MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT
PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIT No. 2
Central Highlands Connectivity Improvement Project
(CHCIP)
UPDATED RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN
FOR GIA LAI PROVINCE SUB-PROJECT
(Revised Version)
August 2022
CENTRAL HIGHLANDS CONNECTIVITY IMPRVEMENT PROJECT (CHCIP)
Gia Lai Province Subproject
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................... 1
1.1. Project Introduction ...................................................................................................... 1
1.1.1. Project Name ........................................................................................................... 1
1.1.2. Project Objectives .................................................................................................... 1
1.1.3. Project Locations ..................................................................................................... 1
1.1.4. Project’s components............................................................................................... 1
1.1.5. Construction Packages of the subProject in Gia Lai province ............................... 3
1.2. Resettlement Action Plan ............................................................................................. 4
1.2.1 Resettlement Action Plan ......................................................................................... 4
1.2.2 Updated Resettlement Plans .................................................................................... 5
II. LEGAL FRAMEWORK ........................................................................................... 7
2.1. National Legal Framework ........................................................................................... 7
2.2. The World Bank’s Operational Policy on Involuntary Resettlement (OP 4.12) .......... 8
2.3. Gaps between the WB’s OP 4.12 and National Policies on Involuntary Resettlement
and Hamonization Measures ........................................................................................ 9
III. SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THE PROJECT AREA .................... 13
3.1. General Socio-Economic conditions of the Project’s Districts in Gia Lai Province.. 13
3.1.1. Economic Structures .............................................................................................. 13
3.1.2. Available infrastructures and services .................................................................. 14
3.1.3. Social Conditions ................................................................................................... 14
3.2. Socio-Economic Survey (SES) on the Project Affected Households ........................ 19
3.2.1. Household size ....................................................................................................... 20
3.2.2. Ethnicity ................................................................................................................. 20
3.2.3. Age structures ........................................................................................................ 22
3.2.4. Education Status .................................................................................................... 23
3.2.5. Gender Analysis ..................................................................................................... 24
3.2.6. Energy, water, and sanitation................................................................................ 27
3.2.7. Vulnerable Households .......................................................................................... 27
3.2.8. Impact on Livelihoods............................................................................................ 27
3.2.9. Need Assessment on Livelihood Restoration Program .......................................... 27
IV. UPDATED THE IMPACTS OF LAND ACQUISITION AND
RESETTLEMENT ................................................................................................... 29
4.1. Data updating status ................................................................................................... 29
4.2. Scope of Land acquisition and Resettlement Impacts ................................................ 29
4.2.1. Impacts on Individual Households ........................................................................ 29
4.2.2. Impacts on Land .................................................................................................... 29
4.2.3. Impacts on Houses and secondary structures ....................................................... 34
4.2.4. Impacts on Trees and Crops .................................................................................. 34
4.2.5. Impacts on business ............................................................................................... 34
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4.2.6. Impact on Public Assets ......................................................................................... 34
4.2.7. Impact on Livelihood ............................................................................................. 34
4.2.8. Temporary Impacts ................................................................................................ 34
4.2.9. Mitigation Measures undertaken to mitigate the scope of land acquisition .......... 35
V. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE, PUBLIC CONSULTATION AND
PARTICIPATION.................................................................................................... 36
5.1. Objective of Information Disclosure, Public Consultation and Participation ............ 36
5.2. Consultation Activities under taken ........................................................................... 36
5.2.1. The first round of community consultation ............................................................ 36
5.2.2. The second round of community consultation ....................................................... 37
5.2.3. Stakeholders Engagement, Public Consultation during the first and second
updating of the RAP ............................................................................................... 37
5.2.4. The third round of community consultation........................................................... 39
5.3. Findings of Consultations........................................................................................... 40
5.4. In terms of health, issues related to transmission of HIV/AIDS, and/or STDs could
be a potential issues among workers themselves with possibility of impact on local
communities.Mechanism for continued consultation activities ................................. 42
VI. PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES FOR COMPENSATION, SUPPORT,
RESETTLEMENT AND LIVELIHOOD RESTORATION ............................... 45
6.1. General Principles ...................................................................................................... 45
6.1.1. Principles for Compensation and Support ............................................................ 45
6.1.2. Principles for Physical Resettlement ..................................................................... 45
6.2. Eligibility Criteria and Entitlements........................................................................... 46
6.2.1. Eligibility Criteria ................................................................................................. 46
6.2.2. Entitlement ............................................................................................................. 48
6.2.3. Cut-of-date ............................................................................................................. 48
6.3. Compensation, Support and Resettlement Policies .................................................... 48
6.3.1. Compensation for Permanent Impacts .................................................................. 48
6.3.2. Compensation for Temporary Impacts (during construction) ............................... 53
6.3.3. Supports/Allowances.............................................................................................. 54
6.4. Entitlement Matrix ..................................................................................................... 57
6.5. Arrangement of resettlement sites for the relocated households ................................ 57
6.6. Livelihood Restoration Plan (LRP) ............................................................................ 59
6.6.1. Strategy of livelihood restoration .......................................................................... 59
6.6.2. Potential Activities Raised by Households ............................................................ 60
6.6.3. Eligibility ............................................................................................................... 62
6.6.4. Key Development Activities of the LRP ................................................................. 63
VII. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT................................................................... 64
7.1. Responsibility of the Stakeholders ............................................................................. 64
7.1.1. At the Central Level ............................................................................................... 64
7.1.2. At the local level .................................................................................................... 65
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VIII. GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM ............................................................. 69
8.1. Requirements of the Grievance Redress Mechanism ................................................. 69
8.2. Grievance Redress Procedures ................................................................................... 69
8.2.1. Onsite complaint addressing procedure ................................................................ 69
8.2.2. Official GRM as per Government Regulation ....................................................... 70
8.3. Grievance Redress Management ................................................................................ 71
8.3.1. DPCs and CPCs .................................................................................................... 71
8.3.2. PMU2 ..................................................................................................................... 71
8.4. Grievance Redress Montoring .................................................................................... 71
IX. MONITORING AND EVALUATION ................................................................... 72
9.1. Objectives of Monitoring and Evaluation .................................................................. 72
9.2. Internal Monitoring .................................................................................................... 72
9.2.1. Requirements of Internal Monitoring .................................................................... 72
9.2.2. Key Indicators for Internal Monitoring ................................................................. 72
9.3. External Monitoring (Independent Monitoring)......................................................... 72
9.3.1. Requirements External Monitoring ....................................................................... 72
9.3.2. Key Indicators for External Monitoring ................................................................ 73
9.4. Community Monitoring.............................................................................................. 74
9.5. Monitoring of the World Bank ................................................................................... 74
X. COST AND BUDGET.............................................................................................. 75
10.1. Basic data for cost estimation of compensation, support and resettlement ................ 75
10.2. Updated estimated cost for of compensation, support and resettlement .................... 75
XI. APPENDICES .......................................................................................................... 77
11.1. Appendix 1 – Entitlements Matrix ............................................................................. 78
11.2. Appendix 2 - The questionnaire for IOL and social and economic survey of affected
assets (applied for the 1st updated RAP) .................................................................... 92
11.3. Appendix 3 – Some Minutes of Consultation ............................................................ 98
11.4. Appendix 4 –Form of Minute of Consultation during the RAP implementation ..... 103
11.5. Appendix 5 –Instruction for In-depth Interview during the RAP updating ............. 105
11.6. Appendix 6 – Questionnaire for the socioeconomic survey to update the RAPs..... 106
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 – CHCIP – NH19 Road Improvement .......................................................................... 2
Table 2 – Detailed information of section in Gia Lai province .................................................. 4
Table 3 – Gaps between the World Bank’s and Government of Vietnam’s Policy ................. 10
Table 4 – Land use status of City/Town/Districts under the Project in Gia Lai Province ....... 14
Table 5 – Population of Communes/Wards/Townships in the Project Area ............................ 16
Table 6 – Schools in communes/wards/townships in the Project’s area .................................. 18
Table 7 – Summary of the Affected Households and Family’s structure ................................ 20
Table 8 - Average Monthly Income per Affected Household .................................................. 26
Table 9 – Summary of the Affected households ...................................................................... 30
Table 10 – Updated Scope of land acquisition ......................................................................... 32
Table 11 - Number of participants in public consultation ........................................................ 39
Table 12 – Proposed mechanism for community participation in the next steps ..................... 43
Table 13 – The cut-off-date in Gia Lai province ...................................................................... 48
Table 14 – Relocation Options and Resettlement arrangement for the relocated households . 58
Table 15 – Steps proposed for the implementation phase of Livelihood restoration ............... 61
Table 16 – Estimated Cost for Compensation, Support and Resettlement ............................... 75
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ABBREVIATION
AH Affected household
AP Affected Person
CARC Compensation, Assistance and Resettlement Council
CHCIP Central Highlands Connectivity Improvement Project
CP Compensation Plan
DBCLA District Board for Compensation and Land Acquisition
DCSCC District Compensation and Site Clearance Committee
DMS Detailed Measurement Survey
DONRE Department of Natural Resources and Environment
EM Ethnic Minority
EMC External Monitoring Consultant
EMDP Ethnic Minority Development Plan
HH Household
LFDC Land Fund Development Center
LURC Land Use Right Certificate
M&E Monitoring and Evaluation
MOT Ministry of Transport
PAH Project affected household
PAP Project affected person
PC People’s Committee
PIB Public Information Booklet
PMU2 Project Management Unit No. 2
PPMU Provincial Project Management Unit
RAP Resettlement Action Plan
RCS Replacement cost survey
TOR Term of Reference
uRAP updated Resettlement Action Plan
WB World Bank
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GLOSSARY
Affected person (AP) : Persons/individuals who as a direct consequence of the Project and
without their informed consent or power of choice, are either (a)
physically relocated or lose their shelter, (b) lose their assets or access to
assets , or (c) lose a source of income or means of livelihood whether they
are physically relocated to another place or not, (d) affected by the project
in part (marginally) or in full (severely), temporarily or permanently
through land acquisition that includes any person, firms, public or private
institutions. The PAPs, therefore, include:
• Persons whose agricultural land will be affected (permanently or
temporarily) by the Project;
• Persons whose residential land/houses will be affected in part or
in total (permanently or temporarily) by the Project;
• Persons whose leased houses will be affected (permanently or
temporarily) by the Project;
• Persons whose businesses, including farm and non-farm
business, or places of work, will be affected (permanently or
temporarily) by the Project;
• Persons whose crops and trees (annual and perennial) will be
affected by the Project;
• Persons whose other assets or access to those assets, will be
affected in part or in total by the Project;
• Persons who are squatters in public safety zones (i.e. right of the
way) who are usually poor and rely on their retailed business
(located on the right of the way) for income generation activities;
• persons who lose work/employment as a result of the project’s
impact;
• persons or organizations who lose access to community
resources/property as a result of the project; and
• persons whose any other fixed or movable asset acquired or
possessed.
Compensation : Means payment in cash or in kind to replace losses of lands, housing,
income and other assets caused by a project. All compensation is based
on the principle of replacement cost, which is the method of valuing assets
to replace the loss at current market rates, plus any transaction costs such
as administrative charges, taxes, registration and titling costs.
Customary rights to Patterns of long-standing community land and resource usage in
lands and resources accordance with Ethnic Minority Peoples' customary laws, values,
customs, and traditions, including seasonal or cyclical use, rather than
formal legal title to land and resources issued by the State
Cut-off- date : The cut-off date in accordance with Article 67.1 of Land Law 2013 is the
date when the Notice of Land Acquisition is officially released and sent
to all identified project affected households. Once cut-off date is
established, persons who encroached within the project boundary limits
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will not be eligible for claims of compensation or any form of
resettlement assistance.
Detailed : The finalization and/or validation of the results of the Inventory of Losses
Measurement Survey (IOL), severity of impacts and list of affected persons after the approval
(DMS) of the detailed design and demarcation of project boundaries on the
ground are completed. The cost of compensation, assistance and
resettlement is determined following completion of the DMS.
Eligibility Criteria : - Eligibility is irrespective of formal legal rights to land or of
customary claim (recognition of the rights and concerns of
indigenous or ethnic minority communities) to the land the PAPs
are occupying. A set of criteria that was developed in line with
the World Bank’s OP 4.12 to define the Project Affected Persons
based on land ownership of the affected persons and severity of
impacts, including:
- Persons whose agricultural land will be affected either severely
or marginally, permanently or temporarily by the Project;
- Persons whose residential land/houses will be affected in part or
in total (severely or marginally), permanently or temporarily;
- Persons whose leased houses will be affected either severely or
marginally, permanently or temporarily;
- Persons whose businesses, including farm and non-farm
business, or places of work will be affected either severely or
marginally, permanently or temporarily.
- Persons whose crops and trees (annual and perennial) will be
affected;
- Persons whose other assets or access to those assets, will be
affected in part or in total, permanently or temporarily by the
Project;
- Persons who are informal settlers in public safety zones (i.e. right
of way) who are poor and rely on their retailed business on the
safety zone for income generation activities; and
- Persons who rent houses for purpose of living.
Entitlements : The range of measures comprising cash or in-kind compensation,
relocation cost, rehabilitation assistance, income substitution, and
relocation which are due to PAPs depending on the degree of losses, to
restore, at a minimum, their social and economic base to pre-project levels
Free, Prior and The process of meaningful engagement with indigenous peoples at each
Informed stage of a project, particularly during project preparation to fully identify
Consultations (FPIC) their views and ascertain their broad community support for the project.
Income Restoration : Re-establishing productive livelihood of APs to enable income generation
equal to or, if possible, better than that earned by the affected persons
before being affected.
Income Restoration : A program with various interrelated activities that aims to support
Program severely affected and vulnerable households in the difficult task of
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restoring their standards of living to at least pre-project levels through
measures that involve enhancing productivity with the remaining human
and material assets of the AHs, and/or engaging in new or supplementary
livelihood activities The program is designed to suit the specific needs of
the participating AHs and is subject to opportunities and resources
available to the AHs where they are located.
Inventory of Loses The inventory of assets as a preliminary record of affected or lost assets
and people/households affected. The IOL is completed during the
preparatory phase/feasibility studies.
Involuntary : Resettlement is involuntary when the APs have no right to refuse the land
Resettlement acquisition by the state that result in their displacement. This occurs when
land is acquired through (i) expropriation by invoking the eminent domain
power of the state, or (ii) land is acquired through negotiated settlement
when the pricing is negotiated in a process where expropriation will be
the consequence of a failure in the negotiation.
Land acquisition : Means the process whereby a person is compelled by the Government
through the Executing Agency of the Project to alienate all or part of the
land she/he owns or possesses in favor of the State in the implementation
of the Project or any of its components in return for consideration.
Marginally Affected : The impact is only partial or less than 20% of land holding or less than
10% for vulnerable group and the remaining portion of the property or
asset is still viable for continued use or meet expected personal yield.
Compensation will be on the affected portion only.
Meaningful : A process that: (i) begins early in the project preparation stage and is
Consultation carried out on an ongoing basis throughout the project cycle; (ii) provides
timely disclosure of relevant and adequate information that is
understandable and readily accessible to APs; (iii) is undertaken in an
atmosphere free of intimidation or coercion; (iv) is gender inclusive and
responsive, and tailored to the needs of disadvantaged and vulnerable
groups; and (v) enables the incorporation of all relevant views of APs and
other stakeholders into decision making, such as project design,
mitigation measures, the sharing of development benefits and
opportunities, and implementation issues.
Relocation : Displacement or physical movement of the PAPs from the affected area
to a new area/site and the rebuilding of houses, infrastructure, provision
of assets, including productive land/employment, and the re-
establishment of income, livelihood, and living, and social systems.
Relocation Assistance : Support provided to persons who are physically displaced by the project.
Relocation assistance may include transportation, food, shelter, and social
services that are provided to the displaced persons during their relocation.
It may also include cash allowances that compensate APs for the
inconvenience associated with resettlement and defray the expenses of a
transition to a new locale, such as moving expenses and lost work days.
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Remaining Land Include costs that the land user has invested in land (for the land use
Investment Cost purpose) but have not been fully recovered by the time the land is
acquired. These includes costs for: a) landfill, b) soil fertility
improvement, soil erosion prevention (for farming purpose), c)
foundation preparation (for business purpose), and d) other investment as
appropriate to the land use purpose
Replacement cost : The amount of compensation sufficient to replace lost assets, including
transaction costs, which may include taxes, fees, transportation, labor, etc.
With regard to land and structures, "replacement cost" is defined as
follows: For agricultural land, it is the pre-project or pre-displacement,
whichever is higher, market value of land of equal productive potential or
use located in the vicinity of the affected land, plus the cost of preparing
the land to levels similar to those of the affected land, plus the cost of any
registration and transfer taxes. For land in urban areas, it is the pre-
displacement market value of land of equal size and use, with similar or
improved public infrastructure facilities and services and located in the
vicinity of the affected land, plus the cost of any registration and transfer
taxes. For houses and other structures, it is cost to build the new
house/structure with similar technical standard without depreciation and
deduction of salvageable materials, plus the cost of any related
registration and taxes. For crops, trees, and other perennials based on
current market value and other assets (i.e., income, cultural or aesthetic)
based on the replacement cost or cost of mitigating measures.
Right of Way - ROW : This is the area which will be cleared of all structures and obstructions.
Replacement Cost : This refers to the process involved in determining replacement costs of
Study (RCS) affected assets based on empirical data.
Resettlement : Refers to various measures provided to APs or AHs to mitigate any and
all adverse social impacts of the project, including compensation,
assistance, relocation (where relevant), and rehabilitation as needed.
Resettlement Action : A time-bound action plan prepared to compensate PAPs and /or mitigate
Plan - RAP the impact of resettlement that includes the objectives, principles,
entitlements, specific activities, responsibilities of concerned agencies,
groups or individuals, and budget for addressing the displacement of
people from assets, sources of incomes, houses, and communities
towards reconstructing their disrupted lives and improving or restoring
their standards of living to at least pre-displacement level.
Severely affected : The portion of the property to be affected is more than 20% or 10% for
Households vulnerable groups of the total area or even less than 10% if the remaining
portion is no longer economically viable or it will no longer function as
intended. Full compensation of the whole property
Stakeholder All individuals, groups, organizations, and institutions interested in and
potentially affected by a project or having the ability to influence a project
Vulnerable groups Distinct groups of people who might suffer disproportionately or face
the risk of being further marginalized by the effects of resettlement and
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specifically include: (i) women headed household (widow, disabled
husband with elderly or children), (ii) disabled or the elderly living alone,
(iii) poor people (living below the state poverty threshold), (iv) the
landless, and (v) ethnic minority groups.
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PREFACE
This is the Updated Resettlement action Plan (uRAP) for the subproject in Gia Lai Province
Subproject
1. Summary of the Resettlement Action Plan
The implementation of the project will cause disturbance, land acquisition,
displacement/relocation of people and disruption of income generating activities due to the
clearance of road right of way (ROW) or the project boundary limits. Nonetheless, mitigation
and compensation measures are to be applied to redress the unavoidable adverse effects of
project construction activities on local people through the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP).
The RAP for Gia Lai province was prepared in 2017 since the subproject require land
acquisition is in accordance with the policies prescribed in World Bank’s OP 4.12 (Involuntary
Resettlement) and Vietnam GOV’s policies. The key principles of the resettlement are:
(i) Physical displacement, economic and physical adverse impacts will be avoided
where feasible or, if not possible, minimized by examining all available design
alternatives, technology, and/or site selection. Where avoidance is not possible,
impacts must be mitigated;
(ii) If the need for resettlement is unavoidable, resettlement activities will be executed
as an integral part of the project, providing sufficient investment resources to enable
the persons affected by the project to receive the project benefits; and
(iii) All project affected persons (PAPs) will be meaningfully consulted and could
participate in planning and implementing resettlement programs.
Specifically, RAP aims to:
(i) Ensure that no impoverishment of people shall result as a consequence of land
acquisition, acquisition of assets, and resettlement for purposes of Project
implementation.
(ii) Ensure no affected person is worse off as a result of land acquisition due to project
implementation.
(iii) Ensure all affected persons are consulted and participated in project activities
(iv) Ensure all affected persons aware of procedure for grievances redress which is easily
accessible and responsive.
(v) Have in place a consultative, transparent, and accountable involuntary resettlement
process with a time frame agreed to by MOT/PMU2 and the affected persons.
(vi) Provide adequate assistance in the form of subsistence, transport, temporary
accommodation, housing, vocational training, capacity building, service provision
etc. to project affected persons.
2. WB’s requirements for updating of the RAP
WB requires to update the RAP if there are significant changes or more than 20% changes in
scope of impact and replacement cost after the completion of DMS or changes in policy on
compensation, support and resettlement which affects rights and entitlements of PAPs. Updated
RAP needs to be submitted to the Bank for review and endorsement. Implementation of land
acquisition, compensation and resettlement should be complied with the updated RAP.
Updated RAP needs to reflect the results of the following:
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o Results of Detailed Measurement Survey (DMS)
o Additional Socioeconomic Survey – in case where there is significant changes in
technical design/road alignment which cause remarkable increase/decrease of the
number of affected households.
o Additional Public Consultation with affected households, particularly on:
a. Resettlement options,
b. Needs assessment that PAPs expect to support their livelihood restoration.
o Replacement Costs Survey
3. The RAP update history
• The first Updating of the RAP in August 2020
The origin RAP was prepared in 2017 as part of the Feasibility Studies. The first Updated RAP
was prepared in 2020 primarily updating the policies to address the discrepancies/ inaccuracies
in the RAP of 2017, clarifying the institutional framework and mechanism for implementation,
and the monitoring and evaluation. At that time, DMS was not conducted because detailed
design had not been completed and approved so that no resettlement data was updated.
• The second Updating of the RAP in August 2022
The Second Updated Resettlement Action Plan 2022 has been prepared based on results of
Detailed Measurement Survey (DMS), Replacement Cost Survey and consultation with the
affected people after the approval of the detailed design and the Land Acquisition Plan.
The Second Updated Resettlement Action Plan 2022 was prepared based on the results of
detailed measurement survey (DMS), replacement cost survey and consultation with the
affected people after the approval of the detailed design and the Land Acquisition Plan. The
socio-economic survey found that there are 915 affected households with 145 HHs are
considered severely affected households, including 16 relocated households and 129 affected
households who loss more than 20% of agricultural/roductive land.
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I. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Project Introduction
1.1.1. Project Name
2. The Central Highlands Connectivity Improvement Project (CHCIP), hereinafter referred to
be “Project�?, will be implemented by the Government of Vietnam (GOV) through a Credit
from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank Group (WBG).
1.1.2. Project Objectives
3. The project is implemented with the aim to:
(i) Contribute to the development of the Asian Highway system connecting Vietnamese
coastal corridor with neighboring countries;
(ii) Strengthen the transport and logistics connectivity along the East-West corridor
from the Central Highlands to the Central Coastal Provinces;
(iii) Develop a road safety corridor on National Highway No. 19 (NH19) that meets the
international traffic safety standards including Vietnam’s Traffic Safety Strategy
requirements to a minimum of the International Road Assessment Program (IRAP)
3-star;
(iv) Improve the connectivity of the NH19 and the project will respond to the impending
effect of climate change.
1.1.3. Project Locations
4. NH19 is about 243 km long, 7-12 m wide, starts from Quy Nhon Port (Quy Nhon City.
Binh Dinh province) to Le Thanh border gate bordering Cambodia, Gia Lai province. The
project runs through 8 districts/cities/towns of 2 provinces, including Son Tay district, Binh
Dinh province; Pleiku City, An Khe town, districts of Dak Po, Mang Yang, Dak Doa, Chu
Prong and Duc Co, Gia Lai province. Details of the routes are presented in the Figure 1.
Figure 1 – CHCIP Location Map
1.1.4. Project’s components
5. The Project consists of two components: (1) Road improvement and (2) Project
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implementation support.
• Component 1 - Road improvement
6. Component 1 - Road improvement with total estimated investment capital of about USD
145 million, including the following investment items:
(i) Upgrading about 143.84 km of existing NH19 with investment items including: (a)
rehabilitation of about 16 km of existing road; (b) an extension of approximately
114 km of road with a cross section from 7 m to 10-11 m, for a section of 5 km will
be widened to 16 m. Road widening will be done with the installation of roadside
sewers; (c) Construction of 08 new bridges in the An Khe Bypass and Pleiku Bypass;
and improvement of 8 existing weak bridges on NH19 with bridge lengths of 09 m
to 33 m, bridge width of 09 m; and (d) The section on An Khe Bypass (Km 56 - Km
67) will be improved to increase the radius of the curve and protect the slope. Please
see more details in Table 1.
Table 1 – CHCIP – NH19 Road Improvement
Construction Road Section/Bypass Length Bridges Province
Packages (km)
PK CW1 Km 50+000 – Km 67+000 17.00 2 Bridges for Binh Dinh
Replacement
PK CW 2 Km 0+000 - Km13+700 (An 13.70 6 new bridges (342m) Gia Lai
Khe Bypass)
PK CW 3 Km 67+000 – Km 70+740 3.74 4 Bridges for Gia Lai
Km 83+600 – Km 90+000 6.40 Replacement
PK CW 4A Km 131+300 – Km160+000 28.70 2 Bridges for Gia Lai
Replacement
PK CW 4B Km 155+000–Km160+000 13.30 2 new bridges (147m) Gia Lai
(Pleiku Bypass)
PK CW 5 Km 180+000 – Km 200+000 20.00 Gia Lai
PK CW 6 Km 200+000 – Km 222+000 22.00 Gia Lai
PK CW 7 Km 222+000 – Km 241+000 19.00 Gia Lai
TOTAL LENGTH 143.84
Source: Project document, PMU2 – MoT, March 2021
(ii) Constructing a new 26.9 km of bypass route including 13.7 km of An Khe bypass
and 13.2 km of Pleiku bypass with a road surface width of 11 m. Constructing 08
new bridges on the bypass routes with the bridge surface width of 12 m long and
from 33 to 99 m wide.
