SFG2178 V6 ETHNIC MINORITIES DEVELOPMENT PLAN (EMDP) XUAN MINH HYDROPOWER CONSTRUCTION PROJECT Thuong Xuan District – Thanh Hoa Province Xuan Minh Hydropower JSC April 2017 ABBREVIATIONS AH Affected Household AP Affected Person CPC Commune Peoples’ Committee DMS Detailed Measurement Survey DPC District Peoples Committee DRC District Resettlement Committee EMPF Ethnic Minority Plan Framework EMDP Ethnic Minorities Development Plan GOV Government of Vietnam HH Household IOL Inventory of Losses LAR Land Acquisition and Resettlement LURC Land Use Rights Certificate MOF Ministry of Finance MOLISA Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Assistance NGO Non-Government Organization PPC Provincial People Committee RP Resettlement Plan TOR Term of Reference USD United States Dollar VND Vietnamese dong WB World Bank ii GLOSSARY Ethnic minorities: According to WB, the term Indigenous Peoples is widely understood, refers to a group of culture and society who are vulnerable, separate and contain the following characteristics at different levels: (i) Self-identification and identification by other members of a distinct cultural group; (ii) A close attachment to ancestral territories and to the nature resources in these areas; (iii) Presence of customary social and political institutions; and (iv) An indigenous language, often different from national language. In Vietnam, the term Indigenous Peoples refers to ethnic minorities. Agreement of indigenous peoples: refers to the presence of all affected indigenous peoples community on the wide support of community about the activities of the project. The community can have the wide support even when some individuals or a group of individuals disagree the activities of the project. Wide support of community: ensure to have the agreement of indigenous peoples who are affected by the project activities. Practical consultation: A process (i) is early started right at beginning of the project and consecutively continued during project progress; (ii) which includes timely disclosure of related project information which is understandable and easy to access by the affected people; (iii) is conducted in an environment of no threatening and force or enforcement; (iv) is integrated and met gender sensitive issues, adjusted as per required by the disadvantaged and vulnerable groups; and (v) creates conditions to include related view points of affected people and other stakeholders into decision making process like project design, mitigation measures, sharing interest and development opportunities, and implementation issues. iii INDEX SUMMARY vi I. INTRODUCTION 9 A. Overview of the Renewable Energy Development Project ......................... 9 B. Introduction of Xuan Minh Hydropower Project .................................... 10 C. Objectives of the EMDP ....................................................................... 14 II. LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF THE EMDP 16 A. Legal documents and national policies on the ethnic minority community . 16 B. Policies and programs on ethnic minority community .............................. 18 C. Policies of World Bank on ethnic minority community ............................ 19 III. SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITY IN THE PROJECT AREA 22 A. Overview of ethnic minorities in the project area .................................... 22 B. Socio-economics survey of ethnic minority groups affected by the projec . 23 IV. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE, CONSULTATION AND PARTICIPATION 28 A. Information disclosure .......................................................................... 28 B. Community consultation and participation .............................................. 28 C. Results of information disclosure and community consultation ................. 29 V. ASSESSMENT OF PROJECT IMPACTS TO ETHNIC MINORITIES 31 A. Positive impacts ................................................................................... 31 B. Negative impacts ................................................................................. 33 VI. THE MITIGATION MEASURES AND DEVELOPMENT FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES 36 A. Mitigation measures ............................................................................. 36 B. Maintaining and Promoting Measures .................................................... 39 VII. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN 41 A. Institutional Arrangement ..................................................................... 41 B. Implementation Plan ............................................................................ 41 VIII. COMPLAINTS AND GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM 43 IX. MONITORING AND EVALUATION 44 A. General requirements for monitoring and evaluation ............................... 44 B. Monitoring indicators ........................................................................... 45 X. BUDGET AND DISBURSEMENT PLAN 47 iv List of Tables Table I-1: Main specifications and parameters of Xuan Minh Hydropower plant ......... 12 Table II-1: Legal documents of the Vietnamese Government for ethnic minorities ..... 16 Table III-1: Affected ethnic groups in project area ......................................................... 22 Table III-1: The number of affected households and ethnic group ................................. 23 Table III-2 Education level of surveyed HHs in affected communes ............................. 24 Table III-4: Income per capita of AHHs ......................................................................... 24 Table III-5 Average Expenditure of Surveyed HHs (%) ................................................. 25 Table III-6: The number of schools in all levels in Xuan Cao and Xuan Cam ............... 26 Table III-9: Labor allocation in families in terms of gender in AHHs ........................... 27 Table IV-1: : Concerns of affected community and commitment of the investor .......... 29 Table V-1: Positive impacts of Xuan Minh hydropower project .................................... 31 Table V-2: Negative impacts of Xuan Minh HPP ........................................................... 33 Table VI-1: Measures to mitigate negative impacts ........................................................ 36 Table VI-2: The development measures for the ethnic minorities .................................. 39 Table VII-1 Implementation Progress of EMDP ............................................................ 42 Table IX-1: Monitoring indicators in EMDP .................................................................. 45 Table X-1: Total funds for implementation of EMDP .................................................... 47 Annexes ANNEX 1 LIST OF AHs – TRUNG THU HYDROPOWER PROJECT ANNEX 2 LIST OF HOUSEHOLDS ATTENDED THE MEETINGS ANNEX 3 CONSULTATION MEETING MINUTES ANNEX 4 SOME PHOTOS OF CONSULTATION v SUMMARY Introduction 1. The general objective of the Renewable Energy Development Project (REDP) is to increase the supply of least-cost electricity to the national grid from renewable energy sources on a commercially sustainable basis in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner. 2. Xuan Minh Hydropower plant, invested by Xuan Minh Hydropower JSC, is located on Chu River, in the area of Xuan Minh village, Xuan Cam commune, Thuong Xuan district, Thanh Hoa province. The Chu River is the largest tributary of Ma River, originating from the mountainous area which is higher than 2,000 m in the northwest of Sam Nua in Laos, flows from northwest to southeast through Nghe An and Thanh Hoa provinces and flows in the the right bank of Ma river in Nga Ba Giang which is 25 km from the estuary. Ma river originates from the northwestern part of Vietnam in Lai Chau province, flows through Son La province, Lao PDR, Nghe An province and Thanh Hoa province and then flows into South China Sea. Ma River has two major tributaries, Chu River and Buoi River. Chu River is 325 km in the length in which 160 km of the river is in Vietnamese territory. The plant is about far 60 km away from Thanh Hoa city in the southwest, 3km away from Thuong Xuan district in the South-Southwest. The plant is in Chu river hydropower terraces, located in the downstream of Cua Dat hydropwer plant with geographic location: 19o52’50” North latitude ,105o20’08” East longtitude. 3. Installation capacity of Xuan Minh hydropower plant is Nlm = 15MW, average annual output is Etb = 65,06.106kWh. Xuan Minh is cross-dam hydropower plant with ensure capacity is Nđb = 4.56MW, catchment area to the slected route: 6,315km2, total average annual flow is Qo: 122.2 m3/s; normal water level NWL is 27.5 m; dead water level is 27.0m; volume of reservoir is: 8.1 million m3, useful volume is: 0,71x106m3, dead volume is 7,39 x106 m3, reservoir area correspending to NWL: 1.65 km2, the largest flow through the plant Q max: 199.2 m3/s, height of spillway dam: 25.2m, weir height: 13.4m, ensure flow Q đb 67,8 m3/s, voltage: 110 kV. Legal Framework for the EMDP 4. Vietnam’s Constitutions in 1946, 1959, 1980 and 1992, along with other legal documents (updated until 2016) related to works and the development strategies for the ethnic minority as well as the ethnic development policies of the World Bank (WB) – OP4.10 are the important legal foundations in the preparation of the EMDP for the Xuan Minh Hydropower Project; the ethnic minority-related policies of the local and government as well a WB have been applied in combination with the EMDP to ensure that the ethnic minority community living around the Xuan Minh Hydropower Project is consulted and provided with a full of information, and participated in the implementing stages of the Project, benefits from the Project, and the negative impacts of the Project on culture, economics and society are highly mitigated. vi Socio-economic characteristics of ethnic minority community in the project area 5. Socio-Economic Survey on the area and affected households was held in February 2014 with 100% of participants (115 households). The main income source of affected households is from agriculture (114/115 households). Due to weather dependent agriculture and limited land, income of the households is quite low (most of AHHs have average income of 20-40 million VND/year), poor households accounts for 9.6% (11/115 households). 6. The contruction area has quite good infrastructure. The affected villages are located in inter-communal roads, near primary school, secondary school, preschool and medical center. 