ETHNIC MINORITIES DEVELOPMENT PLAN (EMDP)

SON TAY HYDROPOWER CONSTRUCTION

PROJECT

Son Tay Province – Quang Ngai Province

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Quang Ngai Sovico One Member Limited Company

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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

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GLOSSARY

Affected person / Affected household

- Means any person, household, firm or private institution who, on account of changes resulting from the Project, or any of its phases or sub-projects, will have its (i) standard of living adversely affected; (ii) right, title or interest in any house, land (including residential, commercial, agricultural, forest, salt mining and/or grazing land), water resources or any other moveable or fixed assets acquired, possessed, restricted or otherwise adversely affected, in full or in part, permanently or temporarily; and/or (iii) business, occupation, place of work or residence or habitat adversely affected, with or without displacement.

In the case of affected household, it includes all members residing under one roof and operating as a single economic unit, who are adversely affected by a project or any of its components.

Detailed Measurement Survey

- With the aid of the approved detailed engineering design, this activity involves the finalization and/or validation of the results of the inventory of losses (IOL), severity of impacts, and list of APs earlier done during RP preparation. The final cost of resettlement can be determined following completion of the DMS.

Compensation - Means payment in cash or in kind to replace losses of land, housing, income and other assets caused by the Project. All compensation is based on the principle of replacement cost, which is the method of valuing assets to replace the loss at current market rates, plus any transaction costs such as administrative charges, taxes, registration and titling costs.

Ethnic minority - People with a group status having a social or cultural identity

Distinct from that of the dominant or mainstream society.

Income restoration - This is the re-establishment of sources of income and livelihood of the affected households.

Income restoration program

- A program designed with various activities that aim to support affected persons to recover their income / livelihood to pre-project levels. The program is designed to address the specific needs of the affected persons based on the socio-economic survey and consultations

Land acquisition - Refers to the process whereby an individual, household, firm or private institution is compelled by a public agency to alienate all or part of the land it owns or possesses to the ownership and possession of that agency for public purposes in return for compensation at replacement costs.

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Relocation

- This is the physical relocation of an AP from her/his pre-project place of residence and/or business.

Severely affected households

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This refers to affected households who will (i) lose 10% or more of their total productive land and/or assets, (ii) have to relocate;

Stakeholders - Individuals, groups, or institutions that have an interest or stake in the outcome of a project. The term also applies to those potentially affected by a project. Stakeholders include land users, country, regional and local governments, implementing agencies, project executing agencies, groups contracted to conduct project activities at various stages of the project, and other groups in the civil society which may have an interest in the project.

Vulnerable groups - These are distinct groups of people who might suffer disproportionately or face the risk of being further marginalized by the effects of resettlement and specifically include: (i) single-female headed households with dependents, (ii) disabled household heads, (iii) households falling under the generally accepted indicator for poverty, (iv) children and the elderly households who are landless and with no other means of support.

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Index

SUMMARY .......................................................................................................................... viii

I. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................... 12

A. Overview of the Renewable Energy Development Project ........................................... 12 B. Introduction of Son Tay Hydropower Project ............................................................. 13 C. Objectives of the EMDP .......................................................................................... 18

II. LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF THE EMDP ................................................................... 20

A. Legal documents and national policies on the ethnic minority community ..................... 20 B. Policies and programs on ethnic minority community ................................................. 21 C. Policies of World Bank on ethnic minority community ............................................... 22

III. SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARATERISTICS OF ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITY IN

THE PROJECT AREA ........................................................................................................... 24

A. Overview of ethnic minorities in the project are ......................................................... 24 B. Socio-economics characteristics of ethnic minority groups affected by the project .......... 26

IV. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE, CONSULTATION AND PARTICIPATION .............. 31

B. Public consultation and participation......................................................................... 31 C. Results of information dissemination and Public consultation ...................................... 32

V. ASSESSMENT OF PROJECT IMPACTS TO ETHINIC MINORITIES ......................... 36

A. Positive impacts ..................................................................................................... 36 B. Negative impacts .................................................................................................... 38

VI. THE MITIGATION MEASURES AND DEVELOPMENT FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES 42

A. The mitigation measures ......................................................................................... 42 B. Maintaining and Promoting Measures ....................................................................... 46 C. The development measures for the ethnic minorities ................................................... 47

VII. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN ..................... 50

A. Institutional Arrangement ........................................................................................ 50 B. Implementation Plan ............................................................................................... 50

VIII. COMPLAINTS AND GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM ................................... 52

IX. MONITORING AND EVALUATION ....................................................................... 53

A. General requirements for monitoring and evaluation ................................................... 53 B. Monitoring indicators ............................................................................................. 54

X. BUDGET AND DISBURSEMENT PLAN.................................................................. 56

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List of Tables

Table I-1 Work items and key parameters of Son Tay Hydropower Plant ...............................................14

Table II-1 Legal documents of the Vietnamese Government for ethnic minorities ................................20

Table III-1 AHHs are ethnic minorities in Social-Economic survey ........................................................26

Table III-2 Monthly average income of surveyed HHs ............................................................................27

Table III-3 Average Expenditure Rate of Surveyed HHs (%) ..................................................................27

Table III-4 General information on gender rate in the affected communes ......................................29

Table IV-1 Time, location and number of attendee in the meetings in each commune ............................31

Table IV-2 Content and opinion in public consultation meetings ............................................................32

Table IV-3 Concerns of affected community and commitment of the investor ........................................33

Table V-1: Positive impacts of Son Tay hydropower project ...................................................................36

Table V-2: Negative impacts of Son Tay hydropower project .................................................................38

Table VI-1: Measures to mitigate negative impacts .................................................................................42

Table VI-2: Maintaining and Promoting Measures ..................................................................................46

Table VI-3: The development measures for the ethnic minorities ............................................................47

Table VII-1 Implemenation schedule for entire project ............................................................................51

Table IX-1: Monitoring indicators in EMDP ............................................................................................54

Table X-1: Total funds for implementation of EMDP ..............................................................................56

Appendix

ANNEX 1 LIST OF AHs – SON TAY HYDROPOWER PROJECT

ANNEX 2 LIST OF HOUSEHOLDS ATTENDED THE MEETINGS

ANNEX 3 CONSULTATION MEETING MINUTES

ANNEX 4 SOME PHOTOS OF CONSULTATION

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SUMMARY

Introdution

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. Son Tay Hydropower Plant is built on Darkdrinh river,level-1

tributary of Tra Khuc river, flows from the Southwest to Northeast, the bedriver slope

is high, the terrain is totally mountainous, the vegetation cover is mainly primary

forest and regenerating forest. Son Tay Hydropower Plant will generate to supply

national grid electricity with installed capacity of 18MW.

2. Son Tay Hydropowerplant is located in Son Mua, Son Tan and Son Dung

Communes, Quang Ngai Province. It is far 3km away from Son Tay center, far 60 km

away from Quang Ngai city in the West, next to roads and there are natural conditions

which facilitate the construction. The main objective of Son Tay Hydropower Plant is

to supply electricity to the local and connect to national grid electricity, give

contribution to increase industrial output of the province, create jobs for people,

businesses and the area. With the capacity of 18MW, anually, Son Tay Hydropower

Plant will supply national grid electricity with around 72,85.106kWh. Besides, the

hydropower plant plays an important role in local economic development and

landscape.

3. According to the WB’s safeguard policies on Ethnic minority, the Borrower

must execute the safeguard measures for the ethnic minority as the project has certain

impacts on the ethnic minority. Based on such a basic, this EMDP prepared for Son

Tay Hydropower Project aims to ensure that negative and positive impacts have been

considered, and relevant measures have also been proposed to eliminate risks or

highly mitigate the impacts of the project on the lives and culture of the ethnic

minority at affected areas.

Legal Framework for the EMDP

4. Vietnam’s Constitutions in 1946, 1959, 1980 and 1992, along with other legal

documents (updated until 2014) 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 Son Tay 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 Son Tay 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.