• Component 2- Project implementation support
7. Component 2 - Implementation support with total investment estimated at 9.05 million
USD includes the following main activities:
(i) Preparing Detailed Design Document (DDD) for road sections, bridges and bypasses
to be improved, as well as construction supervision and safeguards monitoring, these
are important items for specific climatic environment, with its variable nature and
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extreme weather phenomena, Vietnam's infrastructure is vulnerable to climate
impacts.
(ii) Support activities for road safety:
o Conducting a Traffic Safety Audit
o Impact assessment of motorcycle lanes in Vietnam and updating draft manual
for motorcycle lane design and specifications with the incorporation of
international practices
o Strengthening the road safety management institutional capacity and
structures to improve road safety measures.
(iii) Technical support for climate change adaptation
o Supporting in identifying appropriate climate change adaptation measures to
reduce the impact of landslides on NH19. Specifically, this subcomponent
will aim to strengthen the detailed design of the roads as major congestion
related climate has been identified along NH19. Works within this framework
will provide design recommendations that support the prioritization of
climate resilience measures (including “gray�?, “green�? and “soft�? solutions
or a combination of them) to design detailed roads at identified hotspots or
congestion.
o Reviewing existing guidelines and technical standards for the road sector with
a climate change and disaster risk management vision to increase
understanding of the possible impacts of global climate change for road
infrastructure and networks.
Among 2 components, only component 1 requires land acquisition for construction of bypasses
and widening the road.
1.1.5. Construction Packages of the subProject in Gia Lai province
8. The NH19 section in Gia Lai province has a length of 126.84 km with a total number of 14
bridges to be replaced or newly built1. This section has 7 construction packages and runs
through the area of Pleiku City, An Khe town, and the districts of Dak Po, Mang Yang,
Dak Doa, Chu Prong and Duc Co in Gia Lai province. Details civil works packages of the
section in Gia Lai were presented in Table 2.
1
06 bridges will be replaced and 08 bridges will be newly built
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Table 2 – Detailed information of section in Gia Lai province
Package Length
Section Bridges Location
name (km)
PK CW 2 Km 0+000 - Km13+700 13.70 Constructing 06 An Khe town
(An Khe detour) new bridges
with a total
length of 342 m
PK CW 3 Km 67+000 – Km 70+740 3.74 Replacing 04 An Khe town and
Km 83+600 – Km 90+000 6.40 bridges on the Dac Po district
route
PK CW 4A Km 131+300 – 28.70 Replacing 02 Mang Yang and
Km160+000 bridges on the Dak Doa districts
route
PK CW 4B Km 155+000–Km160+000 13.30 Constructing 02 Pleiku City
(Pleiku detour) new bridges
with a total
length of 147 m
PK CW 5 Km 180+000 – Km 20.00 Chu Prong and
200+000 Duc Co districts
PK CW 6 Km 200+000 – Km 22.00 Duc Co district
222+000
PK CW 7 Km 222+000 – Km 19.00 Duc Co district
241+000
Total 126.84
Source: Project document, PMU2 – MoT, March 2021
1.2. Resettlement Action Plan
1.2.1 Resettlement Action Plan
• Objectives of the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP)
9. The preparation of the RAP for Gia Lai province since the subprojects require land
acquisition is in accordance with the policies prescribed in World Bank’s OP 4.12
(Involuntary Resettlement). In line with Bank’s OP 4.12, the key principles of the
resettlement are:
(i) Physical displacement, economic and physical adverse impacts will be avoided
where feasible or, if not possible, minimized by examining all available design
alternatives, technology, and/or site selection. Where avoidance is not possible,
impacts must be mitigated;
(ii) If the need for resettlement is unavoidable, resettlement activities will be executed
as an integral part of the project, providing sufficient investment resources to enable
the persons affected by the project to receive the project benefits; and
(iii) All project affected persons (PAPs) will be meaningfully consulted and could
participate in planning and implementing resettlement programs.
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10. Specifically, RAP aims to:
(i) Ensure that no impoverishment of people shall result as a consequence of land
acquisition, acquisition of assets, and resettlement for purposes of Project
implementation.
(ii) Ensure no affected person is worse off as a result of land acquisition due to project
implementation.
(iii) Ensure all affected persons are consulted and participated in project activities
(iv) Ensure all affected persons aware of procedure for grievances redress which is easily
accessible and responsive.
(v) Have in place a consultative, transparent, and accountable involuntary resettlement
process with a time frame agreed to by MOT/PMU2 and the affected persons.
(vi) Provide adequate assistance in the form of subsistence, transport, temporary
accommodation, housing, vocational training, capacity building, service provision
etc. to project affected persons.
• Origin Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) in 2017
11. The implementation of the project will cause disturbance, land acquisition,
displacement/relocation of people and disruption of income generating activities due to the
clearance of road right of way (ROW) or the project boundary limits. Nonetheless,
mitigation and compensation measures are to be applied to redress the unavoidable adverse
effects of project construction activities on local people through the Resettlement Action
Plan (RAP) which was prepared by PMU2 and approved by the government and the World
Bank.
1.2.2 Updated Resettlement Plans
• Key Issues subject for RAP updating
12. WB requires to update the RAP if there are significant changes in scope of impact and
replacement cost after the completion of DMS or changes in policy on compensation,
support and resettlement which affects rights and entitlements of PAPs. Updated RAP
needs to be submitted to the Bank for review and endorsement. Implementation of land
acquisition, compensation and resettlement for the subproject should be complied with the
updated RAP.
13. The Updated RAP for Gia Lai subproject includes the results of the following:
o Detailed Measurement Survey based on the approved detailed technical design
o Additional Public Consultation with affected households, particularly on:
a. Resettlement options,
b. Needs assessment that PAPs expect to support their livelihood restoration.
o Replacement Costs Survey
14. Main objectives of the updated RAP are: (i) Update project information according to
approved detailed technical design; (ii) Accurately determine the scale of land acquisition
of the project based on the results of the DMS that has been implemented; (iii) replacement
Cost for Compensation, Support and Resettlement of the Project; and additional
consultation with affected people in compensation plans.
15. .
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• Approach and Methodology for updating of the RAP
16. Approach and methodology mainly consist of quantitative and qualitative tools and
techniques.
- Collection of resettlement data and review of project literatures. This phase
familiarized with the concerned and important stakeholders to identify and collect the
available resettlement data and related documents to update the RAP. This involved (a)
discussions with PMU2 and other concerned, b) collection of DMS data and
replacement costs which were conducted by the implementing agencies; (c) Review of
legal policy provisions: Relevant national/provincial legislations and regulations
pertinent to the land acquisition and resettlement were reviewed to find any changes.
- Assessment of livelihood losses. The study made an attempt to identify people losing
their livelihood directly due to land acquisition. Also, through consultations the
rehabilitation strategies for those losses by way of training requirements for income
generation and other remedial and restoration measures were identified.
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II. LEGAL FRAMEWORK
17. This RAP has been prepared and updated based on applicable laws and regulations related
to land acquisition, compensation, support and resettlement of the Government of Vietnam
and the World Bank’s operational policy on Involuntary Resettlement (OP 4.12) equally
in consonance with the provisions of the Resettlement Framework (RF) that has been
formulated for WB funded projects to mitigate adverse effects. This RAP was also
developed on consultations with different stakeholders under the CHCIP project,
particularly with the affected persons who will be compensated for the assets to be affected
and supported in the restoration of their livelihoods.
2.1. National Legal Framework
18. A set of legal documents of the Government of Vietnam was employed under this project
to establish a legal framework for this RAP, including:
• The Constitution 2013 of Viet Nam;
• The Land Law No. 45/2013/QH13, effective in July 1, 2014;
• The Law on Complaints 02/2011/QH13 dated 11 November 2011;
• The Law on Denouncement03/2011/QH13 dated 11 November 2011
• Decree No.43/2014/ND-CP dated 15 May 2014, guiding in detail some articles of
Land Law 2013;
• Decree No.44/2014/ND-CP dated 15 May 2014, provides the methodology for land
pricing; adjustment to land price brackets, land price lists; specific land pricing and
land price consultancy activities;
• Decree No.47/2014/ND-CP dated 15 May 2014, guiding in detail some articles of
Land Law 2013 for compensation, assistance, resettlement when land is acquired by
the State;
• Decree No. 56/2020/ND-CP of 25 May 2020, on management and use of official
development assistance (ODA) and concessional loans of donors. Replacing Decree
No. 16/2016/ND-CP dated 16 March 2016 and 132/2018/ND-CP, dated October 01,
2018 on management and use of official development assistance (ODA) and
concessional loans of donors.
• Decree No. 01/2017/ND-CP dated 6/1/2017 amending and supplementing a number
of decrees detailing the implementation of Land Law.
• Circular No. 36/2014 / TT-BTNMT dated 30 June 2014, regulating method of
valuation of land, construction, land price adjustment, specific land valuation and
land valuation advisory;
• Circular No. 37/2014/TT-BTNMT dated 30 June 2014, regulating compensation,
assistance and resettlement when the State acquires land;
• Decision No. 1956/2009/QD-TTg, dated 17 November 2009, by the Prime Minister
approving the Master Plan on vocational training for rural labourer by 2020;
• Decree No. 75/2012/ND-CP of the Government dated 3Oct 2012, specifies some of
articles of the Complaint Law;
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• Decree No. 76/2012/ND-CP of the Government dated 3Oct 2012, specifies some
articles of the Denouncement Law;
• Circular No. 30/2014/TT-BTNMT date 2 June 2014 regulations on allocation of
land records, lease and transfer of land use, land acquisition.
• Decision No.63/2015/Q�?-TTg dated10 December 2015, on the assistance policies
for employment and vocational training to labours (households) whose land are
acquired by the State;
• Decision No.09/2018/Q�?-UBND by Gia Lai PC dated March 21, 2018
promulgating the regulation on compensation, support and resettlement when the
state recovers land in Gia Lai;
• Decision No. 02/2020/Q�?-UBND of Gia Lai PC dated January 09, 2020 on
amending and supplementing a number of the regulation issued together with
Decision No.09/2018/QD-UBND of March 21, 2018 by the Gia Lai PC
promulgating the regulation on compensation, support and resettlement when the
State recover land in the Gia Lai province;
• Other relevant legal documents issued by People’s Committees of Gia Lai which
are currently active.
2.2. The World Bank’s Operational Policy on Involuntary Resettlement (OP 4.12)
19. Involuntary resettlement under development projects, if unmitigated, often gives rise to
severe economic, social, and environmental risks. For instance, the production systems are
dismantled; people face impoverishment when their productive assets or income sources
are lost; people are relocated to environments where their productive skills may be less
applicable and the competition for resources greater; community institutions and social
networks are weakened; kin groups are dispersed; and cultural identity, traditional
authority, and the potential for mutual help are diminished or lost.
20. Given the above, World Bank’s Operational Policy on Involuntary Resettlement (OP 4.12)
provides comprehensive guidance in complying with the requirements for environmental
and Social Safeguards considerations (involuntary resettlement and indigenous
people/ethnic minorities) of the project. It contains three important elements as follows:
o provision of support and assistance for those who lose their land, assets, or
livelihood due to land acquisition or restriction on land use;
o assistance for relocation including provision of relocation sites with appropriate
facilities and services; and
o assistance for rehabilitation to improve or achieve at least the same level of well-
being with or without the project.
21. The overall objective of the policies is:
(a) Involuntary resettlement should be avoided where feasible, or minimized, exploring
all viable alternative project designs;
(b) Where it is not feasible to avoid resettlement, resettlement activities should be
conceived and executed as sustainable development programs, providing sufficient
investment resources to enable the persons displaced by the project to share in project
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benefits. Displaced persons should be meaningfully consulted and should have
opportunities to participate in planning and implementing resettlement programs;
(c) Displaced persons should be assisted in their efforts to improve their livelihoods and
standards of living or at least to restore them, in real terms, to pre-displacement levels
or to levels prevailing prior to the beginning of project implementation, whichever is
higher.
2.3. Gaps between the WB’s OP 4.12 and National Policies on Involuntary Resettlement
and Hamonization Measures
22. The resettlement and compensation policies applied for the project are in accordance with
the World Bank’s requirements and laws of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. Under the
WB policy, it is a condition of the funding institution that the Bank’s requirements are met
in relation to resettlement, compensation and rehabilitation to all affected households as
defined in the OP4.12.
23. With the promulgation of the Government Land Law 2013 (No. 45/2013/QH13) and
relevant Decrees stated above, the policies and practices of the Government have become
more consistent with the WB’s social safeguards policies. Nonetheless, provisions and
principles adopted in this RAP will supersede the provisions of the relevant decrees
currently in force in Viet Nam wherever a gap exists, as provided for under Item 2, Article
87 of the land law 2013 and Decree No. 56/2020/ND-CP of 25 May 2020, on management
and use of official development assistance (ODA) and concessional loans of donors.
24. The legal and policy framework on land acquisition and resettlement of GOV has been
compared with the requirements of WB’s policy and gaps were identified. The gap-filling
measures required to resolve the differences are shown in Table 3.
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Table 3 – Gaps between the World Bank’s and Government of Vietnam’s Policy
Subjects World Bank’s OP 4.12 Government of Vietnam and Gia Lai PPC Project Measures
1. Land Property
1.1.Policy objectives PAPs (Project Affected Persons) There is a provision of support to be considered Livelihoods and income sources will be
should be assisted in their efforts by PPC to ensure they have a place to live, to restored in real terms, at least, to the pre-
to improve their livelihoods and stabilize their living and production. (Article 25displacement levels or to levels prevailing
standards of living or at least to of Decree 47). prior to the beginning of project
restore them, in real terms, to pre- In case the amount of land compensation/support implementation, whichever is higher.
displacement levels or to levels is not enough for resettled people to buy a
prevailing prior to the beginning of minimum resettlement plot/apartment, they will
project implementation, be cash supported to be able to buy a minimum
whichever is higher resettlement plot/apartment (Article 86.4 of Land
Law 2013 and Article 27 of Decree 47)
1.2. Compensation for a) Agriculture land: PAPs are Land Law 2013, Article 77, item 2 and article 92: a) Agricultural land used before
land and non-land supported in Persons who have used agricultural land before
resettlement 1/7/2004 will be compensated at
assets of PAPs without instead of compensation for the 1st July 2004 and are directly involved in replacement cost; used after 1/7/2004 is
LURC or illegal for land they are occupying/using, agriculture production on the acquired land assisted for livelihood restoration
LURC. and other supports, to achieve without LURC or ineligible for LURC will be decided by Gia Lai PPC.
the resettlement objectives compensated for the acquired land area but not b) No compensation for illegal
exceed quota of agricultural land allocation. But
stated in OP4.12, if the land area residential land, but provision of
encroached before the official no compensation for non-land assets in the resettlement assistance and other
cut-off date; following cases: (i) the assets subject to the land supports according to decision of the
b) Non-agriculture land: no recovery as stipulated in one of items a, b, d, đ, e, PPC. For displaced cases, if user has no
compensation but user will get I, clause 1, article 64 and items b, d, clause 1, land/house in the project
resettlement assistance. article 65 of the Land Law 2013; the assets commune/ward they will be allocated a
created after the notification on land acquisition; standard land plot/apartment in
c) Compensation for loss of non-
and (iii) unused public infrastructures and other resettlement site with land use levy; if
land assets including dwellings,
works. the land user cannot afford to pay for
structures, tree, crops at full
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Subjects World Bank’s OP 4.12 Government of Vietnam and Gia Lai PPC Project Measures
replacement cost, if they have been land use levy, they will be debited and
constructed/created before cut-off paid by instalments.
date. c) compensate for non-land assets if they
have been created before cut-off date.
2. Compensation rate
2.1. Compensation Compensation for lost land and Compensation for land at specific land price of Independent appraiser identifies
rates for land and non- non-land assets including houses affected land; Compensation for living house at replacement costs for all types of assets
land assets and structures should be paid at the cost enough for constructing new house with affected to apply for compensation.
full replacement costs without similar technical standard; Compensation for
depreciation and deduction of other structures at current value.
salvageable materials.
2.2. Assistance for Provision of livelihood restoration Providing subsistent support for affected Provision of livelihood restoration and
severely affected and assistance for severely household who lose 30% or more of productive assistance measures for severely affected
household affected households who lose 20% land. households who lose 20% (10% for the
(10% for the poor/vulnerable poor/vulnerable households) of productive
households) of productive land to land to achieve the objectives of
achieve the resettlement resettlement
objectives.
3. Grievance Redress Mechanism
Grievance redress Grievance redress mechanism The same governmental body makes decisions on An effective Grievance Redress
should be independent compensation and resettlement, and also make Mechanism is established, built on the
decision on grievance redress. existing governmental system, with
monitoring by an external monitoring
consultant.
4. Monitoring and Evaluation
Monitoring and Internal and external monitoring Citizens are allowed to supervise and report on Both internal and external (independent)
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Subjects World Bank’s OP 4.12 Government of Vietnam and Gia Lai PPC Project Measures
evaluation are required. breaches in land use and management on their monitoring is to be regularly maintained
own (or through representative organizations), (on a monthly basis for internal and bi-
including land recovery, compensation, support annual basis for independent monitoring)
and resettlement (Article 199, Land Law 2013). and reported to the WB. An end-of-project
There is no explicit requirements on monitoring evaluation on the implementation of
of the resettlement works, especially independent resettlement is required and report will be
(external) monitoring. prepared to confirm whether the objectives
of OP 4.12 were achieved.
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III. SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THE PROJECT AREA
3.1. General Socio-Economic conditions of the Project’s Districts in Gia Lai Province
25. There are seven (7) Contract Packages are within 07 districts/Town and City of Gia Lai
with a total length of 126.84km, out of the 143.84km stretch of CHCIP. Some brief
information on socio-economic conditions in the project's districts/Town/City in Gia Lai
Province is described below.
3.1.1. Economic Structures
• An Khe Town
26. The ratio of industry is 50.4%, service 40.4%, agriculture 9.2%.
• Dak Po District
27. The ratio of trade-services is 41.5%, industry and construction accounted for 50.0% and
agriculture, forestry and fisheries accounted for 8.5%. The district's grain food production
in 2018 is 526.851 tons. The total cultivated area of the district is 22,415.5 ha, of which
rice is 1,416.6 ha. Per capita income reached 45.36 VND million / person / year up to 2018.
• Mang Yang District
28. In 2018, the ratio of trade-services accounted for 26.1%, industry and construction is 25.7%
and agriculture, forestry and fisheries accounted for 48.1%. Per capita income reached 36
million / person / year.
• Dak Doa District
29. The economy steady growth, averaging at 11.0% / year. In the end of 2018, the total value
of production reached VND 7.284 billion. Per capita income is estimated at VND 41.1
million/ person / year up to 2018. Agricultural economy achieved an average growth of
3.9 % / year in which the ratio of trade-services accounted for 34.4%, industry and
construction accounted for 23.84% and agriculture, forestry and fisheries accounted for
41.76%; agricultural development oriented commercial production, has formed and
developed some concentrated production areas of industrial crops of high economic value,
such as coffee, pepper. The district currently has over 27,800 hectares of coffee, 6,858.0
hectares of rubber; over 3,205 ha of pepper. In animal husbandry, the district had a total
livestock and poultry around 234.315 heads, of which cattle are 61.415 heads, crossbred
rate was 26.2%.
• Pleiku City
30. In 2018, the ratio of trade-services accounted for 53.07%, industry and construction
accounted for 42.86% and agriculture, forestry and fisheries accounted for 4.08%. In 2018,
average income / hectare of production reached about VND 93 million. Per capita income
in 2018 reached 52 million / person / year.
• Chư Prông District
31. The total production value in 2018 of the district reached VND 6,508.1 billion (100%), in
which agriculture, forestry and fishery is 59.8%, industry and construction are 17.5% and
services are 22.7% The total crop area of the district is 15621,6 hectares. . Per capita income
in 2019 reached 40 VND million / person / year.
• Duc Co District
32. In 2018, the value of agriculture, forestry and fishery production of the district reached
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VND 2,128.6 billion, in which service production value reached VND 1,861.1 billion,
accounting for 37.25%; production value of handicraft industry and construction reached
VND 1,006.5 billion, reaching 20.15%. The total cultivated area of the whole district has
reached 32288.2 ha; in which Long-term industrial crops (coffee, rubber, cashew, pepper)
with an area of 28,864 ha. Equivalent to 40% of the total natural area of the district and
89.4% of the total cultivated area.
3.1.2. Available infrastructures and services
33. Water Supply and Sanitation: Based from the 2018 Statistical Yearbook of Gia Lai
province, the proportion of people using potable water in the project districts ranged from
61.2% - 100%, while the highest rate recorded in Pleiku city and Dak Doa with 100% and
the lowest was Mang Yang district. There are 17.5% of project affected households use
water from dug wells, 29.4% use bored wells, others use tap water (53.1%). For drinking
water, 67.6% of households use tap water, 13.5% use dug well and 18.9% use bored well.
The statistics of Gia Lai also indicated that the proportion of households with sanitary
latrines in the districts of the project area ranges from 49% -100%, of which the highest
rate was in Pleiku city and the lowest was in Duc Co district.
3.1.3. Social Conditions
• Lan Use status
34. The project goes through An Khe town, Dak Po District, Mang Yang district, Dak Doa
district, Pleiku city, Chu Prong district and Duc Co district-Gia Lai province. Based from
Gia Lai Statistical Yearbook of 2018, agricultural land represents a large proportion,
particularly on land use structure of the districts in the project area as shown below Table
4 below.
Table 4 – Land use status of City/Town/Districts under the Project in Gia Lai Province
Specially used/ Homestead/
Administration unit Agricultural Forestry Total
Dedicated land Residential land
TX. An
12,455 3,965 1,735 642 20,007
Khê
�?ak Pơ 24,165 18,035 3,812 385 50,253
Mang
49,406 51,864 5,910 2,015 112,718
Gia Lai Yang
province �?ak �?oa 65,237 20,904 3,801 1,174 98,530
Tp. Pleiku 16,693 2,273 3,211 2,832 26,077
Chư Prông 105,395 45,596 3,530 1,035 169,391
�?ức Cơ 60,395 6,543 2,589 460 72,186
Land use structure 56.9% 30.5% 5.0% 1.5% 100.0%
Source: Gia Lai Statistical yearbook, 2018
• Population
35. The investment project routes go through 7 Districts/City and Town of Gia Lai province.
The most populated among the coverage area is Duc Co with a total population of 55,845
covering seven (7) communes while the least with only two communes/wards is Mang
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Yang with a total population of 16, 039. The population of the commune/ ward / township
in project area is shown in Table 6.
36. The population of the whole Gia Lai province has reached to 15,510,980 people in the end
of 2018 as per Gia Lai Statistical Yearbook. Out of the provincial population, 45.03%
belongs to the 34 ethnic minority (EM) groups. Most of the EMs are Jarai with a population
of 424,631 (30% of total population of the province) and Bahnar with a total population
of 166,732 (11.78% of total population of the province) and the rest of ethnic minorities
has a total population of 40,993 (3.08 % total population of the province).
37. The political role of ethnic minorities is enshrined such as , in the leadership of the
communes and wards in project area, at least the Chairman or Vice Chairman of PC of
communes, wards are from ethnic minorities. Bahnar and Jarai groups have long settled in
the Central Highlands, concentrated mainly on both sides of NH19. They live together with
the Kinh people and share public facilities and natural resources. The Bahnar and Jarai
groups in the project areas include both nuclear and extended families. The ratios of men
and women are 49% and 51%, respectively. Both Bahnar and Jarai people mainly live in a
concentrated manner and build a close-knit relationship among members in the community,
hence, the kinship is strong. The elderly within a village used to play a strong role in the
social organization of the Bahnar and Jarai people, but their roles have become weakened
over time. At present, members of these groups tend to follow the advice of the elected
respected persons in their villages.
38. The Bahnar and Jarai people mainly cultivate rice but in fields away from the road corridor
and will not be subjected to restriction of access to their fields with the construction of the
road/bypasses. In addition, they plant fruit and vegetable crops and industrial plants
(coffee, cashew, rubber,) and raise livestock. Agricultural livelihoods form their main
sources of income and sustenance. Some households also own small shops selling car
appliances, food, toiletries, drinks, and other basic commodities. About 10 - 20% of the
Bahnar and Jarai households are in the districts’ poor list. A majority of the Bahnar and
Jarai people live on agriculture. Besides, they are hired as porters for nearby construction
sites, or as seasonal laborers during a harvest season, or work for small businesses.