100% of households can use national electrici grid. Information dissemination and community consultation 7. Many consultant meetings and group discussions were held in February 2017 until now with the participation of stakeholders, especially local authorities and vulnerable households, to provide households with the full information on the project and activities from initial stage to operation stage of the project, and to get households’ feedback and comments proposing measures within the development plan. 8. In the next stage of the project, the dissemination and consultant meetings with local authorities and households will be held frequently at each important stage or necessary time of the project. Assessment of impacts of the project 9. Potential impacts of the project include positive and negative impacts discussed carefully at the consultant meetings and group discussions among the project implementing partners and relevant agencies as well as households affected. Basically, there were not seriously negative impacts of the project on local households’ lives and belief culture as well as manners and customs. Mitigation and development measures for the ethnic minority 10. There are some unavoidable impacts out of expectation, resulting from acquiring some production areas (land for planting rice, upland fields, land for planting prennial trees, pond and forest land); relevant activities during the implementing period. Accordingly mitigation measures or advanced measures have been proposed to improve or help the ethnic minority to recover soon and stabilize the production of households. Institutional arrangement and implementation plan 11. The implementation of the ethnic minority development plan needs to have a coordination of organizations and agencies from provincial level to local level and the vii ethnic minority community at local. The Client of Xuan Minh Hydropower Project will be a lead organization and coordinated with other organizations to implement. Xuan Minh Hydropower JSC has a responsibility to provide funds for implementing all activities/tasks proposed in the EMDP and to report to stakeholders. Complaints and Grievance redress mechanism 12. Complaints and Grievance redress mechanism in this EMDP have been made based on Vietnam’s laws on complaints and denunciations, consulted with local authorities, the ethnic minority community and also involving in particular cultural characteristics and traditional culture mechanisms of the ethnic minority community in the project area. Monitoring and evaluation 13. Proposed measures and implementing timeframe of the EMDP for Xuan Minh Hydropower Project will be monitored closely to (i) ensure the implementing progress of the plan; (ii) undertake rightly the mitigation measures of the plan; (iii) assess effectiveness of the measures and propose supplement measures if necessary; (iv) identify potential or generated problems to the ethnic minority community during the implementing period of the project; and (v) identify quick response measures to mitigate these issues. 14. Independent and internal monitoring system, monthly and quarterly monitoring reports will be submitted to the Project Management Board and World Bank (WB). Independent monitoring agency will be recruited to implement the independent monitoring, and the independent assessment will be made annually, except for the beginning period of the project with monitoring requirement of twice per year Budget and disbursement plan Total budget of implementing development measures within the EMDP is 1,137,400,000 VND (approximately 49,974 USD, including the contingency cost of 10%). Implementation costs will be paid by Xuan Minh Hydropower JSC who is responsible to fund for implementing all activities of the EMDP required. viii I. INTRODUCTION A. Overview of the Renewable Energy Development Project 15. The goal of the Renewable Energy Development Project is to support the development of the electricity–generated renewable energy sources with lowest costs to share with the national electricity network based on the commercial sustainability, and ensuring the social and environmental sustainability. The project has 3 components: (i) Component of investment project implementation; (ii) Component of institutional establishment; and (iii) Component of information channel development. 16. Component of investment project implementation consist of (i) Allow commercial banks to re-borrow funds to provide valid loans for the renewable energy projects with a maximum capacity of 30MW invested by private investors, and (ii) Technical support to enhance the capacity of the participating banks and investors of sub-projects in the preparation, appraisal, financing and the implementation of the renewable energy projects in comply with international practice. This component will be coordinated by the Renewable Energy and Rural Electricity Project Management Board (PMB) of Ministry of Industry and Trade. This component consists of two sub-components as follows: • Provide credits to support investment in renewable energy: Provide credits to support investment in renewable energy: Private investors will establish sub- projects in small hydropower sectors, wind power and biomass with a maximum capacity of 30MW in accordance with the criterions of the renewable energy development project including environmental and social safety standards. Investors commit to contribute equity with at least 20% of the total investment capital and will make a maximum loan from the participating banks with 80% of the total investment capital of the subproject. • The participating banks are selected based on competition and will be responsible to appraisal the valid renewable energy sub-projects under the proposal of investors, and provide loans for the projects meeting fully requirements of the banks. The participating banks will allow the sub-projects to make a loan in accordance with the commercial clauses identified by the market, and be fully responsible to credit risks of the loans. • Valid loans will be refinanced 80% of loan value for the participating banks or 64% of the total investment value of the sub-projects, meaning that the participating banks will commit to make a loan of at least 16% of the total investment value in each sub-project’s budget and investors will contribute equity of 20% total investment capital. After the letters requesting re-borrow were approved, the participating banks will achieve re-loan from the renewable energy development project (World Bank – WB) ratified by Ministry of Finance (MOF). Re-loan from the renewable energy development project will be sponsored from WB’s capital through the loan of MOF in accordance with the clauses of WB. • It is anticipated that about 20-25 subprojects will be sponsored through the re-loan mechanism. When operating, the total design capacity of these projects will be at 210MW and generate the annual electricity capacity of 880GWh. 9 • Technical Assistance to implement the investment project: The technical assistance of Component 1 will support the general management of the renewable energy development project, check validity of the loans and enhance capacity for the participating bank, investors and other stakeholders. The Project Management Board will manage the technical support. The technical support will focus on providing investors with necessary skill guidelines to identify the feasible projects and prepare the loan-making proposals from banks through the appraisal and capital loan negotiation. • The technical assistance will also focus on training the ways of establishing feasible research, optimize design, construction management, operation, maintenance, financial risk management and consideration of social and environmental safety issues. The banks will be supported to enhance the understanding of investment risks in the renewable energy projects, and to monitor the project to ensure safety, and to establish the credit policies and to appraisal the sub-projects in accordance with these policies. The technical support will also support the Project Management Board in managing the Renewable Energy Development Project B. Introduction of Xuan Minh Hydropower Project 1. Legal basis - Decision No. 1938 / QD-BCT dated 20/4/2010 by Minister of Industry and Trade on supplemently approving Ma River hydropower terrace planning; Decision No. 3840 / QD-BCT dated 01/8/2011 by Minister of Industry and Trade on approving the adjustment of Ma River hydropower terrace planning; - Document No. 4354 / UBND-CN dated 12/5/2015 of Thanh Hoa province People's Committee approving the policy to assign Xuan Minh Hydropower Joint Stock Company as the investor to implement Xuan Minh Hydropower Project in Thuong Xuan district; - Decision No. 2591/QD-UBND dated 15/7/2015 of Thanh Hoa province People's Committee approving Report on the Environmental Impact Assessment of Xuan Minh Hydropower Project in Thuong Xuan District, Thanh Hoa province; - Document No. 2903 / EVN NPC-KDĐN dated 20/7/2015 of Northern Electricity Corporation on approval of purchasing power from Xuan Minh hydropower project in Thanh Hoa province; - Document No. 7327 / UBND-CN dated 27/7/2015 of Thanh Hoa province People's Committee on approval of content and implementation of Xuan Minh hydropower project; - Certificate of investment registration No. 1661326561 dated 04/8/2015 of Department of Planning and Investment of Thanh Hoa province granted to Xuan Minh Hydropower Joint Stock Company; - Document No. 732 / SCT-MĐT dated 28/7/2015 of Thanh Hoa Department of Industry and Trade about the comments on basic design of Xuan Minh hydropower project; 10 - Decision No. 25/2015 / QĐ-HDQT dated 10/8/2015 by Board of Directors of Xuan Minh Hydropower Joint Stock Company on approval of project and investment in construction of Xuan Minh Hydropower Plant; - Document No. 109 / SCT-MĐT dated 13/01/2016 of Thanh Hoa Department of Industry and Trade announcing results of technical design verification for Xuan Minh hydropower project; - Long-term credit contract No. 016 and 018/2016/HDTDT-PS/SHB.110600 dated 18/01/2016 between Xuan Minh Hydropower Joint Stock Company and Saigon - Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SHB), Thang Long Branch for funding Xuan Minh Hydropower Project; - Decision No. 01 / QD-HDQT dated 19/01/2016 of Board of Directors of Xuan Minh Hydropower Joint Stock Company on approval of technical design for the construction of Xuan Minh hydropower plant; - Construction License No. 3721/GPXD-SXD dated 14/7/2016 of Thanh Hoa Department of Construction granted to Xuan Minh Hydropower Joint Stock Company; - Decision No. 2331 / QD-UBND dated 01/7/2015 of Thanh Hoa province People's Committee for Xuan Minh Hydropower Joint Stock Company to lease land for Xuan Minh Hydropower project in Thuong District Xuan, Thanh Hoa province; - Decision No. 2901 / QĐ-BCT dated 11/7/2016 of Ministry of Industry and Trade on approving, adjusting and supplementing electricity development in Thanh Hoa province in 2011-2015 with a vision to 2020; - Document No. 12/08/2016 dated 12/08/2016 of Northern Electricity Corporation on agreement about the connection between Xuan Minh hydropower plant and Thanh Hoa; - Certificate of land use rights No. CD 012598 dated 30/8/2016 granted by Thanh Hoa province People's Committee to Xuan Minh Hydropower Joint Stock Company. 2. Characteristics of the plant Xuan Minh Hydropower plant, invested by Xuan Minh Hydropower JSC, is located on Chu River, in the area of Xuan Minh village, Xuan Cam commune, Thuong Xuan district, Thanh Hoa province. The Chu River is the largest tributary of Ma River, originating from the mountainous area which is higher than 2,000 m in the northwest of Sam Nua in Laos, flows from northwest to southeast through Nghe An and Thanh Hoa provinces and flows in the the right bank of Ma river in Nga Ba Giang which is 25 km from the estuary. Ma river originates from the northwestern part of Vietnam in Lai Chau province, flows through Son La province, Lao PDR, Nghe An province and Thanh Hoa province and then flows into South China Sea. Ma River has two major tributaries, Chu River and Buoi River. Chu River is 325 km in the length in which 160 km of the river is in Vietnamese territory. The plant is about far 60 km away from Thanh Hoa city in the southwest, 3km away from Thuong Xuan district in the South-Southwest. The plant is in Chu river hydropower terraces, located in the downstream of Cua Dat hydropwer plant with geographic location: 19o52’50” North latitude ,105o20’08” East longtitude. 