of which, the compensation and assistance cost for the main plant area was VND 91,349,972,800; for auxiliary components were VND 67,090,328,500; and for FWC was VND 108,100,507,500. 46. The compensation and assistance have been fully paid for 349 affected households of both phases. To date, there is no additional query and complaint; the AHs have settled down and their incomes have been improved compared to the pre-project level. 4.2.2. Detailed measurement survey (DMS) and preparation of compensation plan 47. DMS was conducted by a working group comprising representative of CARB of Cam Pha City, representatives of some departments, agencies, and organizations, chairmen of Ward/Commune PCs, leaders of residential groups, representative of the Project Owner, and affected households. The DMS working group was responsible for determining the exact amount of each type of lost assets, preparing DMS records signed by participants and affected households, and preparing compensation plan. 48. The DMS process was conducted equitably and publicly. The records were signed sufficiently by the participants and posted publicly. In case of queries regarding the affected assets, the DMS working group would directly meet the households to verify, determine, and confirm the amount of losses. 15
49. Types of impacts were various, including residential land, garden land, agricultural land, forestry land, and land for aquaculture, trees and crops, houses and structures, and particularly, 56 households had to relocate (including the main plant area, auxiliary components, and FWC). 50. Approval for compensation and assistance plans for the Project has been implemented based on legal documents of GoV, social safeguard policies of ADB, and decisions issued by Quang Ninh PPC annually and applied at the time of DMS, price application, and compensation payment for affected organizations/households to ensure full replacement cost so that they are not disadvantaged and worse off. 4.2.3. Compensation payment Main plant area and auxiliary components 51. Compensation of the first phase for site clearance of 269.4 ha of land for the construction of main plant area and 70.25 ha for auxiliary components (staff area, cooling water supply channel, cooling water discharge channel, ash pond, the ending part of discharge channel, spoil disposal site, 110kV transmission line...) has been completed since 2013; to date, there is no pending issue. 52. Compensation and assistance have been implemented based on legal documents of GoV, ADB policies and approval decisions issued by Quang Ninh PPC and Cam Pha City PC and in compliance with the approved RP. To date, compensation payment has been completed. A total of 154 AHs/organizations (including 53 AHs in the main plant area and 101 AHs/organizations of auxiliary components) received compensation and assistance. Relocated households have built new houses and settled down, severely AHs as well as relocated AHs have restored their livelihoods. Most of the households have better incomes and living standards than the pre-project level Freshwater component 53. FWC construction has been signed by the TBMB1 with Song Da No. 11 Joint Stock Company (JSC) on 11 October 2012 with construction duration of 18 months. To date, the system has been completed and supplied water for Mong Duong Electricity Centre since 27 April 2014. Site clearance and RP implementation for FWC construction (including the pipeline system and freshwater reservoir located in Mong Duong Ward and Cong Hoa Commune) has been completed since 2014. All of 195HHs/organizations (one organization is Cam Pha Forestry Ltd Company) affected by construction of FWC have received compensation, 37 relocated households affected by reservoir have built new houses and settled down. 4.2.4. Assistances 54. Different assistances as per ADB s policy framework, including relocation assistance for relocated households, life stability supports, job changing supports, and allowances for vulnerable households, etc. have been adequately provided by Cam Pha CCARB in coordination with TPMB1 as RP of entire project for households/organizations affected by components of both phases. 4.2.5. Relocation and Resettlement 55. All of relocated HHs in main plant area and freshwater reservoir area located in Quarter 10, Mong Duong Ward have resettled by themselves according to their wishes through meetings 16
with CCARB and there are registration application of these households (which were sent to households by Project Owner and Mong Duong Ward PC). Therefore, a resettlement site is not needed as all of the relocated households have opted to self-relocation. 56. Self-relocated households have been assisted as follows: each relocated household, on top of their compensation for land, house, and assets attached to land, is provided with cash assistance of VND 90 million (following the Decree No.69/2009/ND-CP issued by GoV and Decision No.499/2010/QD-UBND issued by PPC) for self-relocation (assistance is not counted by amount of losses but the resettlement plot). However, there are differences in each area, and location of the land plot based on land price issued by PPC (for example, Mong Duong Ward: VND 90 million, Communes: VND 75 million). 