Socio-economic characteristics of ethnic minority community in the project area

5. Son Tay is located in the west Quang Ngai province, far 80km away from

Quang Ngai City. The center district is located in Son Dung commune. Son Tay is

adjacent to Kon Plong district (Kon Tum) in the West and Southwest; to Son Ha

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district in the East and Southeast, to Nam Tra My district (Quang Nam province) in

the north.

6. Son Tay have 9 communal administrative units (the communes: Son Dung, Son

Bua, Son Lap, Son Lien, Son Long, Son Mua, Son Mau, Son Tan, Son Tinh), in which

03 communes are special difficult communes in Program 135 Phase II, they are Son

Mua, Son Tan and Son Tinh.

7. According to the statistics, in the district, there were 4,045 households with

17,475 people. In the number, 16,155 households are ethnic minorities. Main ethnic

group is K Dong ethnic people, with the 14,996 people (85.81%); Hre ethnic people

1,268 people (7.25%), the rest are Kinh ethnic people 1,211 people (6.96%). Ethnic

minority communities in the project area, especially the directly affected households

are mainly K Dong (123/131 households).

8. Socioeconomic survey of the area and the households affected by the project

was made in July and August 2014. The survey showed that agricultural production is

main source of income of the ethnic minority community in the project area

9. Regarding infrastructure, social and education services, the poverty reduction

programs and policies of the Government, such as the program 134, 135, 30A... as

well as benefits from former hydropower plants (Dakdring 1 Hydropower Plant,

Dakdring 2, Dak Ba Hydropower Plant...) have attracted more investment in

agricultural production as well as infrastructure for households, so that infrastructure

has also improved markedly in recent years, ethnic minorities in the project area have

been using the grid electricity, radio ....

Information dissemination and public consultation

10. A lot of public consultation meetings, discussions with stakeholders, especially

local governmental authority and affected people were held in July, August 2014 to

disseminate to them sufficient information relating to the project and its activities

from preparation to operation stages, compensation and assistance policy,

implementation plan, recording the people’s opinions or claim as the basis for

preparation of this resettlement plan. Public consultation meetings have been

organized in 3 communes Son Mua, Son Tan, Son Ding in Son Tay District, with total

175 participants including local officers and 123 heads of households.

11. During the next stage of the works, project information dissemination and

public consultation meeting with the local governmental authority and community

shall be held regularly at every important stage or at necessary point of time..

Assessment of impacts of the project

12. Direct affect lives of some households. The project accupiesy about 46.6

hectares of land in 3 communes, Son Tan, Son Mua and Son Dung, in which

permanently acquired land is 34.8 hectares. Most of acquired land belong to ethnic

minorities, most of the area are not cultivated regularly, now abandoned and

secondary forest has been developed because the region has rugged terrain, is difficult

for cultivation and far from living area of people. The land near residential land whose

tarrain is less rugged is used for planting Acacia, cassava, areca and some terraced rice

area.

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13. Shuffling normal life of the community because many construction workers

have moved to the area, there are conflicts between construction workers and local

people

14. Since its construction, the site will attract a large number of workers, create

jobs and steady income for a part of the population in the region.

15. Ensuring the need of food and numerous other necessities for the site will give

opportunities for production activities and commercial service of people in the project

area.

16. The potential impactd of the project include the positive effects and negative

effects which were thoroughly discussed at the consultation meetings and group

discussions among project implementing agencies and the relevant agencies as well as

with the affected households. Basically, the negative impacts of the work do not have

serious effects on the lives and production activities, cultural beliefs and customs of

local people.

Mitigation and development measures for the ethnic minority

17. The construction of Son Tay hydropower project have impact on residential

land of local but the people do not need to displace (just compensation), no need

resettlement for the people. This is a huge advantage of the project compared with

other projects in Quang Ngai province. Additionally, due to some acquired

agricultural land and many activities in the construction process, it is difficult to avoid

unwanted effects. 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 like initial time prior to the project implementation at least.

Institutional arrangement and implementation plan

18. 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

ethnic minority community at local. The investor of Son Tay Hydropower Project will

be a lead organization and coordination with other implementation organizations.

Quang Ngai Sovico Company has responsibilities to provide funds for implementing

all activities/tasks proposed in the EMDP and to report to stakeholders.

Complaints and Grievance redress mechanism

19. 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

20. Proposed measures and implementing timeframe of the EMDP for Son Tay

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

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implementing period of the project; and (v) identify quick response measures to

mitigate these issues.

21. 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

22. Total budget of implementing development measures within the EMDP is

401,500,000 VNĐ (approximately 19,119 USD) including the contingency cost of

10%. Implementation costs will be paid by Quang Ngai Sovico Company be

responsible to fund for implementing all activities of the EMDP required.

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I. INTRODUCTION

A. Overview of the Renewable Energy Development Project

23. 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.

24. 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.

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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 Son Tay Hydropower Project

1. Legal base

25. Son Tay Hydropower Plant construction investment project is one of the projects

in the "Plan for electricity development in Quang Ngai province period 2011 - 2015 with

a vision to 2020" dated 07/12/2007, issued by Quang Ngai Provincial People's Committee

with Decision No. 2848/QD-Committee approving plan on small hydropower plants in

Quang Ngai province.

26. Decision No. 677/QD-Committee of Quang Ngai province dated 14th March 2007

approving Bac Ha Investment Joint Stock Company to survey and set up Son Tay

Hydropower Plant investment project.

27. Pursuant to Decision No. 80/2009/QD-HDQT on 02 March 2009 of Board of

Directors, Bac Ha Investment Joint Stock Company on the establishment of a member –

Quang Ngai Sovico Energy Limited Company who directly manage, invest in the

construction and manage operation of Son Tay Hydropower Plant.

28. Based on the report of Investment Project - Preliminary Design of Son Tay

Hydropower Plant on Dakdrinh river made by Power Engineering Consulting 1 Joint

Stock Company in October 2009.

29. Based on the survey documents of Consulting &Construction 23 Limited

Company.

30. Based on the intermediate report made by Song Da - Ucrin Consulting and

Construction Co., Ltd. in May 2010 on improving normal water level of Son Tay

reservoir to 192.50m because reservoir volume is different from the investment project.

31. Decision No. 4404/QD-BCT dated 3rd August 2012 of Ministry of Trade and

Industry approving the plan for power development in Quang Ngai province in period

2011 – 2025 with a vision to 2020.

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2. Characteristics of the plant

32. Position of Son Tay Hydropower Plant was studied and approved in Additional

Planning of Hydropower System on Dakdrinh River, Quang Ngai Province, this is a plant

at the middle of two hydropower plants Dakdrinh 1 (now is Dakdrinh Hydropower Plant)

and Dakdrinh 2 (had been planned, not built yet) in order to utilize the remaining

unexploited catchment of Dakdrinh hydropower plant (the works of Son Tay hydropower

plant are all in energy route of Dakdrinh hydropower plant).

33. Son Tay hydropower plant is supplied water from two reservoirs: (i) the first

reservoir is catchment of major dam (the main water supply regulated by day and night)

and (ii) the second reservoir is catchment of sub-dam (no capacity regulated by day and

night). The total catchment area to dam system of Son Tay Hydro Power Plant is

186,0km2, in which the second reservoir cluster has catchment area of 8,0km2 and

catchment area of the first reservoir cluster is 178,0km2.

34. The whole proposed project includes two main components: the cluster headwork

(dam, spillaway dam, water intake, sand discharger, sub-dam, water transfer channel) and

energy route (collecting water channel,water intake, connecting concrete pipe, tunnel,

surge tank, penstock, plant, discharge channel. Pressure boosting station and operational

management buildings).

35. The operational buildings of Son Tay hydropower plant is only considered at a

sufficient size to serve operational personnel, with some items allocated as follows: (i) 2-

storey center management building. The structure is tempered wall with 220mm brick and

concrete floor. The center building is near the plant and transformer station, this can

ensure operational management is facilitated; (ii) houses for staffs are in the area with

enough space for the daily needs of about 15 people (iii) the scale of operational

management building for pressure is large enough for 1-2 staffs working 24/24 hours a

day; (iv) the scale of operational management building of cluster headwork is enough for

1-2 staffs working 24/24 hours a day.