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Table 5 – Population of Communes/Wards/Townships in the Project Area
Commune/ Population in 2018 Density Average
Province District ward/ Area (km2) (person/ Household person/
Total Male Female HH
township km2)
Cư An 6,225 3,218 3,007 36.9097 169 1,624 3.83
�?ắk Pơ
Tân An 11,277 5,817 5,460 26.5493 425 2,742 4.11
Song An 4,527 2,320 2,207 44.171 102 1,220 3.71
An Phước 3,289 1,689 1,600 13.200 249 877 3.75
An Khe Town Thành An 4,767 2,457 2,310 22.497 212 1,135 4.2
An Bình 8,239 4,121 4,118 9.666 852 2,140 3.85
Ngô Mây 5,097 2,584 2,513 10.278 496 1,452 3.51
�?ak DJrăng 5,762 2,892 2,870 50.47 114.16 1,478 3.89
Mang Yang
Kon Dỡng Town 10,277 5,061 5,216 16.88 608.76 2,434 4.22
�?ăk �?oa 16,847 8,377 8,470 21.201 794 4,446 3.79
Tân Bình 4,737 2,382 2,355 21.576 219 1,278 3.71
K’dang 10,480 5,178 5,302 75.622 138 2,643 3.97
�?ắk �?oa
A Dơk 6,677 3,283 3,394 21.127 316 1,477 4.52
Glar 10,176 5,026 5,150 40.593 250 2,278 4.47
Gia Lai Ia Băng 12,709 6,403 6,306 53.347 238 3,038 3.23
Tp. Pleiku Gào 5,085 2,658 2,427 57.97 88 1,008 5.04
An Phú 12,334 6,253 6,081 11.16 1,106 2,840 4.34
Chư H’Drông 3,139 1,675 1,464 13.13 239 608 5.16
Chư �? 11,246 5,697 5,549 14.48 777 2,097 5.36
Thăng Hưng 6,395 3,183 3,212 38.93 164.27 1,674 3.82
Chư Prông Bầu Cạn 5,836 2,934 2,902 33.59 173.74 1,614 3.62
Bình Giáo 6,389 3,185 3,204 42.95 148.75 1,591 4.02
Ia Kriêng 5,985 2,976 3,009 109.21 54.80 1,622 3.69
Ia Kla 7,689 3,830 3,859 49.95 153.94 1,899 4.05
Chu Ty 12,861 6,329 6,532 15.45 832.70 3,367 3.82
�?ức Cơ Ia Pnôn 4,767 2,376 2,390 114.01 41.81 1,116 4.27
Ia Nan 7,893 3,925 3,968 90.31 87.39 1,608 4.91
Ia Krêl 8,400 4,173 4,227 53.48 157.06 1,991 4.22
Ia Dom 8,250 4,248 4,002 145.43 56.73 2,073 3.98
Source: Gia Lai Statistical yearbook, 2018
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• Education
40. The following data are extracted from Gia Lai Statistical Yearbook of 2018. Statistics show
that there are 111 educational institutions including primary, junior high and high school
in the communes covered by the project area. The number of educational institutions
decreases from the 121 educational statistics in 2015. Please see more details in Table 7.
• Health Care
41. Based from Gia Lai Statistical Yearbook of 2018, there are 122 health establishments that
include hospitals and medical service in the Project area. (Dak Po- 9; An Khet Town -12;
Mang Yang district -14; Dak Doa district -19; Tp. Pleiku-35; Chu Prong-22; and Duc Co
district -11).
42. According to the final report of the Department of Health (DOH) in 2016 in Gia Lai
province particularly in the project area often appears some common infectious diseases in
adults, such as dengue fever, influenza, tuberculosis and eye diseases. With the children,
there often have several diseases such as HFMD, chickenpox, eye diseases and upper
respiratory diseases... Specifically common diseases of new cases were recorded in 2016
in the project area as follows: (i) 13374 cases of dengue fever in Gia Lai province; (ii)
24290 cases of influenza in Gia Lai province; (iii) 851 cases of chickenpox in Gia Lai
province; (iv) 137 cases of HFMD in Gia Lai province (v) 754 TB cases in Gia Lai
province; (vi) 7250 cases of eye disease in Gia Lai province. Among these diseases, TB
has a high danger level and is prevented due to National TB prevention programs, and in
each province, there is specialized tuberculosis hospitals. The remaining diseases, because
care facilities and health care are well-invested, these diseases often do not outbreak on a
large scale.
43. In July 2020, the DOH in Gia Lai specifically in Dak Doa District detected an outbreak of
diphtheria. In response to the rise in cases, urgent preventive measures have been taken in
Dak Doa district with all villagers undergoing medical check-ups and being given
diphtheria vaccine shots. At present, the province recorded 2 diphtheria outbreaks totaling
to 20 cases. More than 1,400 local people were put into isolation at their home with 19
being tested positive for Corynebacterium bacterial strain. Gia Lai is the 3rd province
located in the Central Highlands region to have reported a diphtheria outbreak following
detection in Dak Nong and Kon Tum.
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Table 6 – Schools in communes/wards/townships in the Project’s area2
Commune/ Students
Province District ward/ Schools High
Kindergarten Primary Secondary Total
township school
Gia Lai An Khê An Phước 0 0
Thành An 2 190 NA NA NA 190
An Bình 4 241 NA NA NA 241
Ngô Mây 2 265 NA NA NA 265
Song An 3 112 443 318 873
�?ắk Pơ Cư An 4 443 579 326 1,348
Tân An 3 356 911 849 2,116
Mang Kon Dỡng 5 609 2117 0 2,726
Yang �?ak DJrămg 3 313 NA NA NA 313
�?ak �?oa 10 1,234 2,519 1,594 1,295 6,642
�?ăk �?oa
Ia Kla NA NA NA NA NA NA
Ia Băng 4 556 1461 563 0 2,580
Tân Bình 3 255 517 359 0 1,131
Kdang 4 442 1069 510 0 2,021
Glar 4 374 905 597 0 1,876
A Dơk 4 228 807 425 558 2,018
Pleiku Gào 2 269 504 256 0 760
An Phú 3 383 1,339 774 0 2,113
Chư Hdrông 1 0 0 627 0 627
Chư �? 2 512 583 499 0 1,082
Chư Thăng Hưng 3 231 707 488 0 1,426
Prông Bình Giáo 3 165 719 482 0 1,366
Bàu Cạn 3 252 607 394 0 1,253
�?ức Cơ Ia Kriêng 4 245 598 255 0 1,098
Chư Ty 10 834 2,048 1,624 1,152 5,658
Ia Pnôn 3 1289 567 271 0 2,127
Ia Nan 4 212 867 474 0 1,553
Ia Krêl 5 1341 815 428 0 2,584
Ia Dom 4 445 922 513 562 2,442
Ia Din 5 299 972 513 437 2,221
Source: Gia Lai Statistical yearbook, 2018
2
NA: There is at least 01 primary school and 01 secondary school in each commune/ward/town. Data in some
communes are not detailed.
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• Culture and Religion
44. There are some cultural and religious relics along the investment route, such as: (1) Xa
temple (Song An commune –An Khê town– Gia Lai, 20-30m from NH19), a small local
temple, worshipping snake god, held annually on February 20th, lunar calendar, (2) Cho
Dong parish church (An Bình ward - An Khê town - Gia Lai, 20m from NH19), (3) Minh
Chau pagoda (Kong Dơng township - Mang Yang district) 20m from NH19, (4) Buu Tan
pagoda (Pleiku city – Gia Lai), 10m from NH19, (5) Duc Giang pagoda (Pleiku city – Gia
Lai) 20m from NH19, (6) Nguyen Son pagoda, Khanh Thien pagoda (Chư Prông district –
Gia Lai) 20-25m from NH19.
45. The traditional and unique customs, the harvest festival for favorable wishes, good weather,
a prosperous life, the main festival of Jarai and Bahnar people are as follows:
(i) Po Thi festival held from November until the end of April following the calendar
year. It is the biggest, crowded, and longest festival.
(ii) Dam Trau festival: Organization for the period from the beginning of lunar
December last year to March next year. Bahnar held for 3 days, and the Jarai held
for one day and a half. Dam Trau festival was held on the victory, the victory of the
community celebration, inauguration of the communal house, praying for peace,
celebration remove bad omen for the whole village or divine thanksgiving.
(iii) Com Moi festival: Held in November of each calendar year, the festival is typical of
the Bahnar and Jrai held to thank the god of rice, new crop celebrates, pray for the
rice fields to grow more grain.
(iv) Cau Mua festival: Usually held from March to May each year. Ceremony for rain is
a folk belief phenomenon, reflecting the aspirations of the inhabitants of agriculture
department.
(v) Ben Nuoc festival: usually held in March and lasting 1 day to pray for good weather,
good harvests, and happy prosperous life.
(vi) Cong Chieng festival is held every year in alternate form in the provinces that have
gong culture in the Central Highlands, the time depends on the organizational plan
of the province. The festival is held to promote the Image of Space of Gong culture
recognized as a UNESCO Oral and Intangible Heritage of humanity.
(vii) Parents festival: commonly held on agricultural leisure (1-3 lunar month), in 1 day
(not fixed) from the married child, own their own homes voluntarily informed the
clan, parents that he/she want to celebrate thanksgiving for parents gave birth to and
raised him/her.
3.2. Socio-Economic Survey (SES) on the Project Affected Households
• Objectives of SES
46. A socio-economic survey was conducted in 2020 at all (30) project’s
communes/wards/town in Gia Lai Province.
47. The objectives of socio-economic survey were:
(i) To attach actual values to key indicators of the PAPs social and economic status and
their vulnerability to socio-economic change due to the project.
(ii) To assess use/dependence on common property resource;
(iii) To provide a benchmark for any further information needed to monitor and evaluate
entitled persons in the future; and
(iv) To provide further inputs in preparation of RAP
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• Sample Sizes of SES
48. Out of the estimated 915 affected households3, the socioeconomic survey (household
survey) covered 218 respondents/household heads who owned land. The sampled 218
households comprised of 1,125 family members. The proportion of male respondents is
62% (136 persons). Findings of the survey are presented as follows.
3.2.1. Household size
49. Each affected household has an average household size of 4.6member. The proportion of
male and female in all affected households are 51.6% and 48.1%, respectively, of which
there are 127 households with 4 or less member (58.26%), 78 households with number of
member of 5-7 (35.7%), 13 households with 8 members or more (5.96%).
Table 7 – Summary of the Affected Households and Family’s structure
Project affected
Household size
Total households
HH in Total Average
<= 4 5-7 >= 8
sample Number of households’ % % %
people/HH people/HH people/HH
people size
218 1,012 4.6 127 58.26 78 35.78 13 5.96
Source: SES Results, July 2020
50. Within the sample of 218 households, the percentage of male-headed households 83.9%
(183 HHs) whereas that of female-headed households are 16.1% (35 HHs).
3.2.2. Ethnicity
51. From the sample, most of the affected households are from Kinh (199 HHs, 91.3%). The
remainder (19 HHs, 8.7%) are from ethnic minority, including Bahnar (11 HHs, 5.05%),
Jarai (4 HHs, 1.83%), Nung (2HHs, 0.92%), Thai (1 HH, 0.46%) and Muong (1 HH,
0.46%). Of the total 19 ethnic minority households from the sample who are potentially
affected, 4 Bahnar HH (located at Glar commune of Dak Doa district, Pleiku bypass) are
likely to be relocated. Consultation has been conducted with these four households,
including consultation with the local head of this EM group.
• Socioeconomic condition
52. Some key socioeconomic and cultural practices of five groups of affected EM peoples
(Thai, Muong, Nung, Bahnar and Jarai):
o Thai People
53. The social unit of the Tay is matrilineal. Tay’s property regimes are divided into public
ownership of the village and into ownership of private household property. The public
ownership includes all land, forests, rivers, and natural resources within the village. Roads,
bridges, temples, and shrines are classified as public property.
54. Private ownership comprised of all the production land that is owned, cultivated, or
reclaimed by each family. In addition, assets such as houses, agricultural products,
3
Total number of affected households is only an estimate, at this time, the DMS activities have not been
implemented.
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household items, handicrafts and other items produced by household members are private
property of the family. Each village has regulations concerning protection of forests and
water resources as well as land and production activities. Social relations between relatives
and neighbors in the village are demonstrated in all aspects of life, both in production,
spiritual life, and religious beliefs. Agricultural production is the main economic activity
for most Thai people in Gia Lai, in addition, they have more experience in embankment,
digging ditches, making gutter drain to get water. Sticky rice is the main food. Thai people
also cultivate for rice, vegetables, and other crops. Each family raises livestock and poultry.
Some households still maintain family crafts like knitting and weaving.
o Muong People
55. Muong people live in the mountainous area to the southwest of Hanoi. Considered the only
surviving descendants of the early Vietnamese, the Muong, unlike the lowland northern
Vietnamese, have been less influenced by the Chinese. Their language, called Muong, is a
subset of the Vietic branch of Mon-Khmer, a language family of Austroasiatic stock. The
Muong’s social structure is patrilineal and has as its foundation based on extended family.
Only males can own property. Muong’s economic base is agrarian. Rice is grown on
terraced land. Dry rice cultivation is also practiced. Pigs, oxen, buffalo, and chickens are
often kept. Hunting is done to provide meat for festivals. The Muong gather wood and
cinnamon for extra income generation. They live in clusters of 10–25 houses, portions of
which are used to hold animals and store crops. Several of their towns have become trading
centers.
56. The Muong practices a religious animism, worshiping ancestral and supernatural spirits,
many of which are also recognized by the northern Vietnamese. Muong people live in
areas that has more productive land, near roads, convenient for doing business. Previously,
sticky, or glutinous rice is their daily food which is grown more than sweet grain rice.
Currently, more people eat ordinary rice so ordinary rice is now the main food crops. Some
households have developed industrial crops (coffee, pepper) and new rice that increases
productivity and extend breeding livestock. Besides, people raise pigs, chicken in flock for
meat and eggs. Their cages are placed away from home and water sources.
o Nung People
57. The Nungs are closely related to the Tays and have similar village structure. The Nung
people share the language of Tay, and typically share the same villages. The Nung follows
the male line and have a tradition of handing all inheritance down to only son. The Nung
are mostly Buddhists with influence of Confucianism, and they worship their ancestors.
Like the Tay, the Nung have a long tradition of rice cultivation and well-developed
irrigation systems. They grow vegetables, groundnuts, fruits, spices, and bamboo. Their
field are typically located on the side of the hills.
58. Nung people knows many types of handicrafts: weaving, knitting, woodworking, making
carbon paper, etc. They also do some tradition jobs but still minor jobs for the need of
families. These jobs are restored step by step, to increase incomes, while preserving
traditional values.
o Bahnar and Jarai People
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59. The Bahnar and Jarai people mainly grow rice, but in fields away from the road corridor.
They also grow fruit and vegetable crops, industrial plants (coffee, rubber) and raise
livestock. Agricultural livelihoods form their main source of income and sustenance. Some
households also own small shops selling car appliances, food, toiletries, drinks, and other
basic commodities.
• Cultural life of ethnic minority communities
60. Thai People. Thai people have the custom of matrilineal. They will move to their new
houses after few years. But there is almost no case like this except the wives require.
Houses of Thai people in Gia Lai are still traditional stilt houses. bout the spiritual world,
Thai people have polytheistic belief and keep worshipping their ancestors. Their life
attached to agricultural production. Thus, they keep the customs of taking water at New
Year eve, welcome thunder, and some other seasonal festivals. As for the dead, they have
a concept that the dead continue "living" in the afterlife, so the funeral is off ceremony for
the deceased to "village of heaven."
61. Muong People. Most of Muong people in Gia Lai still live in traditional stilt houses with
4 roofs. Under the stilt floor are barns and cages and other production tools. Customs:
Ancestor worshipping and polytheism. The old social organization of Muong people were
“Governor�? regime that divided into regions and shared governance. Muong wedding is
close to Kinh custom. When people give birth in the home, the main stair will be railed by
a bamboo fence. They name the children after he/she grows about one year old. When a
person dies, the funeral was held under strict ritual.
62. Nung People. In many areas, corn is the main food. Corn is grounded into flour to make
thick porridge. Foods are prepared by frying, stir-fried, cooked, but rarely boiled. Many
people abstain from meat of bovine animals and dogs. Most of the houses are stilt house.
Some are made of brick or wood. Nung worship their ancestors. Altar placed in a solemn,
beautiful decorated. Besides, they also worship land's deity, Guanyin, some types of ghost
door, etc. and organizational offering when there have natural disasters, epidemics. Nung
people have many unique festivals, cultural traditions, one of the most popular festivals
which attract many people from different ages is '' lung tung '' (also means down field
festival) is held annually in lunar January.
63. Bahnar and Jarai People. Bahnar and Jarai have their own ethnic languages which are
spoken mainly among families and community members. The Bahnar and Jarai have
preserved their own languages and passed onto younger generations mainly verbally. In
terms of culture and ancestral traditions, Bahnar and Jarai people still maintain their
traditional customs to worship their ancestors and pray for good weather in the New Year
Festival. During the festival, they usually wear traditional clothes. Each village has a
cultural house which is a wooden structure built on tilts. In the project area, most Bahnar
and Jarai people follow Christianity and Evangelicalism.
3.2.3. Age structures
64. Of the surveyed affected persons, 256 persons (25.3%) are 18 years of age, or under. There
are 268 persons within the group of 18-30 years of age (26.48%) and 203 persons within
the group of 31-45 years of age (20.6%). The number of persons aged 46-60 years of age
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are 199, making up 19.66%. while 71 persons or 17.02% aged 60 or above. The data also
revealed that 67.7% of the total affected population (from the sample) are within the work
age (685 persons). The persons above 60 years of age and under 18 years of age accounted
for 32.3% of the affected population. Yet, around of this population are active in
agricultural production.
18 - 30 years old,
Over 60, 20.18 , 2.75 , 3%
20%
31 - 45 years old,
29.82 , 30%
46 - 60 years old,
47.25 , 47%
3.2.4. Education Status
65. Educational attainment of affected households is reviewed in two indicators (i) the level of
education of the household head, and (ii) the level of education of family members who
are affected. This aims to assist the design of information, education, and communication
activities, as well as livelihood restoration program.
• Educational attainment of the household head
66. Of the total 218 respondents/HH, there are 183 male-headed households and 35 female-
headed households. Of these, there are 105 head of household (48.2%) who have completed
secondary high school, 49 head of household (22.5%) have graduated primary school. At
a higher level of education, there are 43 head of household (19.7%) who completed high
school. The number of household heads completing vocational school, college, university
is 17 people, making up 7.8%. The number of illiterate household heads are 4 people,
accounting for 1.83%.
67. Comparing by gender, of the 105 householders completing high school, the number of male
head of household are 94 whereas female headed households are 11. Within the male
headed household group, the number of households completing high school accounts for
51.37%. Within the female headed household group, the number of households completing
high school makes up only 31.4% (11 person).
68. Similarly, at the primary school level, of 49 household heads, there are 37 male headed
households and 12 female headed households. The male group accounts for 20.32%
compared with total male headed households, and 17.0% compared with total household
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heads. The female group accounts for 34.29% compared with total male headed
households, and 5.5% compared with total household heads.
69. At high school level, this group include 43 persons, making up 19.7% compared to the total
household heads. The female group accounts for 22.86% and male group accounts for
19.13%, respectively to female and male group. The group completing vocational high
school, college and university makes up 7.8%, of which male group making up 7.65% and
female 8.57%. There are four household heads (1.8%) who are illiterate. By gender, there
are 3 male head households and 1 female headed household.
60.00
51.37
50.00
40.00 34.29
31.43
30.00 22.86
20.22 19.13
20.00
7.65 8.57
10.00 1.64 2.86
-
Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female
Litteracy Primary Secondary Vocational/College/University
High school
• Educational attainment of members of affected households
70. Of the total 1,012 people (from 218 households participating in the socioeconomic survey),
the number of men and women are 532 and 480, respectively. Children who have not yet
at school age makes up 8.3%. The data indicates that total affected households who
complete high school make up the highest percentage (416 persons, 41.11%). There is no
remarkable difference between male and female at this educational level (221 male,
41.54%) vs 195 female, 40.62%. Percentage who is attending and who have graduated high
school is 15.61% (158 people), in which the percentage of male is 1.56% higher that of
female. The proportion who are attending and graduated primary school is 19.37% (196
people) with no significant difference between men and women.
71. Regarding university level, no significant difference is found between the percentage of
men and women enrolled in high school, college, and university. At the high school,
colleges and university level, the proportion of person completing this level is 14.43% in
which the proportion of men is 14.1% (75 people) and women is 14.8% (71 people). The
percentage of illiterates makes up 1.3% of the total number of affected people. The
illiteracy rate among women and men is balanced - 1.12% (men) vs 1.46 (women).
3.2.5. Gender Analysis
• Occupation of affected household heads
72. 155 HHs are engaged in agricultural production, in which 137 are male headed households
and 18 female headed households. These 155 HHs are agricultural/farmers that represents
71.1% of the total sampled affected households and are scattered relatively from different
communes and towns. There are 5 households who are retired officials and currently doing
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housework, or engaged in handicrafts, mechanic, noodles, pastry, making up 2.29% of the
total affected households from the sample. There are 11 HH who work for companies in
industrial parks. The number of male HH is 8 and female headed households is 3. In
addition, 14 HH (6.4%) are government officials and 19 HH (8.72%) are into sale
businesses, out of which 15 male headed household head and 4 female headed households.
There are two other household who work as drivers.
140
120
100
80
137
60
40
20
18 15 8 9 7
0 4 3 5 5 2 0 5 0
Female
Female
Female
Female
Female
Female
Female
Male
Male
Male
Male
Male
Male
Male
Agriculture Business/ service Worker Officer Student Retiree,
Wage Earnerhousewife, incapacitation
• Occupation of members of affected household members
73. There are 532 men and 480 women from the samples taken. The number of AHs is at the
working age (18 – 60) that makes up 67.7% of the total members. 456 household members
(209 women and 247 men) are currently engaged in agricultural production and accounting
for 45.06% of total samples. If disaggregated by gender, there is no big difference between
men and women. The percentage of men and women participating in agriculture are
46.43% and 43.54%, respectively.
74. The number of people active in wage employment in private companies and private
businesses is small (14 people, with 9 men and 5 women), making up 1.4%. Most of the
household head (11 people) who work as hired labor is household head. Only 3 people who
are not household heads. There are 2.87% (29 people, including 17 men and 12 women)
who are working as hired labor, primarily in mechanical workshops (mainly young people).
75. There are 74 people (39 men and 35 women) who are working in the public sector (7.31%).
Most of them aged between 25 and 45 years old. Around 75 people are engaged in private
businesses (7.41%) and 9 people (0.89%) in the field of transport. 54 persons (5.34%,
including 20 men and 34 women) who are retired and/or do housework, or running
occasional small business during off-farm season. There are 301 people who are students
(156 male and 145 female), accounting for 29.74% of those affected in the sample.
• Income
76. The average income of the 218 HHs is 11,230,000 VND/month. Compared between male
headed households and female headed households, the average income from male headed
household appears higher than that of female headed households - 3,750,000 VND/month
for male headed household vs 1,600,000 VND/month for female headed households.
While, the average income of all members of the affected household from the sample is
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3,267,000 VND/month. Geographically, the average income appears to be higher in
communes, town of An Khe and Pleiku City compared to that of communes in the rura/,
remote areas. Highest income is found among households in An Binh Commune with
15,104,000 VND/household/month whereas the lowest income are among communes of Ia
Dok and Tay Giang with only 5,700,000 VND/household/month. The highest income per
households is 550,000,000 VND/year whereas the lowest income was 32,000,000
VND/year.
Table 8 - Average Monthly Income per Affected Household
More than 3,000,000
<=2 Million VND From 2 - 3 Million VND TOTAL
Million VND
Households % Households % Households % Households %
23 10.55 47 21.56 148 66.7 218 100.0
Source: SES Results, July 2020
• Division of Labor
77. Consultation with affected Kinh households indicates that there somehow a more balanced
labor division among men and women based on stereotype among the Kinh. It appears
that women among affected EM groups still undertake household chores such as childcare
and housework even when they are sick and need personal health care, including maternal
health care. In addition, women among EM groups are still confined within their houses –
doing housework and crop care, whereas men are expected to participate in activities
outside the family. This apparently leaves the women less chance of being trained in skills
that can improve their traditional dual roles – child/family care and crop care. According
to some literature, women undertake both housework and crop care and are strongly
expected to perform both roles since they are not mainly involved in income generating
activities, so their voices are less heard.
• Gender among potentially affected ethnic minority groups
78. For local people, agricultural production is the main work that are shared by all family
members. For the Kinh, Thai, Tay, Muong ethnic groups, man and woman in a family play
an equal role. In addition to housework, woman are expected to participate in farming
activities: they can operate lawn mowers, spray pesticide, and directly harvest pepper and
coffee. Only heavy works such as driving of tractors/trucks are assumed by men. Affected
people think that their current work assignment (within the family) is appropriate. If their
productive land is acquired, lives of all family members will be adversely affected. It is
highly likely that they need to work as hired labor to maintain their family income in case
all or part of their productive land are acquired by the project. The acquisition of land would
affect the labor division within the family itself.
79. For Jarai group (inherited matrilineal), woman plays a decisive role in every aspect of daily
life - from farming to family expenditure. Therefore, the loss of productive land are of
utmost concern to Jarai women. However, in terms of labor division, Jarai women can use
simple farming tools whereas tractors are operated by men. To address the concern of
women when land is acquired for the project purpose, women should be provided access
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to loan to undertaking other job in order to maintain their livelihoods. Training of new job,
in their opinion, should target both men and women. Generally, local people expect access
to loan to improve their agricultural production.
3.2.6. Energy, water, and sanitation
80. 100% of households surveyed have access to electricity from the national grid. In addition
to lighting and other purpose, electricity is also used for cooking purpose despite liquefied
petroleum gas (LPG) is still the main energy when it comes to cooking which accounts
for almost 98% of households. Coal and firewood are still used among some households.
81. In terms of water access, 17.5% of households use water collected from dug wells, 29.4%
use drive wells, 53.1% use tap water. For drinking purpose, 67.6% use tap water, whereas
13.5% use dug wells and 18.9% use drilled wells.
82. In terms of sanitation, 79.3% of households have flush toilets. 17.5% of households have
temporary latrines. 2.2% of households have no access to latrine.