57. All of the resettlement assistance were paid in cash for AHs. To date, relocated HHs have built their new houses, settled down and had better income 4.2.6. Impacts on vulnerable households 58. A total of 122 ethnic minority households affected by the Project are Tay and Dao people. The project do not have negative impacts on customs, practices and beliefs of these ethnic groups. All assistances for vulnerable groups have been provided. 59. In addition to ethnic minority households, there are 02 single female-headed households. Assistance policies have also been provided to these vulnerable households. 60. No households affected by the project are poor households. 61. By the time of the 12 th monitoring, there was no querry on compensation and site clearance from these vulnerable groups. 4.3. Evaluation of Implementation of Compensation and Site Clearance 4.3.1. Detailed Measurement Survey and Preparation of Compenation Plan 62. When asked about the detailed measurement survey (DMS), 100% interviewees answered that they participated in DMS with CARB and signed the DMS records. They also confirmed that they had saw the compensation plans that CARB had proposed before receiving money, which indicated exactly the values of their assets and compensation price unit; the compensation plans were published at Mong Duong Ward PC. In general, DMS took place in compliance with the procedure and was accurate. However, the land management mechanism of Vietnam in general, and of different locations in particular remains problematic; thus, CARB needed much time to determine the land ownership records and the legal framework to apply compensation prices exactly, in order to avoid damages for affected HHs. Some HHs needed additional DMS for some affected assets so as to prepare compensation plans and accurate compensation payment/assistance. 63. In addition, during DMS, some HHs questioned about the low price unit. Some wondered because there were no flood prevention options acquiring more land. Some HHs wonder because being taken away an amount alledged to be tax on agricultural land when receiving compensation. After CARB received and solved the cases, explained to and encouraged the people, all these issues were solved as to satisfy AHs. 4.3.2. Impacts on Houses 17
64. The project had impact on relocation of houses to a new place, leading to crises in living environment. However, if looking at the survey on house types in pre-project and after-project, it is noticeable that there was a positive change concerning house types. Before the project, AHs lived in temporary houses or unsolid houses such as temporary houses and cottages, bamboo, wooden houses. 100% of the HHs no longer own temporary houses, or cottages, bamboo, wooden houses. 69.9% of AHs owned solid houses of at least one storey and 30.1% of HHs owned solid grade-4 houses with titled roof or corrugated iron roof. House categories Cottages, Bamboo house Temporary houses Table 6: Table of Houses before the Project and at present Rate (%) 4.7 6.6 Wooden houses 4.7 Grade-4 houses with corrugated iron roof Grade-4 houses with titled house One-storey houses with flat roof Two or multiplestorey houses Houses before the project Average area (m 2 ) Costruction year Rate (%) Houses at present Average area (m 2 ) 24.5 15.2 54.22 1995-2005 88.12 Source: Survey data in January 2016 4.3.3. Impacts on Income 53.6 14.8 4.2 35.8 1.6 34.1 Construction year 2008-2012 and 2012-2014 65. During the implementation of the project, impacts of land acquisition, especially production land and impacts of relocation leading to reduction in HHs income are inevitable. However, this reduction is only temporary. The HHs will recover their incomes after a period of accessing, changing and getting used to the new lives. The survey results show that up to 78.8% of HHs answered that their incomes declined above 50% in comparison to the total income before the project, mostly the AHs that have to relocate and lost above 10% of agricultural land they owned.15.2% of interviewees, mostly those having structures or residential land affected, said that their income declined from 10-50% of the total ones. HHs that are slightly affected believed to have their total incomes reduced to under 10%. 66. The changes in incomes before and after the project show that incomes from agriculture of HHs tend to decline while incomes from business, commerce, services and wages tend to increase. This is completely appropriate for occupation structure conversion. The percentage of HHs working in agriculture decline while the percentage of people working in business, services and working as hired labour increased after the project. In the context that the area of agricultural land is declining, APs tend to invest more in other sectors such as business, services and hired labour, which leads to an increase in income of HHs in this sector. 18