36. Currently, in the area of Son Tay Hydropower Plant, Dak Drinh 1 hydropower

plant - far 500m away from Son Tay Hydropower Plant - is being built. Son Tay

hydropower plant with capacity of 18MW is expected to connect to the national grid by

110kV line through 110kV transfomer station of Dakrinh 1 hydropower plant. Under this

option, the 110kV line with AC-185/29 cables and length of 15km will be built from Son

Tay Son Hydropower Plant and connect to the 110kV transformer station of DakDrinh 1

hydropower plant. Dak Drinh 1 will connect National grid by 220 kV double-circuit line,

with length of about 15km to Son Ha 110/220k transfomer station. Connection option for

Son Tay hydropower plant is record and made in a separate contract and has submitted

the competent authority for approval.

Table I-1 Work items and key parameters of Son Tay Hydropower Plant

No. Parameter Unit Specification

(1) (2) (3) (4)

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I Work level level III

II Catchment

1 Catchment area Flv km2 186.00

2 Average rainfall over years X0 mm 3510.00

3 Evaporation loss DZ mm 459.00

4 Flow module M0 l/s/km2 83.30

5 Average annual flow Q0 m3/s 15.53

6 Total annual flow volume W0 106m

3 489.00

III Reservoir

1 Annual monitoring flood water level P =

0.2% m 202.75

2 Design flood water level P = 1% m 201.03

3 Normal water level MNDBT m 192.50

4 Dead water level MNC m 183.00

5 Total capaciy Wtb 103m

3 535.00

6 Useful capacity Whi 103m

3 397.00

7 Dead capacity Wc 103m

3 138.00

8 Area responding to MNDBT, FMNDBT km2 0.06

IV Output

1 Output ensure flow Qđb d/c 85% m3/s 3.15

2 Highest output through the plant QTmax m3/s 22.20

3 Highest output through a turbine Qmin 1 tổ m3/s 4.44

4 Output of flood crest responding to

consequency

- P = 0.2%. monitoring flood m3/s 9390.00

- P = 1% . design flood m3/s 7180.00

- P = 10% m3/s 4170.00

V Water column

1 Largest water column Hmax m 117.80

2 Calculated water column Htt m 97.10

3 Smallest warter column Hmin m 96.00

VI Capacity, electricity consumption

1 Installed capacity Nlm MW 18.00

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2 Ensured capacity Nđb MW 2.92

3 Annual average electricity consumption

E0 tr.kwh 72.85

4 The number of hour using installed

capacity HsdNlm giờ 4047.00

VII Scale of main works

1 Righ dam

- Dam structure BTTL

- Crest elevation m 203.50

- Top dam length L m 45.50

- Top dam width B m 3.00

2 Left dam

- Dam structure BTTL

- Crest elevation m 203.50

- Top dam length L m 41.00

- Top dam width B m 6.00

3 Spillaway dam for flood discharge

- Dam structure BTTL

- The number of spillaway chamber, n khoang 1.00

- Width of spillaway chamber m 120.00

- Spillaway crest elevation m 192.50

- Max dam height, Hđ m 20.50

- Flood discharge flow with design P1% m3/s 7180.00

- Biggest water column before spilling

with P1% m 8.53

- discharge flow responding to

monitoring flood P0,2% m

3/s 9390.00

- Biggest water column before spilling

with P0,2% m 10.25

4 Water intake

- Elevation m 178.00

- Crest elevation m 203.50

- Bottom elevation m 177.00

- Dimensions BxH m 3.0x3.0

- Design flow, Qtk m3/s 22.20

5 Concrete pipe connects to tunnel

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- Length of concrete pipe m 200.00

- Dimensions of concrete pipe m 3x3

6 Collecting water tunnel

- Length of tunnel m 2990.00

- Diameter of tunnel m 3.00

- Slope of tunnel % 0.44

7 Sub-tunnel

- Length of tunnel m 115.00

- Diameter of tunnel m 3.50

- Slope of tunnel % 1.59

8 Surge tank

- Crest elevation m 209.00

- Bottom elevation m 163.00

- Dimensions of tank m 7.50

8 Penstock

- Length m 231.80

- Dimension m 2.50

9 Hydropower plant

- Max catchment water level

responding to monitoring flood m 92.23

- Catchment water level of working

plant with Q 0,5 tổ máy m 74.58

- The number of turbine turbine 2.00

- Type of turbin Francis

- Impeller diameter D1 m 1.20

- Installation floor elevation m 93.00

- Floor elevation for turbine m 82.30

- Size of the turbine room AxB m x m 21,3 x 24,4

10 Discharge channel

- Width of bottom channel m 15.00

- Slope of channel % 0.13

- Length of channel m 121.45

VIII Sub-headwork

1 Sub-dam

- Dam structure BTCT

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- Crest elevation m 208.00

- Max dam height, Hđ m 4.10

- Top dam length, L m 90.00

- Top dam width, B m 5.00

2 Water transferring channel

- Width of bottom channel m 0.80

- Length of channel m 230.00

- Slope of channel % 0.50

- Design flow, Qtk m3/s 1.20

IX Total investment

1 Investment capital excluding loan with

interest 10

9đ 424.10

2 Total investment amount 109đ 504.56

C. Objectives of the EMDP

37. 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.

38. 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

institution, establish roles and responsibilities of various agencies in implementing,

monitoring and inspecting all activities required in EMDP.

39. 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

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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.

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II. LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF THE EMDP

A. Legal documents and national policies on the ethnic minority community

40. Constitution of the years 1946, 1959, 1980 and 1992 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”.

41. National legal framework was updated in 2014 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

issue Reference number and content of text

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 03/12/2013 of the Prime Minister on

approving the strategy of ethnic minority work 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. 52/2010/QD-TTg of the Government on the legal aid policy to

increase awareness and understanding about laws on poor ethnic minorities in

the poor districts in the period of 2011-2020.

2010 Government Decree No. 98/2010/NĐ-CP dated 21/09/2010 regulating

detailed implementation of some articles of Law on Cultural Heritage and

Law on Amending and supplementing a number of articles of Law on Cultural

Heritage.

2009 Decision No. 236/QD-CEM dated on 30/07/2009 by the Committee for Ethnic

Minority Affairs on establishing Research and Development Board for

programs of socio-economic development in the period of 2011-2015 for most

difficult communes, villages / hamlets in the mountainous and ethnic minority

regions.

2008 Decision No. 1048/QD-People's Committee of Thanh Hoa province on

compensation costs for assets damaged.

2007 Decision No. 112/2007/QD-TTg dated on 20/7/2007 on policies of supporting

services, improving and increase people's living standards, legal assistance to

improve legal awareness in the program 135, phase II.

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Year of

issue Reference number and content of text

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.

2007 Decision No. 01/2007/QD-CEM of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs

isued on 31/5/2007 on the recognition of mountainous communes and

districts.

2007 Decision No. 05/2007/QD-CEM of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs

issued on 6/9/2007 on the recognition of three ethnic minority regions and

mountainous areas based on development levels.

2007 Official Circular No. 06 of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs dated

on 20/9/2007 on guidelines of implementing levels of service support,

improving and increasing the people’s living standards, legal aids to raise law

awareness under Decision 112/2007/QD-TTg.

2007 Decision No. 06/2007/QD-CEM of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs

issued on 12/1/2007 on the communication strategy for the program 13, phase

II.

2007 Decree No. 84/2007/ND-CP of the Vietnamese Government about additional

regulations on granting of land-use right certificates, land acquisition,

implementation of land use rights and procedures for compensation,

resettlement support when the State acquires land use and resolve land-

related complaints.

2007 Decree 123/2007/ND-CP on amending and revising some articles of Decree

188/2004/ ND-CP dated on 16/11/2004 about methods of determining land

prices and range of lad prices.

