Social Monitoring Report

Quarterly Report July-September 2019 (Third Quarter 2019) April 2020

Project Number: 42039-036

Loan 3374-VIE: VIE: Power Transmission Investment Program (Tranche 3) 500kV Chon Thanh substation and 220kV Binh Long – Tay Ninh transmission line

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

(ADB).

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ELECTRICAL TERMINOLOGY kV (kilovolt) 1,000 volts MW (Megawatt) 1,000 kW MVA (Megavolt-ampere) 1,000 kVA Transmission System 500 kV, 220 kV, 110 kV lines Medium Voltage Distribution (MV) 35 kV, 22 kV or 10 kV lines supplying distribution substations Low Voltage Distribution (LV) 400/230 V distribution and service lines Load Factor Ratio of average power demand to maximum power demand Electrical Losses Difference between energy delivered and energy sent out

CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS

(as of September 2016)

In this report, "$" refers to US dollars.

USD $ 1 = VND

REMARKS

In this report, "$" refers to US dollars.

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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Table of Contents

ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................................................ 5

I. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................ 6

1. Context and project information ........................................................................................................................ 6

2. Quarterly monitoring ......................................................................................................................................... 7

3. Scope of impacts ............................................................................................................................................... 9

II. DETAILED ACTIVITES UNDERTAKEN ......................................................................... 9

1.General Progress and updated impacts .............................................................................................................. 9

2. Information disclosure and public consultation during the quarterly period ..................................................... 13

3. Progress in Compensation and Disbursement and Use of Funds ..................................................................... 14

4. Progress in Land Clearance and Handing Over of Land for Civil Works ........................................................... 15

5. Grievances ...................................................................................................................................................... 16

VI. CONCLUSION AND PLAN FOR NEXT STEP ............................................................... 20

Annex 1 : FOLLOW UP ACTIONS: ............................................................................................ 22

Annex 2: List of Participants in the monitoring trip ..................................................................... 23

Annex 3: Some of pictures during the monitoring trip. ...................................................................... 24

Annex 4: Compensation package for Chon Thanh SS ..................................................................... 26

Tables

Table 1: Areas Traversed by subproject ......................................................................................... 7

Table 2: Members of the monitoring mission ................................................................................... 9

Table 3: Scope of Impacts of the Subproject ................................................................................... 9

Table 4: Progress of implementation of RPs/REMDPs up to 30th September 2019 ................................. 10

Table 5: Updated Resettlement impacts in Binh Phuoc province ........................................................ 11

Table 6: Updated Resettlement impacts in Tay Ninh province ............................................................ 12

Table 7: Updated Resettlement impacts in Chon Thanh SS (Binh Phuoc) ............................................. 13

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Table 8. General Progress in Compensation ................................................................................. 15

Table 9. Disbursement and Use of Funds ..................................................................................... 15

Table 10. Land Clearance and Handing Over of Land for Civil Works .................................................. 15

Table 11: The impact of 02 AHs with additional compensation in Loc Thinh commune, Loc Ninh district ....... 17

Table 12: Summary of grievances redress mechanism .................................................................... 18

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ABBREVIATIONS

ACF - Asset compensation forms

ADB - Asian Development Bank

AHs - Affected households

APs - Affected persons

CPC - Commune People’s Committee

CPPMB - Central Vietnam Power Project Management Board

DCARB - District Compensation, Assistance and Resettlement Board

DMS - detailed measurement survey

DPC - District Peoples Committee

DPs - Displaced persons

EA - Executing agency

EMA - External monitoring agency

GOV - Government of Viet Nam

HHs - Households

IA - Implementing agency

IOL - Inventory of losses

km - Kilometer

kV - Kilovolt

LURC - Land use right certificate

MOC - Ministry of Construction

MOLISA - Ministry of Labor, Invalid and Social Affairs

MONRE - Ministryof NaturalResourcesandEnvironment

m² - Square meter

MFF - Multi-tranche financing facility

NPT - National Power Transmission Corporation

PECC3 - Power Engineering Consulting Joint Stock Company 3

PIB - Public Information Booklet

PICs - Project Implementation Consultants

PMU - Project management unit

PPC - Provincial People’s Committee

RCS - Replacement cost study

ROW - Right-of-way

RP - Resettlement plan

SES - Socioeconomic survey

SPS - Safeguard Policy Statements

SR2 - Safeguard Requirements 2 (in SPS)

TA - Technical assistance

TL - Transmission line

VND - Vietnam Dong (Vietnamese Currency)

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I. INTRODUCTION

1. Context and project information

1. The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam has received a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) towards

the cost of the Power Transmission Investment Program, Tranche 3. Part of the proceeds of the loan will be

applied for the construction of 9 sub-projects, two of them are 500 kV Chon Thanh substation and 220kV Binh

Long – Tay Ninh transmission line. The National Power Transmission Corporation (EVNNPT) is the executing

agency. Central Vietnam Power Projects Management Board (CPMB) is the implementing agency for the two

sub-projects 500kV Chon Thanh substation and 220kV Binh Long – Tay Ninh transmission line and Southern

Vietnam Power Projects Management Board (SPMB) is the implementing agency for the remaining sub-projects.