Table 7: Comparison of Incomes before and after land acquisition and resettlement 1 Income source No. of HHs Before the project Average income of HH/year (VND) No.of HHs At present Average income of HH/year (VND) 1.Cultivating rice and crops 39 13,618,331 35 4,583,898 2.Planting flowers and ornamental plants 3 7,213,115 4 7,438,525 3.Livestock breeding (chicken, pigs, buffaloes, cows). 42 15,263,585 38 10,534,832 4.Aquaculture 12 18,139,268 5 4,291,383 5.Forestry 25 8,612,624 21 10,696,581 6.Business, commerce, services 8 11,186,654 16 95,328,043 7.Salaries/allowances 19 24,363,934 25 41,462,056 Source: Survey data in 2015 4.3.4. Impacts on Occupation Changes 67. Among those interviewed, the number of participants in handicrafts, workers, officials, and police has not changed while comparing occupations before and after the project. Some occupation groups have small changes concerning the number of participants in agriculture, businesses, housework and free labour. 68. Among the occupation groups that had changes, agriculture experienced the biggest reduction from 30.28% of the HHs to 16.74%. This also explains that the acquisition of agricultural land caused that the HHs did not have enough production tools in order to continue working in agriculture and had to change to other occupation sectors. The percentage of HHs participating in other occupation grous such as business and services, handicrafts and free labour increased slightly, particularly, from 3.19% to 8.76% in business and services after the project, and from 6.77% to 11.95% in free labour. This labour movement was caused by the number of PAPs starting businesses after compensation or they changed to work as free labour in order to ensure the HHs incomes. 1 Surveyed pre-project income was household income in 2007-2008. The current income data is income in 2015. 19
Table 8: Occupations before and after the Project of HH Members Occupations of HH Members Occupations after the Project Occupations before the Project No. % No. % Still young 29 11.55 33 13.15 Cultivation 2 0.80 17 6.77 Both cultivation and livestock breeding 40 15.94 59 23.51 Handicrafts 7 2.79 7 2.79 Businesses, services 22 8.76 8 3.19 Housework 17 6.77 12 4.78 Pupils, students 41 16.33 50 19.92 Free labour 30 11.95 17 6.77 Workers 21 8.37 23 9.16 Officials 4 1.59 4 1.59 Soldiers, police 2 0.80 0 0.00 Repairmen 3 1.20 2 0.80 Retirees 12 4.78 4 1.59 Labour lost 4 1.59 3 1.20 Drivers 8 3.19 6 2.39 Unemployed 8 3.19 3 1.20 Others 1 0.40 3 1.20 Total 251 100% 251 100% Source: Survey data in January 2016 4.4. Evaluation on Income Restoration Program 4.4.1. Status of Income Restoration Program 69. Income Restoration Program (IRP) for severely affected HHs and HHs that have to relocate during both phases of site clearance as consultant Poyry proposed the options. This option was submited to ADB for consideration and ADB approved it. 70. IRP was composed focusing on agricultural and forestry extension activities, job training, training for vets, ect. for the affected HHs in the main plant area and auxiliaries. 71. IRP is divided into 2 components. The first one includes assistances in accordance with regulations of Quang Ninh PPC and the second one was designed so as to provide training courses for severely affected HHs. 72. The assistances in compliance with regulations of PPC: Job placement assistance by cash with an amount double the affected agricultural land in general was properly implemented. The program assisting by lending faces some obstacles since the source of fund has not been found yet (there have been no agencies that agreed to lend money related to mortage problem); Training program offers job training courses 20
73. The program was designed based on demand of AHs through interviews since the establishment of data for the project since 2008. The job training courses concentrate on training, instruction on cultivation, breeding, cooking, motorbike or car repairment, ect. for HHs affected by the main plant and freshwater reservoir system; IRP was implemented during each periods in details as follows: The models of IRP were applied to people affected by the main plant 74. TPMB1 implemented IRP for HHs affected by the main plant such as, planning and organization of agriculture and forestry extension classes, inviting experts in agriculture, economics conducting the training and education so as to disseminate techniques of breeding, cultivation and preparing documents for 40 participants, planning to implement veterinary training courses for two representatives of affected HHs. However, since the majority of AHs have moved to businesses and services serving residents in the surrounding and workers building the projects, ect. Some HHs have workers taking care and planting forestry trees for Cam Duong Forestry Company. Some people bought vans to transport materials and tools for neighbourers so no affected HHs want to enrol in classes of IRP. Models of IRP Applied for HHs affected by freshwater reservoir 75. TPMB1 organized training classes for ward/commune officials about IRP, organized classes training on agriculture extension such as cultivation and breeding, elementary courses on cooking and motorbike repairment. Particularly, contract No. 105/HĐĐT 2014/ADN1 dated 07/7/2014 between TPMB1 and Cam Pha Vocational Center organized training classes for people affected by freshwater providing system in area 10 of Mong Duong Ward since early July 2014, such as (i) (ii) (iii) Classes training cultivation breeding techniques for 80 trainees enrolling Elementary course on cooking for 11 registered Elementary course on motorbike repairmen with 10 registered. 