11 Installation capacity of Xuan Minh hydropower plant is Nlm = 15MW, average annual output is Etb = 65,06.106kWh. Xuan Minh is cross-dam hydropower plant with ensure capacity is Nđb = 4.56MW, catchment area to the slected route: 6,315km2, total average annual flow is Qo: 122.2 m3/s; normal water level NWL is 27.5 m; dead water level is 27.0m; volume of reservoir is: 8.1 million m3, useful volume is: 0,71x106m3, dead volume is 7,39 x106 m3, reservoir area correspending to NWL: 1.65 km2, the largest flow through the plant Q max: 199.2 m3/s, height of spillway dam: 25.2m, weir height: 13.4m, ensure flow Q đb 67,8 m3/s, voltage: 110 kV. (The main parameters of the plant is shown in Table I-1) Table I-1: Main specifications and parameters of Xuan Minh Hydropower plant No. Specification Unit Value I Catchment 1 Catchment Area km2 6315 2 Including catchment area on Laos’ territory km 2 4817 3 Length of the main river km 258 4 Average width of the catchment km 22.7 5 The average annual rainfall mm 1600 6 Average annual water flow Qo m3/s 122.2 7 Flow module l/s/km2 19.8 8 Total annual rainfall flow Wo 109m3 3.854 9 Highest flood flow corresponding to frequency 10 Qp= 0.01% (Check flood level CĐ+Middle areas) m3/s 11928 11 Qp = 0.1% (Design flood level CĐ+ Middle areas) m3/s 8312 12 Qp = 0.5% Check flood level middle areas m3/s 3534 13 Qp = 1.5% (Design flood level middle areas) m3/s 3466 14 Qp = 5% m3/s 3394 15 Qp = 10% m3/s 3353 II Reservoir 1 Check flood level (P=0,01%) m 36.12 2 Design flood level (P=0,1%) m 33.38 3 Check flood level (P=0,5%) m 29.18 4 Design flood level (P=1,5%) m 29.13 5 Normal water level (NWL) m 27.5 6 Dead water level (DWL) m 27.0 7 Total volume Wtb 106m3 8.1 12 No. Specification Unit Value 8 Useful volume Whi 106m3 0.71 9 Dead volume Wc 106m3 7.39 2 10 Reservoir area correspending to NWL Km 1.65 III Flow and water column 1 Ensure flow Qđb m3/s 67.8 3 2 The highest flow Qmax m /s 199.2 3 Maximum water column Hmax m 10.1 4 Minimum water column Hmin m 6.73 5 Calculated water column Htt m 8.5 IV Maximum downstream water level at the plant 1 Flood with frequency of P = 0.01% m 32.73 Flood with frequency of P=0.1% m 30.39 Flood with frequency of P=0.5% m 25.65 Flood with frequency of P=1.5% m 25.56 2 Running with maximum flow Qmax m 18.59 3 Running with minimum flow Qmin capacity of 1 turbine m 17.69 V Capacity 1 Installation capacity Nlm MW 15 2 Ensure capacity Nđb frequency of 85% MW 4.56 VI Energy criteria 1 Average annual electricity output Etb 106kWh 65.06 2 Electricity output in dry season (average/year) 106kWh 35.78 3 Electricity output in rainy season (average/year) 106kWh 29.28 4 Number of hour using installation capacity hour 4337 VII Total investment (after tax) 109VNĐ 522,311 1 - Cost of construction 109VNĐ 215,345 2 - Cost of equipment 109VNĐ 200,991 3 - Compensation for site clearance 109VNĐ 9,333 4 - Cost of project management 109VNĐ 5,290 5 - Investment cost of building 109VNĐ 22,095 6 - Other costs of the project: 109VNĐ 34,155 + Other costs 109VNĐ 6,953 13 No. Specification Unit Value + Cost of borrow interest 109VNĐ 27,202 7 - Contingency cost 109VNĐ 35,102 VIII Economic criteria 1 Net investment capital 109VNĐ 451,685 2 EIRR % 13.88 3 B/C 1.34 4 NPV 109VNĐ 136.32 IX Financial criteria ( 5.31 cent/kWh ) 1 Net investment capital 109VNĐ 451,685 2 FIRR % 14.69 3 B/C 1.27 4 NPV 109VNĐ 143.8 5 Price dong/kWh 936.16 6 Payback time year 12 C. Objectives of the EMDP 17. OP4.10 policy of WB stipulates the requirements that borrowers must meet to undertake the sponsoring measures for the ethnic minority in the projects financed by WB. The documents involved in the targets and application scale, and emphasize the requirements on: (i) process of assessing social impacts and making a plan; (ii) preparing reports on assessment of social impacts and plan-making documents; (iii) publishing information and implementing consultation including the agreement of the ethnic minority vulnerable to the activities of the project selected; (iv) establishing complaint solving, and (v) monitoring, inspection and reporting. The policy requirements will protect rights of the ethnic minority maintained, and conserve cultural characters, activities and living environment of the community and ensure the projects implement necessary measures to protect these rights. 18. The general objectives of the EMDP are to: (i) mitigate and reduce the impacts of the project on livelihood of the ethnic minority in affected regions; (ii) ensure the project implementation procedure and promote the human-right respectability, original cultural characters, the variance of ethnic minorities in the regions affected by the project, and record the demands and aspirations of local people; (iii) find-out the impacts of the project on the ethnic minorities and how to prevent or mitigate potential negative impacts; (iv) ensure implemented benefits to be suitable to cultural aspects; (v) ensure the affected communities to be consulted issues related to potential impacts and mitigation measures, and they may join fully the making-decision procedure, implementation and monitoring, and (vi) make a particular implementing plan with limited time; arrange budget and 14 institution, establish roles and responsibilities of various agencies in implementing, monitoring and inspecting all activities required in EMDP. 19. Therefore, the EMDP aims (i) record the previous consultation process and disseminate information to the minority living in the regions affected by the project and mitigation measures in the resettlement plan (RP) and EMDP in the project implementing period, and expressing the extensive support of the community;(ii) Find out the implementation and consultation framework to undertake EMDP; (iii) Establish the general measures to reduce or solve the impacts of the project in the ethnic minority community sponsored through RP and EMDP; and (iv) Make budget to manage the potential risks and the project impacts that were anticipated in the implementing stage. 15 II. LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF THE EMDP A. Legal documents and national policies on the ethnic minority community 20. Constitution of the years 1946, 1959, 1980, 1992, 2003 and 2013 regulated that “The State implements policy of equality, solidarity, mutual assistance among ethnic groups, creating conditions for the groups develop in a civilized society, and respect for the interests, culture, traditions, language and customs practices of the groups”. 21. National legal framework was updated in 2016 with a number of documents relating to works of ethnic minorities and legal supporting policies to strengthen the legal awareness of ethnic minorities, particularly in poor districts. The legal documents are specified in Table II.1 as follows. Table II-1: Legal documents of the Vietnamese Government for ethnic minorities Year of Reference number and content of text issue 2016 Announcement No. 1423 / VPCP-KTTH dated July 4, 2016 on the addition of subjects and prolonging loan disbursement time under Decision 54/2012 / QD-TTg, 29 / QD-TTg and 755 / QD-TTg of Prime Minister. 2013 Decision No. 29/2013 / QD-TTg dated 20 May 2013 of Prime Minister on some policies to support land settlement and job creation for poor ethnic groups living in Mekong delta area in period 2013-2015 2013 Decision No. 755 / QĐ-TTg, dated 20/5/2013 about policies to support residential land and land for daily-life water for poor ethnic households and poor households in extremely disadvantaged communes and villages 2013 Decision No. 2356/QD-TTg dated 04/12/2013 of the Prime Minister on issuing the Action Plan implementing the strategy of ethnic minority work until 2020. 2013 Decision No. 449/QD-TTg dated 12/03/2013 of the Prime Minister on approving the strategy of ethnic minority work until 2020. 2013 Decision No. 551 / QĐ-TTg dated 04/04/2013 about Program 135 on investment in infrastructure support, production development for communes with special difficulties, border communes, regional safe communes , and extremely disadvantaged hamlets, villages. 2013 Decision No. 1489 / QD-TTg dated 8 October 2012: Approving National Target Program for Sustainable Poverty Reduction 2012-2015. 16 Year of Reference number and content of text issue Decision No. 2214 / QD-TTg dated 18/11/2013 approving the Scheme on enhancing international cooperation to support socio-economic development of ethnic minority regions 2012 Decision 1776 / QĐ-TTg dated 21/11/2012 on approving the program on population distribution in areas of natural calamity, extremely disadvantaged areas, border area, island, free migration area, special use forest in period 2013 - 2015 and orientation to 2020 2012 Decision No. 54/2012 / QD-TTg dated 04/12/2012 of Prime Minister on loan policies for production development for disadvantaged ethnic minorities (EM) period in 2012-2015. 2012 Decision No. 59/2012 / QD-TTg dated 24/12/2012 Decision of Prime Minister on issuance of policies on legal aid for the poor and ethnic minorities in poor communes in the period 2013-2020 2012 Decision No. 1212 / QD-TTg dated 05/09/2012: National Target Program on information on mountainous, remote, border and island facilities in period 2012-2015. 2011 Decision No. 1270/2011 / QD-TTg, dated 27/07/2011 on approving the project "Conservation and development of Vietnamese ethnic cultures until 2020" 2011 Decree No. 05/2011/ND-CP on the works of ethnic minorities. This decree describes the activities of ethnic minority works to ensure and promote equality, unity and mutual assistance for mutual development and respect and preserves the characters of ethnic minorities living within the territory of Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 2010 Decision No. 75/2010 / QD-TTg, dated 29/11/2010: Policies for organizations and units employing ethnic minority people who are legally residing in the Central Highlands provinces. 2010 Decision No. 52/2010/QD-TTg of the Government on the legal aid policy to increase awareness and understanding about laws on poor ethnic minorities in 17 Year of Reference number and content of text issue the poor districts in the period of 2011-2020. 2008 Decision No. 289 / QĐ-TTg dated 18/03/2008 on issuance of some policies to support ethnic minorities, policy beneficiary households, poor households, near poor households and fishermen 2008 Resolution 30a / 2008 / NQ-CP dated 27/12/2008: Resolution on fast and sustainable poverty reduction for 61 poor districts. 2007 Decision No. 112/2007 / QD-TTg dated 20/7/2007 on policies to support services, improve people's living, legally support to raise legal awareness under Program 135 Phase II 2007 Decision No. 33/2007/QD-TTg dated on 5/3/2007 of the Prime Minister on policy supporting immigration and implementing resettlement for ethnic minorities in the period of 2007-2010. 2006 Decision No. 82/2006 / QĐ-TTg dated 14/4/2006 on adjustment of scholarship policy for ethnic minority pupils and students in boarding schools and boarding undergraduate schools. B. Policies and programs on ethnic minority community 22. The application of social and economic policies suitable to each region, each ethnic group, with attention to needs of ethnic minority groups, is required. Below present the detail of policy for Ethnic Minority as follow: • Policy on supporting investment in infrastructure include: Decision No. 551/QD-TTg, dated 04/04/2013: Program No. 135 on supporting investment in infrastructure, supporting production development in the communes with special difficult conditions, border communes, safety zone commune, villages. Decision No. 755/QD-TTg, dated 20/05/2013: Policy on supporting residential land, production land, drinking water for ethnic minority and poor households in extremely poor communes and villages. Decision No. 1489/QD-TTg dated 08/10/2012: To approve the national target program for sustainable Poverty Reduction 2012-2015. • Policy on supporting social security: According to Decision No. 29/2013/QD-TTg, dated 20/5/2013: Policy on supporting resolving residential land and jobs for poor ethnic minority households with poor living condition in Mekong Delta 2013-2015 period. Decision No. 75/2010/QD-TTg, dated 29/11/2010: The policy for the organization, units employing ethnic minority residing legally in Central Highlands 18 provinces. Decision No. 2356/QD-TTg, dated 12/04/2013 action program to implement Ethnic Minority Strategy until 2020. Decision No. 59/2012/QD-TTg, dated 24/12/2012 by Prime Minister about legal support for the poor, ethnic minority household in poor communes period 2013-2020. Decision No. 2214/QD-TTg, dated 18/11/2013: Approve the Scheme to enhance international cooperation to support economic and social development in ethnic minority groups. • Policies on supporting livelihood and settlement of cultivation and residence for ethnic minority group: Decision No. 289/QĐ-TTg dated 18/3/2008: The decision on the issuance of the policies to support