2001 Decree No. 70/2001/ND-CP: all registration documents of family assets and

land use rights must be recorded with names of both husband and wife.

2001 Law on Cultural Heritage No. 28/2001/QH10 dated 29/06/2001

1998 Decree No. 59/1998/ND-CP dated on 13/8/1998 of the Government on

defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the

Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs.

B. Policies and programs on ethnic minority community

42. The application of socialeconomic policy should be suit with each region, with

each race, go along with the care about ethnic minority groups. Socialeconomic

Development and Socialeconomic Development Strategy call for specific attention to

ethnic minority groups. Major programs targeting minority ethnic groups including the

Program 135 (infrastructure for poor, remote areas) and Program 134 (deleting temporary

houses). In addition, the state has health and education policies for ethnic minority

groups.

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C. Policies of World Bank on ethnic minority community

43. 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

all projects funded by the World Bank, which have certain influences on indigenous

peoples.

44. 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.

45. 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.

46. 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

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An indigenous language, often different from the official language of the country

or region.

47. In the process of preparing the EMDP for the Son Tay 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 Son Tay Hydropower Plant has been consulted and 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.

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III. SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARATERISTICS OF ETHNIC MINORITY

COMMUNITY IN THE PROJECT AREA

A. Overview of ethnic minorities in the project are

1. General introduction

48. Quang Ngai is a coastal province located in South Central Coast of Vietnam.

Quang Ngai coast line is about 129 km in length of with vast territorial waters of 11,000

km2 and 6 seaports with rich seafood resources and many beautiful beaches. Quang Ngai

is located in the central key economic region where the Government select for the

construction of Dung Quat – the first refinery in Vietnam.

49. The population of Quang Ngai is about 1,221,600 people, population density

reaches 237 persons/km², in which the number of people living in urban areas is 178 900,

the number of people living in rural area is 1,042,700. The rate of natural population

increase of the province is 10.2%.

50. According to General Statistics Office of Vietnam, Quang Ngai province now has

29 ethnic groups living together, in which Kinh people occupy the largest portion with

1,055,154 people, the second largest portion is Hre ethnic group with 115,268 people. The

third largest is Co ethnic people with 28 110 people, Xo Dang ethnic group is 17 713

people, and other ethnic minorities such as Hoa, Muong, Tay, Thai...

51. Son Tay Hydropower Project is located in three communes in Son Tay (Son Dung,

Son Tan and Son Mua). Ethnic minorities living in the communes are mainly Ca Dong

and a few Kinh people.

2. Features and characteristics of culture, customs and modes of production of

Ca Dang ethnic group

52. Ca Dong is a branch of Xo Dang ethnic group in the north of Kon Tum. In Quang

Ngai, Ca Dong people resides mainly in Son Tay district, the westernmost area of the

province. Ca Dong people live primarily in cultivation and farming, gardening, hunting,

livestock and poultry. Ca Dong people have traditional weaving with beautiful

decorations. Ca Dong people also can bake lump ore, make sand ore become steel ingots

for forging steel production and hunting tools. Ca Dong people live together in villages,

each village has a community of people of the same or not the same blood, with many

rooftops. All roof owners form village council, headed by the most prestigious ones.

Language: use the Mon-Khmer language - a language group includes about

150 languages of South Asian linguistic majority concentrated in Southeast

Asia.

Agricultural production:

Ca Dong people mainly cultivate on uplands. Upland farming is rotation type, ie

closed cyclical mining. The land is used in the first season crop, then can be used in the

next two or three year, then they are abandoned for 10-12 years before being reused.

Cultivation calendar of Ca Dong people is: in March, April plough the fields; in May,

June burn the field; in July, August, Septamber intercrop many types of vegetables ...;

October, November, December harvest rice; January, February have Tet holiday.

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Since 1975, local government has mobilized Ca Dong people changing rotation

farming to planting rice in water. Through exploration, the area of field gradually

increased androtation field area was narrowed because efficiency is not high. Ca Dong

people now can plant rice in warter effectively, the government supported to dam to bring

water to the fields. The terraced fields are generally small because the land is very

narrow. Production tools include hoes, plows, harrows. They know to use fertilizer and

pesticides. They have two harvests per year and the yield is relatively good.

Religion, beliefs and worship

As a resident of agriculture, Ca Dong ethnic people have religious rituals, mainly

relevant to moon god (y-co, y-ca), to pray that the gods will bless and shelter for peaceful

life, good season. Ca Dong people believe that banyan tree is the living place of gods,

symbolize immortality. They often take banyan leaves and put on their hair to wish to live

eternally.

Ca Dong people believe in supernatural powers, important gods such as the god of

thunder, god of sun, god of the mountain, rice god, god of water ... Embodiment of God

of water is Naga, or the "eel," or white nosed pig. Rice god is an ugly old kind woman,

often turn into a toad. In life and farming, they have many worship rituals to supernatural

forces, focusing on the purpose of parying for good crop, peace, to avoid the risk to

communities and individuals.

Custom of weddings and funerals:

Marital relations of Ca Dong people is based on the principle that men and women

are free in knowing each others, get married, respect for customary marriage. Marriage is

under the regime of both sides residence. Covenant marriage is prohibited. Man and

woman going to bed before marriage are punished seriously, even newly couple have

baby in the first year of marriage is considered as adultery. The mode of monogamy was

sustainable, the couple is often harmonious; divorce and adultery rarely happen. Ca Dong

people do not accept marriage between people of the same blood within three generations

of both father side and mother side. Two families can intermarried with each other, ie the

children often continue to be married to each other. Dualistic marriage principle presents,

situation that two bothers get married with two sisters rarely happens. The usual situation

is that the sister of wife gets married withbrother of husband.

Ca Dong people said that the dead people can still infest. Therefore when dead is

still at home, the foods and drinks must give to the dead. All people in the village give

condolence with the funeral family by helping the funeral. The coffin is wooden. The

normal deads are buried in the common cemetery of the village. The ritual is not the same

for all groups. There is leaving tomb ceremony as Ba Na and Gia Rai ethnic people... The

custom of "share assets" to the deads (clothing, jewelry, tools, home appliances...) is

popular.

Costumes and houses

Costumes: men wear loincloths, do not wear clothes; Women wear skirts, tops. If it

is cold, people use cloth as gown. In the past, many Ca Dong people had to used bark

clothes. Now, men often dress as the Vietnamese, women clothes are blouses, shirts,

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skirts which are made of textile fabrics. Ca Dong traditional cloth is white or black,

pattern is not much and primarily black, white, red.

Housing: Ca Dong people live in stilts. In the past, the house was long, normally,

all member in the family live in the house together (now private household is more

popular). Houses in the village are arranged according to customs of each region: in some

area, the houses are around, the communal house is at the middle, in some places, the

houses are built on the horizontal layers and there is no communal house. Building

techniques is mainly using the fork and tie, each row of column are linked to a truss,

some houses have a truss, some houses have two truss.

Social Relationships

Each village has autonomous life led by the "elder". The territory of the village is

common ownership, in which every person has the right to own land to do business.

Although the area has formed rich - poor gap but there is no clearly exploitative.

Formerly, the slaves and servant were not treated badly. Community relations in the

village are appreciated.

B. Socio-economics characteristics of ethnic minority groups affected by the

project

1. Affected households are ethnic minority in socio-economic survey

53. Most of households affected by Son Tay hydropower project are ethnic minorities,

account of 95.74%, 100% households are surveyed on socio-economy. Table III-1 shows

the quantity of surveyed households and ethnic groups in the project area.