76. Duration of training in the area within 02 months with the cost of 143,770,000 VND including all expenses such as teacher fees, learning materials, textbooks, practical tools, class costs and lunch assistance for lecturers and all trainees. and support lunch for instructors and all students. 77. Besides these programs, the TPMB1 has also planned to organize production loan programs for households in need (the company pays interest). However, since the Policy Bank lended with the considerably small value so no household registered to participate in this program. 4.4.2. Evaluation of mplementation of the income restoration program 78. IRP has been developed and applied to those who are severely affected by the project. Prior to the implementation of IRP, the management board consulted with the affected households. With the plan to implement IRP, the TPMB1 has cooperated with the district and commune people's committees to disseminate information and encourage households to register for participation in programs. As a result of the survey, up to 80% of households said they received information on IRP and were encouraged by local authorities to participate in income programs. However, as mentioned above, as the majority of households have converted 21
themselves into the appropriate occupations, ensuring income for the household, the number of people participating in IRP is small. As many as 57% of respondents said they did not participate in IRP. 79. 96% of the respondents participating in the IRP said that these programs were relatively useful, especially for vocational training programs, recruitment to work in the project, or elementary and intermediate technical training classes. The percentage of those that believed that IRP was very useful is 12% and the percentage who think that IRP is not really useful is 12%. 80. During the final evaluation, 97% of the respondents claimed they had found suitable employment. Only 3% of respondents are waiting for job opportunities. In general, HHs have changed their occupations and adapted to new living conditions. According to the affected people, the lives of those relocated and severely affected by the project have been gradually restored. Such economic recovery is attributed to the support from the authorities, TPMB1 in vocational training and job placement. Basically, HH members had relatively stable jobs and had better income than before the project. 4.5. Information Closure, Consultation, Participation and Grievance Redress 4.5.1. Information Closure, Consultation, Participation of the Community 81. Dissemmination of information on Thermal Power Plan Project Mong Duong 1 was implemented in compliance with the procedure. During the implementation of updating Resettlement Plan (RP). TPMB1 coordinated with Cam Pha City Land Fund Development Center and Mong Duong Ward PC, Cong Hoa Commune, Cam Hai organized meeting with people to disseminate information and project policies. Before implementing the project, 100% of HHs received information on the project, RP was mainly disclosed to those affected through booklets of information as well as information disclosed at offices of ward/commune and other public places. 82. Cam Pha City CLFD implemented duplicating records, compensation plans, sealed to send to HHs for archiv, organized meetings with people, sticked notice on planning, price units, compensation policy at ward and residential area at ward offices with consultant Poxry disseminating compensation for resettlement, livelihoods, consultations with people. In general, information dissemination of AHs in both phases were implemented in compliance with procedures and RP, most of AHs are aware of the project and their entitlement. 83. Content of information disseminated, public consultation including the project planning, legal records to implement land acquisition, compensation and resettlement policies, project implementation period, entitlement and responsibility for site clearance to each AH, and procedure to solve questions and complaints. Mong Duong ward PC, Cong Hoa commune and Cam Hai commune as well as CARB of Cam Pha city, project owner and consultancy agencies directly disseminate information, met, and gathered the people s opinions. Affected HHs participated in information disclosure and public consultation meetings. 84. Results of that survey show that 100% of HHs surveyed affirmed that they participated in meetings of information disclosure and on project policies. 60.6% of HHs answered that they participated in consultations for opinion collection organized by local authorities. 33.3% said that representatives of local authorities went to their house to disseminate the information on the 22