3.2.7. Vulnerable Households
83. Of the total 218 surveyed households, 38 are vulnerable as defined by the policy
framework. Of this total, 9 households are ethnic minorities, 5 women-headed households
with dependent people, 6 households are poor households, 16 households are of social
policies and 1 people with disability (PWD).
3.2.8. Impact on Livelihoods
84. Among the total 720 HHs affected by the subproject in Gia Lai Province, there are 145
HHs are considered as severely affected households, including 16 rolocated households
and 129 affected households who loss more than 20% of agricultural/Productive land.
These households are entitled to participate in livelihood restoration programs proposed
for the project.
3.2.9. Need Assessment on Livelihood Restoration Program
85. Focus Group Discussions (FGD) including need assessment for potential affected women
together with representative of Women’s Union was carried out by the DDD Social
Safeguards and Gender Team every after the Public Consultations for Priority Sections on
May and June 2020 for Non-Priority Sections and during the FPICon on June 16-17, 2020
to assess the specific need of women to fully restore their livelihood.
86. In general, the women requested the following training to be included in the LRP:
o Training on business (production) development/management/Poverty
Reduction; and Training on agricultural extension, forestry, and fishery
cultivation techniques through programs of the government and with the
guidance of agricultural extension staffs of commune and districts.
o Provided technical assistance and credit support for development of
production activities through the National fund for Employment Support of
District Department of Labour- Invalid and Social Affairs (DOLISA) and
Agriculture and Rural Development Bank.
o Training on Traffic Accident prevention.
o Training on preventing social evils/child marriage, HIV/AIDS and Training
on gender Equality and Community Supervision.
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o Vocational Trainings for family members such welding, electronics,
motorcycle repairs so they could apply to work in companies or open small
repairing shops.
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IV. UPDATED THE IMPACTS OF LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT
4.1. Data updating status
87. The data on number of the affected households and the scope of land acquisition as shown
in this section have been complied and updated according to the results of the DMS that
provided by the District Board for Compensation and Land Acquisition of An Khe Town,
Dak Po, Mang Yang, Dak Doa, Chu Prong and Duc Co districts (DBCLAs) ; and Land
Fund Development Center of Pleiku City (updated to May 2022).
4.2. Scope of Land acquisition and Resettlement Impacts
88. The proposed alignment passes through 17 wards/township/communes of An Khe Town,
Dak Po, Mang Yang, Dak Doa, Chu Prong and Duc Co districts and Pleiku City of Gia Lai
Province. The project will acquire approximately 580,586 m2 of land including: (i) 14,573
m2 of residential land; (ii) 554,789 m2 of agricultural land (annual cropland and perennial
land); and (iii) 11,224 m2 of other land (public land managed by CPCs; and 7,143.5 m2 of
non-agricultural land managed by 03 organizations).
4.2.1. Impacts on Individual Households4
89. According to result of the DMS, 720 households with 3,249 persons will be affected their
lands, including residential land and agricultural land; 03 organization will be impacted to
their non-agricultural land (business land), in which:
• 16 affected households will be totally affected their houses and have to be relocated,
including: An Khe Town: 05 households; Dak Po District: 10 households; and Mang
Yang district: 01 household.
• There are 353 households will be partially impacted to secondary structures (mainly
fences and yards);
• There are 129 affected households who lose more than 20% their agricultural land
and consider as severely affected households, of which 113 affected households
lost from 20% to 70% of their agricultural/productive land; and 16 affected
households lost more than 70% of their agricultural/productive land
• There are 196 vulnerable households among the project affected households,
including: 161 Ethnic Minority Households (mainly in Dak Doa District and Pleiku
City); and 35 households belonging to other vulnerable groups.
4.2.2. Impacts on Land
• The project will acquire a total of 554,789 m2 of agricultural land (annual crop land
and perennial land), and 14,573 m2 residential land.
• Out of 720 affected households, there are 35 affected households do not have land
use right certificate (LURC).
4
Updated figures according to the DMS results in May 2022
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Table 9 – Summary of the Affected households
Severely Affected HHs Total
(for poor/Vulnerables)
Affected Households
Crop and tree (HH)
Structure (HH)
Losing 10 - 70%
Renter HHs
Losing 20-70%
Vulnerable
Land (HH)
Bussineses
Losing >70%
Relocation
SubTotal
EM
No. Districts/Town/City
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
I An Khe Town - - - 67 - 3 - 5 - 75 - - - 13 - - 256 193 - - 61 70 224 189 85 193
1.1 Song An - - - 23 - - - - - 23 - - 4 - - 59 48 - 5 9 52 47 15 48
1.2 Ngo May - - - 4 - - - - 4 - - - - 24 10 - 1 - 14 10 14 10
1.3 An Phuoc - - - 15 - 1 - 4 - 20 - - 8 - - 67 55 - 21 19 66 53 15 55
1.4 Thanh An - - - 14 - - - 1 - 15 - - - - 59 48 - 21 27 57 47 22 48
1.5 An Binh - - - 11 - 2 - - 13 - - 1 - - 47 32 - 13 15 35 32 19 32
II Dak Po District - - - 16 - 5 - 10 - 31 10 10 - 8 60 1 113 96 10 - 74 83 98 100 114 114
2.1 Cư An - - - - - - - - - 5 10 2 60 1 51 45 5 - 51 63 43 45 63 63
2.2 Tân An - - - 16 - 5 - 10 - 31 5 6 - 62 51 5 - 23 20 55 55 51 51
III Mang Yang District - - - - - - - 1 - 1 - 1 - 3 - - 9 8 - - 33 37 21 17 51 37
3.1 Kon Dỡng Town - - - - - - - 1 - 1 - 1 1 6 5 - 8 7 7 5 10 7
3.2 �?ăk Djrang - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 3 3 - 25 30 14 12 41 30
IV Dak Doa District 4 - 1 - - - 14 - 15.0 - - 5 40 - - 88 208 138 8 - 86 104 94 87 100 176
4.1 Tân Bình - - - - - - 5 - 5.0 - - 20 - 5 - 3 - 16 23 22 11 43 25
4.2 K'Dang - - - - - - 7 - 7.0 - 5 - 6 - - 8 7 8 11 22 13
4.3 Ia Băng 3 - - - - - 2 - 2.0 - - 10 - 55 124 88 5 62 74 62 65 20 88
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Severely Affected HHs Total
(for poor/Vulnerables)
Affected Households
Crop and tree (HH)
Structure (HH)
Losing 10 - 70%
Renter HHs
Losing 20-70%
Vulnerable
Land (HH)
Bussineses
Losing >70%
Relocation
SubTotal
EM
No. Districts/Town/City
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
uRAP 2022
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
RAP 2017
4.4 ADok 1 - 1 - - - - - 1.0 - - 10 33 73 50 - - 2 - 15 50
V Pleiku city - - 1 30 - 8 18 - 19.0 38 30 - - 11 - 62 216 197 12 - 56 58 118 125 110 198
5.1 Chi Lăng ward - - - 21 - 4 - - - 25 - 7 61 154 147 10 42 46 97 102 39 147
5.2 An Phú commune - - 1 9 - 4 18 - 19.0 13 30 4 1 62 50 2 14 12 21 23 71 51
VI Chu Prông District - - - - - - - - - - 15 - - - - - 19 2 5 - - 1 1 2 30 2
6.1 Binh Giao - - - - - - - - - - 15 19 2 5 - 1 1 2 30 2
VII Duc Co District - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 - - - - - - - 10 -
7.1 Chu Ty Town - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 - - - - - - - 10 -
TOTAL 4 - 2 113 - 16 32 16 34.0 145 55 16 40 35 60 151 825 634 35 - 310 353 556 520 500 720 2
Source: RAP 2017 and DMS results, updated to May 2022
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Table 10 – Updated Scope of land acquisition
Agriculture land (m2)
Residential Land Land tenure status
Other land (m2) Total (m2)
(m2) Annual cropland Perennial land
No. Communes/Wards With LURC Without LURC
RAP uRAP uRAP RAP uRAP RAP uRAP RAP uRAP RAP uRAP RAP uRAP
RAP 2017
2017 2022 2022 2017 2022 2017 2022 2017 2022 2017 2022 2017 2022
I AN KHE TOWN 11,893.0 1,211.0 253,504.0 172,455.2 10,988.0 123,148.8 7,307.0 4,021.8 300,836.8 66 206 15 7
1.1 Song An 1,375 - 76,700.0 45,137.9 6,188.0 85,935.1 891.0 988.1 85,154.0 132,061.1 11 45 4 3
1.2 Ngo May - - 9,404.0 18,118.6 - - 1,325.0 - 10,729.0 18,118.6 10 10 - -
1.3 An Phuoc 2,153 1,119.5 55,800.0 45,439.7 2,300.0 4,301.2 3,000.0 - 63,253.0 50,860.4 10 53 5 2
1.4 Thanh An 4,453 - 67,600.0 35,298.8 2,500.0 31,244.8 1,700.0 416.5 76,253.0 66,960.1 20 67 2 1
1.5 An Binh 3,912 91.5 44,000.0 28,460.2 - 1,667.7 391.0 2,617.2 48,303.0 32,836.6 15 31 4 1
II �?AK PƠ 14,523.0 12,370.3 32,600.0 30,870.0 5,200.0 - - 58.9 52,323.0 43,299.2 105 110 9 5
2.1 Cư An 13,800 - 32,600.0 - 5,200.0 - - - 51,600.0 - 60 61 3 2
2.2 Tân An 723 12,370.3 - 30,870.0 - - - 58.9 723.0 43,299.2 45 49 6 3
III MANG YANG 2,004.0 289.7 79,200.0 - - 10.6 - - 81,204.0 300.3 51 35 - 2
3.1 Kon Dỡng 387 289.7 - - - - - 387.0 289.7 10 7 - -
3.2 �?ăk Djrang 1,617 - 79,200.0 - - 10.6 - - 80,817.0 10.6 41 28 - 2
IV �?AK �?OA 1,002.0 551.9 398,400.0 29,262.2 17,250.0 85,741.8 - - 416,652.0 115,555.9 74.0 163.0 26.0 13.0
4.1 Tân Bình 320 - 95,300.0 - 17,250.0 - - - 112,870.0 - 35 24 8 1
4.2 K'Dang 340 - 115,600.0 - - - - - 115,940.0 - 14 10 8 3
4.3 Ia Băng 257 551.9 91,800.0 9,624.5 - 85,741.8 - - 92,057.0 95,918.2 15 83 5 5
4.4 ADok 85 - 95,700.0 19,637.7 - - - 95,785.0 19,637.7 10 46 5 4
V PLEIKU CITY 1,733 - 114,300 72,892 - 38,210 - 7,144 116,033 118,246 77 190 4 8
5.1 Chi Lang Ward 122 - 65,100.0 40,048.2 - 38,210.1 7,143.5 65,222.0 85,401.8 10 144 - 3
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Agriculture land (m2)
Residential Land Land tenure status
Other land (m2) Total (m2)
(m2) Annual cropland Perennial land
No. Communes/Wards With LURC Without LURC
RAP uRAP uRAP RAP uRAP RAP uRAP RAP uRAP RAP uRAP RAP uRAP
RAP 2017
2017 2022 2022 2017 2022 2017 2022 2017 2022 2017 2022 2017 2022
5.2 An Phu Commune 1,611 - 49,200.0 32,844.1 - - 50,811.0 32,844.1 67 46 4 5
VI CHU PRONG 820 - 69,200 2,348 - - - - 70,020 2,348 24 2 6 -
6.1 Binh Giao 820 - 69,200.0 2,348.0 - - - - 70,020.0 2,348.0 24 2 6 -
VII DUC CO 12,200 - 85,200 - - - - - 97,400 - 10 - - -
7.1 Chu Ty Town 12,200 - 85,200.0 - - - - 97,400.0 - 10 - - -
TOTAL 44,175.0 14,422.9 1,032,404.0 307,827.7 33,438.0 247,111.3 7,307.0 11,224.2 833,632.0 580,586.1 407.0 706.0 60.0 35.0
Source: RAP 2017 and DMS results, updated to May 2022
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4.2.3. Impacts on Houses and secondary structures
90. Houses: There are 16 houses would be fully affected (mainly semi-solid houses). Besides,
there are 353 PAHs will be impacted to the secondary structures (mainly fences, yards).
4.2.4. Impacts on Trees and Crops
91. The total affected crop areas are 391,071 m2 of 520 affected households, including rice,
annual crops, sugar cane, coffee, rubber trees, pine, acacia and eucalyptus, and orchard
trees.
4.2.5. Impacts on business
92. There are 11 households whose businesses are to be affected permanently and have to
relocate due to land acquisition. The area of affected business includes junk shop, auto and
motor repair, electronic repairs, etc. There are 03 private organization have to be relocated
as the land on which the businesses are located are permanently affected.
4.2.6. Impact on Public Assets
93. The area of 4,080 m2 of public land managed by CPCs within the right of way will be
acquired by the project. Fifty one (51) electric power poles at Km180 - Km241 in Gao
commune (Pleiku City), Binh Giao, Bau Can, Thang Hung (Chu Prong district), Ia Nan,
Chu Ty, Ia Pnon, Ia Krieng, Ia Kla, Krel, Ia Dom and Ia Din (Duc Co district) will need to
be relocated.
4.2.7. Impact on Livelihood
94. The road sections for improvement/rehabilitation including the bridges for replacement go
along with the existing road alignment except the proposed construction of new bypasses.
95. The land acquisition is kept to the minimum. The total area of 552,441 m2 of agricultural
land are to be acquired (including perennial land and annual cropland), thus, there is a
considerable impact on the livelihoods of severely affected households including 16
households who need to be physically relocated and 129 households who lose more than
20% of their productive land. All the severely affected households will be compensated
and additional support will be provided to restore their livelihood through participation in
the Livelihood Restoration Program (LRP) to recover their income effectively and
promptly – either they are engaged in agricultural production or not. After the DMS, the
eligible affected households for LRP are determined, another consultation will be
undertaken for the relocated households to decide how and where they will relocate.
4.2.8. Temporary Impacts
96. During project construction, the agricultural land and public land could be used temporarily
for the establishment of work campsite, site disposal area and detour route during the
replacement/construction of bridges. The affected land should be compensated or leased
for the duration of use according to the regulations of the RAP. Upon completion of the
construction, the land used temporarily for the establishment of work campsites and detour
route during the construction of bridges will be rehabilitated to its original condition and
return to the owner.
97. In the event that business activities of the households will be temporarily affected resulting
in loss of income that derive from such business due to the temporary used of the land,
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income loss should be compensated for the entire period of impact as per RAP.
4.2.9. Mitigation Measures undertaken to mitigate the scope of land acquisition
98. The PMU2 and local authority have been considered in the detailed design such as the
improvement of the project will be contained within the existing road alignment and within
the stablished road right of way. In the proposed bypasses, the alignment within public land
to minimize land acquisition has also been considered by the PMU2 and local authority to
reduce the scope of land acquisition as much as possible.
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V. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE, PUBLIC CONSULTATION AND
PARTICIPATION
5.1. Objective of Information Disclosure, Public Consultation and Participation
99. Information Disclosure, Public Consultation & Participation aim to promote two-way
communication between the implementing agencies and project stakeholders, including
affected people to ensure generally the public, and particularly the affected group,
understand the project’s purpose, design, potential positive and negative impacts of the
project, and the policy on involuntary resettlement. It also creates opportunity for PAPs to
participate in all stages of resettlement planning and implementation. During the
implementation of resettlement activities, PMU2 coordinated with the District Board for
Compensation and Land Acquisition (DBCLA) or District Land Fund Development
Centers (DLFDCs) to organize the public meetings with PAPs to get their consent on the
results of DMS, replacement costs survey and compensation packages, likewise, it’s the
WB’s requirements to create awareness on the part of all PAPs on RAP implementation
and arrangements and the mechanism of complaint and grievances.
5.2. Consultation Activities under taken
5.2.1. The first round of community consultation
100. In November/December 2016 and January 2017, meetings were held with the Provincial
Departments, the District People’s Committees, Leaders and members of affected
commune officials, district compensation and Site Clearance committees, key district
departments (environment and land management, agriculture, industry and commerce,
labour, invalids and social affairs), etc. Meetings were also held with the PAPs before the
resettlement team carries out for the SES in each affected commune. To inform the
community about the date and purpose of the consultation, the PMU2 and consultant’s
representative visited the selected commune at least a week before the scheduled date. The
village elder / commune head was informed who in turn informed the commune and
especially the affected persons. Project also distributed pamphlets in advance of any
consultation. The consultations were generally held in public places.
101. The objectives of consultation during the phase of preparing the RAP were to initially
inform and discuss with the authorities of the project provinces, districts and communes,
affected districts and communes about the project, objectives and principles on land
acquisition, compensation, allowances and special assistance to poor and vulnerable groups
according to the policies of the Government of Viet Nam and the World Bank’s safeguards
policy and requirements, preparation of resettlement plan, schedule for the socioeconomic
survey, IOL and information needs for preparing the RAP. The meetings with the DPCs
and Representatives of communes focused on the following issues:
o General information on the project
o Explaining the proposed alignment through a project map and disclosure of project
affected districts, communes; scope of land acquisition and resettlement impacts
o Objectives and principles of RAP according to the requirements of GOV and the
WB’s policy on social safeguards.
o Schedules of socioeconomic survey and IOL
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Issues related to livelihood and it’s restoration
o
o
Compensation and relocation modes (options to cash or in kind compensation)
o
Gender issues in RAP;
o
Issues related to safety and labour influx
o
Mechanisms of participation, complaint, monitoring and evaluation through all
phases of RAP preparation and implementation.
o Plenary session and group discussion, Q&A
102. A summary of the issues discussed and main feedback from the meetings are as follows:
o The participants felt that project will have positive impacts to the community as
connectivity will lead to economic growth of the district and the province.
o Need the project to be constructed soon because they heard about the project for a
long time but no progress so far.
o The delay in implementation of the project is creating uncertainty in the project area.
o Compensation need to be fair and project should also provide resettlement and
income restoration assistance.
o Community prefers cash compensation for loss of assets; assistance for farming and
animal husbandry activities, for seeking jobs during construction and elsewhere
o Special assistance to the vulnerable groups such as the old people, disable, and
women headed households.
o Project should analyze various options to minimize adverse impacts
o People proposed that the drainage system need to be improved and the project need
to be constructed as schedule
o The information related to the project need to be disseminated to the project
communities.
5.2.2. The second round of community consultation
103. The second round of consultation meetings was held once the draft RAP was finalized. The
consultation included (i) issues raised and how they have been incorporated in the RAP;
(ii) issues that could not be addressed; and (iii) continued mechanism for consultation.
104. Disclosure of the RAP to the authorities and DPs was carried out prior to its submission to
WB and Competent Agencies of GOV for review and approval. Key information in the
RAP was disclosed to the displaced persons, including (i) compensation, relocation and
rehabilitation options, (ii) DMS results, (iii) detailed asset valuations, (iv) entitlements and
special provisions, (v) grievance procedures, (vi) timing of payments, and (vii)
displacement schedule. The information was made publicly available in Project and
commune offices and provided to the displaced persons in the form of a summary RAP, an
information leaflet or brochure.
5.2.3. Stakeholders Engagement, Public Consultation during the first and second updating of
the RAP
105. From June to July 2022, an additional round of consultation was conducted targeting 123
people in all wards/township/communes where the project road goes through. Below is
summary of the findings related to a) potential impact of the project over a wide ranges of
issues, and b) suggestions from local peoples on measure that could be taken to
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avoid/minimize such potential impacts.
106. The stakeholder and public consultation activities were broken down into two components.
The first involved training, awareness raising and consultation with local authorities at a
provincial, district and commune level. The second component focused on the
dissemination of information to and the collection of perceptions and input from PAPs and
communities living within the project affected area. The two components are further
detailed below.
107. Stakeholder Training Workshop. Training Workshop/Consultation in Gia Lai Province
was conducted on May, 2020 (4 days from 12 May to 16 May 2020) to build understanding
and capacity of relevant local authorities in the World Bank safeguard requirements and
project implementation and to develop a better understanding about the implementation of
the RAP along with its implementation requirements and to enhance the capacity of
implementing office/agency and local authorities to ensure that the implementation of RAP
complies with the requirements and safeguards policy of the WB and the GOV. In addition,
the Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) to address grievances/complaints that may arise
during project implementation was discussed as well as the social impacts, and gender
issues to address the gender-based differences in the needs, constraints, and opportunities
for participation in the development and implementation of the resettlement programs.
108. Further, a workshop was carried out to come-up with commitments and agreements, define
and clarify the roles and responsibilities of the local authorities in relation to land
acquisition and other associated tasks and seek stakeholders input and to highlight any
concerns/issues/mitigation strategies into the finalization of safeguards plans. Information
was also collected to support updating of the RAP.
109. Public Consultations. Another round of Stakeholder Engagement/Public Consultations
were undertaken in June 2020 (267 participants) in the coverage areas and participants
include:
o Project Affected Persons (directly and indirectly)
o CPC Chairman
o Women’s Union
o EM Leaders
o Farmers Association Representative
o Youth Union
o Religious Group Leaders
110. The objectives of the public consultations were (i) to disseminate all the information and
activities related to the project including potential environmental and social impacts, the
Project’s draft Environmental and Social Management Plan (including RAP, LRP) and
Gender related; (ii) collecting the ideas, concerns, needs or priorities of community and
affected people; (iii) ensuring that all the PAPs notified on all the decision which is related
directly to their income and living standard; (iv) ensuring the transparency in
implementation of the ESMP, land Acquisition, compensation and assistance payment, and
relocation; (v) adoption of the Grievance Redress Mechanism for this project.
111. Following are the schedules in different venues with the number of participants in a place
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disaggregated by gender:
Table 11 - Number of participants in public consultation
Number of
Date Time Venues Participants
Male Female
01 June 2020 8:30 -12:00 Head quarter of Tan An CPC 22 11
14:00 – 17:30 Headquarter of Cu An CPC 30 7
02 June 2020 8:30 -12:00 Head quarter of Song An 18 8
Commune
03 June 2020 8:30 -12:00 Head Quarter of Da Ya CPC 13 13
03 June 2020 14:00 – 17:30 Head quarter of Kon Dong Town 16 10
people’s committee
04 June 2020 20:00 – 22:00 Head quarter of Dak DJang CPC 14 20
14:00 – 17:30 Head quarter of K Dang CPC 23 13
8:30 -12:00 Head quarter of Dak Doa DPC 17 11
05 June 2020 8:30 -12:00 Head quarter of Tan Binh CPC 14 7
TOTAL 167 100
Sources: Results of Consultation in June 2020
112. Public Information Booklet (PIB). PIB in Vietnamese language was distributed during
the stakeholder training and public consultations. The PIB includes a brief description of
the project and summarizes the main provisions of the RAP such as the project impacts,
tentative implementation schedule of the RAPs, implementation arrangements, the
compensation principles and policies and entitlements of PAPs, grievance procedures and
the monitoring and evaluation. Contact person/information of MOT-PMU2 is also
included. The PIB will be update, likewise, to be distributed during the next level of public
consultations.
5.2.4. The third round of community consultation
113. The third round of community consultation was conducted by the Independent Monitoring
Consultant during the implementation of external monitoring activities, including: (i)
consultation for preparation of the Inception Report (April 2021); (ii) consultation during
implementation of the 1st External Monitoring Report (November 2021); and (iii)
consultation during implementation of the 2nd External Monitoring Report (April 2022).
114. For the third round, the consultation activities were conducted in 30
wards/township/communes of 07 City/Town/District of Gia Lai Province with
participation of 218 affected households and leaders, representatives of local mass and
staff-in-charge of Tay Giang and Tay Thuan Communes.
115. The consultation's contents included: (i) progress of main activities of RAP implementation
(DMS, preparation and approval of compen ; (ii) Entitlement policies; and (iii) PAH's
satisfaction with resettlement activities; (iv) Grievance Redess; and (iv) suggestions from
local authority an affected households on measure that could be taken to avoid/minimize
the impacts on land acquisition and other impacts arising during construction phase (both
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environmental impacts and social impacts).
5.3. Findings of Consultations
116. The following contents in this section will provide the findings of consultation results that
have been obtained from the consultation activities undertaken as mentioned above.
- Compensation Policies
o Policy in the determination of compensation and other entitlements to be
accorded to PAPs regardless of man, woman, ethnic minority;
- LURCs
o 85.67% households with LURC issued from 1999-2000 in the name of the
household head but from 2004, the LURC issued have both name of spouses;
- Project Information
o Inquiry who will finance compensation cost and site clearance activities,
separation/measurement cost for this project
- Compensation Procedures
o For Compensation Council - As per Vietnam Law, the locality will carry out
site clearance and compensation but if there are changes from this policy to
address gaps with the WB policy, official letter will be provided to locality
prior to implementation;
- Development of Resettlement Sites
o All City/Town/Districts have the capacity to develop a Resettlement Site, if
needed, from their land fund in reconciliation to the district annual land use
plan but it will take time besides no verification yet on the impact/number and
identity of the affected person to be relocated.
- Instutional Arrangement
o Roles and responsibilities of the local authorities in the measurement
cost/DMS/SES/, compensation plan/arrangements, all associated costs to be
incurred and fund for the District Compensation Council must be clarified.
(refer to Article 4, Circular No. 74/2015/TT-BTC dated May 15, 2015 and
Circular No. 74/2015/TT-BTC and decision No. 15/2016/QD-UBND of Gia
Lai Provincial Peoples Committee).
- Livelihood restoration
o If the compensation is appropriate, affected households believe that they
could restore their livelihoods to the pre-project level, or even improved;
- Appropriate compensation and timely support
o Project Management Unit need to collaborate with local authorities to
evaluate and provide appropriate compensation and support commensurate to
the levels of impact to compensate the loss of income of local peoples,
especially poor households impacted due to loss of businesses.