Table III-1 AHHs are ethnic minorities in Social-Economic survey

No. Commune

The

number of

AHHs

Surveyed

HHs

Survey

percentage

The number of

AHH sis ethnic

minorities

Ethnic

group

1 Son Dung 18 18 100% 14 Kdong

2 Son Mua 13 13 100% 13 Kdong

3 Son Tan 100 100 96 Kdong

Total 131 131 100% 123

2. Occupation and income

54. For ethnic minorities in the project area, agriculture is the main source of household’s

income. Since the main source of income is from agriculture, income of the households is

very low. This has been proved by the survey results with 54 ethnic minority households

affected by the project. The result shows that there are 29 households with monthly per capita

income less than 1 million, 24 households earning between 1 -1.5 million/month (table III -

4). Thus, we can see that the expenditure and earning of the households is inadequate and

may even be short; the majority of ethnic minority households in the last 2 years are do not

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have enough of food from 1 to 2 months.

Table III-2 Monthly average income of surveyed HHs

No. Commune

Under 1

million

From 1 to 1.5

million

Above 1.5

million +

1 Son Dung 7 3 1 11

2 Son Mua 7 6 - 13

3 Son Tan 15 15 30

Total 24 1 54

55. In the total monthly income of the households, the main expenditures primarily

focus on food and monthly activities, its proportion is from about 48.11 to 59.10%. The

remaining expenditure are health care (13.27 to 23.11%; education (14.37 to 17.35%);

Other expenses (11.15 to 13.27%).

Table III-3 Average Expenditure Rate of Surveyed HHs (%)

No. Monthly expenditure Son Dung Son Mua Son Tan

1

Monthly food and living

activities 59.1 48.11 49.25

2 Family health care 13.27 23.11 22.25

3 Education 14.37 17.34 17.35

4 Others 13.27 11.44 11.15

Total 100,00 100,00 100,00

56. National grid electricity is the main source of lighting energy in daily activities of

affected households who are surveyed. No household has to use other alternative energy

sources for lighting.

57. Regarding fuel sources for daily cooking, 100% of the affected households use

firewood/coal as the main energy source.

58. Beside agricultural production, the region also has developed several traditional

craft industries such as forging knives, making wine…

3. Infrastructure and social services

59. Regarding infrastructure, social and education services, the poverty reduction

programs and policies of the Government, such as the program 134, 135, 30A... as well as

benefits from former hydropower plants (Dakdring 1 Hydropower Plant, Dakdring 2, Dak

Ba Hydropower Plant...) have attracted more investment in agricultural production as well

as infrastructure for households, so that infrastructure has also improved markedly in

recent years. More irrigation systems are built. Road between villages, communes have

been renovated regularly. In general, infrastructure has many changes compared to the

past, this facilitates ethnic minorities in daily life and production.

60. All communes in area affected by the project has national grid to serve lighting,

living demand and production of the people. The survey results showed that all

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interviewed households said they had used the national grid during daily activities, and

they also said that 100% of communes have mobile phone wave. Most households also

have TVs to watch, and cultural life is also enhanced.

4. Environment and sanitation conditions

61. Environment sanitation is not a matter of interest since the awareness of the local

people on environment is still low. According to the survey result, local people still

maintain the habit of raising livestock under the floor and at the next door, the majority

households have no toilet, only few of them has temporary toilets.

62. At the present, the villages realizes that environmental pollution affect the human

health i.e. illness, diseases which are primarily due to the cattle barns are close to the

houses without drainage system; the toilet facilities do not follow technical requirements;

drinking water source is not clean, no composting technique is used for making organic

fertilizers etc. Some of the villagers have fixed the problems by moving away the cattle

barn and build drainage system, some of the households have toilets, however, the

environment condition in this area is still problematic: clean water is scare and livestock

are grazing so pollution is unavoidable.

5. Education system

63. Education for the EM people are concerned very much by the Party, State and Government. The children of school age are fully engaged (over 90%). Students in the villages have to study fully on their own without any instruction from parents, siblings or relatives because they are not knowledgeable enough or due to the life difficulties or due to no sense of responsibility. Traveling is also a problem to the students which cause high proportion of drop-out and mobilization of the students is also difficult especially in some communes such as Sa Tong commune. Furthermore, the scattered population make it more difficult to mobilize the students. The drop-out happens mostly after New Year holiday or during the harvesting seasons. The teachers have to visit the student’s house regularly to persuade them to go to school. Besides, there are some incentives to encourage the study to go to school.

64. Infrastructure of the school i.e. IT room with internet connection, concrete playground, surrounding fences etc have been invested and upgraded significantly. It can be said that the education system in the EM area is changing for the better which help raising awareness of the local people not only literacy but also the social aspects of life for the people.

6. Health care services

65. Public health practice has been receiving good attention. All the communes have health stations, which meet the health care need of the local people. The health care workers are equipped with more knowledge, skills and workmanship. Basically, there is a different between access to health services among EM groups and majority groups, among groups living in highly mountainous areas and lower lying areas.

7. Social evils

66. Because of high community commitment and each EM group has its own regulations ruling all aspect of the community live, social evils have little chance with H’mong community. They have civilized and united life. However, in some villages

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where close to the neighboring region, some social evils such as drug addiction and theft happen but very rare among the communities in the project area.

8. Gender issues and gender equality in ethnic minority (EM) development

67. The ratio between women and men in the villages affected by the plant is not much different. Particularly, the total people of 3 affected villages are 11,415 people, in which 5,888 is women (or 51.58%) and 5,527 is men (or 48.42%). However, in reality, the level of participation in economic - social activities, division of labor between women and men, the access of each gender to resources and benefits, the views of each ethnic group values and standards for women and men are rooted from culture of each ethnic group. Therefore, this gender relation is very diversified and varies by each community group.

Table III-4 General information on gender rate in the affected communes

No. Commune Population Rate (%)

Total Male

Total Male

1 Son Dung 4916 2447 2469 100 49,78 50,22

2 Son Mua 3002 1378 1624 100 45,90 54,10

3 Son Tan 3497 1702 1795 100 48,67 51,33

a. Gender equality for the ethnic minorities in education

68. The number of female children going to school is much lower than male children. The number of ethnic minority students leaving school is high the reason is difficult family economic situation. Despite tuition fee exemption policy, the other costs are burden and girls have to leave school to support the family.

b. Gender equality for the ethnic minorities in healthcare sector

69. There is the difference in the level of access to health services of the ethnic minority women. They only come to the health station when the diseases are too serious and cannot be cured. Public health officials frequently communicate, so the perception of ethnic women has changed. However, most of them do not care about their health. The ethnic women have been benefited from health insurance card program, so the health of communities in affected communes is improved.

c. Gender equality for ethnic minorities in labor and occupation

70. In working and jobs, ethnic people, particularly ethnic women have fewer opportunities to develop their economy. Over 90% of ethnic women do farm works for families. They have to take responsibilities of working on terrace field, breeding poultry, livestock and taking care of children, etc. Their limited education access is one of the main reasons that limit their opportunities to find non-agriculture jobs. Ethnic women are entitled to a lot of priority policies by the government, such as assistance in credit, seedlings and,breed livestock but as a result of limited knowledge and being unable to apply technical methods learnt from hamlet officials workers into practice of production,

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the productivity is not high and some livestock die due to coldness and epidemic diseases, etc. The reasons mentioned above make ethnic women have even more difficulties.

d. Gender equality for ethnic minorities in family and ownership of land and

assets.

71. In family and land use right and property: Family assets are possessed, managed and decided by the men. Traditional regulations on the roles of men in a family in worshiping parents and ancestors in patriarchy society create gender inequity for women. Labor allocation within a family in ethnic group still appears gender discriminatory treatment. The work of men are "heavy" and require "engineering", communication with the outside world while the women works are often more “slight” work.

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IV. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE, CONSULTATION AND PARTICIPATION

A. Information disclosure

72. According to the safeguards policy of World Bank on resettlement and ethnic minorities, Quang Ngai Sovico Company together with group of consultants coordinate with District Compensation, Assistance and Resettlement Board (DCARB) in Son Tay district to disclose information about frameworks which has been approved for the project about Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) and Ethnic Minority Development Plan (EMDP) rectified by MOIT and WB, RP report and EMDP report shall be translated into Vietnamese to make it easier to read and understand; also help implementation of EMDP and application of compensation and resettlement policies to affected people in a more convenient manner. List of land affected HHs who lost land and property on land with compensation payments shall be indicated clearly.