project. 18.2% answered that they were aware of the information through commune s radio and only 3% of HHs answered that they received leaflets on the project. Thus, it is noticeable that information dissemination mode used the most in the area was public meetings. The least popular mode is leaflet distribution to affected people. Evaluation on content of information disclosed shows that 49/61 HHs, accounting for 80%, said to receive quite sufficient information on the project. 10/61 HHs, accounting for 16%, believed the information was very sufficient and only 2 HHs among 61 HHs, accounting for 4%, said that the information was insufficient. 4.5.2. Grievance Redress 85. During the implementation of site clearance, many meetings and consultations were implemented for severely affected HHs in categories of both periods (main plant, auxiliaries, and freshwater supply system). Meetings and seminars, consultations were conducted by TPMB1 of Cam Pha Commune, consultants of projects and TPMB1, ward/commune PC. The content of the meetings focusing on explaining questions of people surrounding the application of price unit, policies on compensation and assistance; and information disclosure. During the monitoring periods, some HHs have questions as aforementioned which Cam Pha CARB with the assistance of TPMB1 and Mong Duong PPC considered and solved completely. Till the 10 th monitoring (November 2013) the complaints were in general solved. In the time of monitoring in January 2016, all HHs participating in interviews expressed their support for the project and no one had questions or complaints against the project. 4.6. Evaluation on Effectiveness of Resettlement Action Plan and Income Restoration Program 4.6.1. Objectives of Resettlement and Income Restoration Program 86. Resettlement and Ethnic Minority Development Plan (REMDP) was established for freshwater reservoir last 2006 and updated in 2012. The objectives of REMDP are to determined the scope of impacts of the project as well as to propose mitigation measures to the people and particularly the ethnic minority communities in the project area. 87. Resettlement Plan (RP) was established for the main plant in 2006 and updated in 2008. The objectives of this RP are to determine the scope of impacts of this project as well as to propose mitigation measures to the communities. 88. In addition to REMDP and RP, Income Restoration Plan (IRP) was prepared for both the main plant and freshwater reservoir. The objectives of IRP are to provide evidence for the need to develop an IRP for the project, to present specific IRP for each category with specific contents such as time, object, budget. 4.6.2. RP Implementation Process 89. TPMB1 is based in Linh Dam, Hoang Mai, Hanoi. In order to ensure the progress of the project, a division of TPMB1 was established and its head office is located in the Cam Pha City, Quang Ninh Province. This division consists of 8 officials with expertise in economics, finance and electrical engineering. This division is responsible for managing, coordinating and monitoring all activities related to the project, including compensation and site clearance. This division does not have a dedicated staff for the safeguard policy of the project. The staff of This 23
division has the concurrent responsibility of monitoring the overall work of the project as well as compensation and site clearance. 90. During implementation of the project, the division worked closely with Cam Pha CLFD and Mong Duong Ward PC and the two PCs of Cam Hai and Cong Hoa communes in compensation and site clearance. Cam Pha CLFD has provided the TPMB1 with sufficient and regular compensation and site clearance records. Official documents of the city and province, recommendations of households in the ward/commune areas were transferred to competent officials for archive. The division reports to the TPMB1 so that the latter can monitor the progress of the project. 91. During the implementation of the project, the greatest difficulty was the identification of land ownership records of affected HHs. However, the division has coordinated with Cam Pha City CLFD to determine the land ownership records to propose compensation plans for AHs without affecting the progress of DMS. 4.6.3. Budget allocation 92. Budgets for compensation and site clearance as well as implementation of IRP were allocated timely and sufficiently. V. LESSON LEARNED 93. RP implementation for main plant area and REMDP for Pipeline and Freshwater components was completed at the end of 2014. 94. During the RP and REMDP implementation, some lesson learned as following: 95. Regarding DMS and preparation of compensation plan: - The DMS process for affected assets was not conducted well as (i) the affected area is wide; (ii) A large area of affected land belongs to ethnic minority community with rotational farming method which made the disadvantages for DMS process due to omitting or misidentifying the land users; - The price application and entitlement calculation for AHs were not conducted correctly due to the misidentification of land grades and location of the affected land lot; This led to complaints from affected households. - Although the RP and REMDP have been approved and allowed for waives for differences between GoV policies and the ADB s principles of Compensation, Assistance and Resettlement described in the SPS 2009, but the verification of land origin and time of land use of households without LURC also made the AHs dissatisfied and had different proposals; - The income restoration program was developed and updated in REMDP 2013. However, the needs of AHs must be found out for success of IRP and correct evaluation of internal capacity of them as well as impacts of other aspects sich as socio-economic development of the locality and livelihood activities of the project are intergated in economic development plan of the locality. 96. Regarding the implementation of the income restoration program: 24