- Public utilities
o If public works such as water supply pipelines, power poles, fiber optic
cables, irrigation channels, etc. are affected during construction operation,
repair work should be carried out immediately to restore the operation. New
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electric poles and lines be installed before old lines are removed to ensure
continued power supply.
o The longitudinal ditches/sewer system/manholes must have appropriate
covers.
o By governmental regulations, construction projects are not allowed to
interrupt power/water supply/communication within the project area. The
project will build/reinstall new electricity, water supply, information system
before relocating/uninstalling the affected system to ensure smooth transition
between the affected and new system.
- Job opportunities
o Jobs such as cooking, cleaning, food supply to contractor’s camp should be
provided to local people.
o Should local people possess relevant skill, preference be given to local
community over others during construction.
- Improved living standards
o Expect to have support/allowance from Government, i.e. credit loan for the
poor to increase income.
o Government and enterprises should organize agricultural extension trainings
and provide support to farmers with regards to agricultural production and
consumption of farm products.
o Women indicated no intention to re-arrange their current division of labour
between themselves and their spouses. Women are even willing to take
additional work load to earn extra income while their spouse work afar from
family.
- Traffic safety
o The construction process will occupy part of the road width which will
obstruct the traffic and increase the likelihood of traffic congestions and
accidents.
o On rainy days, construction material if not properly managed, such as loose
earth, will make roads slippery causing inconvenience to local road users.
o Manholes and culvert are dangerous to households living nearby, especially
to children, if not properly covered with warning sign posts.
o Placement of sign posts: Sign posts and warning boards during construction
should be placed on both sides of the road in a manner that are easily visible
to drivers / road users at the distance of at least 150m. Sign posts should be
visible during normal road condition as well when there is heavy wind.
Signboard should be reflective for easy driving at night time.
o The construction sites should be well lit at night to avoid accidents. Set up
fence and sign for warning construction areas.
o Community expects contractor to finish the work within the stipulated time
frame to minimize inconvenience caused during construction period.
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o The contractor should be made accountable and must pay compensation in
case of any accident caused due to road construction.
o Water spray regularly, clean construction site to avoid slippery surface,
reduce dust because dust reduces visibility.
o Cleaning and return the site after completion of the construction process.
• Social risks related to Labor Influx
o Community is aware of the fact that there will be workers from other places
to come and live in the locality during construction.
o Temporary residence should be registered for all construction workers.
Construction workers should be educated to respect local cultures, religions
and beliefs. They should also be prohibited from drinking alcohol during
work hours. Gambling should be strictly forbidden. A work and break
schedule should be clearly established for workers.
o Coordination with local government and community:
o Collaborating with local authorities, including the Fatherland Front and the
Women's Union, to educate workers on local customs and habits;
o Coordinating and cooperating closely with the local community for hygiene
sanitation when there is sign of epidemic;
o Coordinating and cooperating with local authorities and communities in
preventing and combating social evils.
o While some said there may be conflicts between workers, causing disturbance
in the area. Several community members believes there will be no conflict
and inconvenience caused to local people due to labour influx.
o With regards to shared use of water sources and public assets, community is
worried about increased pressure on water resources and common property
of people in the area.
o In terms of housing, workers typically have construction camps to live. But
they could rent a house or a part of the house, if needed. This service helps
increase income for local households.
o Regarding concerns on security/social evils, most peoples that there is no big
worry about security/social order when workers are present in the locality.
However, there may be conflicts between workers and local youth as workers
may drink, engage in gambling, or involved in theft.
5.4. In terms of health, issues related to transmission of HIV/AIDS, and/or STDs could be
a potential issues among workers themselves with possibility of impact on local
communities.Mechanism for continued consultation activities
117. The effectiveness of the public consultation and information disclosure are directly related
to the degree of continuing involvement of those affected by the project. Participation of
PAPs has been emphasized in the development of RAP to assure that its components are
suited to the needs of the impacted and resettled population. Their continued involvement
and participation during RAP implementation will both increase the probability of their
successful resettlement and rehabilitation and contribute to the overall project success.
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118. Consultation will continue during of the RAP implementation phase. The objectives of this
round will be to present and discuss the key contents of the RAP: (i) general information
of the project; (ii) planning for compensation and resettlement; (iii) project entitlements for
the affected persons; (iii) options for compensation for loss of land; (iv) income restoration
programs; (v) implementation arrangements (institutional arrangement, task force,
participation and consultation, information disclosure); (vi) mechanism of complaint and
grievances; (vii) implementation schedule; and (viii) monitoring and evaluation etc.
119. All affected households will be invited to participate in the meetings held at the commune
offices or village cultural houses. Several separate group discussions with women and
other vulnerable groups will need to be organized to enable them to express their comments
on the projects and their proposals for minimizing social impacts by the project and
mitigation plans to social and environmentally adverse impacts.
120. All consultation and disclosure activities were and will be properly documented. All
minutes of meetings, photos, attendance sheets will be prepared and recorded. For effective
implementation of RAP, it is essential to provide scope of involving communities and PAPs
in the process. The mechanism of involving communities is suggested in Table 12 below:
Table 12 – Proposed mechanism for community participation in the next steps
Project & Local
Project Stage PAPs Hosts
Officials
RAP • Participate in • Assist PAPs in • Process inomce
Implementation implementation support relocation generation proposals
activitives • Manage common • Participate in
• Participation in local property at site grievance redressal
decision making • Participate in local • Provide assistance
activities. committees. under local schemes.
• Decide on management • Assist PAPs in • Participate as
of common properties integration with member of
• Participate in grieviance Hosts. Implementation
redressal mechanism. • Assist PAPs in useof committee.
• Monitor provision of new production
entitlements systerm.
• Labour and other inputs • Use established
of site mechanisms for
• Labour and other inputs grievance redressal.
at site
• Credit and other group
scheme management
• O&M of sites and project
inputs
• Members of
implementation
committee
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Project & Local
Project Stage PAPs Hosts
Officials
M&E • Participate in grievance • Provide inputs to • Ongoing interaction
tribunals M&E with PAPs to identify
• Report to project on problems in inomcie
inomice restoration restoration
schemes programme.
• Report on service quality • Participants in
of sites correctional
strategies.
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VI. PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES FOR COMPENSATION, SUPPORT,
RESETTLEMENT AND LIVELIHOOD RESTORATION
6.1. General Principles
6.1.1. Principles for Compensation and Support
121. Households/individual/organization whose assets such as lands/houses/structures/crops,
etc. and/or business created before the cut-off date and are affected as a result land
acquisition are entitled to compensation. Severely and vulnerably affected households will
receive additional financial support to restore their livelihood to the pre-project level, and
are eligible to participate in Livelihoods Restoration Program (LRP)5.
122. Land will be compensated in cash at replacement cost for agriculture land and “land for
land�? or in cash for residential land at replacement cost depending on the choice of the
affected households. PAPs who prefer “land for land�? will be provided land plots in
resettlement site nearby, and cash adjustment for difference between their land lost and the
land plots provided.
123. Compensation rates for affected land and non-land assets will be determined based on the
replacement costs survey as per WB requirement to be conducted by an independent price
appraiser engaged by PMU2. Compensation rates under GoV is based on land asset survey
but the gaps with regards to resettlement and compensation were addressed for this project,
thus, Independent appraiser identifies replacement costs to apply for compensation to all
types of assets affected.
6.1.2. Principles for Physical Resettlement
124. The principles for physical resettlement as followings:
o All households who lose their houses (fully affected, or partially affected but the
remaining part is not usable) must be entitled to compensate for entire affected house.
(As per WB OP 4.12, non-land assets including dwellings, structures and other
improvements to land such as crops, irrigation will be compensated at replacement cost
if they have been constructed/created before the cut-off date while Land Law 2013,
Article 77, item 2 and Article 92 stated that no compensation for non-land assets subject
to the land recovery and the assets created after the notification on land acquisition and
unused public infrastructures and other works. The gaps were addressed for this project:
PAPs who were in the project area prior to the cut-off date will be equally entitled to
participation in consultations and project benefit schemes and be compensated for their
lost non-land assets such as dwellings and structures occupied before cut-off date
without deduction of salvageable materials. They will be entitled to resettlement
assistance and other compensation and social support to assist them to improve or at
least restore their pre-project living standards and income levels.
o Households building houses on non-agricultural land prior to the project’s cut-off day
but are eligible only for financial assistance will be additionally supported in terms of
finance to enable them to afford a standard land plot in the project resettlement site if
they have no other place to move to. Affected Households that are ineligible for
5
Please see Section 6.5 for Livelihoods Restoration Program
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compensation for residential land or house and must relocate but have no residential
land or house within the affected commune are entitled to buy a standard plot in
resettlement site.
o The resettlement area will be planned properly and implemented in full consultation
with PAPs. All basic infrastructures, such as paved roads, sidewalks, drainage, water
and electricity access will be available before PAHs move in. Costs for these
infrastructures will be covered by the project.
o Displaced households who prefer “cash for land�? will be compensated in cash at the
full replacement cost.
o All fees and taxes related to land conversion and LURC issuance will be either waived
or included in a compensation package.
o Compensation and allowance must be provided to affected households one time within
30 days since land acquisition decision is issued.
o By the end of the project, if the livelihoods of affected households have not yet restored
to pre-project levels, additional support measures will be provided.
o As this RAP implementation is one of the project components, the project will not be
considered complete until the RAP is fully implemented and meets the objective of the
World Bank’s OP 4.12.
6.2. Eligibility Criteria and Entitlements
6.2.1. Eligibility Criteria
125. The eligibility criteria of affected people for entitlements to compensation, support and
resettlement are defined based on the World Bank’s Operational Policy on Involuntary
Resettlement (OP 4.12), relevant Laws of the Government of Vietnam, and consultation
with affected households. The eligibility for entitlements to compensation is determined
by asset ownership criteria. There are three types of affected households as below:
(i) Those who have formal legal rights to land;
(ii) Those who do not have formal legal rights to land at the time the census begins
but have claimed to such land and/or assets - provided that such claims that are
recognized or recognizable under the laws of the country, or become recognized
through a process identified in the resettlement action plan;
(iii) Those who have neither formal legal rights nor recognized or recognizable
claims to such land that they are occupying.
126. Persons covered under (i) and (ii) are eligible for compensation payment at replacement
cost for the land and non-land assets that they lose, and other assistance. Persons covered
under (iii) are provided resettlement assistance in lieu of compensation for the land they
occupy, and other assistance, as necessary to achieve the objectives of resettlement set out
in this policy, if they occupy the project area prior to the project cut-off date. Persons who
encroach upon the area after the cut-off date are not entitled to compensation or any other
form of resettlement assistance. All persons included in (i), (ii), and (iii) are provided with
compensation for loss of owned or used assets associated to affected land, including
businesses associated to affected land if they have been created before the project cut-off
date. Please see the definitions of affected households and severely affected households
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that defined in Glossary as above.
• Splitting affected households after the cut-off-date
127. Households with various generations sharing the same house are allowed to split after the
project’s cut-off-date if they are eligible for splitting as per the national Law of Residence
(dated 29 November 2006, effective as of July 1, 2007) – as specified at Article 6 of Decree
47/2014/ND-CP and Land Law 2013. Where splitting is allowed under Decree
47/2014/ND-CP, the allocation of land plots for families sharing the affected land will be
considered by Gia Lai PC.
128. Decision No.09/2018/Q�?-UBND by Gia Lai PC dated March 21, 2018 promulgating the
regulation on compensation, support and resettlement when the state recovers land in Gia
Lai province. Article 4. Specific provisions of Clauses 1 and 2, Article 6 of Decree
47/2014/ ND-CP:
(i) The remaining residential land area after recovering eligible to stay is equal to or
bigger than the minimum residential land area allowed for splitting the parcel and
meeting the conditions for splitting the land plot as prescribed by the provincial
People's Committee. In special cases, the organization that is in charge of
compensation and site clearance reports and proposes the district-level People's
Committee (hereafter abbreviated to the People's Committee) to submit to the
provincial People's Committee for consideration and decision.
(ii) Households specified in Clause 1, Article 6 of Decree No. 47/2014/ND-CP, in which
a multi-generational household or couple live together on a recovered residential
land plot if they are eligible to be separated into Each individual household under
the provisions of the residence law who has no other residential land or houses in
the commune, ward or township where the residential land is recovered shall be
compensated 01 (one) residential land plots and allocated land with land use levy in
resettlement planning areas or other residential planning areas in the district where
the land is recovered.
(iii) The number of residential land plots assigned with land use levy corresponds to the
number of households separated from households whose residential land is
recovered but these households have no other residential land or houses in their
communes or wards, town where residential land is recovered.
(iv) According to Article 4, Decision No. 09/2018/Q�?-UBND, issued by Gia Lai PPC,
in case many households have the same right to use one (01) recovered land parcel,
they will be compensated 01 (one) residential land lot and assigned land with land
use fee collection in the resettlement planning area or other residential planning in
the district where the land is recovered. The number of residential land plots
assigned with land use levy corresponds to the number of households with the same
right to use one (01) residential land parcel recovered and currently living on such
land plot but these households do not have other residential land/houses in the
commune, ward or township where the land is recovered, minus 1 (one).
(v) Issues related to the identification of households named in land use right certificates
for compensated residential land plots and households allocated land with land use
levy paid by households self-agreement.
(vi) The determination of households who are allocated land with land use levy
according to this clause is reflected in the compensation, support and resettlement
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plan. Households and individuals that are allocated residential land shall fulfill their
financial obligations according to current regulations.
6.2.2. Entitlement
129. With respect to eligibility category, entitlements are the sum of compensation and other
forms of support, including allowance, bonus (conditional), and opportunities to participate
in livelihoods restoration program (Please see Appendix 1 - Entitlements Matrix, for more
details).
6.2.3. Cut-of-date
130. After the detailed design is approved and the project boundary limits are demarcated, the
DPCs issued the Notice of Land Acquisition to all identified project affected households.
The date of notification for land acquisition were also the cut-off- date for both titleholders
and non-titleholders. Once a cut-off-date were established, people who encroach upon the
project area after the cut-off-date will not be entitled to compensation payment, or any form
of resettlement assistance. The cut-off- date was announced by local government to all
affected households under the project's area. The cut-off-date in each district of Gia Lai
Province different and is shown in the Table 13 below.
Table 13 – The cut-off-date in Gia Lai province
No. District/City/Town The cut-off-date of the subproject districts
1 An Khe Town 20 February 2020
2 Dak Po District 20 February 2020
3 Mang Yang District 02 December 2020
4 Dak Doa District 20 July 2021
5 Pleiku City 09 February 2021
6 Chư Prong 14 April 2021
7 Duc Co District None6
Sources: Compensation Records of the Districts, May 2022
6.3. Compensation, Support and Resettlement Policies
131. All households who are affected by the project as a result of land acquisition will be entitled
to compensation and/or support at replacement cost for their legal assets affected by the
project such as land/crops/structures/businesses. In addition to compensation, those who
are severely and vulnerably affected are supported for livelihoods restoration.
6.3.1. Compensation for Permanent Impacts
a. For Agricultural Land Affected
• PAP with formal right to affected land (with LURC or eligible for LURC)
132. Compensation will be made at full replacement costs. Households losing 20% or more of
their total agricultural landholding, and 10% for poor/near-poor, and/or vulnerable groups,
are considered severely affected and are entitled to allowance for life stabilization and
participating in livelihoods restoration program. (Pleas see more details in Section 6.3.3).
133. If the remaining land area (not affected) is not economically viable, the area will be
6
Since all area of the affected land is located in the safety corridor of NH19 in Duc Co district, therefore, no
decision on land acquisition was issued.
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acquired and cash compensation will be paid for the remaining land area at replacement
cost (Article 77 of Land Law 2013, Article 4 of Decree 47/2014-ND-CP)
• PAPs without LURC or customary rights to affected land
134. Affected land used before 1st July 2004 will be compensated at replacement cost but the
compensated area is not to exceed the quota of agriculture allocation in locality.
Households occupying affected land after 1st July 2004 but before the cut-off date will not
be compensated for land but for improvements to the land including trees/crops/structures
if they have been created before the cut-off date, cash assistance for such land will be
provided on the basis of land origin, land use history, reasons for ineligibility, and the time
when the land was put into use. No compensation is paid for land and non-land assets
occupied and created after the cut-off date.
• PAPs with leased rights
o For PAPs leasing land managed by government
135. Households who lease government-managed land (with annual rental payment, or a one-
off rental payment for the entire lease period) will not be compensated for the affected land,
but compensated the remaining rental and Land Investment Cost which will be calculated
on the basis of survey (Article 76 of the Land Law 2013). Affected assets on rental land
including crops/trees and/or structures will be compensated at full replacement costs if
created before the cut-off date.
o For PAPs leasing private-owned land for farming purpose
136. Households who rent private-owned land for agricultural purpose will not be compensated
for land but for standing crops and structures, if any and created before the cut-off date, on
the affected land at replacement costs. Compensation for affected land will be paid for the
eligible landowner at replacement cost.
137. In addition to compensation payment for the affected land, severely affected and/or
vulnerable/social-policy households are provided with allowance, and eligible to
participate in livelihoods restoration program, and provided with conditional/incentive
bonus.
b. For Residential Land Affected
138. Compensation for residential land (Article 79 of Land law 2013).
• Loss of residential land with no houses/structures thereon
o For PAP with formal right to affected land (legal or legalizable)
- Compensation for loss of land will be paid in cash at full replacement cost.
- Households and individuals that are using residential land and have a land use right
certificate, the compensation for land shall be made as follows:
+ If all residential land is recovered or the remaining part of the residential land
area after the acquisition is ineligible for living, compensation shall be made
with residential land in the form of allocation of resettlement residential land or
resettlement house (if any). ; in case there is no need to compensate with
residential land or houses, the State shall compensate in cash at the land price
specified.
+ In case of all residential land is recovered or the remaining part of the
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residential land area after recovery is ineligible for living, compensation shall be
made in money according to the land price specified.
o For PAP without formal right to affected land (illegal or illegalizable)
- No compensation for land but financial support for loss of land depending on the time
when the affected land was used according to the Land Law 2013.
• Loss of residential land with houses built thereon, and the remaining (non-
acquired) land is adequate to reorganize
o For PAP with formal right to affected land (legal or legalizable)
- Households / individuals that are using residential land with a certificate of land use
rights or are eligible to be granted a certificate of land use rights, ownership of
houses and other land-attached assets as prescribed of the land law, the
compensation for land is as follows:
In case the household has all residential land recovered or the remaining part
(i)
of the residential land after acquisition is not eligible for living, they will be
compensated in the form of allocation of resettlement land or house in the
relocation area. Settlement (if any);
(ii) In case of all residential land is recovered or the remaining residential land
area after the recovery is ineligible for living, they shall be compensated in
cash at the land price specified by the PPC. For projects with fund conditions
residential land is considered for compensation with residential land in the
form of land allocation for resettlement.
o For PAP without formal right to affected land
- Compensation for land is as follows:
(i) If PAP uses non-agricultural land7 with house on it - prior to 1 July 2004, and
the land was obtained by encroachment, PAP will be provided a new
residential land plot in the project’s resettlement site with levy collection, or
are entitled to buying a new resettlement house, if they have no place in the
project commune/ward to move [Article 7 of Decree 47/2014/ND-CP, Article
80 of Land Law 2013]. In addition, for illegal land user using land after 2004
and prior to the cut- off date, a financial assistance will be provided at PPC’s
decision.
(ii) If PAP is not eligible for LURC (as specified at Article 22 of Decree
43/2014/ND-CP) and is using land with house thereon and violation of the
Land Law without preventive action from local authority, depending on land
use history, PAP will be considered for cash assistance in accordance with
regulations of Provincial People’s Committee. Compensation for
house/structure if created before the cut-off date are paid at full replacement
costs in line with OP 4.12.
- Compensation for affected land and house as regulated in item (ii) above. In case,
7
Non-agricultural land – as prescribed at Article 10 of Land Law 2013, include land such as public land, river land, industrial
land, production land, etc.
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PAP has no other residential land/house within project commune/ward, they are
entitled to buying a standard land plot/apartment in resettlement site. Price of
land/apartment is decided by PPC.
c. Compensation for non-agricultural land but not residential land
o For households and individuals using non-agricultural land which is not residential land,
when the State recovers land, if they are eligible for compensation as prescribed in
Article 75 of this Law, they shall be compensated with land having the same land use
purpose. In case such land is not available for compensation, they shall be compensated
with money calculated based on the remaining land use term.
o For households and individuals using non-agricultural land which is not residential land
and is leased by the State with annual rental payment or with full one-off rental payment
for the entire lease period but being exempted from land rental, when the State recovers
land, they shall not be compensated for land but for the remaining investment costs in
land, except the cases in which households and individuals use land under the policies
for people with meritorious services to the revolution( According to Article 80 , Land
Law 2013).
d. Compensation for houses and secondary structures
o The level of compensation for houses, other construction works attached to land when
the State recovers land as follow:
(i) For entirely affected house and secondary structure, regardless of the legal status
of the affected land and if the affected house/structure has been constructed before
the cut-off date compensation will be paid at replacement costs for affected house
and structure to construct new house/structure with similar technical standard,
without depreciation and deduction of salvageable materials. For partially affected
house and structure, addition to compensation for affected part at replacement cost,
compensation for expenses to repair the remaining part will be paid at rate with
concurrence of the affected household.
(ii) For equipment and/or production line, affected business household who own the
equipment or production lines will be compensated for all costs associated with the
disassembly, transportation, re-installation of the affected equipment and/or
production line. In case irremovable or broken during removal. Compensation for
the equipment and/or production line will be paid at replacement cost. An appraiser
specialized in appraisal for such equipment/production lines will be engaged by the
project owner to evaluate the costs - subject to review and approval of the District
PC.
(iii) For small assets requiring specialized installation, including landline phone, water
connection, electric connection, cable TV, internet connection, etc., all costs related
to uninstallation and re-installation at new house/business premise will be
compensated at replacement costs.
e. Compensation on Standing Crops, Trees, and Aquaculture products
o For annual and perennial trees, standing crops, or aquaculture products, compensation
in cash will be paid at replacement cost, irrespective of the legal status of the affected
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land if they were created before the cut-off date, and are in line with Article 90 of the
Land Law 2013.
o Movable crops and animals will not be compensated but all actual costs associated with
transportation of the trees to new location will be paid for affected household. If
replanting of trees in new location incurs costs, such full costs will be compensated for.
o Aquaculture that reaches harvest time by the time of land acquisition will not be
compensated for, otherwise compensation at replacement cost will be paid.
f. Compensation/Support for Business Affected
o For economic loss resulting from contract termination: For households/individual who
rent government or private-owned land for non-farm business, and the land rental is
made on renewable contract basis. By the time when the affected land must be returned
to government, but the land lease contract is still valid, compensation will be paid – as
agreed upon in the land lease contract, if any.
o For loss of income incurred by business owner, compensation, and support according
to regulation of PPC regardless status of registration, and as follows:
- For registered businesses, compensation will be paid in cash for the loss of net
business income, equivalent to 50% of the annual average net income - as declared
with the tax agency during the recent three years (this amount is equivalent to 100%
of monthly net income for 6 months)
- For non-registered businesses, whose operations are recognized by local authority
and whose net income from non-registered businesses is affected, compensation will
be paid in cash for the income losses for at least 3 months.
- For households who do retailed business. They do not have business license and do
not pay tax, including informal settlers/squatter whose business is located on the
right of the way, compensation will be a one-off allowance of at least 3 million VND
per household.
- For loss of income incurred by business employees, employees who permanently
lose their existing job due to acquisition of land on which the business are located
will receive an unemployment allowance at the basic wage level for up to 6 months.
Cash assistance for vocational training will be provided to the affected employee.
PPC will decide on the assistance level for vocational training.
- If they lose their income only temporarily during the business transition period, they
will be supported with an allowance as specified by District PC.
g. Compensation for Graves
o The relocation of graves should be done based on full consultation with the
affected households to meet the customs and habits of affected households with
regards to relocation of graves. Compensation payment for affected graves
includes full costs associated with a) land for re-burial, b) excavation, c)
relocation, d) reburial, e) construction of new tombs, and f) other reasonable
related costs which are necessary to meet local customs and habits.
o Land for relocation of all affected graves will be provided to the affected
households - at a graveyard as designated by the District PC. Affected
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households will be informed of the location of this graveyard so that they can
decide where to relocate the affected graves – to the designated graveyard. If
AHs decide to relocate the affected graves on their own, the replacement cost
for buying land will be compensated for.
o In case owner of the affected graves could not be identified, public
announcement must be made (on TV, popular newspaper) for several times to
look for the grave owners. Within a reasonable time, if grave owners could not
show up, the relocation of graves should be done by a specialized unit in
consultation with the District Department of Health. The geographical location
and status of the graves (with photos taken in details), the procedure of grave
relocation, and the new location of the graves must be documented carefully for
the owner’s use later.
h. Compensation for Loss of Public Structures and Community Assets
o Where public structures such as schools, health centers, libraries or other cultural
centers, recreational parks, public roads, water transmission pipelines, and
electricity transmission lines are affected, such affected works will be restored,
and repaired or compensated to ensure normal operation at no cost to the local
community.
6.3.2. Compensation for Temporary Impacts (during construction)
o During the construction process, if any assets of local households are affected
temporarily due to construction, the impact will be assessed and included in the updated
Resettlement Action Plan. Depending on the nature of impact, compensation for the
adverse impact will be compensated for, as follows:
Temporary impact on land/business
- In case residential land without house/structure thereon is temporarily acquired during
construction, the affected land will be compensated equal to the rent of such land in
locality for the duration of temporary use. Upon return of affected land to affected
people, the affected land must be restored to its pre-project condition – as agreed with
the affected households.