ethnic minorities, social policies, poverty, nearly-poor households and fishermen. Resolution No. 30a/2008/NQ-CP ngày 27/12/2008: Resolution on the Program support poverty reduction quickly and sustainably for 61 poor districts. Decree No. 54/2012/QĐ-TTg dated 04/12/2012 of Prime Minister about the loan policy for extremely poor ethnic minority households to develop production in the period 2012-2015. Decision No. 304/2005/QD-TTg dated 23/11/2005: the pilot of assign forests and forest protection to ethnic minority households and communities in Central Highlands. Decision No. 146/2005/QD-TTg: land acquisition policy of agricultural production and forestry farms to assign poor ethnic minority households. Decision No. 1776/QD-TTg, dated 21/11/2012: approve population distribution program in the areas with natural disasters, special difficult conditions, border, island and free migration, SUF period 2013 - 2015 vision to 2020. Decision No. 33/2007/QD-TTg on policy to support ethnic minority immigrants to implement settlement of cultivation and residence in the period 2007-2020. • Policies on eduction, culture: Decision 267/2005/QD-TTg on policy and vocational training for EM students in the whole country. Decision No. 82/2006/QD-TTg, dated 14/4/2006 about adjustment of scholarship policies to ethnic minority pupils and students at ethnic boarding schools and pre-university schools. • Decision No. 1270/2011/QD-TTg, dated 27/7/2011 approving the scheme, "Conservation and development of ethnic culture of Vietnam 2020" Decision No. 1212/QD-TTg, dated 05/9/2012: the national target program on bring information to mountainous, remote, border and island communes in the period 2012-2015. Decision No. 52/2010/QD-TTg, dated 18/08/2010 on legal support policy in order to raise awareness and understanding of the law for the poor, ethnic minorities in poor districts in the period 2011-2020. C. Policies of World Bank on ethnic minority community 23. To ensure the development period of all aspects related to human dignity, human rights and cultural characters of the indigenous peoples. More specifically, is to ensure that the indigenous peoples are not affected negatively in the development process and they receive benefits that are suitable to their culture. The World Bank has developed, updated and issued the enforcement policy "OP 4.10 - Indigenous Peoples", to apply for 19 all projects funded by the World Bank, which have certain influences on indigenous peoples. 24. According to the policy OP 4.10 of World Bank, the proposed projects which is to be financed by the World Bank and have certain influences on ethnic minority must follow-up the steps as follows: • Screening to determine whether there are ethnic minorities living there or have any collective attachments to the project sites or not; • If ethnic minorities are living in, Social assessment will be conducted to determine positive and negative potential impacts of the project and to revise the design of the project to mitigate negative impacts and increase positive benefits; • The previous consultation process, households are provided full of information and freely participate in the affected ethnic minority community to determine opinions of ethnic people about the project and to assert whether the project receive the extensive support from the community or not; • Ethnic minorities development plan (EMDP) will be prepared in consultation with the community, drafting benefits that the community will receive from the project and the ways of how to minimize adverse impacts; and Publishing extensive information on the plan. 25. The regulations above aim at making favorable conditions for the ethnic minority groups adapting to opportunities, meaning that is to participate in designing the project activities that have significant impact on them; and to ensure that opportunities for these ethnic groups are included suitable benefits of culture, manners and customs; and to ensure that any negative impacts of the project must be eliminated or if not they must be mitigated and minimized. 26. The term “Indigenous Peoples” in the OP 4.10 of World Bank is used in a generic sense to refer to a distinct, vulnerable, social and cultural group possessing the following characteristics in varying degrees: • Self-identification as members of a distinct indigenous cultural group and recognition of this identity by others; • Collective attachment to geographically distinct habitats or ancestral territories in the project area and to the natural resources in these habitats and territories; • Customary cultural, economic, social, or political institutions that are separate from those of the dominant society and culture; and • An indigenous language, often different from the official language of the country or region. 27. In the process of preparing the EMDP for Xuan Minh Hydropower Project, policies on ethnic minorities issued by the Government, the World Bank, and the local authorities has been applied in combination with the EMDP is to ensure that the ethnic minority community under the Xuan Minh Hydropower Construction has been consulted and 20 provided fully information, and joined the construction implementation phases, and achieve benefits from the construction, and the negative impacts on cultural, economic and social issues are minimized. 21 III. SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITY IN THE PROJECT AREA A. Overview of ethnic minorities in the project area 1. General introduction 28. Xuan Minh hydropower plant is located in Thuong Xuan district, Thanh Hoa province. Three communes Xuan Cao, Xuan Cam, and Van Xuan are directly affected by the construction. However, Van Xuan commune is only affected by river and stream land managed by CPC, private lands in Van Xuan are not affected. 29. Three ethnic groups living in Thuong Xuan district are Thai, Kinh, Muong. Ethnic group accounts for more than 56.7% total population of the district. Thai people are the largest community in Thuong Xuan. The distribution of different ethnic group varies by different regions within the district, in the two villages in project area, Thai people is the largest. 30. 93% AHHs is ethnic group. In the two villages in project area, AHHs area mainly Thai ethnic people (Table III – 1). . Table III-1: Affected ethnic groups in project area Commune Village Ethnic group No. of AHH Thai 23 Xuan Cao Xuan Minh1 Kinh 8 Xuan Cam Xuan Minh Thai 84 Total 115 2. Characteristics of ethnic minorities living in project area Thai ethnic people 31. Thai ethnic group have their origins in mainland of Southeast Asia, Thai ancient ancestors had been present in Vietnam since very early days, they lived in Lai Chau, Son La, Hoa Binh and Nghe An provinces. Thais account for 6.2% of Thanh Hoa's population. Thai people in Thanh Hoa have 2 branches: White Thai (Tay Do) and Black Thai (Tay Dam). White Thai people live in two districts Thuong Xuan, Nhu Xuan and some villages in Trieu Son district. The majority of Black Thai people live in Quan Hoa, Quan Son, Ba Thuoc, Lang Chanh districts. Thai language belongs to Tay-Thai group. Thai ethnic clothing: men wear long trousers, brocade. Women wear com shirt, skirts, Pieu turban with their own unique traditional jewelery. Thai people live in stilt houses, each with 40- 60 roofs adjacent to each other. Thai’s villages are usually in the lowlands, near the water, associated with rice fields. 22 32. Thai people are well-known for their experience in watering, soil filling; ditch digging, etc, wet rice is the main source of food. Thai people also plant rice, vegetables and other crops. Each family raises livestock, poultry, do weaving, fabric weaving, people in some other places make pottery... Regarding the traditional handicraft, Thai’s well-known product is brocade fabric with unique patterns, bright colors, and durable reed mattress. 33. Myths, legends, poems, folk songs... are the precious materials in Thai traditional literature. The famous poetry works of Thai people are: "Xong chu xon xao", "Khun Lu, Nang Ua". Thai people have writing so many ancient literatures, laws, folk songs are recorded on paper and leaves. Thai people love singing, especially Khap. Khap is a method to recite poetry or sing in poetry, can be done together with accompaniment and dance. Many dances, such as fan dance and sap dance have been performed on domestic and international stages. Hạn khuống (floor on the yard), ném còn (throwing a sacre ball through the ring) are also two famous cultural characteristics of Thai people. B. Socio-economics survey of ethnic minority groups affected by the projec 1. AHHs are ethnic minority groups 34. Economic - Social survey of the ethnic households conducted with 115/115 affected households in the area of the communes: Xuan Cao, Xuân Cam shows that: 107 AHHs (93%) is ethnic people. Table III-1 shows the number of affected households and ethnic group in each commune. Table III-2: The number of affected households and ethnic group Commune Ethnic group Total of AHHs Commune Thai Kinh Xuan Cao Xuan Minh1 23 8 31 Xuan Cam Xuan Minh1 84 0 84 Total 107 8 115 2. Family size and number of family member 35. Total number of land acquired by the construction is 107 with 495 people, averagely each household has 4.6 people. The number of AHHs headed by women is 13, accounting for 12%. 3. Main occupation of household head 36. Apart of 107 ethnic AHHs, only 1 household headed by a teacher, the remaining 106 housholds are headed by farmers with main income source from agriculture. 4. Education level of AHHs 37. Apart of AHHs in 2 communes, no case of illiteracy in children and adults has been recorded. According to the survey result, only 16 household heads (13,9%) finished 23 high school, 38 household heads (33,0%) finished secondary school, 37 household heads (32,2%) finished elementary school, the remaining 24 household heads (20,9%) did not finish secondary school. (Table III-2). Table III-3 Education level of surveyed HHs in affected communes Commune No/ Graduate Graduate Graduate Total unfinished from from from High elementary elementary Secondary school school school school Xuan Cao 6 11 10 4 31 Xuan Cam 18 26 28 12 84 Total 24 37 38 16 115 5. Job and income 38. Among 107 ethnic AHHs, only 1 household headed by preschool teacher, the remaining 106 households are headed by farmers with main income source from agriculture. 