73. Organization several communication of public consultation to disseminate and address project information to affected people, communities in affected communes in project area. The affected people shall be clearly informed implementation plans for resettlement actions, including (i) contents of public consultation regarding project, its implementation plan, land acquisition plan and construction plan; (ii) investigation and detailed measuring survey; (iii) official and eligible list of affected people and their entitlement; (iv) quantity and compensation unit price; (v) compensation and other assistance payment plan; and (vi) other issues such as framework for income restoration for affected people, grievance redress mechanism, monitoring and evaluation etc.. Notices and related documents shall be posted at affected commune people’s committees (CPC)/or community cultural house or posted at easily seen places. Project information booklet (PIB) shall be provided to affected HHs and is available at CPC, hamlet cultural house. (PIB is described in details in Appendix 2)

B. Public consultation and participation

74. During preparation of this resettlement plan, several public consultation meetings with affected ethnic minority people were taken place in June and July 2014 to discuss and evaluate the impacts as well as ensure that comments and opinions from local communities shall be taken in the report.(Minutes of meetings and participants taken are in Appendix 2 and Appendix 3, meeting pictures taken are attached in Appendix 4 ).

Table IV-1 Time, location and number of attendee in the meetings in each commune

No. Commune Time Location Attendee

Total Male

Femal

e

1 Son Dung 26/08/2014 Hall of CPPC 14 9 5

2 Son Mua 27/08/2014 Hall of CPPC 47 34 13

3 Son Tan 28/08/2014 55 33 22

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75. Methodologies used in public consultation are meeting, individual interview and group discussion. People from affected hamlets were ready to discuss and share information. Women and youngsters were invited to participate and encouraged to contribute their ideas, especially ethnic groups in affected communes were consulted. Ethnic groups in project area also had their representative organizations to connect with Women’s Association, Farmers’ Association, Commune and Hamlet Youth Association.

C. Results of information dissemination and Public consultation

76. Public consultation meetings on RAP and EMDP with participation of representatives of Quang Ngai Sovico and consultant team and local communities were held during the survey process. The opinions and desire of the ethnic minority people on Son Tay Hydropower project are shown below.

Table IV-2 Content and opinion in public consultation meetings

No. Commune Information from people Group discusstion

1 Son Dung

- Local people agreed to

implement the project.

However, if large areas of

land are lost, fair

compensation for people

should be paid. Must ensure

no shortage.

- For the loss of productive

land, require the investors

under witnesses of the

people to count and

measure. The proper

compensation should be

paid. Expect that the project

help make road for local

people.

- In the process of blasting

required advance warning

to people so that people

stay away from the area to

protect people and animals.

- The project does not affect the

cultural, religious and public

buildings and work in the

locality. However, now these

works had been built for a long

time and was degraded. If

possible, the people hope the

project can help to improve,

repair these works.

- When building the plant, the

investors have policies to create

jobs for the people when the

plant goes into operation.

- When blasting, the people will

be notified and the sign will be

placed in hazardous areas.

2 Son Mua

- The people agreed and

supported the project

because it will bring

benefits to local people,

they can have power for

- Ensure that the construction

does not affect people's

livelihood.

- Vocational training,

environmental protection.

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No. Commune Information from people Group discusstion

lighting.

- The project also needs

proper compensation to the

people regarding land

prices as well as trees and

crops on the land.

- When measuring, counting,

there should be head and

representative of CPC

accompanied to know about the

extra acquired areas need to be

measured because the rain will

make landslides and erosion

3 Son Tan

- The people agreed and

supported the project

because it will bring

benefits to local people,

they can have power for

lighting.

- Compensation should be on

time with notice.

- The project also needs proper

compensation to the people

regarding land prices as well

as trees and crops on the land.

- Need to have support

programs after

implementation of the

project.

- If the project acquire our land

they need to pay reasonable

compensation as prescribed by

the state.

- During the construction process

and operation process of the

plant, the investors should

prioritize people in affected area

for them to work at the plant.

- When measuring, counting,

there should be head and

representative of CPC

accompanied to know about the

extra acquired areas need to be

measured because the rain will

make landslides and erosion

77. Public consultation meetings were held with participation of all relevant stakeholders to collect opinions or concerns of the ethnic minority community who are affected by the project, therefore countermeasures are discussed to avoid or minimize impacts of the construction works on the public living environment and working conditions. Table IV-3 below describes details of community concerns and solutions committed to be implemented by the investor during the project construction process.

Table IV-3 Concerns of affected community and commitment of the investor

No. Concerns of affected community Commitment of the investor

1 Detailed measurement survey (DMS)

Measuring and counting should be

correct. When measuring and counting,

should inform the people to take part in

measurement to avoid shortage.

To be done in compliance with current

regulations and give notice to the local

government and peopke via many

methods, such as public meetings, give

documents about deployment plan,

post information at the commune and

village and inform via radio of the

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No. Concerns of affected community Commitment of the investor

The detailed measurement survey should

be participated by heads of hamlets and

CPC representative

commune.

The DMS team includes

representatives of stakeholders as

regulated

2 Compensation

Want proper compensation from the

Project about land price and crops on the

acquired land.

Regulations on compensation and

assistance with appropriate unit price

for compensation are commited, results

of surveys and detailed compensation

alternatives are posted in local public

place and hamlet.

3 Assistance in stabilizing livelihood and

working

Support open technical training abut

agricultural cultivation.

The investors have policies to create jobs

for the people when the plant goes into

operation, particularly affected

households

Affected HHs can participate in

training courses on maize planting

under the project training program

After detailed design, if there is any

further severely affected HHs, the

investor shall commit to have policy

for further assistance under RP

4 Restore the public works which are

affected by the project

Some public works of the local people

are affected by the project and need to be

rebuilt, such as roads, public house…

Investor commits to restore the public

structures if they shall be impacted by

the project

5 Improve infrastructure

Renovate some canals, irrigation... for

production in neighborhoods.

The company has to fix the system of

public facilities damaged by the project

and give them back to the people.

Do maintenance for the inter-village

roads, and other public works affected

by construction process of the investor.

When the plant goes into operation

some new roads will be opened to help

the travel of people is a convenient,

commodity circulation will be

facilitated, economy can develop.

During construction of the canal

system of people is affected project

owner will repair, renovate or redo

depending on the nature and degree of

influence.

6 Culture and religion This issued will be included in the

gender propaganda campaign and

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No. Concerns of affected community Commitment of the investor

At the present, the illiteracy rate in the

commune is rather high, training course

for eradicating illiteracy is needed for

affected people, especially for women.

Assistance in contributing funds for

operation of social associations to

encourage people to participate in and

travel fee for hamlet officials to

encourage them to maneuver the people

to participate together.

encourage the local Women's

association to open training classes or

groups to teach Vietnamese to each

other.

Fund for operation and assistance have

been approved by the government on a

yearly basis for ethnic people

development.

The investor together with other

organizations shall propagandize

policies concerning ethnic people

development of the State for the local

people.

7 Issue relevant to design and

construction activities

The project design should calculate

carefully the water level of the reservoir

to avoid affecting fields of the local

people.

Ensure environmental hygiene, return

the site after construction

Calculating the water level of the

reservoir has been done by consultants

with the support of the Morden

Equipment to give out exact measuring

information

In case of further impact as more

production land is flooded, the investor

shall find out solution for

compensation and assistance for

affected HHs.

Construction activity and material

transportation shall follow approved

environmental management plan.

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V. ASSESSMENT OF PROJECT IMPACTS TO ETHINIC MINORITIES

78. In preparation for the construction of Son Tay hydropower 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 Son Tay 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

79. Son Tay hydropower project is a scaled work with many ancillary items to be built

to meet the operational efficiency, so the construction of Son Tay hydropower plant 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 V-1: Positive impacts of Son Tay hydropower project

Positive impacts Description Affection scale

1. Create favourable

conditions for production

activities.