- In case business activities of households are temporarily affected during construction,
resulting in loss of income that derive from such business, the loss of income should be
compensated for the entire period of impact – as agreed with the affected households.
- Contractors will be informed of the RAP and should explore alternative construction
method to avoid temporary impact. If avoidance is not possible, contractors will
compensate for the above temporary impact in accordance with the RAP. Temporary
impact is subject to both internal and external monitoring).
Compensation for damages caused by contractors to private or public structures
- Damaged property will be restored to its former condition by contractors, immediately
upon completion of civil works. Under construction contracts, contractors will be
required to take extreme care to avoid damaging property during their construction
activities. Where damages occur, the contractor will be required to immediately repair
the damage or pay compensation to affected families, groups, communities, or
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government agencies at the same compensation rates as specified in this RAP.
Compensation for unpredictable impacts
- Any other impacts identified during project implementation will be compensated in
accordance with the compensation principles and policies set for in this RAP and in
line with the World Bank’s OP 4.12.
6.3.3. Supports/Allowances
o Besides from the compensation for affected assets, PAHs, especially severely and
vulnerably PAHs will be provided with allowances to support them during the transition
period to restore or improve their livelihood and lives. The assistance levels will be
adjusted and decided by PPC, considering inflation factor and price increase - as
appropriate, at the time of resettlement implementation.
For affected residential land/houses
a. Transportation Allowance
- For households who need to resettle in a new residential area, an amount of
6,000,000 VND will be provided if they physically relocate within the area of
province. If relocating outside of the province, the transportation allowance will
be 10,000,000VND.
- Relocated households who rent private house for living purpose will be provided
with a transportation allowance not exceed the rate mentioned above.
b. House Renting Allowance/ Temporary Accommodation
- In case, resettlement site is not ready for relocation at time of taking land of
relocated household, house rental or temporary accommodation allowance will be
provided to relocated households during period of temporary accommodation
until allocated plot in resettlement site, plus 04 (four) month allowance for
construction of new house. For households who have to relocate on the remaining
land will be provided 04 (four) month allowance for re-organization. Married
adult offspring sharing house with their parents are provided with house rental as
an affected household. The allowance should be at market rate and decided by the
PPC to ensure that relocated HHs could have a temporary accommodation.
- Relocation plan needs to be discussed clearly with affected households to
minimize the time duration for temporary accommodation as this may affect the
income generation activities/livelihoods of the affected households.
c. House Repair Allowance
- If house/structure is partially affected and the remaining structure is viable for
continued use subject to appropriate repair, all actual repairing costs for the
affected part of the house/structure are paid by the Project, to enable PAPs to
restore it to former or better conditions.
d. Land Use Right Certificate
- For resettled households, all costs related to issuance of Land Use Right
Certificate for their new land/houses - either located in the project’s resettlement
site, or elsewhere (if PAP relocates on their own) will be covered by the Project –
by either including the estimated costs for LURC issuance included in the
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compensation package for self-relocating households, or providing by the Project
Owner (later on) for those resettling in the project’s resettlement site at no
additional cost to them. For re-organizing households, whose land and house are
partially affected, the costs relating to updating the LURC will be covered by the
Project. In case the LURC of affected household is deposited in the Bank as a
pledge for loan, land fund development center and/or resettlement committee of
the project district will support the household for updating the LURC.
e. Allowance for Livelihood Stabilization (during transition period)
(i) Allowance for subsistence and Livelihood Stabilization (during transition
period):
o PAPs losing 20% - 70% of their agricultural landholding (or 10% - 70%
for the poor, near-poor, and vulnerable groups) will be provided with an
allowance of for 6 months if no relocation, and for 12 months if relocation.
In some special cases, allowance may be provided up to 24 months;
o PAPs losing more than 70% of their agricultural landholding will be
assisted at the above rate for a period of 12 months if no relocation, and 24
months if relocation. In some special cases, the allowance may be
provided up to a maximum of 36 months;
o The support level for 1 person specified at Points a and b of this Clause
shall be calculated in cash equivalent to 30kg of rice / 01 month at the
average rice price at the time of support provided by the district-level
Finance agency where the project is located. Land acquisition determined;
o In case households and individuals have land recovered in the area of two
or more district-level administrative units in the same project with
different total support levels, they are only entitled to support to stabilize
their lives in district administrative unit have the highest total level of
support.
If Allowance for subsistence and Livelihood Stabilization is paid in cash:
(i) The support level of VND 6,000,000/ha shall be paid in cash and received in
lump sum. The support level is equal to 30% of the year after-tax income, based
on the average income of the 3 preceding years.
(ii) PAPs affected with less than 20% of their agricultural landholding and their
remaining land is cannot be used will receive the above allowance for 12 months.
(iii) HHs without, or ineligible for LURC will receive allowance equal to 60 % of
the above rate.
(Decision No.09/2018/Q�?-UBND by Gia Lai PC dated March 21, 2018 promulgating the
regulation on compensation, support and resettlement when the state recovers land in Gia Lai
province: Article 17. Specific provisions on support items in Clauses 3, 4 and 6, Article 19 of
Decree 47/2014 / ND-CP).
f. Allowances for job training/job change/job creation
For the affected households who are directly engaged in agricultural production
- These households will be supported in job training/job change and job creation
according to Decision No. 02/2020/Q�?-UBND of Gia Lai PC dated January 09,
2020 amending and supplementing a number of the regulations issued together
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with Decision No.09/2018/QD-UBND of March 21, 2018 by the Gia Lai PC
promulgating the regulation on compensation, support and resettlement when the
State recover land in the Gia Lai province. “Article 18: Specific provisions on
Point b, Clause 1, Article 20 of Decree No. 47/2014/N�?-CP (amended and
supplemented in Clause 6 Article 4 Decree No. 01/2017/N�?-CP): The cash
support level based on the price of agricultural land of the same type in the land
price list issued by the provincial People’s Committee is as follows:
o Land for wet rice cultivation with two or more crops is supported with 2.5
(two point five) times;
(According to Article 18 of Decision No.09/2018/QD-UBND of March 21, 2018 by the Gia Lai
PC, 1) Pleiku City: support level 3 times of the same type of agricultural land price; 2) The
remaining districts and towns: the support level is 2.5 times the price of agricultural land of
the same type).
o The remaining cultivation land, aquaculture land and other annual crop
land shall be supported 2 (two) times.
o Production forest land, land for planting perennial trees and other
agricultural land shall be supported 1.5 (one and a half) times.
- Households with both members are cadres, civil servants and public
employees and members who are not cadres, civil servants or public
employees but are using agricultural land for agricultural production
purposes, when the State recovers land the members who are not
cadres, civil servants and public employees will be supported to
stabilize life and production, support for training, job change and job
creation according to decision of the PPC.
For the affected households who are running their business at their residential land/house
with the main income coming from this business
- For those who are at working age and wish to be trained for a particular job will
be admitted to local training school and will be supported to find a new job and
borrow loan to start a new job.
- Members of affected households who are eligible for this support are entitled to
participating in one short training program at no costs to them within a period of
five years (from the date the Decision for Land Acquisition is issued). Free job
consultation/oriention are offered at local Job Service Center.
Note: During the preparation of the training/job change/job creation program, consultation
must be done with the affected households [Article 84, Land Law 2013]
g. Allowances for Vulnerable Households
- The following allowances will be provided to eligible vulnerable households. In
case, one household is entitled to some allowances, the highest allowance will be
provided only.
o Female headed households with dependents and economic difficulties,
households with disabled persons, elderly without any source of support
will be provided with an amount of not less than VND 3 million per
household.
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o Relocating households with heroic mothers, heroic armed force personnel,
labor hero, war veterans, wounded or dead soldiers, will be provided with
support - from 3 million to 5 million VND per household;
o Poor households with certificate, or near-poor households, will be
supported with an amount of 5 or 3 million VND/household, respectively
h. Incentive Bonus
- All affected households who hand the affected land over to the project on time as
scheduled after receiving full compensation and allowances will be given an
incentive bonus. Bonus value will be determined by the time of compensation
payment.
6.4. Entitlement Matrix
139. An entitlements matrix was established for the subproject to ensure all affected households
and affected assets will be compensated and assisted to help affected households restore
and/or improve their lives and livelihood to pre-project conditions (Please see Appendix 1
- Entitlements Matrix, for more details).
6.5. Arrangement of resettlement sites for the relocated households
140. According to the figures provided in Section 4.2.1 - Impacts on Individual Households
(page 29), there are 16 affected households will be totally affected their houses and have
to be relocated, including: (i) An Khe Town: 05 households; (iii) Dak Po District: 10
households; and (iii) Mang Yang district: 01 household.
141. For the relocated households, the compensation for loss of land and houses will be paid at
full replacement cost. Affected households are entitled to allocation of a plot of land in
existing Resettlement Sites within project commune/town.
142. Consultation activities for relocated households were also carried out in April 2022 to
collect their opinions on relocation options. The results of the consultation indicated that
most of the displaced households (10/16 relocated households) chosen to build a new house
on the remaining area after land acquisition; 05/16 relocated households (in An Khe Town)
chosen moving to the existing resettlement sites; and 01 relocated households (in Dak Po
district) chosen receiving compensation/support and relocated by themselves.
143. The detailed information on relocation options of households based on consultation results
and the resettlement arrangements for each locality are provided in the Table below.
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Table 14 – Relocation Options and Resettlement arrangement for the relocated households
Resettlement Options
Total of
Resettlement Re-arranged Receiving money
Districts relocated Relocation Arrangement
Sites relocation and self-
households
resettlement
An Khe Town 05 05 - - The relocated households will be Compensated for loss of land and
houses at full replacement cost.
The displaced households will be moved to the existing resettlement
sites of the Town (in the same commune/ward where the land is
acquired with full technical and social infrastructure). The area of
land plots provided in the resettlement sites depends on the area of
residential land acquired.
Dak Po District 10 - 9 01 The relocated households will be Compensated for loss of land and
houses at full replacement cost.
09/10 relocated households chosen to build their new houses on the
remaining area after land acquisition. Only one displaced household
chosen to move to the existing resettlement site of the Dak Po Town
(the resettlement site’s location is about 2.5 km from the location of
land acquisition with full technical and social infrastructure). The
area of land plots provided in the resettlement sites depends on the
area of residential land acquired.
Mang Yang District 01 - 01 - The displaced household chosen receiving cash and self-relocation.
Total 16 05 10 01
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6.6. Livelihood Restoration Plan (LRP)
144. The LRP is fundamental in achieving the objective of the World Bank’s OP 4.12 on
Involuntary Resettlement. For those who lose their house, or house-based income, or both,
they are likely to face risk of impoverishment. The socioeconomic survey and focus group
discussions showed that those who lose houses and/or house-based businesses and must
relocate, would face challenging in restoring their income because the new location may
not always assure their income restoration. Similarly, for those who lose income from
agricultural production –either from crops or animal husbandry, they are likely to face
difficulties in buying new land to continue farming, particularly buying land in the vicinity
of their existing house.
145. All severely affected and/or vulnerable households will be eligible to participate in the
Livelihood Restoration Program (LRP), which include trainings on agricultural extension,
vocational training, credit access and other measures as recommended and appropriate to
support their livelihoods restoration to the pre-project level – as a minimum.
146. The LRP was developed in consultation with affected households on the specific measures
that they need to assist in the livelihood’s restoration. Vocational training will be provided
to all labor-age members of the affected household. The LRP is designed based on
assessment of needs of affected households, particularly the women. LRP will be
mainstreamed into on-going local development program that support affected/poor
households who are relocated due to development project. The LRP will be updated and
specified in consultation with affected households after the RAP is finalized and disclosed
to the affected households. Costs related to implementing LRP will be provided by the
project from the WB fund.
6.6.1. Strategy of livelihood restoration
147. Investigation and counselling results show that households that are headed by women have
lower income than other head of the households. In sub-project area, most of female
households are above 55 years old with main income source from breeding and cultivating.
Sub-project will withdraw agricultural land of these households and that increases
possibility of unemployment and loss of income/sources of income.
148. Gender strategy designed includes participation of women in preparation and
implementation of resettlement plan as well as livelihood recovery program. Supervision
consultant, social specialists, project manager will ensure adequate participation of women
in these activities.
149. The Gender strategy that will be implemented include activities as follows:
(i) To create job opportunity with salary to women during construction phase of the
project;
(ii) To give preference to girl/ women in vocational training in order to help them
access non-agricultural income generation activities;
(iii) To consult women members in determination of criteria for replacement or
improvement of current land fund;help them develop action plan for better
utilization of residue land part to recover income; better access to education,
health, market and other economic activities;
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(iv) Consultation with affected people to ensure that women (including women
headed households and women member in affected household) recieve their
entitlements and benefits from the program and feedbacks of women members
are considered in the decision making process;
(v) Compensation payment will be implemented with signature of spouse or women
member of the household;
(vi) Contruction contract of sub-project will include commitments of contractor in
gender equality (to assure to not use children labour and illegal labours (b) no
discrimination of women worker and (c) to ensure equal wages for men and
owmen worker for working conditino anod position.
150. Affected women headed households as well as members in compensation council will be
encouraged and supported to participate regularly in the implementation process of the
resettlement plan. These activities is in accordance with policies on participation in the
policy frame including:
(i) Ground clearance board of district and commune will settle claims with
representative participation of women associaion/ group, female
householders and representative of affected householder;
(ii) Representative of women in the ground clearance board of district and
commune will be created conditions to exchange experiences with other
projects;
6.6.2. Potential Activities Raised by Households
151. During the consultation with the local authorities and affected households, the following
farm-based and non-farm based activities/programs are listed for consideration in the
planning of a responsive income restoration program that will cater to the needs and
preparedness of each eligible households:
a. Piloting of selected production and income generating opportunities that are
endorsed by the province and district. Vocational training and non-farm-based
employment should be first priority.
b. Intensive agricultural production for farmers who still have remaining productive
land.
c. Skills training program for persons wishing to receive training on selected fields.
The training should be on (i) vocational courses; (ii) intensive farming; (iii) animal
husbandry; (iv) aquaculture; (v) managing small business.
d. For households who wish to venture into small businesses, the Project will explore
possible seminars on entrepreneurship (idea generation and visioning, basic sales,
marketing and finance management).
152. Depending on its needs, preferences, and available human and material resources within
the household and those that the project could provide, each participating eligible
household may engage in one main source of livelihood to be augmented by secondary
livelihood activities, especially when the main livelihood does not yield immediate returns,
such as livestock and crop production. Secondary livelihood activities will help provide
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for the daily sustenance of the household in the interim. A key ingredient of the program
is to ensure that each DP household has the means for daily sustenance.
153. Information pamphlets for each program will be prepared by the consultant of PMU2 /local
authority and will be made available to households and in commune offices. Information
will include but not limited to the following:
o Production (farm and non-farm based)/Income-generating activities: type of
program, investment costs and net returns, timeframe for income stream to develop,
sustainability, and risks.
o Project-related opportunities: type of workers needed, duration of contract,
minimum salary and benefits, schedule, basic requirements/qualifications of
workers, contact persons.
o Employment opportunities: name and address of organization, nature of
organization, number of required workers, basic requirements/ qualifications of
workers; trainings to be provided; minimum salary and benefits, contact persons,
o Skills Trainings: type of trainings, objectives, duration, cost to trainee, qualification
of trainee, type of certification to be issued upon completion of training; links to
jobs.
o Access to credit: type of loans; requirements to avail loan, term of payments and
interest rates, risks involved.
154. The consultant of PMU2 for income restoration implementation will be composed of
various experts to design, implement and administer various programs. The process of
planning appropriate income restoration activities of eligible households begins about the
same time as that of the DMS. Data gathering and in-depth investigation of needs and
opportunities will be done in parallel with the DMS. The various income restoration
activities planned and agreed with the participating households will be included in the
updated RAP including the analysis of risk, marketing for the planed programs etc. The
implementation of the program will be monitored regularly to ensure that targets are
achieved and will be included in the resettlement progress report that will be submitted to
WB.
155. An evaluation of the income restoration program will be conducted to sum up what has
been achieved, to identify additional interventions, as needed; and to draw out lessons and
insights. The steps proposed for the implementation phase of livelihood/income restoration
as Table 15 below:
Table 15 – Steps proposed for the implementation phase of Livelihood restoration
# Activity Time schedule Responsible Agency
1. Prepare the list of severely affected As soon as the DMS Income restoration team of
displaced persons (DP) (Losing more completed by the PMU2 and DCSCC/LFDC.
than 10% of productive asset, DCSCC/LFDC.
affected on shops, have to move their
houses, vulnerable groups): the list by
communes.
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# Activity Time schedule Responsible Agency
2. Study about the feasible income Parallels with DMS Income restoration team of
restoration in the localities, livelihood activity and after step PMU2 and DCSCC/LFDC.
plan etc. (with detailed information of 1 completed.
each possible activity). Consul with
commune, district, provincial
relevant agencies, and the DPs for
their feedback to the feasible
programs.
3. Based on the feedback of After step 2 Income restoration team of
stakeholders, prepare a detailed plans completed PMU2 and DCSCC/LFDC.
for activities (list of participants; Need help of the commune
organization of implementation; authorities and Village
schedule; budget; monitoring and Leaders.
evaluation and reporting. Some pilots
programs should be implemented first
to draw the lesions learned for the
subsequent programs.)
4. Set up for a Committee to implement At the beginning of District PCs and Commune
and this committee should include of the RAP PCs.
local NGOs (such as Women Union; implementation.
Farmer Association etc); Commune
and District Representative;
Representatives of DPs etc. Training
need to hold for the Committee prior
to the implementation. The PMU also
need to have a team to supervise for
the implementation of
income/livelihood
restoration/improvement.
5. Implementing the programs After step 3 Implementation Committee
for Income and Livelihood
Restoration/Improvement.
6. Monitoring and evaluation, reporting Through Implementation Committee
implementation phase and External Monitoring
Agency for RAP.
6.6.3. Eligibility
156. Since the LRP aims to help PAPs improve, or at least restore, their livelihood (which
include their income), the following households are eligible to participate in program:
o Households who lose 20% or more of their agricultural land;
o Poor/vulnerable households who lose 10% or more of the agricultural land;
o Households who lose income from their current business– regardless status of
registration and own or rent house-based business;
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o Household who will physically relocate;
o Household who lose income from the leased land.
157. Each of eligible household could send two representatives (ideally one male and one
female) to the registered training program. Household representative should be within
working-age and are committed to attending the entire training program. All costs for
training courses will be covered by the project.
6.6.4. Key Development Activities of the LRP
158. The following key activities propose for LRP:
- Agricultural extension. For those who are active in farming and wish to continue
farming activities, agricultural trainings will be provided – based on their specific
needs.
- Business Development. For those who run home-based business, they will be trained
on business development skills, and will be able to join in a vocational training of their
choice.
- Credit loan. For those who wish to borrow loan to develop their new business, their
credit access will be facilitated by PMU2 and District PCs.
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VII. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT
159. The implementation of the resettlement activities, as set forth under this Resettlement
Action Plan requires the participation of governmental agencies at national, city, district,
and ward level. Bình �?ịnh People’s Committee take the overall responsibility for the
implementation of the RAP. Compensation, Assistance and Resettlement Committees shall
be established at district level according to the provisions of Decree 47/2014/CP. The
provisions described in the RAP are the legal basis for the implementation of resettlement
activities.
7.1. Responsibility of the Stakeholders
7.1.1. At the Central Level
• Ministry of Transport (MOT)
160. The Ministry of Transport (MOT) is the project owner at central level and has an overall
responsibility for the project management and implementation. MOT will also, in
consultation with other relevant Ministries, responsible for reviewing and submitting the
Resettlement Policy Framework (RPF) to Prime Minister for approval. Provide sufficiently
and timely budget for implementation of LAR.
• Project Management Unit No.2 (PMU2)
161. PMU2 as delegated by MOT, will take the overall responsibility of day-to-day oversight
and implementation of the Project. PMU2 will undertake an overall supervision and
provide necessary technical support to ensure smooth project implementation, including
activities related to land acquisition, compensation, support and resettlement under the
Project. PMU2 will assure all resettlement activities will take place in compliance with this
RAP. Specifically, PMU2 will:
o Cooperate with PPCs, and relevant local competent agencies to conduct
compensation and resettlement.
o Organize training and building capacity activities for local authority and local
agencies at provincial and district levels where land acquisition, compensation
payment and resettlement will take place.
o Cooperate with provincial PMUs to monitor internally the implementation of
compensation, resettlement;
o Report periodically on resettlement progress to MOT and the WB.
During RAP/updated RAP preparation:
o Coordinate closely with related agencies and the WB to prepare the agreed
RAP/updated RAPs in accordance with Bank’s OP 4.12.
o Develop and provide orientation training on the requirements of the RAP to ensure
City/District PCs, and relevant stakeholders involved in RAP/updated planning and
implementation understand the requirement as set forth in the RAP/updated RAP.
o Coordinate with the relevant departments under PPC and relevant District PCs to
obtain their comments/suggestions, and their consensus on RAP/updated RAP
preparation and implementation.
During RAP implementation:
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o Take lead in recruitment of the consultants for carrying out the independent social
monitoring for implementation of RAP/updated RAP.
o Ensure the required budget for RAP/updated RAP implementation is timely and
sufficiently allocated for planned compensation payment/resettlement – as
described in the RAP/updated RAP.
o Conduct internal monitoring of RAP/updated RAP implementation
o Designate staff with solid experience in resettlement and familiar with Bank’s OP
4.12 to act as a social safeguards focal point for PMU2. This focal point will provide
regular support to Provincial People’s Committee in RAP/updated RAP
implementation.
o Designate staff-in-charge to support the local resettlement boards, at district level,
for implementation of RAP/updated RAP. The Terms of Reference for this
consultant will be subjected to Bank’s prior review;
o Prepare the quarterly internal progress reports and submit those reports to the WB;
o Conduct training on requirements of project’s RAP; work closely with District
People’s Committee and District Compensation and Land Acquisition Boards /Land
Fund Development Centers in preparing the updated RAPs based on the completed
Detailed Measurement Survey, consultation and Replacement Costs Survey;
o Submit updated RAP/updated RAP to the Bank for review and concur before
implementation.
7.1.2. At the local level
• Gia Lai People’s Committee (PPC)
162. Gia Lai PPC will be responsibe:
o Review and approve the RAP/updated RAPs.
o Appraise and approve the results of Replacement Costs Survey.
o Direct relevant Departments and Districts in appraising and approving RAP within
the line of authority.
o Solve complaints/grievances – as appropriate.
o Maintain an overall oversight of the RAP/updated RAPs implementation, and
provide guidance to relevant departments, District People’s Committees, where
required, to ensure effective and timely collaboration and coordination between
these agencies in the preparation and implementation of RAP/updated RAPs.
o Ensure the RAP/updated RAPs are prepared and updated in accordance with the
principles set forth in RPF. Once a RAP/updated RAPs are concurred by the World
Bank (via a No Objection), Gia Lai PPC will approve the final RAP/updated RAPs,
or designate a relevant City/District PC to ratify the RAP/updated RAP to enable
RAP/updated RAP implementation at City/District levels.
o Ensure that compensation resettlement and livelihoods restoration of affected
households will be implemented and monitored in accordance with approved
RAP/updated RAP.
• City/Town/District People’s Committees (DPCs)
163. DPCs shall be responsible for:
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o Preparing annual land use plan and submit to competent authorities for review and
approval of changed land use plan - as prescribed by law.
o Issuing Notice of Land Acquisition and direct the District Land Fund Development
Center, and Commune People's Committees (CPCs) to implement the approved
RAP/updated RAP.
o Take lead in recruitment of independent consultants for carrying out a replacement
costs survey;
o Directing the implementation of the RAP/updated RAP;
o Directing the District Land Fund Development Center, and Commune People's
Committees (CPCs) in conducting the public consultation and information
disclosure on compensation and resettlement policies; conducting DMS and
implementing the RAP/updated RAP.
o Directing the evaluation of compensation, support and resettlement, compensation
plan approved, support, resettlement and issued a decision to withdraw the land
under their jurisdiction;
o Adjusting or grant a new land use right certificate for the land to be acquired, and
for relocated households.
o Settling complaints related to land acquisition, compensation, support and
resettlement in the district within its jurisdiction.
o Approving the detailed compensation, support and resettlement plan to be carried
out by the District Land Fund Development Center.
• District Board for Compensation and Land Acquisition (DBCLAs)/District Land
Fund Development Center (DLFDC)
164. DBCLAs/DLFDCs shall be responsible for:
o Coordinating with PMU2 and Commune People's Committees to disseminate
information and policies on project’s compensation, support and resettlement to
affected households, and conducting community consultation, surveys, surveying,
detailed measurement survey (DMS) for affected assets to formulate plan for
compensation, support and resettlement; being responsible for the accuracy and
completeness of the survey data, surveying, and DMS;
o Preparing the detailed compensation, support and resettlement plan and conducting
consultation with affected households on plan for compensation, support and
resettlement for review and approval by DPCs; disclosing the approved plan for
compensation, support and resettlement to the affected households;
o Organizing compensation payment and provision of assistance to affected people;
o Arranging resettlement for relocated households, land acquisition, and handover of
acquired land to the construction units;
o Leading and coordinating with PMU2 and Commune People's Committees to
implement Livelihood Restoration Program;
o Assisting District People's Committee to settle complaints concerning land
acquisition, compensation and resettlement.
o Supporting CPCs in issuance of LURCs for land plot in the resettlement site.