The Resettlement Planning documents were prepared during FS stage, and then they were disclosed to ADB

website in 2015.

2. During the FS stage, the resettlement planning documents prepared in June 2015. The Drafted

Resettlement Plan (RPs) and Resettlement and Ethnic Minority Development Plans (REMDPs) have been

prepared for each of the subprojects, these documents are presented on the ADB’s Website. This Resettlement

and Ethnic Minority Development Plan (REMDP) has been prepared for the Binh Phuoc Province segment and

the Tay Ninh Province segment of the 220 kV Binh Long- Tay Ninh TL and Resettlement Plan for Chon Thanh

Station. These documents provided the data on Scope of Resettlement Impacts and Socio-economic Information

on the AHs, Information Disclosure and Consultation and Participation, Grievance Redress Mechanism, Legal

Framework, Entitlement, Assistance and Benefits, Resettlement Budget and Financing Plan, Institutional

Arrangement, Implementation Schedule. In Oct 2018, the uREMDPs for both Binh Phuoc and Tay Ninh province

have been endorsed by ADB, While the updated version of Chon Thanh uRP was prepared and approved by

ADB in September 2019. They are presented on the ADB’s Website

3. The subproject 220 kV Binh Long- Tay Ninh TL started at the 220 kV bus-bar of the existing 220 kV Binh

Long SS and will terminate at the 220 kV bus-bar of the existing 220 kV Tay Ninh SS, traversing Loc Ninh District,

Hon Quan District and Binh Long Township in Binh Phuoc Province; and Tan Chau District, Duong Minh Chau

District and Tay Ninh City in Tay Ninh Province. The total length of the 220 kV Binh Long- Tay Ninh TL is 72.6

km, of which 20 km is in Binh Phuoc, while 52.6 km is in Tay Ninh Province. Table 2 below shows the communes

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and districts traversed in the project.

Table 1: Areas Traversed by subproject

Districts/City Communes/Ward

220 kV Binh Long- Tay Ninh TL

Tay Ninh province

Tan Chau Tan Hoa, Suoi Ngo, Tan Thanh, Suoi Day

Duong Minh Chau Suoi Da, Phan, Bau Nang

Tay Ninh Ninh Thanh

Binh Phuoc Province

Binh Long Town Thanh Luong

Loc Ninh Loc Thinh

Hon Quang An Phu, Minh Tam

Chon Thanh SS

Chon Thanh district Minh Thanh and Nha Bich commune

Source: Power Engineering Consulting Joint Stock Company 3 (PECC3)

4. The 500 kV Chon Thanh SS include an 8.5 km 220 kV TL that will link the new SS with the existing 220kV

Tan Dinh – Binh Long TL, and 1.08 km 500 kV TL that will link the new SS with the 500kV Pleiku – My Phuoc –

Cau Bong TL. The subproject and its 2 connection TLs will affect 2 communes in Chon Thanh District, Binh

Phuoc Province.

5. By 30th September 2019, the implementation of Binh Phuoc uREMDP and Tay Ninh uREMDP was

completed. All compensation packages were completed. All AHs received their compensation and assistance.

The Chon Thanh uRP was submitted and received no objection of ADB on the date 26th Sep 2019.

6. As summarized in Table 3, the activities were done in 3rd Quarter report of the year 2019 from 1st July

2019 to 30th September 2019 related to project stakeholders are Land Fund Development Centers (LFDCs)/

District Compensation, Assistance and Resettlement Board (DCARBs), and Central Vietnam Power Project

Management Board (CPPMB) with a support of Project Implementation Consultant (PIC).

2. Quarterly monitoring

7. The CPPMB has established systems for internal and external monitoring and evaluation. The main

purpose of the monitoring and evaluation programme is to ensure that resettlement and acquisition of land and

properties has been implemented in accordance with the policies and procedures of the RPs/REMDPs. For AHs

have been able to restore a standard of living equal to, if not better than, that which they had before the

subproject.

8. The objectives of the monitoring and evaluation programme are to (i) ensure that the standard of living of

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

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rehabilitation measures and social development support programmes are sufficient; (iv) identify problems or

potential problems; and (v) identify methods of responding immediately to mitigate problems.

9. The CPPMB conducted the internal monitoring of RPs/REMPs implementation to identify as early as

possible the activities achieved and the cause(s) of problems encountered so that arrangements in RP

implementation can be adjusted. Results of the internal monitoring are to be reported quarterly to NPT and ADB.