- More active in the infield

irrigation work.

- Proactively prevent

flashing-floods ...

- Prevent erosion, flooding…

- Reduce drought, increase

irrigated area

- The project submerge and

occupy 394,187 m2 of 131

households of 3 communes,

Son Dung, Son Mua and

Son Tan; 7898.9 m2 land

managed by Son Tan Son

CPC is affected (including

land rivers, land for traffic

and unused land).

- The communes benefited

from the project are: Son

Dung, Son Mua, Son Tan

2. Improve living

conditions for the project

area.

- Provide clean water for

daily activities of the

community.

- Provide and supply

additional power to the

national grid ...

- With the capacity of 18

MW, every year, Son Tay

hydropower plant supply

power to National Grid

electricity of about

72,85.106 kWh. Besides,

the hydropower plant plays

an important role in local

economic development and

landscape.

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Positive impacts Description Affection scale

3. Create more jobs for

local people.

- Create employment

opportunities for unskilled

local workers, especially

households which are

directly affected during the

construction stage.

- Increase employment

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.

- Create jobs for 2000 – 3000

people in project area.

4. Contribute to the

improvement of the local

infrastructure.

- Build dams, roads.

- Build 110kV line and 35kV

line, supplying electricity

for building hydropower

and the national grid.

- Build substations.

- Rebuild 500m of Highway

6A, Nam Nen bridge and a

hydrological station.

- The infrastructural works

are built in the project area:

the system of canals, dams,

roads, power lines and

transformer stations.

5. Contribute positively

to the local development

movement.

- Connect the convenient

traffic and increase socio-

economic opportunities for

the local development.

- Increase income and

contribute to the local

budget.

- Supplement living and

production power for

- The roads in the project

area is upgraded, creating

favourable conditions for

people to travel and help

people get in touch with the

neighbouring communes.

- Electric charges collected

annually contribute to

increasing the local income

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Positive impacts Description Affection scale

locality, that helps

overcome the power

shortage and improve the

power quality.

- Provide electricity to the

remote areas which are

lacking electricity ...

and the local budget.

- Provide 72,85.106

kWh for

the national power grid and

the entire project area.

6. Other impacts …

- Attract investment

- Enhance communications ...

- Increase cultural exchange

opportunities in the

localities.

- The convenient

transportation and the

electric energy

development attract

investors into the area,

attracting more investment

projects.

B. Negative impacts

80. In addition to positive impacts as mentioned above, the construction of a public

work like Son Tay hydropower plant is unavoidable of negative effects, which will affect

people’ lives, production and cultures, especially for ethnic minorities 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.

81. In general, Son Tay hydropower plant does not have much influence on the culture

and production life of ethnic minorities, particularly effects related to customs, religious

beliefs and village relationships. According to the survey on potential impacts in 6/2014,

in the total of 157 ethnic minority households affected by the land acquisition, only 3

households will be affected 10% to 30% of their total cultivated land, 154 households will

be affected less than 10% of their total productive land and none of them are relocated.

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 V-2: Negative impacts of Son Tay hydropower project

Negative

impacts Description Affecting scale

Occupation of

production land,

affecting the

- The types of productive

land will be permanently

affected, which in turn

- 394 187 m2 of 131 households of

3 communes Son Dung, Son Tan

and Son Mua; 7898.9 m2 of land

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Negative

impacts Description Affecting scale

livelihood of

people

affect people’s

production/employment

and livelihood/income.

managed by Tan Son CPC

Temporary

impacts to the

production

activities of

people

- During the construction, it

may affect and disrupt the

water supply for

irrigation, power supply,

transport and travel of

local citizens and

communities.

- During the construction, it

may affect people's

production due to mine

blasting, site grading and

levelling, soil erosion

caused by the

construction.

- Transportation of materials in the

construction process will affect the

movement of the local population,

making it difficult for people to

trade goods and produce.

- Due to the grading and levelling or

heavy rains, landslides to

production land may make land

unerable or even that land cannot

be restored as the status quo

because of large quantity of

landslides.

Environmental

pollution

- During the construction,

material transport vehicles

will create more dust and

dirt for the project area.

- Mine blasting for ground

levelling also causes

environmental pollution.

- The communes in the project area

will increase the number of

vehicles running through and

pollute the environment.

- The project area and the

surrounding areas may be affected

by mine blasting activities.

- The greater density of vehicles will

cause noise but thank to the sparse

population density, it will not

affect people's lives significantly.

Affection on the

local culture and

social security of

minority

communities

- During the construction,

numerous workers may

affect local indigenous

cultures via relations and

communications with the

community.

- Work camps of

contractors at the

- The project area and the

surrounding areas can appear

social issues like the introduce of

cultures into villages and appear

the risk of loss of security and

order in the local area.

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Negative

impacts Description Affecting scale

construction site are likely

affect the security in the

local area.

- Cultural activities of

workers may affect local

cultures.

Affection on

living practices

and habits of

people

- Change habits, manners

and customs of ethnic

people.

- Susceptible to introduce

bad cultures which are not

suitable to the lifestyle of

local people.

- Local people will be affected on

cultures, customs and lifestyles of

different localities, by immigration

of many worker which lead to

wither away local cultures and

change daily lifestyle.

Risks of labour

accidents

- During the construction,

working accidents may

occur if workers do not

comply with the safety

regulations at the site.

- Mine blasting …

- The transporting materials

for construction may

cause accidents during the

transportation

- The staff and construction workers

at site are at risk of labour

accidents due to mine blasting,

construction activities of the

hydropower plant.

- Due to the higher density of

vehicles, the road quality is

deteriorating and may cause

accidents to people living near the

roads and the traffic participants.

Risks of women

trafficking,

HIV/AIDS

transmission,

social evils

- Numerous construction

workers may cause social

vices, such as gambling,

drug trafficking, theft and

trafficking of

women/children, and other

social ills

- The staff and workers in the field

are very easy to be drawn into

social evils, which will affect

people in the neighbourhood and

in the villages.

Immigrant

workers are the

danger of theft,

gambling and

drug trading

- During the project

implementation, there will

be a number of cadres and

workers to habitat in the

area and therefore it is

easy to raise a number of

evils such as theft,

- The large number of officials and

workers involved in the

construction and operation process

will be risks of evils as theft,

gambling, drugs that influence

people in the project area, and the

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Negative

impacts Description Affecting scale

gambling, drugs. neighbouring.

Affection on

fishing activities

on river

- Some hemibagrus

river fishing activities in

the river will be affected

by the blocking dam water

to generate electricity.

-

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VI. THE MITIGATION MEASURES AND DEVELOPMENT FOR ETHNIC

MINORITIES

82. The identified potential impacts, including positive and negative impacts of Son

Tay project, 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. The mitigation measures

83. As mentioned above, although Son Tay project does not have great influence on

the cultural life and production of the people, 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 Son Tay hydropower project.

Table VI-1: Measures to mitigate negative impacts

Negative impacts Mitigation Measures Implementing

agency

Land acqusition that

would give impact to

livelihoods of local

people

Refer RP

Quang Ngai Sovico

company

Compensation and

Site Clearance

Committee of

SonTay district

Departments and

Mass organizations

of affected

communes

Impact to living

customs of local

people

Closely manage the construction workers of

the contractor to implement the specific

regulations and not affect on livings of local

people.

Transportation of materials are only

allowed to use routes registered with the

local authority and have to performe the

regular maintenance to ensure uninterrupted

traffic.

Construction activities close to residential

Quang Ngai Sovico

company, the

constructors,

Monitoring

Consultants.

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Negative impacts Mitigation Measures Implementing

agency

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.

Temporary impact to

production activities

of local people

Construction time will be heralded to the

people and skimming only after people

have finished harvesting the crops.

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 be planned far from residential areas.

The regulations on the storage and

preservation of materials is carried out

strictly, to avoid incidents and accidents,

affecting the lives of people and production.