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o Support the external monitoring consultant for conducting independent resettlement
monitoring– as required under the RAP/updated RAP.
• Wards/Townships/Commune People’s Committees (CPCs)
165. The CPCs shall be responsible for:
o Cooperating with DBCLAs/DLFDCs in arranging compensation payment,
resettlement and livelihood restoration implementation;
o Providing documents related to the origin of land use by affected households;
confirming the eligibility of affected persons and affected assets;
o Assisting competent authorities to resolve land disputes and complaints of affected
people.
o Assisting DPCs and DBCLAs/DLFDCs in organizing meetings, public
consultations, socioeconomic survey during preparation and implementation of
RAP/updated RAP;
o Establishing working groups at the commune level to support CPCs and
DBCLAs/DLFDCs in conducting Detailed Measurement Survey (DMS),
Replacement Costs Survey (RCS), Socioeconomic Survey (SES), and provision of
required information to support the preparation and implementation of RAP/updated
RAP;
o Identifying replacement land for the affected households who are eligible and
propose livelihoods restoration programs appropriate to the conditions of the people
and the locality;
o Resolving complaints at the ward/commune level - as prescribed by the existing law;
• Project Affected Households (PAHs)
166. The PAHs shall be responsible for:
o Cooperating CPCs and DBCLAs/DLFDCs in all activities related to land
acquisition, compensation, support and resettlement;
o Handing over of the affected land to the project on time upon receiving full
compensation and support package;
o Supporting in reconciliation of households with regards to land disputes, and
helping affected households in the process of resettlement and livelihoods
restoration;
o Appointing representatives in the DBCLAs/DLFDCs to participate in monitoring
the implementation of the plan for compensation, support and resettlement.
167. All stakeholders, particularly stakeholders at project level, including PPC, DPCs, CPCs,
have extensive experience implementing resettlement program in Vietnam, including
experience implementing projects financed by the World Bank that involve resettlement
and livelihoods restoration. During RAP/updated RAP preparation, there has been an active
participation from DPCs and CPCs, which contributes to the effective preparation of the
RAP/updated RAP. During project implementation, these agencies are alsso continuing to
contribute to the updating of RAP to reflect the results of the detailed measurement survey,
replacement costs survey, and consultation with affected households on the proposed
compensation and support packages.
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168. In terms of monitoring, these governmental agencies will continue to cooperate closely
with the PPCs and DPCs to implement and monitor the RAP/updated RAP implementation.
An external monitoring consultant has been engaged by PMU2 to provide an independent
assessment of RAP implementation – in addition to internal monitoring done by PMU2,
DPCs, and PPC. Despite of the fact that these stakeholders are experienced with
resettlement program, when the project starts implementation, these agencies will be
invited to participate in additional trainings organized by PMU2 - with WB technical
support, in order to update them on the new policies requirements and good implementation
practices, as well as the new requirements on gender mainstreaming to ensure smooth and
satisfactory RAP/updated RAP implementation.
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VIII. GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM
8.1. Requirements of the Grievance Redress Mechanism
169. The World Bank’s OP 4.12 on Involuntary Resettlement requires any RAPs that are
prepared for Bank financed projects need to establish a grievance redress mechanism to
address grievance and complaints that may arise from affected households during RAP
implementation.
170. A mechanism will be put in place to ensure all concerns and complaints of PAP are
recorded/registered appropriately, and addressed in a manner that is fair, timely, and
constructive. PAP will be informed of the grievance management procedure, as well as
their rights to take their grievances to the agencies responsible for handling their complaints
as well as informational queries. PAP will also be informed that their use of this grievance
mechanism will be free of charge, even when their cases are elevated to the Courts of Law.
All costs related to handling and solving of the complaints are covered by PMU2 and are
included in the budget for RAP implementation.
8.2. Grievance Redress Procedures
171. Within the Vietnamese legal framework, citizen rights to complain are protected. As part
of overall implementation of the project, a grievance redress mechanism (GRM) will be
developed by the PMU2 with responding procedures, responsible persons and contact
information. It will be readily accessible to ensure that grievances shall be handled and
resolved at the lowest level as quickly as possible. The mechanism will provide a
framework within which complaints about environmental, social, and safety issues can be
handled, grievances can be addressed, and disputes can be settled promptly.
8.2.1. Onsite complaint addressing procedure
172. The communities and communes will be informed about the GRM availability to handle
complaints and concerns relative to the project. This will be done via the community
consultation and information disclosure process under which the contractors will
communicate with the affected communities and interested authorities on a regular basis.
Meetings will be held at least quarterly, monthly information brochures will be published,
announcements will be placed in local media, and notices of upcoming planned activities
will be posted, etc.
173. All complaints and corresponding actions undertaken by the contractors will be recorded
in project safeguard monitoring reports. Complaints and claims for damages could be
lodged as follows:
o Verbally: direct to the CPCs, CSCs and/ or the contractors’ safeguard staff or
representatives at the site offices.
o In writing: by hand-delivering or posting a written complaint to specified addresses.
o By telephone, fax, e-mails: to the CPCs, CSCs, the contractors’ safeguard staff or
representatives. Upon receipt of a complaint, the CSCs, the contractors’ safeguard
staff or representatives will register the complaint in a complaint file and maintain
a log of events pertaining to it thereafter, until it is resolved. Immediately after
receipt, four copies of the complaint will be prepared. The original will be kept in
the file, one copy will be used by the contractor’s safeguard staff, one copy will be
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forwarded to the CSCs, and the fourth copy to the PPMU within 24 hours since
receipt of the complaint.
o Information to be recorded in the complaint log will consist of:
- The date and time of the complaint.
- The name, address and contact details of the complainant.
- A short description of the complaint.
- Actions taken to address the complaint, including responsible
person/agencies, contact persons and findings at each step in the complaint
redress process.
- The dates and times when the complainant is contacted during the redress
process.
- The final resolution of the complaint.
- The date, time and manner in which the complainant was informed thereof.
- The complainant’s signature when resolution has been obtained.
174. Minor complaints will be dealt with within one week. Within two weeks (and weekly
thereafter), a written reply will be delivered to the complainant (by hand, post, fax, e-mails)
indicating the procedures taken and progress to date.
175. The main objective will be to resolve an issue as quickly as possible by the simplest means,
involving as few people as possible, and at the lowest possible level. Only when an issue
cannot be resolved at the simplest level and/ or within 15 days, will other authorities be
involved. Such a situation may arise, for example, when damages are claimed, the to-be-
paid amount cannot be resolved, or damage causes are determined.
8.2.2. Official GRM as per Government Regulation
176. Grievance Redress Mechanism based on the complaint and denounced in the laws of Viet
Nam is summarized herewith:
- First Stage – Ward/Township/Commune People’s Committees (CPCs): PAP
may submit their complaint – either in written or verbal, to the office of the
Ward/Commune People’s Committee. W/C PC will receive the complaints and
will notify the W/C PC leaders of the complaint. The Chairman of the W/C PC
will meet the complainant in person and will solve it within 15 days following
the receipt of the complaint.
- Second Stage – City/Town/District People’s Committee (DPCs): After 15 days
since the submission of the complaints, if the aggrieved person does not have
any response from the CPCs, or if the aggrieved person is not satisfied with the
decision taken on his/her complaint, the PAP may take the case, either in written
or verbal, to the Reception Unit of City/Town/District People’s Committees. The
City/District People’s Committee will have 30 days since the date of receipt of
the complaint to resolve the case. The City/Town/District People’s Committees
will register all the complaints submitted and will inform the District Board for
Compensation and Land Acquisition/LFDCs of the City/Town/District PC’s
resolution/assessment results. Aggrieved person may elevate the case to the
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Courts of Law if they wish.
- Third Stage – Provincial People’s Committee(PPC): After 30 days, if the
aggrieved PAP does not hear from the City/Town/District PCs, or if the PAP is
not satisfied with the decision taken on his/her complaint, the PAP may escalate
the case, either in writing or verbal, provincial People’s Committee, or lodge an
administrative case with the City/Town/District People’s Court for resolution.
The provincial PC will have 45 days to resolve the complaint to the satisfaction
of all the concerned. The provincial PC secretariat is also responsible for
registering all complaints that are submitted. Aggrieved person may elevate the
case to the Courts of Law if they wish.
- Final Stage - Courts of Law: After 45 days following the submission of the
complaint at provincial PC, if the aggrieved PAP does not hear from the
provincial PC, or if PAP is not satisfied with the decision taken on his/her
complaint, PAP may take the case to a Courts of Law for adjudication. Decision
by the court will be the final decision. Decision on solving the complaints must
be sent to the aggrieved PAPs and concerned parties and must be posted at the
office of the People’s Committee where the complaint is solved. After 3 days,
the decision/result on resolution must be made available at ward level and after
7 days at the district level.
8.3. Grievance Redress Management
8.3.1. DPCs and CPCs
177. DPC and CPCs will maintain a logbook for recording queries, suggestions and grievances
of PAPs. All complaints will be assessed and resolved in accordance with fair, timely and
constructive manner.
8.3.2. PMU2
178. A focal point who is responsible for administering grievance mechanism on behalf of
PMU2 will be appointed by PMU2. This staff will act as a liaison officer (with DLFDC
and CPCs) and will perform the following key tasks:
- Work closely with DLFDC and CPCs to respond to any informational queries
from PAPs;
- Keep track of overall grievance management process on behalf of PMU2.
- Maintain a grievance log with basic information, including: (a) Receipts (name
of complainant, complainant’s story and expectation; date the grievance was
received and recorded; (b) Tracking (progress – pending/solved, agreements
and commitments made); and (iii) Closeout (resolution outcome).
8.4. Grievance Redress Montoring
179. An Independent External Monitoring Consultant (IEMC) will be engaged by PMU2 to
evaluate the effectiveness of the grievance mechanism. The monitoring will identify
common or recurrent claims that may require structural solutions or adjustment to
compensation policy. The IEMC may recommend measures to be taken to redress
unresolved grievances.
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IX. MONITORING AND EVALUATION
9.1. Objectives of Monitoring and Evaluation
180. The main objective of monitoring the implementation of the RAP is to determine whether
or not the RAP is carried out in accordance with the Resettlement Framework and the
agreed schedule and methods, and that the RAP implementation meets the objective of the
World Bank’s Operational Policy 4.12 on Involuntary Resettlement.
181. Moreover, evaluation of the resettlement activities will be resorted after implementation of
the RAP to assess whether the resettlement objectives were appropriate and whether they
were met, specifically, whether livelihoods and living standards have been restored or
enhanced if there is any. The evaluation will also assess resettlement efficiency,
effectiveness, impact, and sustainability, drawing lessons as a guide to future resettlement
planning.
9.2. Internal Monitoring
9.2.1. Requirements of Internal Monitoring
182. PMU2 is responsible to conduct internal monitoring on resettlement implementation and
will assign a specialized PMU2 staff to work closely with DLFDC, CPCs and other local
relevant ligovernment agencies to conduct internal monitoring with key assignments as
below:
o Coordinate with related agencies in process of RAP implementation;
o Collect necessary data – as required by this RAP, to set up a database of resettlement
for RAP implementation progress reports for internal monitoring purpose;
o Identify any pending issues/non-compliance issues during RAP implementation;
o Work closely with the External Monitoring Consultant to oversee the
implementation of the RAP;
o Receive and report complaint of affected people to competent authorities for
resolving
o Conduct monthly and reported quarterly to ensure any issues that may arise so as to
take timely and appropriate action.
9.2.2. Key Indicators for Internal Monitoring
183. The following suggestive criteria could be used for internal monitoring by PMU2:
o Number of affected persons according to types of impacts;
o Status of compensation payment, resettlement, and income restoration;
o List of outstanding complaints;
o Final results on solving complaints and any outstanding issues that demand
management agencies at all levels to solve;
o Issues that arise during the implementation process;
o RAP schedule updated.
184. Monitoring done by PMU2 could be coordinated with external monitoring when the
external monitoring consultant is enaged by PMU2 and starts the consulting services.
9.3. External Monitoring (Independent Monitoring)
9.3.1. Requirements External Monitoring
185. PMU2 will engage an Independent External Monitoring Consultant (IEMC) to conduct
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periodically independent monitoring on implementation of RAP. The IEMC will be
recruited based on their experience on application of Bank’s safeguards policy and on
monitoring and evaluation of RAP implementation. PMU2 will prepare a TOR for this
assignment which will be reviewed by the World Bank prior to recruitment. The
recruitment will be based on the bidding process in accordance with the relevant
procurement regulations of the World Bank.
o To monitor the implementation of the approved RAP to ensure the implementation
follows regulations and policies stipulated in the RAP, including monitoring risks
and impacts related to labor influx and gender issues (SEA/SH).
o To conduct a final monitoring and evaluation of resettlement implementation 6
months after completion of all resettlement activities.
o To evaluate the effectiveness of the grievance mechanism.
o Identify common or recurrent claims that may require adjustment to the
compensation policy.
o Recommend measures to be taken to redress unresolved grievances
o Periodical and final reports include all findings from monitoring and evaluation and
corrective action plan (if needed) to submit to PMU2 and the World Bank.
186. The IEMC is expected to monitor and evaluate the results of the RAP implementation with
regards to the following three key aspects:
o Performance (Process, including compliance),
o Impact (Outcome); and
o Sustainability (upon Completion of the RAP implementation).
187. While internal monitoring of RAP implementaiton process is maintained quarterly,
external monitoring should be conducted twice a year, and an evaluation after six months
following the completion of resettlement. IEMC must prepare a bi-annual report on
findings from each monitoring mission, consolidating all the findings from the last internal
monitoring reports, and submit to PMU2 and World Bank. The report requirements will be
detailed in the Terms of Reference for IEMC.
9.3.2. Key Indicators for External Monitoring
188. The following indicators will be monitored and evaluated by the IEMC:
o Payment of compensation: a) full payment to be made to all affected persons before
land acquisition; (b) adequacy of payment to replace affected assets.
o Provision of assistance for PAPs who have to rebuild their houses on their remaining
land, or building their houses in new places as arranged by the project, or on newly
assigned plots.
o Assistance for recovering livelihood/income sources.
o Community consultation and public dissemination of compensation policy: (a)
PAPs should be fully informed and consulted about land acquisition, and relocation
activities; (b) community consultation procedures and how to solve these problems;
(c) public awareness of the compensation policy and entitlements will be assessed
among the PAPs; and (d) assessment of awareness of various options available to
PAPs as provided in the RAP.
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o Affected persons should be monitored regarding the restoration of productive
activities.
o PAPs’ satisfaction on compensation, assistance and resettlement will be monitored
and recorded.
o Effectiveness of the complaint mechanism and speed of complaint settlement will
also be monitored.
9.4. Community Monitoring
189. Evaluate the investor’s compliance with the regulations on land boundary and land use;
detailed ground planning; architectural and construction plans; waste treatment;
environmental protection; compensation, site clearance and resettlement plan; investment
schedule and plan.
190. Detecting acts that are detrimental to the interests of the community; negative impacts of
the project on the living environment of the community during the process of project
investment and operation.
9.5. Monitoring of the World Bank
191. Reviewing and approving the RAP and monitoring reports to ensure that RAP
implementation, monitoring and evaluation is in accordance with the WB’s OP 4.12.
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X. COST AND BUDGET
10.1. Basic data for cost estimation of compensation, support and resettlement
192. The following table summarizes the estimated costs for compensation, support and
resettlement for Gia Lai Province Sub-project. The estimated cost is calculated based on
the following data:
(i) DMS results updated to May 2022;
(ii) Compensation unit prices for land; houses/structrures, trees/crops and other assets
on land - which is determined by the District Board for Compensation, Support and
Resettlement or District Land Fund Development Centers through the field survey
and approved by the Provincial People's Committee to implement the
compensation.
(iii) Sources of budget: (i) The budget for compensation, support and resettlement for
the affected land, houses/structures/structures, trees/crops and other assets on land
will be allocted from ODA source (from the World Bank); and (ii) Other costs for
implementation of compensation and resettlement activities will be allocted from
the Central Counterpard fund (MOT).
10.2. Updated estimated cost for of compensation, support and resettlement
Table 16 – Estimated Cost for Compensation, Support and Resettlement
Amount
No. Items Unit Quantity Unit Prices
VND USD
COSTS FOR COMPENSATION, SUPPORT AND
I 179,391,889,517 7,747,771
RESETTLEMENT
Compensation for
1 98,868,644,629 4,270,046
land affected
8
From VND
2
1.1 Agricultural land m 552,441 45,000 to VND 65,301,749,402 2,820,323
148,000/m2
Depending on the
1.2 Residential land m2 14,573 location of the 15,252,468,527 658,740
land-plot
Support for site
1.3 Other land m2 11,224 18,314,426,700 790,983
clearance only
Compensation for
2 houses/structures 27,769,056,506 1,199,320
affected
Houses and other
2.1 HH 369 27,769,056,506 1,199,320
secondary structures
Compensation for
3 crops and trees 11,248,089,094 485,795
affected
Rice, annual crops and
3.1 HH 520 11,235,714,094 485,260
trees
8
Depending on the type of land and the location of the land-plot
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Amount
No. Items Unit Quantity Unit Prices
VND USD
Crops temporarily
3.2 HH 7 - 12,375,000 534
affected
4 Allowances/Supports 41,506,099,288 1,792,610
Support in training,
4.1 job change and job m2 552,441 66,235 36,591,044,288 1,580,334
search
Livelihood
4.2 HH 3,651,685,000 157,713
Stabilization
From VND
4.3 Transportation HH 11 5,000, 000 to 173,000,000 7,472
VND 10,000,000
From VND
Support for other 3,000,000 to
4.4 HH 35 186,560,000 8,057
vulnerable groups VND
5,000,000/HH
Allowances for
4.5 HH 16 384,810,000 16,620
housing rental
Support for Business
4.6 HH 11 6,000,000 259
Affected
Support for Affected
VND
4.7 Ethnic Minority HH 171 513,000,000 22,156
3,000,000/HH
Households
II MANAGEMENT COSTS 9,924,180,297 428,616
Implementation Costs
1 lumpsum 3,587,837,790 154,955
(2%)
Other cost for site
lumpsum 6,336,342,507 273,661
clearance
III TOTAL (I+II) 189,316,069,814 8,176,387
Contingency (10% x
IV 18,931,606,981 817,639
III)
V GRAND TOTAL (III+IV) 208,247,676,796 8,994,026
Sources: Detailed Compensation Plans provided by DBCLA/LFDCs, May 2022
Note: Exchange Rate 1USD = VND 23,154 - as announced by the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for
Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) on August 3, 2022
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XI. APPENDICES
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11.1. Appendix 1 – Entitlements Matrix
A. PERMANENT IMPACT
1. AGRICULTURAL Land users with LURC or Compensation will be at full replacement costs. PAP will be notified at least 90
LAND eligible for LURC days prior to land acquisition and
receive compensation and
Marginal loss (<20% of land allowances at the latest one month
holding or <10% for before land acquisition.
vulnerable group), the
remaining area is still The landowner will hand over the
economically viable for use or land within 20 days of full payment
meets expected personal of compensation and allowances.
yield.
Significant loss >=20% Compensation will be at full replacement costs. PAP will be notified at least 90
or >=10% for vulnerable • Compensation will be paid in cash at full days prior to land acquisition and
groups replacement cost for all the affected area within receive compensation and
governmental allocated quota of 3ha. For area allowances at the latest one month
exceeding the 3ha-quota, compensation will be before land acquisition.
made only for the Remaining Land Investment Cost9
which is the cost already invested in the land but has The landowner will hand over the
not been recovered by the time of land acquisition land within 20 days of full payment
(Article 129, 130 of Land Law 2013) of compensation and allowances.
ALLOWANCES: Severely affected households will be
provided with additional allowances for life stabilization and
participating in Livelihood Restoration Program (See
Section 8 on ALLOWANCES below)
9
Remaining Land Investment Cost as per land Law 2013, are costs that the land user has invested in land but have not been fully recovered by the time of land acquisition.
These includes, for instance, costs of a) landfill, b) soil fertility improvement, soil erosion prevention (for farming purpose), c) foundation preparation (for business purpose),
d) other investment as appropriate to the land use purpose (Article 3, Decree 47/2014/ND-CP).
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Land users without formal or Land used before 1st July 2004 will be compensated at Gia Lai PC will make decision.
customary rights to land replacement cost; land used after 1st July 2024 to before the
cut-off date will not be paid but cash assistance will be
provided – on the basis of land origin, land use history,
reason for un-eligibility, and the time when the land was put
into use- as per Land Law 2013 and provincial most updated
regulations.
Leased Right PAP renting land managed by the government: Remaining Land Investment Cost
• No compensation for the affected land but for the will be calculated on the basis of
Remaining Land Investment Cost. survey in line with Article 76 of
• Compensation paid at full replacement cost for Land law 2013.
affected assets (structures, crops, trees) on rental
land if they have been created before the Cut-off
Date.
PAP renting private-owned land for farming purpose:
• Compensation for land at replacement cost for the
landowner;
• Compensation for renter a) affected assets
(structures, crops, trees) at replacement cost for the
renter if the affected assets have been created
before the Cut-off Date; b) the remaining rental
contract value.
2. RESIDENTIAL Land users with LURC or Loss of residential land with no houses/structures on it: PAP will be notified at least 180
LAND eligible for LURC • Compensation for loss of land will be paid in cash days prior to land acquisition.
at full replacement cost.
Loss of land with houses built thereon, and the remaining
(non-acquired) land is adequate to reorganize:
• Compensation at full replacement cost for the
affected land.
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• Compensation for affected house is as follows:
Partially affected house and remaining part is usable:
• Compensation at full replacement cost for the
affected part and actual costs for repairing the
remaining part without deduction of salvageable
materials.
Fully affected house:
• Compensation at full replacement cost for the
entirely affected house.
In case the remaining land is insufficient to build a new
house, the affected household could request converting the
agricultural land adjoining with the affected residential land
into residential land but not exceed residential land quota-
as specified by Gia Lai PC.
Loss of land with houses built thereon, and the remaining • Resettlement land/house will be
(non-acquired) land is not adequate to rebuild the house arranged in line with Article 86
(Relocated PAP): and Article 87 of the Land Law,
• Compensation for loss of land and houses will be Decree No. 47/2014/ND-CP
paid at full replacement cost. Affected households and Article 20, 22 of Decree
are entitled to allocation of a plot of land in Project’s No. 43/2014
Resettlement/Relocation Site. • AHs are paid compensation and
• In case compensation value for the affected allowance within 30 days since
residential land is less than the cost of a standard compensation plan approved.
land plot in the designated Resettlement/Relocation • No deduction or depreciation
Site, relocated households will be provided with a apply for salvageable materials.
cash support equal to the difference to enable them
to have the land plot in the Relocation Site.
• If AHs prefer self-relocating to other place, an
amount of cash support equal to the difference
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between the cost of the minimum land plot in the
designated Relocation Site and total compensation
amount for the affected residential land will be
provided to the relocating households. (Article 86 of
Land Law 2013, Article 27 of Decree 47/2014/ND-
CP)
• PAP will be provided for cash resettlement
assistance (See Item 8 and compensation for
house/structure if created before the project Cut-off
Date (See Item 3)
No formal right to affected Loss of land with houses built thereon, and the remaining
land (non-acquired) land is adequate to reorganize:
(i) PAP with formal right to affected land (legal or
legalizable):
- Compensation for loss of land will be paid in cash
- at replacement cost
- Compensation for affected houses/structure (See
Section c. below).
(ii) PAP without formal right to affected land:
Compensation for affected houses/structure at
replacement cost (See Section c. below). Costs to repair
the remaining houses are covered by the Project (See
Section 6.2.3. Support/Allowances).
Loss of land with houses built thereon, and the remaining
(non-acquired) land is not adequate to rebuild the house
(Relocated PAP):
(i) PAP with formal right to affected land (legal or
legalizable):
- Eligible households can opt: Compensation in cash for loss
of land at replacement cost or allocation of a land
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plot/apartment in resettlement site;
- Compensation for affected houses/structure at replacement
cost (see Section c. below).
(ii) PAP without formal right to affected land:
Compensation for land is as follows:
- If PAP uses non-agricultural land10 with house on it - prior
to 1 July 2004, and the land was obtained by encroachment,
PAP will be provided a new residential land plot in the
project’s resettlement site with levy collection, or are entitled
to buying a new resettlement house, if they have no place in
the project commune/ward to move [Article 7 of Decree
47/2014/ND-CP, Article 80 of Land Law 2013]. In addition,
for illegal land user using land after 1st Jul, 2004 and prior
to the cut-off date, a financial assistance will be provided at
PPC’s disposal
- If PAP is not eligible for LURC (as specified at Article 22
of Decree 43/2014/ND-CP) and is using land with house
thereon and violation of the Land Law without preventive
action from local authority, depending on land use history,
PAP will be considered for cash assistance in accordance
with regulations of Provincial People’s Committee.
Compensation for house/structure if created before the cut-
off date are paid at full replacement costs in line with OP
4.12.
Compensation for affected land and house as regulated in
item (ii) above. In case, PAP has no other residential
land/house within project commune/ward, they are
entitled to buying a standard land plot/apartment in
resettlement site. Price of land/apartment is decided by
PPC.
10
Non-agricultural land – as prescribed at Article 10 of Land Law 2013, include land such as public land, river land, industrial land, production land, etc.
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3 Compensation for For households and individuals using non-agricultural land
non-agricultural land which is not residential land, when the State recovers land,
(but not residential if they are eligible for compensation as prescribed in Article
land): 75 of this Law, they shall be compensated with land having
the same land use purpose. In case such land is not available
for compensation, they shall be compensated with money
calculated based on the remaining land use term.