- The income restoration program focuses on two distinct groups. Group 1 is the HHs affected by the main plant. These people are not land-based and they are living in urbanized areas with the development of plants and industrial zones...thus, the income restoration program with agricultural training activities has not attracted people to participate. - Similar training activities for HHs affected by FWC have attracted 43% of eligible participants in training courses and were well evaluated by these households. One of the reasons that the program can attract a large number of participants is that the affected area consists of farming households and training activities bring practical benefits for them. - The income restoration program has been designed for loan activities, however, the design of small loans was not support people in economic development, so few of them used this support; 97. Lessons learned, in this case, the consultant in achrrge of livelihood development should have a good knowledge of the AHs as well as foresee the development potential of the project area; Sustainable livelihood assessments based on the analysis of funding sources of AHs, affected communities should be applied and be the basis for the development of income restoration program; 98. Regarding the consultation and participation - The information disclosure of the project has been well done with the provision of information on the benefits to households. Complaints and grievance redress procedures have also been clearly provided to households and that was one of the reasons for the small number of grievances. 99. Regarding the coordination of the stakeholders - Although Cam Pha Town CARB did not regularly provide documents as well as progress of compensation and site clearance for TPMB1, the Cam Pha CARB assigned staff in charge of compensation do the field visit and support Cam Pha CARB, which helped the compensation and site clearance progress of the project to be implemented better. - Through directly participating in the CARB and community meetings, TPMB1 assisted the CARB in resolving complaints on omiiting in DMS and incorrect price application... in timelymanner. 25
ANNEXES Annex 1: List of interviewees No. Full name Address Note 1 Nguyen Cong Chi TBMB1 In charge of site clearance 2 Vu Tuan Hung Official of Planning and Financing Department of TBMB1 4 Pham Van Chien Vice president of Mong Duong Ward PC 5 Tran Duc Chuyen Cadastral official of Mong Duong Ward 6 Dinh Van Luc Vice president of Cong Hoa CPC 7 Bui Thi Suu President of Cam Hai CPC 8 Pham Van Tan Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 9 Vu Thi Linh Cam Y Zone, Mong Duong Ward 10 Vu Thi Chap Group 148, Zone 9, Mong Duong Ward 11 Pham Van Quy Group 148, Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 12 Le Anh Dung Group 148, Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 13 Doan Van Xuong Group 148, Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 14 Hoang Van Kim Group 148, Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 15 Nguyen Dinh Vinh Group 148, Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 16 Pham Quang Hoan Group 148, Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 17 Nguyen Trung Lap Group 148, Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 18 Trieu Duy Thien Group 148, Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 19 Pham Van Thuy Group 148, Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 20 Ngu Ngoc Thuy Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 21 Nguyen Thi Ban Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 22 Doan Van Son Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 23 Doan Van Phuong Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 24 Doan Van Quy Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 25 Nguyen Thi Hà Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 26 Khong Van Quyet Group 148, Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 27 Dang Quang Trung Group 148, Mong Duong Ward 28 Luu Duc Cuong Group 148, Mong Duong Ward 29 Truong Van Tru Village 4, Cam Hai Commune 26
No. Full name Address Note 30 Bui Donh Khe Village 3, Cam Hai Commune 31 Hà Thi Tiou Village 5, Cam Hai Commune 32 Nguyen Van Nuc Party secretary, Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 33 Nguyen Thi Dang Chief of Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 34 Ly Van Phuc Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 35 Ly Van Tu Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 36 Ly Van Hai Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 37 Dang A Ung Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 37 Luu Van Cu Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 39 Loan Van Quang Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 40 Ngoc Van Bay Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 41 Ly Thi Hai Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 42 Ly Van Minh Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 43 Dang Xuan Minh Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 44 Ngoc Van Trieu Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 45 Hoang Xuan Doan Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 46 Trieu Quy Bonh Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 47 Luong Van Yen Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 48 Dang A