The semi-annual report is also prepared to summarize all activities relevant to the implementation of RPs/REMPs

done during six months.

10. This quarterly monitoring report is prepared in compliance with the ADB requirements. The report

incorporated monitoring results with the field works were conducted from 22th – 29th September 2019 by

monitoring team in a purpose to show how the tasks have been implemented during 03 months and the works

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

assess the progress of RPs/REMDPs updating and then consolidated.

11. The main indicators that regularly monitored in this quarter period include (i) Public consultation and

information dissemination procedures to the affected households arise (ii) Adherence to grievance procedures.

12. In the field work, the team has cooperated with local stakeholders such as LFDCs and DCARB, DPCs,

CPCs to prepare for involvement of contractor in charge of clearance site, contractor of construction, and local

community to ensure RPs/REMDP’ implementation in adequate process.

13. The 3rd Quarterly internal monitoring report of the year 2019 was prepared by CPPMB with a support of

PIC, LFDCs/ DCARBs. In 3rd Quarterly report of year 2019 focused to review the final implementation progress

of Binh Long – Tay Ninh uREMDPs and updating activities of Chon Thanh uRP.

On the 3rd Quarter monitoring report of year 2019 report, the Chon Thanh uRP received no objection by ADB, it

described the final update of Chon Thanh RP and the implementation of Chon Thanh SS uRP as well as review

the post implementation of Tay Ninh and Binh Phuoc uREMDPs. The implementation of updated activities of

Chon Thanh SS has started in Oct 2019. The report was sent to get agreement amongst the CPPMB members

and NPT, local stakeholders (District Compensation, Assistance and Resettlement Board and Land Development

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Fund Centers) as in table below.

Table 2: Members of the monitoring mission

Name Position Responsibilities

Mr. Bùi Công Cuong Vice Director, CPPMB Project Management

Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan Deputy Director of Compensation

Department, responsible for

environment and resettlement,

CPPMB

Management of environment and

resettlement

Mr. Tran Đang Hai

Expert in environment and

resettlement, CPPMB

Monitoring, assist for social safeguard

Mr. Do Phu Hai Support consultant Support for internal monitoring

3. Scope of impacts

14. Scope of land acquisition and resettlement impacts of subproject as of 30 September 2019 as follow:

Table 3: Scope of Impacts of the Subproject

No. Subproject

Total permanent

affected area (m2)

Total affected area in

ROW (m2)

Number of permanent

AH

Number of AH in ROW

Impact on

houses (m2)

Impact on structures

(m2)

Impact on

tree (tree)

Impact on

crops (m2)

I 220 KV Binh Long Tay Ninh

54,410.40 2,064,304.80 168 530 47 51 28,218 28,382

1 Tay Ninh Province

41,352.20 1,611,637.60 116 383 21 30 2,939 8,644.40

2 Binh Phuoc Province

13,058.20 398,256.80 52 147 26 21 25,279 19,738

II

500 kV Chon Thanh SS and CL

195,017.7 197,265.2 40 67 Non no 11,580 No

Source: District Land Fund Development Centers by the Date 30th September 2019

II. DETAILED ACTIVITES UNDERTAKEN

1.General Progress and updated impacts

15. The post implementation of Tay Ninh uREMDP and Binh Phuoc uREMDP was reviewed by the end of

30th Sep 2019 by CPPMB with a support of LFDCs/ DCARBs, PIC. The post implementation of Tay Ninh

uREMDP and Binh Phuoc uREMDP focused on any GAPs of uREMDPs and the impact of the compensation

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package and assistance,

16. General progress of implementation of of RPs/REMDPs up to 30th September 2019 as table below

Table 4: Progress of implementation of RPs/REMDPs up to 30th September 2019

Activities Chon Thanh

Substation

Binh Phuoc

REMDP

Tay Ninh

REMDP

NTP to endorse the RP to ADB for concurrence June 2015 June 2015 June 2015

Distribution of PIB to AHs and posting of RP in relevant

government offices and on ADB website June 2015 June 2015 June 2015

ADB no-objection to RP and approval of subproject July 2015 July 2015 July 2015

Reviewed IOL/DMS, SES and replacement cost study

(RCS) for updating Chon Thanh RP and Binh Long Tay

Ninh TL REMDPs

Sep 2018 to

July 2019

Nov-Dec 2017

Jan- March

2018

Jan-March

2018

Submitted the draft updated RP and REMDPs July 2019 March 2018 March 2018

NTP to endorse the updated RP to ADB for concurrence Sep 2019

Nov 2018

Nov 2018

Internal monitoring (requires submission of quarterly and

semi-annual reports)