For households and individuals using non-agricultural land
which is not residential land and is leased by the State with
annual rental payment or with full one-off rental payment for
the entire lease period but being exempted from land rental,
when the State recovers land, they shall not be compensated
for land but for the remaining investment costs in land,
except the cases in which households and individuals use
land under the policies for people with meritorious services
to the revolution( According to Article 80 , Land Law 2013)
4. HOUSES/ For non-movable houses and secondary structures – Replacement costs includes;
SECONDARY compensation will be at full replacement costs for affected a) market cost of the materials to
STRUCTURES/ houses and structures regardless of the legal status of the build a replacement structure
EQUIPMENT/ affected land, houses or structures OR compensation for with an area and quality similar
PRODUCTION constructing a new house/structure with equivalent technical or better than those of the
LINE, ETC. standard. affected structure or to repair a
partially affected structure
For houses and structures that are partially demolished, b) the cost of transporting building
compensation at replacement cost for the affected part, plus materials to the construction
cost for repairing and renovating the remaining part to suit site
its utility. Cost for repair and renovation are calculated at c) the cost of any labor and
replacement cost and included in compensation plan. construction fees
For equipment and/or production line, affected business d) the cost of any registration and
who own the equipment or production lines will be transfer taxes.
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compensated for all costs associated with disassembly, Structures shall be evaluated with
transportation, re-installation of the affected equipment regards to its value individually.
and/or production line. A consulting firm specialized in
appraisal for such equipment/ production lines will be
engaged by the PMU2 to estimate the costs which are subject
to review and approval of Gia Lai PC. Costs associated to
this process will be paid at full replacement cost.
For small assets requiring specialized installation
including landline phone, water connection, electricity
connection, cable TV, internet connection, etc, all costs
related to uninstallation and re-installation at new
house/business premise will be compensated at full
replacement cost.
5. CROPS, TREES LURC, eligible and not For annual and perennial trees, standing crops or aquaculture • Calculation of compensation
and QUACULTURE eligible for LURC products, compensation in cash will be paid at full for crop is based on the highest
PRODUCTS replacement cost irrespective of the legal status of the land if productivity of one crop of the
created before the cut-off date and are in line with Article 90 last 3 years.
of the Land Law 2013. • Calculation of compensation
Movable crops such as orchard trees will not be compensated for trees is based on age and
but transportation of the trees to new location is supported as diameter of the tree.
specified by District Board for Compensation and Land • PAP has the right to use
Acquisition. If replanting of trees in new location incurs salvageable trees.
costs, such full costs will be compensated for.
Aquaculture that reaches harvest time by the time of land
acquisition will not be compensated for.
6. BUSINESSES For economic loss resulting from Contract termination: PAP will be given priority for
For households/individual who rent government or private- business relocation at conveniently
owned land for non-farm business and the land rental is located place in order to maximize
made on renewable contract basis by the time when the their benefit from business
affected land must be returned to government but the land opportunities. At the time of
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lease contract is still valid, compensation will be paid as compensation, allowances will be
agreed upon in the land lease contract, if any. adjusted to account for inflation.
For affected assets such as houses, structures, equipment,
production line and other small assets, compensation will
be paid using full replacement costs principle.
For loss of income incurred by business owner, the
mechanism for compensation is as follows:
• For registered businesses, compensation will be paid
in cash for the loss of net business income equivalent
to 50% of the annual average net income as declared
with the tax agency during the recent three (3) years
(this amount is equivalent to 100% of monthly net
income for 6 months).
• For non-registered businesses whose operations are
recognized by local authority and whose net income
for non-registered businesses are affected,
compensation will be paid in cash for the income
losses for at least three (3) months.
• For households who retailed business without
business license and do not pay tax including also
squatter/informal settler whose business are located
on the right of way, compensation will be paid a one-
time allowance of 3 million (3,000,000) VND per
household.
For loss of income incurred by business employees:
• Employees who permanently lose their existing job
due to acquisition of land on which the business are
located will receive an unemployment allowance at
the basic wage level for up to 6 months. Besides,
employee is entitled to participation in vocational
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training of the project’s LRP. If they lose their
income only temporarily during the business
transition period, they will be supported with an
allowance as specified by City/District PC.
7. GRAVES Compensation for affected graves includes full costs The relocation of graves should be
associated with a) land for re-burial; b) excavation; c) done on the basis of full
reburial consultation with the affected
d) relocation; e) construction of new tombs and f) other households to meet their customs
reasonable related costs which are necessary to meet local and habits.
customs and habits.
Land for relocation of all affected graves will be provided at Affected households will be
a graveyard designated by the District PC. If District informed of the location of the
graveyard is not available, compensation payment will cover graveyard so that they can decide
costs for buying land for reburial. where to relocate the affected
In case owner of the affected graves could not be identified, graves within the designated
public announcement has to be made on Radio, TV or in graveyard or to somewhere else in
popular newspaper and in public notice sites in the accordance with their customs and
community for a number of times to look for the grave habits.
owners. Within a reasonable time, if grave owners are not
identified, the relocation of graves should be done by a
specialized unit in consultation with the District Department
of Health. The geographical location and status of the graves
(with photos taken in details), the procedure of grave
relocation and the new location of the graves must be
documented carefully for the owner’s use at a later time.
8. PUBLIC Where public structures such as schools, health centers,
STRUCTURES/ libraries or other cultural centers, recreational parks, public
COMMUNITY roads, water transmission pipelines and electricity
ASSETS transmission lines are affected, such affected works will be
restored/repaired to ensure normal operation at no cost to the
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local community.
9. ALLOWANCES Affected residential land/ Transportation Allowance: For household who need to Relocation Plan needs to be
houses and relocation resettle in a new residential area, an amount of discussed clearly with affected
6,000,000VND will be provided if they physically relocate households to minimize the time
within the area of Gia Lai Province. If relocating outside of duration for temporary
Province, the transport allowance will be 10,000,000VND or accommodation as this may affect
Gia Lai’s regulations whichever is higher. the income generation
House Renting Allowance/Temporary Accommodation: activities/livelihoods of the
House renting allowance or temporary accommodation will affected households.
be provided to relocating households and re-organizing
households (where required) for the actual time during
which they have no other accommodation due to handing
over the affected land (as required by the project) while not
having completed yet the construction of the new house. An
actual amount will be provided to each relocating
households for a period of temporary accommodation until
allocated plot in resettlement site, plus 4 months for
construction of new house. For re-organizing households,
this amount will be provided for three (3)-month period. The
rental is decided by the PPC to ensure relocated have
accommodation during temporary relocation.
Subsistence allowance: equivalent to the market value of
30kg of rice/person/month for 3 months if PAP have to
rebuild house on their remaining land and for 6 months if
PAP have to relocate to a new site.
Severely affected agricultural Allowance for Livelihood Stabilization (during transition
land period):
i. PAPs losing 20%-70%% of their agricultural landholding
(or 10%-70% for the poor, near-poor and vulnerable groups)
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will be provided with an allowance of 500,000VND/per
person/ month for 6 months if they will not be relocated and
for 12 months in the case of relocation. In some special
cases, allowance may be provided up to 24 months;
ii. PAPs losing more than 70% of their agricultural
landholding will be assisted at the above rate for a period of
12 months if they do not relocate and 24 months in the case
of relocation. In some special cases, the allowance may be
provided up to a maximum of 36 months;
iii. PAPs affected by less than 20% of the land and their
remaining land is not economically viable will receive the
allowance for 12 months.
HHs with no recognized land use right will receive
allowance equal to 60% of the above rate provided for the
legal, legalizable land users of agricultural land.
Allowance of job training/ • Affected households directly engaged in agricultural PPMU in combination with IMC
creation production: supported on job training/job change and will conduct a training needs
job creation with an amount of cash not exceeding 3 assessment for all severely affected
times the compensation value of affected agricultural households to develop a training
land (Article 20 of Decree No. 47/214/ND/CP and. plan. Budget for job training will
Article 18 of Decision No.09/2018/Q�?-UBND, and be provided by TSPMU. Loans for
Article 18 of Decision No. 02/2020/Q�?-UBND) Those new job will be considered by
at work age wishing to be trained for a particular job will District PC and District
be admitted to local training school and supported to Department of Labor, Invalids and
find a new job and borrow loan for the new job. Social Affair and will be provided
• Affected households running business at their under a suitable loan program of
residential land with the main income derived from Gia Lai PC as recommended by
this business: Those at working age wishing to be respective City/District PC.
trained for a job will be admitted to local training school
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and supported to find a new job and borrow loan for the
new job.
Free job consultation/orientation are offered at local Job
Service Center.
Vulnerable Households Female headed households with dependents and economic One household may be eligible for
difficulties, households with disabled persons, elderly some allowances, but only the
without any source of support, households from ethnic highest allowance is provided.
minority groups will be provided with an amount of not less
than 3million VND per household.
Relocating will be provided with support.
Households with heroic mothers, heroic armed force
personnel, labor hero, war veterans, wounded or dead
soldiers and poor household certificate or categorized as
near-poor will be supported in cash with an amount from 3-
5millionVND/household.
Incentive Bonus All affected households who hand the affected land over to
local authority at the date specified after receiving
compensation payment and allowances will be given an
incentive bonus. Bonus rate will be determined at the time
of compensation payment and decided by the PPC.
10. LIVELIHOOD All households who are severely affected and who are Livelihood Restoration Program
RESTORATION vulnerable as defined from Section 4.2 will be eligible to will be designed based on
PROGRAM participate in the Livelihood Restoration Program (LRP) assessment of the needs of the
which include trainings on agricultural extension, new job affected households. LRP will be
training, credit access and other measures as recommended mainstreamed into on-going local
and appropriate to support the livelihood restoration of development program that support
affected households to ensure their livelihood restored to the affected/poor households who
pre-project level or even improve. The LRP will be relocate as a result of development
developed in consultation with affected households after the project.
Resettlement Action Plan (as approved by Gia Lai PC and
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the World Bank) are disclosed fully to the affected
households to ensure the consultation on measures to restore
livelihoods for severely affected households meaningful and
realistic. Costs related to implementing LRP will be borne
by the Project Owner.
B. TEMPORARY IMPACTS
11. TEMPORARY • Temporarily affected land including assets Contractors will be informed of this
IMPACT ON associated with affected land will be compensated RAP and should explore alternative
LAND/LOCAL for as agreed with the landowner. Upon return of construction method to avoid
affected land to people, the affected land must be temporary impact. If avoidance is
BUSINESS
restored to its original condition as agreed with the not possible, contractors will
affected households. compensate for the above
• In case the construction affects temporarily the temporary impact in accordance
business activities of local households outside the with this RAP. Temporary impact
project area, resulting in loss of income that derive is subject to both internal and
from such business, loss of income should be external monitoring.
compensated for the entire period of impact as
agreed with the affected households.
12. DAMAGES Damaged property will be immediately restored to its former Contractors will be required to take
CAUSED BY condition by contractors. extreme care to avoid damaging
CONTRACTORS property during construction.
Where damages occur, contractor
will be required to immediately
repair damages or pay
compensation to the affected
families, groups, communities, or
government.
C. UNPREDICTABLE IMPACTS DURING IMPLEMENTATION
Any other impacts identified during the project
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implementation will be compensated in accordance with the
Compensation Principles set out for in this RAP and in line
with the WB’s OP 4.12
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11.2. Appendix 2 - The questionnaire for IOL and social and economic survey of affected
assets (applied for the 1st updated RAP)
CENTRAL HIGHLAND CONNECTIVITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
Inventory of Loss (IOL)
PART 1: GENERAL INFORMATION
1.1 Sector: 1. NH19 renovation 2. An Khê bypass 3. Pleiku bypass
1.2 Commune: District: Province
1.3 Household owner:
1.4 Age (0). Under (1). 18 - 30 (2).31 - 45 (3). 46 - 60 (4). Over 60
18
1.5 Gender 1 - Male 2 - Female
1.6 Group:
1.7 Education: 1- Litteracy 2- Under primary 3- Primary
4- Secondary 5- High school 6. Intermediate / College /
University
1.8 Occupation:
1.9 Monthly everage income ...........................................................................................................VND
of owner
1.1 Marital status 1 - Single 2 - 3. 4 - 5 – Young (under 18)
0 Married Divorced Widow
ed
1.1 Object: 1. Poor 2. Phụ nữ chủ hộ có 3. Hộ dân tộc thiểu số
1 ngư�?i phụ thuộc
4. Hộ gia đình chính 5. Ngư�?i già/trẻ em/ 6. Khác (ghi rõ):
sách (Thương binh, có ngư�?i tàn tật làm chủ
công...) hộ
Number of family 16-60 years old Under 16
1.1 member? Male Female Male Female
2
1.1 HH everage income/month?
..........................................................................VND/month
3
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PART 2: SOCIO-ECONOMICAL STATUS OF AFFECTED HOUSEHOLD
1. Family member
Group[1=K Occupation
Relationship Age inh; [1= Agri Education
Marital
w. owner [0=Un 2=Thái; 2=Customer [0=Litteracy
status
(1=Owner; der 18; 3=Tày; service 1=Primary
(1=singl
2=spouse; 1=18 – 4=Nùng; 3=worker 2=Secondary
Gender e; 2=
3=parents; 30; 2= 5=Mư�?ng; 4=Officer 3=High school
N [1=Male married;
4=Bio 31 – 6=Hoa; 5= Student 4=Intermediat
o. 2=Femal 3=divor
children; 45; 7=Ê đê; 6=housewife e and College
e] ced;
5=Son/daugh 3=46 – 8=Gia rai; 7=wage 5=Undergradu
4=wido
ter in law; 60; 9=Khác (ghi earner ate and higher
w/wido
6=grandchild 4=over rõ)] 8=driver 6=Other(detail
wer)
; 7=other) 60] 9=Other(deta )]
il)]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
`1
0
2. Living condition
2.1 Cooking water source 1. Rain 4. Pubic tap water 6. River, lake, pond
2. Dug well 5. Tap water 7. Other (detail)
3. Bored well
2.2 Bathing water source 1. Rain 3. Bored well 5. River, lake, pond
2. Dug well 4. Tap water 6. Other (details)
2.3 Toilet type? 1. detritus tank 2. semi-detritus tank 3. 2 filters
4. temporary 5. no toilet 6. Other
2.4 Light energy? 1. grid 3. Oil 5. Battery
2. generator 4. Gas/biogas 6. Other (detail)
2.5 Cooking energy? 1. Grid 3. Oil 5. Gas
2. Generator 4. Wood 6. Other (detail)
2.6 Do you have any 1. Bicycle 6. Disc player 11. Fan
properties? 2. Motorbike 7. Generator 12. Refrigerator
3. Car 8. Pump 13. Computer
4. Truck 9. Cooker 14. Air condition
5. TV 10. Telephone 15. Other
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3. Income, expense
3.1. Monthly income source
No. Source Amount of money (VN�?)
1 Agriculture
2 Bussiness, customer service
3 Salary/ benefit
4 Wage earner
5 Other
Total
3.2. Monthly expense
No. Source Amount of money (VN�?)
1 Food
2 Health
3 Education
4 Traveling, festival…
5 Other (Details…)
Total
PART 3: AFFECTED LAND
Area Current status of use
LURC / có Rent/
Affected No right/
Affected land type Total area (m2) thể hợp temporary
area (m2) illegal
thức hóa use
1 2 3 4 5
3.1 Urban residential
3.2 land residential land
Rural
3.3 Non-agricultural land
3.4 Agricultural land
3.5 Aquatic land
3.6 Garden
3.7 Forestry land
3.8 Other (detail)
PART 4: BUILDING
4.1 MAIN WORK
Ngư�?i BAH có
thuê công trình How affected?
No Total area Affected Current hay không?
Work Level
. (m2) area (m2) use Monthly
Yes price Entire A part
(VND)
4.1 Level 1
4.2 Level 2
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Levels of Houses:
1- Level 1 = Villa
2- Level 2 = Reinforced concrete floors, building materials and high-quality equipment
3- Level 3 = Reinforced concrete floors, building materials and everage quality equipment
4- Level 4 = Brick walls, wooden frame with tiled roof
5- Temporary = Bamboo or wooden frame, with thatched roof or titled roof
Current use: 1- only for living
4- public work (school,etc)
2- only for business5- trade
3- living and business 6- other (detail)
4.2 Minor work: (shop, kitchen, WC, stall, well, fence, tomb…)
Affected land
Work Notes
No. m2 M Quantity
1 2 3 4
4.2.1
4.2.2
4.2.3
4.2.4
4.2.5
4.2.6
4.2.7
4.2.8
*Building material: 1-
Bamboo 4- Concrete
2- Wood 5-
Metal
3- Brick
6.- Other (detail) ……………………………………
PART 5: AFFECTED ANNUAL PLANT AND AQUACULTURAL LAND
Affected area
Plant Notes
(m2)
5.1 Rice
5.2 Other annual plant
5.3 Vegetable
5.4 Water surface for aquaculture
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Affected area
Plant Notes
(m2)
5.5 Other (details):
PART 6: PERENNIALS, FRUIT AND TIMBER TREES AFFECTED
Affected area
Plant Notes
No. Quantity M2
1 2 3 4
6.1 Group 1: Fruit trees
6.2 (coconut, mango, star apple,
6.3 durian, longan, orange,
6.4 tangerine, grapefruit,...);
Group 2: papaya, bananas
and other crops
Group 3: Coffee, cashew,
pepper,
6.5 Group 4: Timber trees
(eucalyptus, conch, ...)
Group 5: Tree magazine,
shrubs
PART 7: OTHER BUSINESS AND INCOME AFFECTED
Status of business tax Everage clear
Employee
Business* registration income/month
No.
Yes No Full time Part time (VND)
1 2 3 4 5 6
7.1
7.2
7.3
*Business: 1- Shop
4- Storage
2- Retail store
5- Gas station, garage
3- Service (haircut…)
6- Other:……………
PART 8: COMPENSATION OPTION
8.1 Productive land: 1- Alternative land with same area
If your family has affected agricultural land
or shrimp/fish pond or other productive 2- Cash
land, what type of compensation do you 3- Not decide
want?
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8.2 Residential land: Is the remaining land 1- Yes
enough to build another work?
2- No
8.3 If you can’t rebuild another work, how do 1- Self relocated to your other plots
you want to resettle? 2- Self relocated to new places
3- Resettlement areas available
4- Assigned to the planning area
1- Yes (in detail):
8.4 Oher comments?
2- No
INTERVIEWEE INTERVIEWER
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11.3. Appendix 3 – Some Minutes of Consultation
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11.4. Appendix 4 –Form of Minute of Consultation during the RAP implementation
MINUTES OF COMMUNITY CONSULTATION
Central Highlands Connectivity Improvement Project
Commnue/Ward: ……………………… District: …………………….
I. PARTICIPANTS:
1. Representative of the PMU:
- Mr ( Mrs) ……………………….. Position: …………………………..
- Mr ( Mrs) ……………………….. Position: …………………………..
2. Representative of consulting firm:
- Mr ( Mrs) ……………………….. Position: …………………………..
- Mr ( Mrs) ……………………….. Position: …………………………..
3. Representative of Commune/Ward People's Committee:
- Mr ( Mrs) ……………………….. Position: …………………………..
- Mr ( Mrs) ……………………….. Position: …………………………..
4. Representatives of local associations:
- Mr ( Mrs) ……………………….. Position: …………………………..
- Mr ( Mrs) ……………………….. Position: …………………………..
5. Household representatives:………..people.
II. CONSULTATION CONTENT:
1. Content:
- Consulting with the community on implementation policies and procedures for
compensation, resettlement and site clearance of the Project
- Consulting with the community on project's impact on the life and livelihood of the
affected households
- The extent to which affected households satisfy with the Project
- Opinions of local authorities, local associations and affected households on project
implementation
2. Opinions of local authorities and households
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Location and date: …………, …………….. 2021
REPRESENTATIVE OF INVESTORS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
CONSULTANT FIRM
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11.5. Appendix 5 –Instruction for In-depth Interview during the RAP updating
Interviewee Contents being exchanged and interviewed Note
Local - Opinions on the implementation of the project;
government - Impact of the project on local socio-economic and on
and association affected households;
- The participation of the affected communities in the project
implementation process, (especially women and the ethnic
minority communities and vulnerable households)
- Measures have been applied and will be applied to minimize
negative impacts on land acquisition;
- Social impacts on the community from contractors and
construction workers in the project area;
- Advantages and disadvantages during project implementation
Land Fund - Evaluation and comments of the LFD and PMU2 on the
Development implementation of the compensation and site clearance work;
Center - Complaint resolving process;
(LFDC), - Measures have been applied and will be applied to minimize
PMU2 negative impacts on land acquisition;
- Advantages and disadvantages in applying compensation
policies within the project;
Relocating - Opinions on the implementation of the project and
households, compensation policies of project
Vulnerable - Participation of households in project activities (participating
households, in community meetings, witnessing and signing DMS
ethnic minority minutes, participating in meetings to collect opinions on
households compensation prices...);
- Household's understanding of the Project's Compensation
policy;
- The change in income and livelihood of family members
since the project started;
- Difficulties and worries of AHs due to the relocation and
losing of production land;
- Social impacts on the community in the project area from
contractors and construction workers;
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11.6. Appendix 6 – Questionnaire for the socioeconomic survey to update the RAPs
SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY
Project: Central Highlands Connectivity Improvement Project
(For implementation of the RAPs)
Province/City:…………………………..District:………………………………………
Work item:………………………..Commune:…………………………………………
Full name of head’s household: ……………………………………..Tel. ……………………
Type of impact:
Marginally Vulnerable HHs losing Affected Displaced
affected HH HHs losing more more than 20% of business HHs
(including HHs than 10% of productive land location
affected partly productive land
on houses,
structures)
The HH belongs to which vulnerable group below:
HH being single Ethnic minority Elderly/Young Not belong to
mom with dependents children with no any vulnerable
support group
Poor HH HH under favorable HH with disabled
treatment policy people
A – DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF HEAD’S HOUSEHOLD
Gender of head’s household: (Male=1; Female=2)
Age of head’s household: 18 – 35 years old 36 – 60 years old 61 years old and above
Marital status of head’s household
Married Single Widowed Separated Divorced
Education level of head’s household:
Not go to school Primary school Secondary school Post-graduate
High school University/College Vocational school
Main occupation of head’s household:
Agriculture Trading/Service Civil servant/Armed force
Unskilled laborer Unemployed Retired
Housewife Other:…………
Ethnic group: Kinh Ba Na Giarai Other (specify):………
Religion: Buddhism Christian No religion
Other (specify):…….
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B – INFORMATION ON THE HOUSEHOLD
1. The number of people living and eating in the household …….people
2. The number of people going to school in the family …people, of which:
female:……people
3. The number of people at working age:...people, of which: female:……people
4. How many people in the family possibly have to change their job/be affected on
their income due to land acquisition of the project?
No. of male members … people (affected on which job:……….)
No. of female members ... people (affected on which job:………) - No effect
5. Average monthly income of the whole family (currently):……………. VND
Below 1 million 1 – 3 million 3 – 5 million
5 – 10 million 10 – 15 million 15 – 20 million above 20 million
6. Average monthly expenditure of the household currently:.………………. VND
Below 1 million 1 – 3 million 3 – 5 million
5 – 10 million 10 – 15 million 15 – 20 million above 20 million
7. Currently, does the family have any loan?
Yes, the borrowing amount:……… VND
No
8. For what does your family borrow? (specify):……………………………………….
9. From which source does your family borrow:
Bank Friends, relatives
Mortgage loan with high interest rate
C – HOUSING AND LIVING CONDITIONS AND ACCESS TO PUBLIC SERVICES
1. ype of HH’s house:
Permanent with one or more floors Semi-permanent (brick, 10-cm-thick wall,
tile/corrugated iron roof)
Temporary house (thatched cottage, tent) Other type (describe in detail)………
2. Main water supply for cooking, drinking and living of the household in dry and
rainy seasons (choose 1 main supply)
Water source11
Drinking and cooking water
Bathing and washing water
3. Main lighting source of the house:
Electricity Oil lamp Generator Other (specify):………
4. What is the type of toilet your family is using?
Private septic toilet
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Code for water sources: 1. Household tap water; 2. Public tap water; 3. Well water; 4. Rain water tank; 5. Water
from water bodies.
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Private flush toilet
Private two-compartment toilet
Private toilet (1 compartment, 1 tank)
Shared toilet
do not have a toilet
Other (specify)................
5. To where is the drainage system from the sanitary facility (toilets, bathrooms,
wastewater) connected?
To a small gutter (temporary)
Directly to rivers, lakes, ditches
To the public drainage system (solid)
Other form (specify)……………..
6. What is the form of household waste treatment?
Waste collection service
Bury underground
Throw to ditches, rivers, ponds, rivers
Throw to the drain
Burn at gardens, yards
Other form: (specify)
7. Internet connection equipment (television, mobile phone, computer, etc.):
Available Unavailable
8. Distance from your house to the following locations:
National road ………….. Hospital ………….. School .…………..
Ward PC ………….. Pharmacy ………….. Market .…………..
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D – GENDER ISSUES AND PARTICIPATION OF MASSIVE ORGANIZATIONS
1. Gender issues
Not
Male Female Both
applicable
Create main income in the family
Attend public meetings of the project
Make key decisions on compensation
implementation
Take care of elderly, children
Work far away
2. Participation to mass organizations and gender issues
Male Female Both Not applicable
Farmers’ Association
Women Union
Youth Union
Agriculture Extension Club
Older people’s association
Veteran Association
End of interview
Respectfully thank you for your cooperation/
The socioeconomic survey form was completed on day … month … year …
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