39. The main income source of AHHs is from agriculture. The key food crop of the people is rice. Maize and cassava are planted for sale and breeding. Averagely, each household has about 500-100m2 land of paddy rice which supplies 300kg of rice/year, 1500-2000m2 land of maize and cassava gives income of 3-4 million VND/year. In addition, the people plant sugarcane to provide material for Lam Son sugar factory. Income from sugarcane is relatively high, about 40-50 million VND/ha, however due to limited land aream each household only owns 1500-4000m2 to plant sugarcane which can give 6-24 million VND/year. 40. Most of the ethnic households in the project area are raising chicken, buffaloes, cows and poultry which are used for food, and earn money, the income from livestock production is from 3 to 15 million VND/household/year. 41. Some ethnic affected households plant acacia. Acacia can be harvested after 7 years with output of 60 million/ha. 42. In addition to farming, some households participate in seasonal jobs for manual labor such as farming, gardening, construction workers. The daily income of these jobs is about 100,000-200,000 VND, depending on the specific job. 43. Income of the households in mountainous areas in the North of Central Vietnam in general and income of affected households in the project area in particular is low, income of affected households in Xuan Cam commune (mainly Kinh people) is higher than the income of affected households in Xuan Cao commune (Thai people) because they have higher qualifications, they calculate and arrange their work much better. The following income per capita of AHHs provides detailed information about income of surveyed households in affected communes and poverty rate in the communes affected by the construction. Table III-4: Income per capita of ethnic AHHs 24 Average income/person/month Total Commune 10-20 million 20-40 million 10-20 >40 triệu đồng million VND VND VND Xuan Cao 3 28 Xuan Cao 3 Xuan Cam 8 70 Xuan Cam 8 Total 11 98 Total 11 44. The expenditures for daily needs of households vary by income. The expenditure often includes food, clothes, power and water bill, tuition, health care and travel. AHHs in Xuan Cam commune have higher expenditure than AHHs in Xuan Cao commune because they have higher income. The detailed expenditure of the households is described in Table III-5. Table III-5 Average Expenditure of Surveyed HHs (%) Xuan Xuan Rate Rate Monthly expenditure Cao Cam (%) (%) No. (VND) (đồng) 1 Grain (rice, maize, cassava…) 600,000 19.4 600,000 15.2 2 Food 800,000 25.8 1,100,000 27.8 3 Clothes 100,000 3.2 250,000 6.3 4 Utilities (power, mobile phone) 250,000 8.1 350,000 8.9 Travel fee (petrol, motorbike 5 maintenance) 150,000 4.8 150,000 3.8 6 Furniture items 200,000 6.5 300,000 7.6 Education (all levels from pre- school to university and 7 vocational education) 250,000 8.1 300,000 7.6 8 Health care 200,000 6.5 250,000 6.3 9 Wedding or funeral 200,000 6.5 200,000 5.1 10 Tet and celebrations 150,000 4.8 200,000 5.1 11 Others 200,000 6.5 250,000 6.3 Total expenditure for each 12 household 3,100,000 100.0 3,950,000 100.0 13 Expenditure per capita 673,913 858,696 6. Infrastructure and social service 45. The affected villages are located in the places with traffic advantages. The affected villages are located nearly at inter-commune roads. Xuan Minh and Xuan Cam villages are far 2.5km away from provincial highway No. 519. The distance between Xuan Minh 1, Xuan Cao commune to Ho Chi Minh highway is 10km. The roads from the affected villages to the commune centers are concrete. 25 46. All affected communes have national power grid, 100% ethnic AHHs are using electricity as energy for lighting. 47. Regarding fuel sources for daily cooking, most of the ethnic affected households use firewood as the main energy source. 48. 100% ethnic AHHs use domestic water from dug well. 7. Environmental and hygiene conditions 49. The local people have not cared about sanitation problem due to their low awareness of environmental hygiene. According to survey results, 12 AHHs have toilets, 85 AHHs have temporary toilets, 7 households do not have toilet. 50. In the project area, all communes have no waste collecting and disposal system; waste is usually burn or buried in the garden 8. Education system 51. According the data in 2016, Xuan Cao commune has 1 kindergarten, 2 elementary schools, 1 secondary school, Xuan Cam commune has 1 kindergarten, 2 elementary schools and 1 secondary school. In addition, there is a kindergarten in every village. At pre-school age, all villages have classes right in the village; elementary and secondary schools concentrate in the commune center, about 7km from affected villages. To go to high school, the students have to go to the district center at a distance of 7 km. Table III-6 provides information on the number of schools in Xuan Cao and Xuan Cam communes Table III-6: The number of schools in all levels in Xuan Cao and Xuan Cam Commune Kindergarten Elementary Secondary Total Xuan Cao 1 2 1 3 Xuan Cam 1 2 1 3 9. Health service 52. The communes in the project area have health centers located in the commune center. The local people often come to health centers to get simple medical care such as immunization, vitamin supplementation, maternal health care and drug treatment for common illnesses (colds, headache, and stomach). For more important treatment demand, they will come to hospital in the districts or provinces. 10. Gender and gender equality 53. At the communes in project area, gender equality has been more concerned, the proportion of girls in school has been higher, all the girls in the age are going to school, education universalization program at secondary school has been completed, 100% of children, both male and female, graduates from secondary school. 54. Regardless of gender, most of people in the affected commune come to commune health center to treat the common and come to district or province hospital if the illness is more serious. The poor households can get benefits from medical insurance cards program. 55. In working and job, the time of earning of male and female is equal, however, women spend more time than men in housework. In this area, men have the habit of 26 drinking until drunk especially on festivals or fairs, then all the burdens of work and families are on woman's shoulder. 56. Due to advocacy, education, now women in the project communes can equally participate in social work, have the right to participate in deciding the important issues in their home or participate in local organizations. In affected communes, the wives participate more often in these activities because their husbands go to work away from home, on the fields or remote forests. Table III-7: Labor allocation in families in terms of gender in ethnic AHHs Husband Wife Work to be done apart from house works (%) (%) Working on the fields 50 50 Working on upland, plantation 70 30 Housework Taking care of children 30 70 Cooking 30 70 Clean house 40 60 Participating in public and social work Participating in the public consultation meeting 30 70 Participating in making decision 50 50 Joining with local organizations 50 50 27 IV. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE, CONSULTATION AND PARTICIPATION A. Information disclosure 57. According to the World Bank policy on EM, Xuan Minh Hydropower Joint Stock Company together with the consulting team and the District Compensation and Resettlement Councils in Song Ma district have jointly worked together to disclose the information on the approved policy framework on EM and resettlement, Resettlement Action Plan and Ethnic Minority Development Plan approved by Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) and the World Bank. Resettlement Action Plan and Ethnic Minority Development Plan will be translated into Vietnamese to make it easier to understand and to facilitate the implementation of ethnic minority development plan and to apply compensation and resettlement policies to the affected people. The list of affected households due to loss of land and assets and compensation must be clearly stated. 58. Community consultation should be held several times to disseminate information and introduction to the project to the affected people, EM communities in the project area. EM community and the affected people are thoroughly informed about the EMDP and RAP, including: (i) the contents in the community meetings on the works, working schedules, site clearance plan and construction plan, (ii) Detailed Measurement Survey (DMS), (iii) list of official and eligible affected people and their rights, (iv) compensation volume and rates, (v) payment of compensation and other support, and (vi) other issues such as income restoration programs for the affected people, grievance mechanism, monitoring and evaluation etc. The related notice and documents must be posted publicly at the offices of the affected communal people committee and/or cultural houses/public places. The project information books (PIB) must be distributed to the affected households and are made available in the communal people committees’ offices and the village cultural houses. B. Community consultation and participation 59. Several consultation meetings with EM communities have been organized in February, 2017 to evaluate the demand of the community about restoration of livelihood and ensure that the feedbacks from the local EM communities are presented in the EMDP 60. The tools used in community consultation include meeting, individual interview and group discussion. People in the affected villages are willing to discuss and share information. Women and youth are invited and encouraged to discuss and contribute ideas, particularly the EM groups in the affected communes are adequately consulted. The EM groups in the project areas are bridged with the project through several representative organizations such as Women Union, Farmer Union, Communal and Village Youth Unions. 28 C. Results of information disclosure and community consultation 61. Consultations on RAP and EMDP between representatives of Xuan Minh Hydropower JSC, consultant team and local community are organized throughout the survey process. The table below is the contributions and aspirations of the EM people on Xuan Minh hydropower plant Table IV-1: : Concerns of affected community and commitment of the investor No. Community’s concerns Commitments of the investor The construction process makes rock and Next week we will have meeting with soil fell to the field, I cannot cultivate. local people and check the situations directly, if any damage, it will be The process of building electricity breaks compensated. the my fences which has not been compensated. We will build new underground sewers to prevent flooding I have a plot of land near the mouth of a sewer which was flooded and cannot use We are about to diverse the river flow for cultivation. so that the fields will be flooded. After the project is completed, the flow will The construction process causes a lot of not affect the cultivation. Damage will air pollution. be recorded and fully compensated. My sugarcane field area is flooded and The construction process will have a rotten. negative temporary effect, we will try to apply mitigation measures, hopefully local people can sympathize. It is recommended that the investor The investor would like to supports the program of fish cage along acknowledge and have developed the river to improve living standard of compensation plans, resettlement local people. report, ethnic development report to support their livelihoods and soon stabilize their lives. The pure water supply system for the We will provide support gradually to cultural center and preschool of Xuan the local people when the construction Minh village, Xuan Cam commune is is stabile. deteriorating and it is proposed that the investor support drilling wells to supply After we have rock, we will improve water to children. the roads for local people The roads to end of the village is soil roads, it is recommended that the 29 No. Community’s concerns Commitments of the investor company use waste rock to improve the road to the end of Xuan Minh village - Xuan Cam commune and 800m from the inter-commune road to Ngon Ho (village road) in Xuan Minh 1 village, Xuan Cao Commune Summary affected households’ expectations: - The households expect to receive support for technical training on cage culture to improve their income. - AHHs expect to improve the rural road system of Xuan Minh and Xuan Minh 1 villages, followed by improvement of water supply system for Xuan Minh culture center. The affected households in Xuan Minh 1 village are looking forward to be supported in rebuilding their new cultural center of the village which has just been collapsed. 