Starts in 4th

Quarter 2017

Starts in 4th

Quarter 2017

Starts 4th

Quarter

2017

Start of external monitoring (requires semi-annual

monitoring reports) Jan 2018 Jan 2018 Jan 2018

ADB no-objection to updated RP and posting of updated

RP

September

2019 Oct 2018 Oct 2018

Start of uRP/uREMDPs implementation September

2019

Start in Oct

2018

Start in Oct

2018

Post-resettlement implementation evaluation (6 months

after completion of RP implementation) June 2020 June 2020 June 2020

17. Updated impacted as of September 2019 in tables blow for 02 uREMDP and uRP of Chon Thanh as

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follow:

1.1. For Binh Phuoc uREMDP (Binh Long – Tay Ninh Transmission Line)

Table 5: Updated Resettlement impacts in Binh Phuoc province

Impact Data in uREMDP by Oct

2018 Updated by 30th September 2019

Acquired permanently land area (m2) 11,088.60 13,058.20

AHs in acquired permanently land area (m2) 49 52

Affected organizations 3 3

Land area in TL ROW (m2) 373,720.30 398,256.80

Number of AHs in TL ROW 143 147

Houses in the tower foundation 26 31

Vulnerable AHs 13 13

Source: District Land Fund Development Centers by the Date 30th September 2019

18. In Binh Phuoc province, the Binh Phuoc uREMDP has been completely implemented in last period. At the

date of this report in 30th Sep 2019, a total of 52 affected households and 03 organizations were completely

compensated and assisted under the permanent land acquisition for the tower foundations in addition to

restrictions in the continued use of land in the ROW of the 220 kV connection line. The post impact of the

implementation has been reviewed in this period.

19. Up to the date of the report 30th Sep 2019, the project affected to the landholdings, of which 13,058.2 m2

are permanently acquired, while 398,256.8 m2 are in the ROW and their continued use are restricted for safety

reasons. At the date of report, a total 31 houses and 21 other structures were partially compensated as they are

affected under the tower foundation construction whereas 18 houses and 5 other structures are identified to be

located under the ROW of the 220 kV connection line. Thus, these amounts of affected houses and the secondary

structures were not significantly affected by the tower foundations and the remaining area are sufficient for the

continual use while the houses and structures within the TL ROW may remain in the ROW provided safety

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measures.

1.2. in Tay Ninh province (Binh Long – Tay Ninh Transmission Line)

Table 6: Updated Resettlement impacts in Tay Ninh province

Impact Resettlement impacts in

uREMDP (m2)

Updated by 30th September

2019

Acquired permanently land area 40,572 41,522.2

AHs in acquired permanently land

area

112 116

Land area in TL ROW 1,579,798 1,611,637.6

AHs in TL ROW 374 383

Houses in the ROW 13 houses 13 houses

Vulnerable Ahs 28 Ahs 28 Ahs

Source: District Land Fund Development Centers by the Date 30th September 2019

20. The Tay Ninh uREMDP was implemented, a total of 116 AHs (491 APs) and 9 organizations permanently

lost an aggregate of 41,522.2 m2 of land for the tower foundations. From additional compensation package, an

aggregate of 1,611,637.6 m2 of land in the ROW of the transmission line was affected by safety restrictions

imposed on their continued use. Of these affected landholdings, this affected land area belongs to 383 AHs

(Table 8).

21. During the monitoring trip, we see that AHs are all happy with the compensation. No one had any

complaints up to the date of report 30th Sep 2019. They used the compensation fund for procuring their food and

their motorbikes and some AHs used for buying cultivated land, most of them have sent their money to bank to

receive long term interest rate for their livings. One AH used their compensation money for sending their children

for university study. 12 AHs asked for the provision of vocational training and agricultural and forestry extension

activities. The LFDCs asked them to apply for the agricultural and forestry extension in district service centers.

Accordance to the Heads of LFDCs, they have to pay for these services because they already received their

cash of assistance in entitlement matrix, so there is a chance to getting free services from government funding,

but it may not happen because government’s funding is not available now.

22. During the monitoring trip, we visited 05 vulnerable AHs, they are poor households. From interview, there

is no impact for their livings up to now because the land acquisition is small area. One AH complained about one

could not grow rubber tree in the ROW. 02 AHs need to get the training on farming techniques on paddy field

and small livestock keeping or bee keeping. The LFCDs introduced them to the Agricultural Forestry Extension

Service for their applications, they may have to pay for their farming technique. From LFDCs, it confirmed that

all of 11 AHs had monthly household income below the poverty line received their compensation and assistance.

All of 9 EM Khmer AHs and 1 EM Ta Mun AH, 11 poor AHs, and 4 social policy beneficiary AHs are happy with

compensation and assistance. There is no need for more support within the project.

23. The monitoring team observed that the procedures for finding the missing land owners were carefully

done with LFDC already advertised 3 times on the local newspaper to find the land owners. All of 05 landowners

were found to implement the land acquisition procedure. It also observed that the full amount of land

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compensation was compensated by the date of the report.