Sut Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 49 Ban Van Nam Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 50 Ho Quang Song Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 51 Ho Van Thanh Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward 52 Tran Dang Nam Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 53 Doan Van Son 54 Pham Van Vinh Zone 2, Mong Duong Ward 55 Pham Duy Hung Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 56 Trinh Bo Hai Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 57 Pham Van Quyet Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 58 Vu Anh Dung Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 59 Phung Van Ha Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 60 Nguyen Thi Muon Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 61 Truong Van Khanh Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 62 Dao Quang Trung Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 27
No. Full name Address Note 63 Truong Van Tra Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 64 Do Van Ly Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 65 Trieu Thi Loan Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 66 Vu Thi Ninh Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 67 Pham Thi Hoa Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 68 Vu Van Chinh Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 69 Ban Van Nam Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 70 Ho Van Thanh Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward 28
Annex 2. Summary of comments from in-depth interview 1. Mr. Nguyen Cong Chi Representative of TPMB1 Site clearance and resettlement of the Project have been completed successfully. The income restoration program has been completed. In 2014, TPMB1 coordinated with Commune/Ward PCs, consultant agencies and the contractors to commence the IRP for affected households and had good result. In which, there are training courses such as: motorbike repairing, agricultural/forestry extension, cooking, loans for production and business...receiving well respond and results. 2. Mr. Nguyen Van Nuc Party secretary, Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward Most of serverly and relocated AHs built new houses and settled down in Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward which about 2km far from the former place (reservoir area) except for 10 relocated HHs moved to another place. In general, they have better lives than pre-resettlement. However, they swift to other jobs such as business, trading, worker and hired labour... as the productive land area is narrower. In 2014, the Project organized training course for AHs children in Zone 10. After completing the training course, some of them do motorbike repairing, the rest mainly works for Cam Pha Forestry Company and as hired labour for facilities in other places. In general, they all have better incomes than pre-training. 3. Mr. Pham Van Chien, Vice president of Mong Duong Ward PC Vocational training classes have also helped AHs children find suitable jobs. For vocational training class on motorbike repairing, most of trainees open motorbike repair shops or work for other shops in the area. For the cultivation-livestocks breeding technique class, most of trainees work for Cam Pha Forestry Company. For cooking classes, most of the trainees work for restaurants of hotels in Cam Pha city and adjacent cities in the province. 4. Mr. Pham Quang Hoan, Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward We received fully compensation for affected land and trees, crops from the Project. We do not have any grievances on compensation as the affected amount is not significant. 5. Mr. Nguyen Trung Lap, Zone 8, Mong Duong Ward We fully support the project and do not have any grievances on affected assets. We received fully compensation as the decision on compensation payment. We have been participated in all public meetings on information disclosure and DMS for affected assets. We do not have grievance on DMS result. 29
6. Mr. Dang A Sut, Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward Our house is entirly affected and we had to relocate. We fully support the project and comply with policy of the Government. We do not have any grievances. We received fully compensation for affected house, land and assets. We also built a new house. 7. Mr. Ho Quang Sang, Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward We fully support the project and comply with policy of the Government. We received fully compensation for affected house and we resettled. We built new house and do not have any grievances. 30
Annex 3: Some pictures of field visit The Mong Duong TTP has been completed and connected to national grid Panoramic view of Mong Duong 1 & 2 plants Interview the household of Mr Nuc- Party secretary, Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward Interview relocated household of reservoir area in one 10, Mong Duong Ward 31
Kindergarten in Resettlement Site, reservoir area, Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward New house built in Resettlement Site of reservoir area, Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward Cooling water discharge channel, Mong Duong TPP New house of relocated household in Zone 10, Mong Duong Ward Interview affected household 32