30 V. ASSESSMENT OF PROJECT IMPACTS TO ETHNIC MINORITIES 62. In preparation for the construction of Xuan Minh hydropower plant project, many consultative meetings on project implementation with local authorities, relevant agencies and local people have been organized with the purpose of disseminating information and activities related to the project from the preparation, the design, the construction to the operation stage. Thereby, the investor of Xuan Minh hydropower project, local authorities and people can identify potential impacts caused by construction activities in the process of implementation, including positive and negative impacts that affect the life and culture of ethnic minorities in the construction area of the project. A. Positive impacts 63. Xuan Minh hydropower plant project is a scaled work with many ancillary items to be built to meet the operational efficiency, so the construction of Xuan Minh hydropower will have positive and meaningful impacts for the productive life and socio-cultural activities of the people in the project area and in the neighboring areas. Specifically, positive impacts are described in detail in Table V-1 below. Table IV-2: Positive impacts of Xuan Minh hydropower project Positive impacts Description Affection scale - Proactively prevent erosion, - Xuan Cao and Xuan Cam 1. Create favourable flooding... get benefits from the conditions for project. production activities. - Reduce drought, increase irrigated area - The reservoir is 165 ha in - Provide clean water for daily the width, 8.1 million m3 2. Improve living activities of the community. in volume; The capacity is conditions for the - Provide and supply additional 15MW, provide the project area. power to the national grid ... national power grid with 65,06x106kWh every year - Create employment - Create jobs for around 100 opportunities for unskilled workers during the period local workers, especially 3. Create more jobs for of building culvert in households which are local people. project area, 3-5 operators directly affected during the when the plant is in construction stage. operation. - Increase employment 31 Positive impacts Description Affection scale opportunities for local residents when the project goes into operation. - Provide services to contractors and investors. - Develop catering services, new employment opportunities for local people. - The lake creates conditions for farming households to fish on the river. - Increase income and - Thuong Xuan district, contribute to the local Xuan Cao, Xuan Cam get budget. benefits from the project 5. Contribute positively - Supplement power source to the local development for living and stable movement. production in the area. - The annual electricity bills can contribute to increase income and contribute to local budget. - Attract investment - Thuong Xuan district, - Enhance communications... Xuan Cao, Xuan Cam get benefits from the project - Increase cultural exchange opportunities in the 5. Other impacts localities. - The development of transportation and power source will attract more investor to invest in the area, many projects can be invested. 32 B. Negative impacts 64. In addition to positive impacts as mentioned above, Xuan Minh Hydropower Plant will have negative impacts on local people’s lives and production, especially ethnic people in the project area. Therefore, in the consultation meetings and interviews with local authorities as well as local residents, negative impacts are considered and discussed very carefully in order to determine the true and full impacts from the preparation phase to the operational phase 65. In general, Xuan Minh hydropower does not have much influence on the culture and production life of ethnic minorities, particularly effects related to customs, religious beliefs and village relationships. IOL shows that the project does not affect house and architectural works of households, no household has to move. However, to ensure the living conditions of the households in the project area, smallest impacts must be taken into account and particular consideration during the preparation process through consultation meetings and group discussions with local people. (Please refer the detailed description of negative effects in Table V-2). Table IV-3: Negative impacts of Xuan Minh HPP Negative impacts Description Affecting scale - The project will acquire permanently Impact on income and 1,685,270.40 m2 of many - 115 households in Xuan Cao, livelihoods of local land types, affect Xuan Cam communes, in which people production/job and Xuan Cam has 107 ethnic AHHs. livelihood/income of the local people. - During the construction, it may affect and disrupt the water supply for irrigation, power Temporarily affect supply, transport and Project area in Xuan Cao, Xuan production activities of travel of local citizens Cam communes local people and communities. - During the construction, it may affect people's production due to mine blasting, site grading and 33 Negative impacts Description Affecting scale levelling, soil erosion caused by the construction - During the construction, - The road where truck with material transport construction materials pass vehicles will create more through. dust and dirt for the Environmental project area. - The project area and the pollution surrounding areas may be - Mine blasting for ground levelling also causes affected by mine blasting environmental pollution. activities. Impact on the local - During the construction, culture and social numerous workers may security of minority affect local indigenous communities cultures via relations and communications with the community. - Work camps of Project area in Xuan Cao, Xuan contractors at the Cam communes construction site are likely affect the security in the local area. - Cultural activities of workers may affect local cultures. - Change habits, manners - The community of 2 affected and customs of ethnic communes. Impact on living people. practices and habits of - Susceptible to introduce people bad cultures which are not suitable to the lifestyle of local people. - The construction site and the Risks of labour - During the construction, working accidents may roads where trucks carrying accidents occur if workers do not materials pass through. 34 Negative impacts Description Affecting scale comply with the safety regulations at the site. - Mine blasting … - The transporting materials for construction may cause accidents during the transportation - Numerous construction workers may cause social vices, such as gambling, Risks of women drug trafficking, theft trafficking, HIV/AIDS - The project area and the and trafficking of transmission, social surrounding areas. women/children, the risk evils of transmission of HIV/AIDS and other social ills - During the project - The project area and the implementation, there surrounding areas. will be a number of Immigrant workers are cadres and workers to the danger of theft, habitat in the area and gambling and drug therefore it is easy to trading raise a number of evils such as theft, gambling, drugs. 35 VI. THE MITIGATION MEASURES AND DEVELOPMENT FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES 66. The identified potential impacts, including positive and negative impacts of Xuan Minh HPP, with local authorities, residents in the project area, are screened and developed by computational methods to have mitigation measures for negative impacts and maintain and improve positive impacts to overcome and give maximum supports for those affected by the project in order that they can early recover their living conditions at least as before the project is implemented A. Mitigation measures 67. To ensure the livelihood security to households, especially ethnic minority households, smallest impacts require to be carefully considered to build respective mitigation measures in accordance with actual conditions and to achieve the consensus of the stakeholders. Table VI-1 below describes in detail the mitigation measures agreed at the consultation meetings and group discussions with locals during the preparation process of Xuan Minh HPP . Table VI-1: Measures to mitigate negative impacts Implementing Negative impacts Mitigation Measures agency Effectively conduct the program Assistance Xuan Minh Of Livelihood and Recovery of Income for Hydropower JSC; the AHHs. Compensation and Assistance Land acqusition that Committee of would give impact Thuong Xuan to livelihoods of district local people Departments and Mass organizations of affected communes Closely manage the construction workers of Xuan Minh the contractor to implement the specific Hydropower JSC, Impact to living regulations and not affect on livings of local the constructors, customs of local people. consultants. people Transportation of materials is only allowed to use routes registered with the local authority and have to perform the regular 36 Implementing Negative impacts Mitigation Measures agency maintenance to ensure uninterrupted traffic. Construction activities close to residential areas must be arranged at reasonable time to avoid affecting on livings of local people. For affected public works, it should be completed the replacement works before relocating or destroying. Construction time will be heralded to the Xuan Minh people and skimming only after people have Hydropower JSC finished harvesting the crops. The constructors The contractor will be mobilized at the highest level in order to shorten the construction time, minimize time to influence the production of community. The quarry for materials and machinery must Temporary impact be planned far from residential areas. The to production regulations on the storage and preservation activities of local of materials are carried out strictly, to avoid people incidents and accidents, affecting the lives of people and production. The skimming must be done in accordance with the approved design. Monitoring skimming must be performed grader closely to minimize rock fall to the farm of people. Must be constructed in accordance with the construction measures approved. Vehicles carrying materials have been - Xuan Minh covered carefully to avoid falling materials Hydropower JSC and making affect to local people, especially HHs living along the operation roads. The constructors, Monitoring The transportation vehicles should be not Environmental used in residential area at break time to Consultants, local pollution minimize the noise. It should be kept authority. moisture to limit dusts on the roads. The materials, such as petroleum, oil must be stored carefully to avoid explosion, leakage or flooding which affect lives and production 37 Implementing Negative impacts Mitigation Measures agency of local people. After the project is completed, the waste area, construction area... should be levelled to give the level ground back, then covered with trees on the surface to prevent erosion, washout. The management regulations must be strictly Xuan Minh implemented. Management activities must be Hydropower JSC, closely coordinated between the contractor local authority, and the local police and the concerned units. especially police Impact to daily The workers must be educated awareness of activities of local environmental hygiene and conscious respect people for the cultural values of local people. Where in the camp of construction workers must be planned separately, not to workers living with the family of the local people in the community Area of materials, machineries storage Xuan Minh should be located far away residential area Hydropower JSC and be monitored closely to avoid the risks of accidents The constructors Local people and workers should be educated and disseminated about awareness Risks of labor of accidents preventation at work and transportation. accidents The employed workers, especially the unskilled workers must be trained on necessary skills to ensure safety. Workers must be equipped with full protective equipment and labour insurance, accidents in transportation. Likely to have Local people and construction workers on Xuan Minh women and children the project site must be propagated to risks Hydropower JSC in trafficking and and preventive measures against HIV/AIDS, coordination with HIV/AIDS infection trafficking in women and other social evils. commune authority, polices and 38 Implementing Negative impacts Mitigation Measures agency Women’s Unions. B. Maintaining and Promoting Measures 68. According to the findings from survey and communication with relevant agencies and local people in affected area was carried out in February 2017, apart from the above measures, some other measures are proposed to assist and help ethnic people to solve the difficulties. The proposed measures are follow: Table VI-2: The development measures for the ethnic minorities Proposed Content of proposal Implemented by No. development measures Training ordinary jobs Xuan Minh Hydropower when the plant is in JSC and Department of operation. Priority is given Agriculture of Thuong Assistance on 1 to the members of Xuan district, Son La job training households losing province agriculture land and vulnerable households. Assist fish seeds and Xuan Minh Hydropower Assist building innitial cost for 5 AHHs JSC, Department of 2 model of fish who are affected more than Agriculture of Thuong cage 70%, give training to Xuan district, Thanh Hoa participating households. province. Assist 97 pairs of goats for Xuan Minh Hydropower Model of goat 97 affected households who JSC, Department of 3 raising for meat have 10-70% affected land, Agriculture of Thuong and breeding give technical training for Xuan district, Thanh Hoa participating households province. Assist Upgrading the inner village Xuan Minh Hydropower 4 improving rural road from the river to Xuan JSC 39 Proposed Content of proposal Implemented by No. development measures roads Minh village, Xuan Cam commune, and the 800m road from inter-commune road to Ngon Ho, Xuan Minh1 village, Xuan Cao commune. Improve water supply Xuan Minh Hydropower system for Xuan Minh JSC Assist village cultural center, Xuan improving 5 Cam village. Support to cultural center build cultural center for of villages Xuan Minh 1 village, Xuan Cao commune 40 VII. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN A. Institutional Arrangement 69. Implementing Ethnic Minority Development Plan requires cross-sectoral collaboration from many sectors and branches at all levels from provincial, to district, commune, village and ethnic minority groups. Investor of Xuan Minh HPP will be the host agency for implementation and collaborate with other entities during implementation. The institutional arrangements for implementation of the Ethnic Minority Development Plan are specified as follows: - Xuan Minh Hydropower JSC will assume responsibility for providing funding for implementing all activities set out in the Ethnic Minority Development Plan; developing regulations for oversight of workers gathering of construction materials; conducting community consultations; monitoring resettlement compensation; executing and collaborating to implement measures to mitigate negative impacts generated by the facility; and file reports with the relevant authorities. - District Resettlement Compensation Committee will assume responsibility for providing exact compensations based on market price; providing one-off support for affected households. - District Women’s Union in collaboration with Commune Women’s Union and associated Village Women’s Unions implement effectively the gender-based propaganda programme on women’s roles and propaganda campaigns on prevention and control of HIV/AIDS and women and children trafficking. - Commune authorities will support Xuan Minh Hydropower JSC in management of workers, prevention of social evils; conduct monitor and collaborate in monitoring with various sectors and branches in the district, together with Provincial Ethnic Minority Committee as regards the implementation of EMDP of Xuan Minh Hydropower JSC. 70. Investor will coordinate with various sectors and branches in the commune and villages together with District Resettlement Compensation Committee to regularly update the EM community of progress, effectiveness of implementation of the EMDP; conduct monitor and inform monitoring results to commune people’s committee and investors; assisting EM people in filing complaints in an effective manner. 71. Leaderships of villages, social mass organizations and EM people will conduct monitoring and evaluation of implementation of EMDP of the investor of Xuan Minh Hydropower. 72. Provincial Ethnic Minority Committee will on a regular basis check and comment on implementation outcomes of the EMDP of Xuan Minh Hydropower JSC. B. Implementation Plan 73. EMDP is implemented as a separate program in parallel with activities of implementing Resettlement Plan of the project, Table VII.1 shows the details the 41 implementation plan of main stages, impact projects, activities in EMDP and management as well as monitoring and evaluation EMDP, some activities were included in the RP (see RP). Table VII-1 Implementation Progress of EMDP Activities Progress Information dissemination and community 2/2017 consultation Preparing the Ethnic Minorities Development Plan 2/2017- 3/2017 Submitting the Ethnic Minorities Development 3/2017 Plan Approving the Ethnic Minorities Development Plan 4/2017 Information dissemination affer EMDP to be 4/2017 approved Implementing measures to mitigate negative 9/2016 - 3/2019 impacts Implementing measurements or training for ethnic 9/2016 - 3/2019 minority people Monitoring and evaluation 4/2016 - /2019 Implementing the construction 9/2016 - 3/2019 42 VIII. COMPLAINTS AND GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM 74. To make sure the complaints and grievance redresss mechanism which will be established is practical and acceptable to the affected households, especially ethnic minority communities, this content has been consulted with local authorities and ethnic minority communities with aglance to the unique cultural characteristic as well as the traditional cultural mechanisms in addressing and resolving complaints and in the specific cases (such as the negative impacts are not minimized or new negative impacts have arisen, EMDP has not been done, etc.) EM people can complain for their rights. Grievance redress mechanism has been discussed as follows: 75. Stage 1: If EMDP has not been implemented or the implementation EMDP will raise the negative impacts to the ethnic minority community and no activities for mitigation, or any issue related to ethnic minorities people, the local ethnic minority people can elevate directly by verbally or in written to CPC or verbally or in written to community consultation board member at commune then this board will work with CPC and CPC will resolve the issue within 15 days from the date the complaint is received. 76. Stage 2: Within 15 days from the date the complaint is received, If the EM people are in the absence of any response or EM people is not satisfied with the decision, they can complaint to DPC. 77. Stage 3: Within 15 days from the date the complaint is received, If the EM people are in the absence of any response or EM people is not satisfied with the decision of DPC, they can complaint to Provincial Ethnic Minority Board.. 78. Stage 4: Within 15 days from the date the complaint is received, If the EM people are in the absence of any response or EM people is not satisfied with the decision of PPC the EM people, as a last resort may submit his/her case to the district court. 79. The procedure to resolve the grievance of EM people that have been described in the document “ Information of Xuan Minh Hydropower Plant”- PIB and delivered to all EM people in the community. For assitting EM people to find the person inchage for this resolve, PIB provide all infomation of name, adress as well as telepnone number of these person incharged . EM people dont have to pay any fee for their administraive and legal cost, as well as free cost for submit the complaint at the court. 80. The external monitoring agency will be recruited to monitor and evaluate independently. This agency will be responsible for checking the procedure and the status on resolving the complaints. The external monitoring agency may propose other solutions (if necessary) to resolve the pending complaints 43 IX. MONITORING AND EVALUATION A. General requirements for monitoring and evaluation 81. The internal and external monitoring system will be established to monitor the EMDP implementation. 82. The internal and external monitoring and evaluation system will be established to monitor the implementation of the EMDP. The main purpose of the program is monitored and evaluated to ensure that all of the proposed measures in EMDP are comply with policies and procedures of the EMDP. In particular, the independent monitoring and evaluation will focus on the social impact to AHs and AHs can restore their living standards at least equal to or better than their living standards before the construction. 83. The scope of the monitoring and evaluation program will include activities related to the EMDP, providing feedback to management agencies on carrying out their tasks, identifing issues and resolving as soon as possible to facilitate for adjustments with the implementation timely. 84. Objectives of monitoring and evaluation system are: (i) ensure the implementing progress of EMDP; (ii) undertake rightly the mitigation measures of the plan; (iii) assess effectiveness of the measures and propose supplement measures if necessary; (iv) identify potential or generated problems to the ethnic minority community during the implementing period of the project; and (v) identify quick response measures to mitigate these issues. 1. Internal Monitoring 85. The investor will be responsible for internal monitoring the EMDP implementation. The monitoring reports will be prepared and submitted to PMB. This reports will be monthly reports, from distributing Project Information Booklet to disbursing compensation costs and completing EM development activities. 86. The monitoring reports will summarize the progress of EMDP implementation, compare with monitoring indicators; and when required, propose changes to ensure the EMDP implementation in accordance with objectives and procedures in EMDP. This resport is a part of the external resettlement monitoring report and will be submitted to PMB and WB for reviewing. PMB will submit the quarterly monitoring reports to WB. These reports will summarize the progress of land acquisition and resettlement and EMDP for the project. 2. External monitoring 87. The external monitoring agency will be recruited to to conduct independent checks, monitoring and evaluation as regards the implementation of EMDP. The independent monitoring and evaluation will be conducted on an annual basis, except for the first stage when it is possible to conduct independent monitoring and evaluation twice a year. 88. The independent monitoring and evaluation will focus on 5 main issues, that is (i) how measures to mitigate negative impacts set forth are implemented; (ii) what negative 44 impacts on ethnic minority that have been not assessed and hence mitigation measures not identified; (iii) how interventions for community development of ethnic minority groups have been implemented; (iv) information provided is sufficient or not and whether the consultations with EM people have been conducted or how effectively they are implemented; and (v) complaint procedures for ethnic minority as regards EMDP and any other issues faced by them. B. Monitoring indicators 89. The monitoring indicators in Table IX.1 should be should be periodically monitored during EMDP implementation as well as monitoring indicators mentioned in Resettlement Plan. Table IX-1: Monitoring indicators in EMDP Monitoring and Evaluation Basic indicators Issues 1. The progress of EMDP - The plan has been shared with the community. implementation - The plan is in line with the implementation conditions of ethnic minority people and is joined by them. - The plan is relevant to the progress of other activities. - Adequate human resources available to implement the plan. - Sufficient funding for implementing the plan. 2. Implementing community - Local EM community, commune authorities and village consultations and local leaderships and mass organizations are provided people’s participation sufficient information on EMDP, implementation plan and grievance mechanisms. - Local EM community, commune authorities and village leaderships and mass organizations are involved in relevant activities, especially monitoring the implementation of EMDP. 3. Implementation of - All measures for mitigating negative impacts from the measures to mitigate negate facility are effectively implemented. impacts from the facility. - There are no additional negative impacts arising from the facility, and if otherwise, there must be a community consultation on mitigation measures and implementation of the same. 45 Monitoring and Evaluation Basic indicators Issues - Various sectors and branches effectively collaborate in implementing measures to mitigate negative impacts from the facility. 