1.3. For Chon Thanh SS

Table 7: Updated Resettlement impacts in Chon Thanh SS (Binh Phuoc)

Impact Updated by 30th June 2019 No change by the Date of 30th September 2019

Acquired permanently land area 195,017.7 195,017.7 AHs in acquired permanently land area

40 40

Land area in TL ROW 197,265.2 197,265.2 AHs in TL ROW 67 67 Houses in the ROW 21 21 Vulnerable Ahs Non Non

Source: Chon Thanh District Land Fund Development Center by the Date 30th September 2019

24. The 40 affected households (AHs), are composed of 121 people belonging to the majority Kinh ethnic

group, it is confirmed that there is no ethnic minority AH. There is an average of 3.97 persons per household. Of

the 121 members of the AHs, males numbered 101 (83.5 %), while women numbered 20 (16.5%). Among the

101 males are included 62 (61.4%) who finished secondary school, 25 (25%) who finished high school, 14

(13.6%) who finished primary school. Among the 20 women AH, 14 (70%) finished secondary school, 2 (10.9 %)

finished primary school, and 4 (21.1%) finished high school. Agriculture and forestry is the major occupation of

these 30 AH heads. Per results of the socioeconomic survey (SES), the average income of the AHs was VND

9,530,000. a month referring to Decision No. 59/2015/QD-TTg1, there was no poor AH seen in these 30 AHs

accordance to new poverty threshold by the Decision Nr. 59/2015/QĐ-TTg dated on 19 Nov 2015. Also, none of

these AHs belongs to a vulnerable group. As for the socioeconomic information of the AHs affected by the

transmission line (67 AHs), The 54 AHs were made up of 258 people, or the equivalent of 3.85 persons per

household. Among the 258 AH members, 115 (44.6%) were males, while 143 (55.4%) were females. In this

group, 204 persons (79.1%) were in the 16-60 age group (i.e., working age group), while 15 persons over 60

years old made up 5.8 % of the population and 39 persons below16 years old made up 15.1% of the population.

25. On this monitoring trip, it continued to ask to follow a number of cases have not yet found the land owners.

The monitoring team asked for 03 times of announcement on TV and local newspapers to look for missing land

owners.

2. Information disclosure and public consultation during the quarterly period

26. On the monitoring trip, The internal monitoring mission was done from 25th - 29th September 2019 and

survey team interview of 36 AHs. All interviewed AHs are happy to use the compensation fund for procuring more

vehicles and production equipment, some of them bought more land for their cultivation, some of them send their

money to the bank. We met 02 AHs who used their compensation for their children in further vocational study.

However, we can see that the proportionate of compensated and assistance cash was used to buy the vehicles

and food and entertainment is higher than they used for the expansion of production and investment for earning.

27. There is some requirement for agricultural and forestry extension training and vocational training needs.

We introduced 05 AHs in Binh Phuoc province and 08 AHs in Tay Ninh province to the Agricultural Extension

1 Decision No. 59/2015/QD-TTg, dated Nov 19th 2015, by the Prime Minister set the poverty line and pro-poor

threshold for the period 2016-2020.

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Centers at districts. They can reserve their time for training courses on new farming techniques.

28. The monitoring team also checked the operation of the PIB is still active which was sent to all commune

offices and affected villages with full information of Grievance Redress Mechanism as well as the updated contact

person with a detail phone number and address related to the implementation of Binh Phuoc uREMDP, Tay Ninh

uREMDP and Chon Thanh uRP.

29. From interview, the information and the mechanism of grievances and complaints on any aspect of land

acquisition, compensation and resettlement are in place in the operation at the date of monitoring trip.

3. Progress in Compensation and Disbursement and Use of Funds

30. At the time of reporting, all AHs of 02 uREMDPs 01 Ahs in Chon Thanh SS uRP received the

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compensation and assistance. Detail in table below

Table 8. General Progress in Compensation

Project component/Location AHs (APs) eligible for compensationa and/or assistance/allowancesb

Total Number of AHs

(APs)

Number of AHs (APs)

fully paid

% Progress

Binh Phuoc 383 (1,496) 383 (1,496) 100%

Tay Ninh 147 (548) 147 (548) 100%

Chon Thanh SS 67 1 (5) 5%

AH = affected household AP = affected person IP = Indigenous Peoples

a. All forms of compensation, including affected assets (land/ non-land, crops, etc.) or loss of income b. Includes all types of allowances and assistance except income restoration, which is presented separately in Section III below

31. Disbursement during the quarter 3 2019 and Cumulative fund disbursement in table below

Table 9. Disbursement and Use of Funds

Component/ Location

LAR Budget Requirement

Funds Disbursed this Reporting

Period

Cumulative Funds Disbursement

I - 220 KV Binh Long Tay Ninh

Binh Phuoc Province

9,981,461,259 257,957,754 9,981,461,259

Binh Long Township

5,561,788,880 126,123,428 5,561,788,880

Hon Quan District

2,903,199,920 79,182,300 2,903,199,920

Loc Ninh District

1,516,472,459 52,652,026 1,516,472,459

Tay Ninh Province

Tay Ninh City 6,432,044,509 1,041,903,940 6,432,044,509

Duong Minh Chau District

15,930,962,466 815,538,300 15,930,962,466

Tan Chau District

10,322,176,609 25,434,420 10,322,176,609

TOTAL I 42,666,644,843 2,140,834,414 42,666,644,843

II- Chon Thanh SS

65,092,777,200

32,926,211,560 32,166,565,640

Source: Financial Department of CPPMB and District Land Fund Development Centers by the Date 30th September 2019

4. Progress in Land Clearance and Handing Over of Land for Civil Works

32. Land Handed over at the time of reporting completed for 220 KV Binh Long Tay Ninh TL, in table below

Table 10. Land Clearance and Handing Over of Land for Civil Works

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Project

Component/Location

[District]

Total Affected

Land Area (m2)

Land handed Over (m2)

Land Handed over this

reporting period

Cumulative amount of land handed over

Amount in m2 % of total affected

land

Binh Phuoc Province 411,315.00 3,465 411,315

Binh Long Township 126,959.70 584 126,960 100

Hon Quan District 183,002.30 1,215 183,002 100

Loc Ninh District 101,353.00 1,666 101,353 100

Tay Ninh Province 1,652,989.80 57,670 1,652,990

Tay Ninh City 52,180.30 490 52,180 100

Duong Minh Chau

District 539,394.90 14,844 539,395 100

Tan Chau District 1,061,414.60 42,336 1,061,415 100

TOTAL 2,064,304.80 61,135 2,064,305

Source: District Land Fund Development Centers by the Date 30th September 2019

5. Grievances

33. Up to the date of report 30th Sep 2019, the mechanism of grievances and complaints on any project

implementation has been well operated. There is no case on grievance and complaint from AHs arising during

this period. All grievances and complaints found before in Binh Phuoc Province were resolved.

34. For this monitoring report of 3rd Quarter 2019, the team checked the satisfaction of AHs accordance to

the recommended corrective actions which were properly set up before. The monitoring team found that the

additional 02 AHs needed to re-do the DMS in Loc Ninh district to resolve their complaint about the lost and

inaccurate data. .Their name is Nguyen Van Doanh and Vinh Thi Hong Phuc in Loc Thinh, Loc Ninh district who

listed their name in the list of AHs before. So they were consulted on January 2019 for the Re-Do DMS. The

issues they raised as follows: Mr. Doanh has complained about his lost on rubber trees and 01 cage and tower

under the ROW because he must remove these structure and trees. Accordance to the Decision 05/2018/QD-

UBND they can receive 70%, and 100% for the tree. In a total, he received 7,4448,000 VND. Mrs Vinh Thi Hong

Phuc complained her lost on 500 m2 of resident land with the land owner certificate. She entitled to be

compensated. According to the legal normative document 447/UBND-KT of Binh Phuoc PPC on 27th Feb 2018,

she can receive 80% of land price. Accordance to Decision 33/2015/QD-UBND dated on 17th Sep 2015, the land

price is VND 105,000 per m2 . In a total, she received VND 36,937,500. Also, there is no complaint in Binh Phuoc

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province from AHs on the compensation and assistance at the date of the report 30th Sep 2019.

Table 11: The impact of 02 AHs with additional compensation in Loc Thinh commune, Loc Ninh district

Name of AHs Acquired Land

Area (m2)

Compensation for structure

and trees under the ROW

Total (VND)

Nguyen Van Doanh 7,448,000 7,448,000

Vinh Thi Hong Phuc 500 m2 36.937,500

Total 44,385,500

Source: Abstract of Decision on Land Acquisition and Compensation in Loc Thinh Commune, Loc Ninh.

35. In Binh Phuoc province, the monitoring team checked all cases of grievances and complaints were

resolved at the date of report 30th Sep 2019. It also confirmed that there is no grievance and complaint in this

period in the implementation of Binh Phuoc uREMDP.

36. In Tay Ninh province, the monitoring team checked the complaints and grievances which were reported

in the 2nd quarterly monitoring report. It confirmed that all of them were completely handled including 04 cases

in Suoi Ngo commune, 02 cases in Bau Nang commune, 02 in Ninh Thanh commune, 04 cases in Suoi Da

commune. It also confirmed that there is no more grievance and complaint case emerging during this period in

Tay Ninh province.

37. In Chon Thanh SS, the team checked 03 complaints in Minh Thanh commune and 04 complaints in Nha

Bich commune having 1st stage of grievances and complaints on the land compensation price and assistance.