4. Implementation of specific - All activities that support the EM development as set developmental interventions out in the EMDP are implemented effectively. for local ethnic minority people - Various sectors and branches effectively collaborate in implementing interventions for community development. 5. Grievance Mechanisms - Ethnic minority community has a clear understanding of the grievance mechanism. - District Resettlement Compensation Committee, commune-level social organizations and commune people’s committee have a clear understanding of grievance mechanism and are able to assist EM people to implement such mechanisms. 46 X. BUDGET AND DISBURSEMENT PLAN 90. Total cost of the EMDP is estimated to be 1,137,400,000 VND (equivalent to 49,974 USD). This cost includes development measures and contingency. The budget for EMDP is taken from the loan. The cost for monitoring and evaluation EMDP is included in RP cost. Table X-1: Total funds for implementation of EMDP N Items Amount Note No. Items o. (VND) Training ordinary jobs when the plant is in operation. 5 Assistance on Priority is given to the 1 househol 10,000,000 50,000,000 job training ds members of households losing agriculture land and vulnerable households. Assit fish seeds and innitial cost: 10 Assist building 10 households*10,000,000VN 2 model of fish househol 120,000,000 ds D/HH=100,000,000VND, cage technical training: 20,000,000VND Assist model of Assist goat parents for 97 goat raising for HHs*2.000.000VND/HH=1 3 97 214,000,000 meat and 94.000.000VND, technical breeding training: 20,000,000 VND Upgrading the inner village road from the river to Xuan Minh village, Xuan Cam Assist commune, and the 800m 4 improving rural 600,000,000 road from inter-commune roads road to Ngon Ho, Xuan Minh1 village, Xuan Cao commune. 47 Improve water supply system for Xuan Minh Assist 2 village cultural center, Xuan improving 5 commune 50,000,000 100,000,000 Cam village. Support to cultural center s build cultural center for of villages Xuan Minh 1 village, Xuan Cao commune Sum of 1,034,000,000 assistance cost Contingency 103,400,000 (10%) Total 1,137,400,000 48 ANNEXES ATTACHED TO EMDP ANNEX 1 LITS OF AHHs – XUÂN MINH HYDROPOWER PLANT ..................................... 50 ANNEX 2 LIST OF THE HOUSEHOLD PARTICIPATING IN THE MEETING.................. 12 ANNEX3 CONSULTATION MEETING MINUTES.................................................................. 56 ANNEX 4 SOME PHOTOS OF PROJECT ................................................................................ 568 49 ANNEX 1 LITS OF AHHs – XUAN MINH HYDROPOWER PLANT Vulnerable households Affected agricultural land area Household Households Peoples/ headed by headed by Household No. Name of household head Village Age Ethnic the single Poor single head is Total Affected impact elderly household household women ethnic area (m2) area (m2) levels (%) more than with people 70 years- dependents old I.1 Xuan Cam commune 1 Lương Văn Chính 1983 4 Thái 12/12 x 2.300,00 47,61 2,07 2 Lương Văn Lâm 1969 3 Thái 7/10 x 8.500,00 236,00 2,78 3 Vi Văn Thắng 1966 4 Thái 3/10 x 21.688,00 820,72 3,78 4 Cầm Bá Tiếp 1963 6 Thái 7/10 x 4.891,20 193,40 3,95 5 Lương Văn Thắng 1960 6 Thái 7/10 x 9.500,00 436,30 4,59 6 Cầm Bá Lặm 1965 6 Thái 5/10 x 5.000,00 234,70 4,69 7 Hà Thị Linh 1968 5 Thái 4/10 x 8.000,00 386,24 4,83 8 Vi Văn Quyết 1975 4 Thái 1/12 x 3.500,00 201,18 5,75 9 Hà Văn Thường (K) 1975 4 Thái 7/12 x 2.933,90 178,60 6,09 10 Lương Văn Tùng 1991 6 Thái 9/12 x 7.200,00 456,00 6,33 11 Hà Ngọc Toàn 1944 4 Thái 10/10 x 3.400,30 231,10 6,80 12 Hà Minh Tiến 1975 5 Thái 12/12 x 7.200,00 490,76 6,82 13 Lương Thị Tỷ 1964 4 Thái 4/10 x x 7.200,00 503,70 7,00 14 Hà Văn Minh 1975 4 Thái 4/12 x 6.100,00 440,00 7,21 15 Cầm Bá Tiếp 1964 4 Thái 4/10 x 7.200,00 590,78 8,21 16 Hà Tôn Thắng 1949 2 Thái 10/10 x x 9.975,30 838,81 8,41 17 Hà Văn Thắng 1969 9 Thái 5/10 x 9.000,00 880,32 9,78 18 Vi Văn Thị 1950 6 Thái 3/10 x 5.403,10 533,01 9,86 19 Cầm Bá Chon 1977 7 Thái 3/12 x 4.500,00 470,40 10,45 20 Cầm Bá Hội 1958 5 Thái 4/10 x 5.000,00 534,44 10,69 21 Hà Thị Sáu 1968 5 Thái 4/10 x x 7.200,00 774,08 10,75 50 Vulnerable households Affected agricultural land area Household Households Peoples/ headed by headed by Household No. Name of household head Village Age Ethnic the single Poor single head is Total Affected impact elderly household household women ethnic area (m2) area (m2) levels (%) more than with people 70 years- dependents old 22 Lương Văn Chon 1977 4 Thái 5/12 x 6.200,00 729,30 11,76 23 Lương Văn Phiệt 1979 6 Thái 7/12 x 5.690,80 675,00 11,86 24 Hà Văn Khiêm 1968 7 Thái 1/10 x 3.200,00 390,40 12,20 25 Lương Công Bình 1969 4 Thái 7/10 x 8.200,00 1.009,16 12,31 26 Hà Văn Liêm 1973 5 Thái 4/12 x 7.400,00 1.015,20 13,72 27 Cầm Bá Hậu 1961 5 Thái 3/10 x 8.500,00 1.226,26 14,43 28 Hà Văn Châu 1967 4 Thái 5/10 x 8.400,00 1.215,00 14,46 29 Vi Văn Thơ 1970 4 Thái 3/10 x 4.000,00 630,75 15,77 30 Lương Minh Thìn 1965 4 Thái 7/10 x 7.500,00 1.185,60 15,81 31 Cầm Bá Bùn 1986 4 Thái 10/12 X x 5.000,00 838,32 16,77 32 Cầm Bá Thích 1966 3 Thái 6/10 x 4.000,00 671,81 16,80 33 Cầm Bá Thân 1968 3 Thái 6/10 x 8.500,00 1.439,96 16,94 34 Hà Văn Khăm 1965 6 Thái 4/10 x 7.200,00 1.276,94 17,74 35 Hà Văn Bảy 1975 6 Thái 4/12 x 12.000,00 2.135,96 17,80 36 Vi Văn Thông 1978 5 Thái 12/12 x 4.500,00 827,10 18,38 37 Lương Thị Đoạt 1968 4 Thái 4/10 X X x 3.400,00 626,40 18,42 38 Vi Văn Thành 1983 6 Thái 4/12 X x 2.500,00 491,07 19,64 39 Hà Minh Đức 1966 4 Thái 7/10 x 2.860,80 573,80 20,06 40 Hà Thị Thanh 1956 3 Thái 7/10 x 2.642,20 534,30 20,22 41 Cầm Bá Tuấn 1982 4 Thái 5/12 x 5.400,00 1.123,30 20,80 42 Vi Văn Ký 1975 3 Thái 5/12 x 5.458,20 1.179,56 21,61 43 Lương Văn Tùng 1991 6 Thái 9/12 x 7.200,00 1.616,88 22,46 44 Lương Văn Mạnh 1990 3 Thái 12/12 x 5.200,00 1.193,10 22,94 45 Vi Xuân Tỉnh 1957 6 Thái 7/10 x 4.223,40 975,20 23,09 51 Vulnerable households Affected agricultural land area Household Households Peoples/ headed by headed by Household No. Name of household head Village Age Ethnic the single Poor single head is Total Affected impact elderly household household women ethnic area (m2) area (m2) levels (%) more than with people 70 years- dependents old 46 Cầm Văn Phức 1975 5 Thái 4/12 x 8.200,00 1.896,96 23,13 47 Hà Ngọc Kỳ 1960 2 Thái 6/10 x 8.200,00 1.930,83 23,55 48 Hà Văn Thường (Q) 1965 6 Thái 7/10 x 3.862,90 928,95 24,05 x 49 1966 2 Thái 1/10 Cầm Bá Bành 6.500,00 1.575,48 24,24 x 50 1982 4 Thái 4/12 Hà Văn Chỉnh 6.300,00 1.638,50 26,01 51 Cầm Xuân Tiến 1965 4 Thái 4/10 x 7.200,00 1.895,80 26,33 52 Vi Hồng Thương 1984 4 Thái 9/12 X x 3.000,00 809,60 26,99 53 Cầm Bá Dậu 1966 5 Thái 4/10 x 5.200,00 1.404,95 27,02 54 Lữ Thị Lan 1963 4 Thái 2/10 X x 9.309,10 2.521,92 27,09 55 Hà Tôn Cường 1978 4 Thái 10/12 x 1.046,50 289,80 27,69 56 Hà Văn Thìn (Hợp) 1964 4 Thái 4/10 x 6.200,00 1.720,68 27,75 57 Hà Ngọc Duyên 1958 6 Thái 4/10 x 8.500,00 2.463,80 28,99 58 Hà Minh Tấn 1985 3 Thái 12/12 X x 5.400,00 1.617,80 29,96 59 Hà Thanh Hiền 1965 4 Thái 7/10 x 2.747,00 836,80 30,46 60 Cầm Xuân Định 1964 6 Thái 10/10 x 2.469,30 757,60 30,68 61 Hà Văn Hoa 1983 6 Thái 9/12 x 4.162,30 1.320,55 31,73 62 Lương Thanh Hồ 1977 4 Thái 12/12 x 8.200,00 2.686,28 32,76 63 Hà Văn Hoa 1983 6 Thái 9/12 x 4.162,30 1.414,40 33,98 64 Lương Văn Sao 1980 6 Thái 9/12 x 4.500,00 1.555,40 34,56 65 Cầm Bá Bảy 1971 5 Thái 4/12 x 8.500,00 3.094,58 36,41 66 Lương Thị Thiên 1954 4 Thái 6/10 X x 5.500,00 2.052,51 37,32 67 Lương Văn Thắng 1960 6 Thái 7/10 x 9.500,00 3.585,50 37,74 52 Vulnerable households Affected agricultural land area Household Households Peoples/ headed by headed by Household No. Name of household head Village Age Ethnic the single Poor single head is Total Affected impact elderly household household women ethnic area (m2) area (m2) levels (%) more than with people 70 years- dependents old x 68 1969 3 Thái 7/10 Lương Văn Lâm 8.500,00 3.279,18 38,58 69 Lương Văn Quyên 1988 4 Thái 10/12 x 2.400,00 940,80 39,20 70 Lương Thị Trái 1947 2 Thái 4/10 X X x 5.200,00 2.044,43 39,32 x 71 1967 6 Thái 7/10 Lương Minh Tám 15.500,00 6.403,28 41,31 72 Hà Văn Chon 1985 3 Thái 9/12 x 2.926,60 1.231,80 42,09 73 Lương Minh Tiến 1949 5 Thái 7/10 x 5.000,00 2.177,80 43,56 74 Hà Thị Cao 1983 4 Thái 6/12 x 8.200,00 3.610,45 44,03 75 Hà Văn Chực 1965 8 Thái 1/10 x 12.000,00 5.322,49 44,35 76 Lương Văn Kiên 1993 4 Thái 9/12 x 5.200,00 2.575,70 49,53 77 Lương Thị Huệ 1968 2 Thái 7/10 X x 5.001,00 2.652,00 53,03 78 Lương Văn Thái 1982 4 Thái 12/12 x 5.200,00 2.948,10 56,69 79 Hà Văn Tuấn 1988 2 Thái 11/12 X x 2.888,50 1.638,50 56,72 80 Hà Văn Quê 1977 4 Thái 5/12 x 8.500,00 4.914,46 57,82 81 Cầm Bá Hiệp 1971 5 Thái 4/12 x 5.200,00 3.179,74 61,15 82 Lương Văn Tuân 1979 4 Thái 10/12 x 3.865,20 2.445,30 63,26 83 Hà Văn Tình 1990 5 Thái 12/12 x 5.000,00 3.610,00 72,20 84 Hà Thị Lanh 1970 2 Thái 12/12 X x 14.682,95 11.286,75 76,87 II.2 Xuan Cao Commune x 1 Ngân Văn Hiền 1969 7 Thái 6/10 x 5.000,00 253,38 5,07 2 Hà Thanh Sao 1956 3 Thái 7/10 x 5.000,00 443,22 8,86 3 Hà Xuân Quảng 1963 5 Thái 3/10 x 4.500,00 399,52 8,88 4 Hà Ngọc Mai 1952 5 Thái 8/10 X x 3.000,00 285,25 9,51 53 Vulnerable households Affected agricultural land area Household Households Peoples/ headed by headed by Household No. Name of household head Village Age Ethnic the single Poor single head is Total Affected impact elderly household household women ethnic area (m2) area (m2) levels (%) more than with people 70 years- dependents old 5 Trịnh Văn Dũng 1.992 5 Kinh 9/12 44.288,80 4.288,80 9,68 6 Hà Ngọc Thân 1975 4 Thái 12/12 x 4.000,00 510,00 12,75 7 Lương Thanh Hồng 1971 6 Thái 7/12 x 5.000,00 681,91 13,64 8 Dương Thị Tính 1.940 2 Kinh 2/10 X 8.597,00 1.326,40 15,43 9 Trịnh Văn Long 1.982 4 Kinh 10/12 18.239,63 3.239,63 17,76 10 Hà Ngọc Thêm 1985 4 Thái 9/12 x 3.500,00 638,12 18,23 11 Hà Ngọc Chung 1986 3 Thái 9/12 x 3.500,00 645,12 18,43 12 Hà Văn Thức 1987 3 Thái 12/12 x 2.000,00 396,20 19,81 13 Hà Văn Giáo 1962 4 Thái 6/10 x 5.000,00 1.232,50 24,65 14 Ngân Văn Toàn 1965 6 Thái 7/10 x 5.000,00 1.268,25 25,37 15 Hà Văn Hòa (óc) 1975 4 Thái 6/12 x 3.500,00 933,07 26,66 16 Vi Văn Tư 1973 6 Thái 6/12 X x 4.500,00 1.205,55 26,79 17 Hà Ngọc Quang (Hồng) 1984 6 Thái 12/12 x 5.000,00 1.460,50 29,21 18 Ngân Xuân Hòa 1949 6 Thái 6/10 x 5.000,00 1.550,25 31,01 19 Hà Đức Thanh 1966 7 Thái 12/12 x 5.000,00 1.617,71 32,35 20 Lương Xuân Hòa 1966 4 Thái 7/10 x 5.000,00 1.940,38 38,81 21 Lê Thị Bằng 1.963 2 Kinh 6/10 9.382,00 3.845,86 40,99 22 Nguyễn Văn Thức 1.977 3 Kinh 3/12 8.216,00 3.940,00 47,96 x 23 Hà Thái Hiêm 1.948 7 Thái 7/10 5.602,00 2.945,00 52,57 x 24 1966 7 Thái 7/10 X Vi Thị Biên 5.000,00 2.849,66 56,99 25 Hà Văn Xuân 1964 3 Thái 6/10 x 5.000,00 2.851,92 57,04 26 Vi Xuân Lan 1950 5 Thái 2/10 x 3.839,00 2.203,82 57,41 54 Vulnerable households Affected agricultural land area Household Households Peoples/ headed by headed by Household No. Name of household head Village Age Ethnic the single Poor single head is Total Affected impact elderly household household women ethnic area (m2) area (m2) levels (%) more than with people 70 years- dependents old 27 Lê Văn Hữu 1.979 4 Kinh 5/12 7.109,00 4.104,00 57,73 28 Hà Sỹ Phong 1965 6 Thái 6/10 X x 5.000,00 3.322,80 66,46 29 Nguyễn Văn Nhanh 1.968 6 Kinh 5/10 13.903,50 11.236,00 80,81 30 Vi Văn Biên 1964 3 Thái 3/10 x 2.000,00 1.652,40 82,62 31 Trịnh Văn Thuận 1.987 3 Kinh 9/12 4.834,93 4.288,93 88,71 55 ANNEX 2 LIST OF THE HOUSEHOLD PARTICIPATING IN THE MEETING 56 57 58 ANNEX 3 CONSULTATION MEETING MINUTES 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 ANNEX 4 SOME PHOTOS OF PROJECT Consultant meeting with affected household in Xuan Cam commune 68 Consultant meeting with affected household in Xuan Cao commune 69 Area of auxiliary works 70 Project site 71