It observed that some actions were done (Table 11). There is a verbal complaint from AH Le Thi Phuong Chi,

she wanted to have higher price of land compensation. She was explained and agreed with entitlement matrix

The monitoring team confirmed that all these cases agreed with the compensation package they had.

38. There are more 02 written complaints in Minh Thanh commune on their land area to be acquired and

restricted use and 03 written complaints in Nha Bich commune about the land price and assistance for their land

acquisition.

Table 12: Summary of grievances redress mechanism

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Commune Number of grievances Type of

grievance

What stage of the

GRM

What actions are

taken

Next steps Target date for

resolution

Loc Thinh

Commune, Binh

Phuoc

One AH, his name is Pham

Khac Dinh in Loc Thinh

Commune has lodged

complaint in June 2019. The

household has requested for

supports for assets on land

which were built in 2018

within the ROW.

Written 2nd stage of GRM 03 face to face

dialogues to explain

project resettlement

policy and show

entitlement matrix

DPC and LFDC will

organize and send the

delegation to convince

them accordance to the

Vietnam Law and

project policy. The

convincing will be done

in several times from

the date of approval on

compensation package

plan including with

GRM.

Dec 2019

Communes of Tay

Ninh

04 cases in Suoi Ngo commune,

02 cases in Bau Nang

commune, 02 in Ninh Thanh

commune, 04 cases in Suoi Da

commune – complain about low

compensation

Written 1st stage Commune

Peoples’ Committee

Complete – dialogue to

explain project

resettlement policy and

show entitlement matrix

No No

Minh Thanh

commune (Binh

Phuoc)

02 Ahs Written;

02 AHs asked

to check their

land area

1st stage in

Commune Peoples’

Committee

Meeting with AH by a

representative of LDFC;

Re-do the DMS;

Continued to follow up.

Explained this AH

about the policy matrix

and entitlement matrix.

31th Dec 2019

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Nha Bich commune

(Binh Phuoc)

03 Ahs Written

02 AH asked

for higher

land

compensation

price in the

package.

01 AH asked

for more

assistance

1st stage in

Commune Peoples’

Committee

Meeting with AH by a

representative of LDFC;

Organized a dialogue in

CPC office;

Explained this AH

about the policy matrix

and entitlement matrix.

31th Dec 2019

Source: Direct survey and consultation with District Land Fund Development Centers by the Date 30th September 2019

VI. CONCLUSION AND PLAN FOR NEXT STEP

39. The activities were done in 3rd Quarter 2019 concentrated on the finalization of post implementation of

compensation package and assistance in Binh Phuoc province and Tay Ninh province. The Binh Phuoc uREMDP

and Tay Ninh uREMDP were well implemented at the date of the monitoring report. The compensation and

assistance was completed in 3rd quarter 2019 for Binh Phuoc uREMDP and Tay Ninh uREMDP.

40. On the post implementation of the uREMDPs, the team proposed to work with agricultural and forestry

extension Centers asking for the application of better agri-forestry extension service delivery as well as vocational

training for some AHs.

41. For 12 AHs asking for the provision of vocational training and agricultural and forestry extension activities,

they are needed to follow up whether they will participate in their needs of vocational trainings and their extention

services.

42. There is a start-up of the implementation of Chon Thanh uRP, but it is still a missing of some land owners

who have not yet been joining the DMS. The monitoring team asked the Chon Thanh LFDC to continue to

announce to find out these missing land owners.

43. The GRM system has been actively operating in Chon Thanh SS. All reported cases in the 2nd quarter

monitoring report were completely resolved. There are also newly arising 05 cases in Chon Thanh SS related to

their complaints, they are 02 AHs in Minh Thanh commune and 03 AHs in Nha Bich commune. These cases are

needed to be continued for resolving in the 4th Quarter 2019.

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Annex 1 : FOLLOW UP ACTIONS:

1.1. ISSUES NEED TO BE FOLLOWED

No. Issues Required Actions Responsibility Completion Time

1 Income generation and

income diversification

It requires to continue the target

delivery of agricultural forestry

extension service to 31 AHs in

Binh Phuoc and Tay Ninh

province

LFDCs and

Centers of

agricultural

forestry extension

service

31th December

2019

2 Missing land owners in

Chon Thanh SS Three times of announcement on

TV and newspapers

Chon Thanh

LFDC (Agreed to

do)

31th December

2019

3

On 02 AHs in Minh

Thanh commune did

not agree with the land

acquisition area (Chon

Thanh SS)

DPC and LFDC will need to re-do

the DMS DPC and LFDC

31th December

2019

3

On 03 Ahs in Nha Bich

did not agree with the

compensation price

and assistance

DPC and LFDC will organize and

send the delegation to convince

them accordance to the Vietnam

Law and project policy including

the project entitlement matrix.

The convincing will be done in

several times from the date of

approval on compensation

package plan including with

GRM.

DPC and LFDC 31th December

2019

4

12 AHs asking for the

provision of vocational

training and

agricultural and

forestry extension

activities

LFDCs will introduce to the

services. LFDCs need to ask for

the planning of local government

budget for free training programs

for 12 AHs in the locality.

DPC and LFDC 31th December

2019

5 01 AH in Loc Thinh

commune

DPC and LFDC will organize and

send the delegation to convince

them accordance to the Vietnam

Law and project policy. The

convincing will be done in several

times from the date of approval

on compensation package plan

including with GRM

DPC and LFDC December 2019

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1.2. CORRECT ACTIONS FOR GAPs

Nr. GAPs Proposals for correct actions Responsible

parties and deadline

1 Assistance for life stabilization for AHs losing less than 30% of total land using equal to 3 months/ person with 30 kg rice: entitlement matrix not mention

The policy was established after the uRP. This update will need to be included in the Entitlement Matrix and disseminate to the AHs and affected communities.

Will be done by CPPMB with an assistance of PIC by 4th Quarter of 2019.

2 Assistance for production stabilization: VND 5 million per ha: entitlement matrix not mention

The policy was established after the uRP. This update will need to be included in the Entitlement Matrix and disseminate to the AHs and affected communities.

Will be done by CPPMB with an assistance of PIC by 4th Quarter of 2019.

3 Assistance for job changing and creation Cash assistance equal to 1.2 times of compensation value for affected for acquired land area: not meet the entitlement matrix (Entitlement matrix mention Cash assistance equal to 1.5 times of compensation value).

- The original draft of uREMDP of Binh Phuoc was sent on Jan. - Feb. 2018, and it continued to be revised at several versions before came in the ADB's website on Oct 2018. The policy was changed and happened in April 2018 and applied after that, in fact I did not know about this policy change. That's why, there was no revision of assisted policy for vocational training support. Please note that the policy in Vietnam specified before April 2018, Binh Phuoc province still applied 1.5-5 times. Duration of approval of uREMDP has much spent time causing the entitlement matrix not updated with the local government policy (Decision 18/2018/QD-UBND Binh Phuoc dated on 30th March 2018, effect on June 2018 to replace the Decision 13/2015/QD-UBND dated 08/6/2015).

Will discuss within project stakeholders for the Decision in 4th Quarter 2019.

Annex 2: List of Participants in the monitoring trip

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No Full Name Male Female

I Tan Hoa Commune

1. Lõm Loúc (cú hợp đồng)(EM) X 2. Trần Hữu Nghị X

II Tan Hung Commune

3. Lê Thị Thuý Hồng X 4. Quách Văn Quyền X 5. Mai Văn Trảo X 6. Phan Duy Khánh X 7. Nguyễn Văn Tơi X 8. Nguyễn Thị Bảy X

III Tan Thanh Commune

9. Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Liễu X 10. Võ Văn Khóa X 11. Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Liễu X 12. Đặng Văn Minh X

IV Suoi Ngo Commune

13. Trần Nam Tiến X 14. Anh Văn X 15. Nguyễn Văn Phúc X 16. Cao Minh Phỏt X 17. Lờ Văn Dậu X

V Minh Tam Commune, Hon Quan District 18. Lê Phú Cờng X 19. Thị Út X 20. Chiếng Toàn Đạt X 21. Nguyễn Thị Kim Vàng X

VI Loc Thinh commune, Loc Thinh District, Binh

Phuoc Province

22. Đào Thị Duyên X 23. Vừ Thị Hồng Phỳc X 24. Nguyễn Văn Thuận X

VII

An Phu Commune, Hon Quan district, Binh Phuoc

Province

25. Phan Đức Hoạch X 26. Lờ Hoàng Khanh X 27. Nguyễn Xuõn Hiệp X

VIII Nha Bich, Chon Thanh SS 28. Lê Văn Châu ( chết) vợ Lê Thị Don X 29. Châu Minh Hiếu (01682460409) X 30. Nguyễn Văn Quang X 31. Trần Văn Ngon X

IX Minh Thành, Chơn Thanh SS X 32. Nguyễn Ngọc Huệ X 33. Trần Văn Dậu (0909297684) X 34. Nguyễn Văn Bửu X 35. Đỗ Văn Trúc; Trương Thị Oanh (01212239233) x 36. Nguyễn Thị Nga X

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Annex 3: Some of pictures during the monitoring trip.

Meetings with CPC in Minh Thanh commune, Binh Phuoc province

Do Thi Sang, a AH asked for higher price in compensation and assistance in Minh Thanh commune, Binh Phuoc Province

To Thi ,a AH in Nha Bich commune, Binh Phuoc province asking for compensation of whole land

a AH in Nha Bich commune asked for re-do of DMS for their land

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Annex 4: Compensation package for Chon Thanh SS

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