The skiming must be done in accordance

with the approved design. Monitoring

skiming must be performed grader closely

to minimize rock fall to the farm of people.

Must be constructed in accordance with the

construction measures approved.

Quang Ngai Sovico

company and the

contractors

Environmental

pollution

Vehicles carrying materials have been

covered carefully to avoid falling materials

and making affect to local people,

especially HHs living along the operation

roads.

The transportation vehicles should be not

used in residential area at break time to

minimize the noise. It should be kept

moisture to limit dusts on the roads.

Materials, gasoline must be stored carefully

to avoid explosion, leakage or impacting to

the lives and productions of local people.

Quang Ngai Sovico

company, the

contractors,

Monitoring

Consultants, the

local authority

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Negative impacts Mitigation Measures Implementing

agency

Impact to daily

activities of local

people

The management regulations must be

strictly implemented. Management

activities must be closely coordinated

between the contractor and the local police

and the concerned units.

The workers must be educated awareness of

environmental hygiene and conscious

respect 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

Quang Ngai Sovico

company, the local

authority,

especially local

polices.

Risks of labor

accidents

Area of materials, machineries storage

should be located far away residential area

and be monitored closely to avoid the risks

of accidents

The construction site near the residential

area are required to build the fence,

signage and guardians to ensure the safety

for workers and local people.

The process of transportation the material

must be follow the regulation to ensure the

traffice safety.

Local people and workers should be

educated and disseminated about awareness

of accidents preventation at work and

transportation.

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.

Quang Ngai Sovico

company, the

contractors

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Negative impacts Mitigation Measures Implementing

agency

Likely to have

women and children

trafficking and

HIV/AIDS infection

Local people and construction workers on

the project site must be propagated to risks

and preventive measures against

HIV/AIDS, trafficking in women and other

social evils.

Quang Ngai Sovico

company in

coordination with

commune authority,

polices and

Women’s Unions.

Areas nearby the

project area at risk of

flooding after the

plant went into

operation

Design system of submerged efflux for

baffle to reduce the kinetic energy of water,

the flow rate decreased after discharge

canal, the flow after baffle back into the

natural flow of the river to reduce erosion

and avoid flooding of agricultural land

remaining.

Proceed to closely monitor the production

area at risk of flooding when the plant goes

into operation to take responding method

timely as seawalls, creating diversion canal

to responding promptly at flooding, etc.

Investors timely compensation for the areas

that were flooded during plant put into

operation.

Quang Ngai Sovico

company in

coordination with

local authorities

Permanently impact

to livestock grazing

area (goats and

buffalo) of local

people in Pa Ham

commune

Local planning an office building of the

People's Committee, schools and health

centers in the Muong Anh II communes

with an area of about 10 hectares, but now

the land is still empty. In the short term, can

utilize this land for grazing.

Pa Ham commune also some other grazing

land is communal areas bordering

communes Sa Tong and Pa Ham where

people are living with an area of 12-15

hectares. When the area of planning is no

longer, the household will move the cattle

to the neighboring areas

Quang Ngai Sovico

company in

coordination with

the local authorities

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Negative impacts Mitigation Measures Implementing

agency

Some ”Lang” fishing

activities by way of

baiting fishing rod in

the river will be

affected because the

dam has been built to

store water in order

to generate

electricity. About

30.7 million m3 of

water surface area

will be affected

directly in Pa Ham

and Nam Nen

commune and

indirect affected on

downstream of Nam

Muc river

Opening training courses on guidelines for

the fish in cages, in order to utilize water in

the reservoir.

Tracking and monitoring the

implementation of the household, and

create conditions for the households in the

implementation process

Ongoing technical support to households

for the first time as well as during operation

of the facility

Client, supervise

consultant, District

Agricultural

Section, following

the 135 program on

poverty reduction

of the State

B. Maintaining and Promoting Measures

84. Alongside mitigating negative impacts from the facility, Quang Ngai Sovico

company has cooperated with stakeholders and the local authorities to discuss and consult

the local people in project area as well as develop the programme for promoting positive

impacts of the facility, specifically as Table VI-2 below:

Table VI-2: Maintaining and Promoting Measures

Positive impacts Maintaining and Promoting Implementing

agency

1. Creating more

favorable conditions

for production

activities, improving

traffic conditions for

local EM community.

Developing maintenance mechanisms for road

that will be updated by project then local

people can travel

Quang Ngai

Sovico

company and

the constructor

2. Increasing area of agricultural production land for local EM community

Land from the hills will be filled over the barren grounds to form fields and expand the cultivation area for local people.

Quang Ngai Sovico company, the local authorities

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Positive impacts Maintaining and Promoting Implementing

agency

3. Contributing to

improve the local

infrastructure of local

- Construction of dams, roads for

transportation.

- Construction of 110kV and 35kV lines to

supply power for hydropower and into the

national grid.

- Construction of the substations.

- Reconstructing the National Highway No.6A

with 500m in length, Nam Nen bridge and a

hydrological station.

Quang Ngai

Sovico

company, the

local authorities

4. Creating more jobs

for local people

The contractors committed to hiring workers

from local people in affected area and pay

them according to market price. After

completion of the project, Trung Thy

hydropower JSC. will priority in recruiting

local workers for training and work at the plant

regularly.

Quang Ngai

Sovico

company

5. Making active

contributions to

cultural, social and

poverty reduction

movements in local

areas

To discuss regularly with leaderships of

villages and communes and social mass

organizations on activities of the project.

Cooperating with local authorities, communes

and villages and mass organizations to

implement assistance tasks for community.

Supporting and funding support for cultural-

social activities of commune authorities, mass

organizations, community and schools.

Quang Ngai

Sovico

company

C. The development measures for the ethnic minorities

85. Based on the survey findings and actual exchanges of opinions with relevant

agencies and local people in the area affected by Son Tay project in July/2014 and in

addition to the mitigation measures proposed in the previous sections, other measures are

proposed aiming at supporting and overcoming difficulties for ethnic minorities, creating

favorable conditions for them to the early recovery and development of their income

sources, particularly the support of poverty alleviation for ethnic minority households

which are struggling and are affected by the project. The specific measures are proposed

as follows.

Table VI-3: The development measures for the ethnic minorities

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No.

Proposed

development

measures

Basics of proposal

Support

contents and

purpose

Responsibility

1 Support

techniques and

training for the

nourish-

fish cages

The project acquire land

which make shortage of

productive land

The production

technical

training

Quang Ngai

Sovico company,

Agricultural

Section of Son

Tay district

2 Recruitment of

unskilled worker

for factories

During the construction and

when the plant comes into

operation, some unskilled

works are in need for the

project, it will prioritize the

recruitment of affected

households and provide

onsite training for them to

work in the plant.

Training the

rules,

procedures,

norms and

safety measures

during the

working period.

Quang Ngai

Sovico company

3 Campaigns on

gender,

HIV/AIDS and

trafficking in

women for

ethnic minority

communities

The percentage of girls (aged

15 - 17) going to school is

much lower than boys’

percentage.

Ethnic minority women are

usually in charge of such

works as going to upland for

cultivation, animal

husbandry, care for

children.... the limited

education access is one of

the main causes leading to

the limited off-farm

opportunities for

employment of ethnic

minority women.

The division of works in

families of ethnic minority

groups remains gender

discrimination evidently.

Family properties are owned,

managed and decided by

men.

Organize

propagation and

dissemination

meetings of

gender equality,

HIV/AIDS and

trafficking of

women

integrated into

the routine

village

meetings.

Deliver

propaganda

leaflets on

gender equality

in families and

social activities

(the cost is 5

million

VND/commune

for Pa Ham and

Nam Nen and 2

million

Quang Ngai

Sovico company,

Women’s Union,

Local authorities

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No.

Proposed

development

measures

Basics of proposal

Support

contents and

purpose

Responsibility

Construction workers

concentrating may bring

social ills such as gambling,

drug trafficking, theft and

trafficking of

women/children, the risk of

transmission of HIV/AIDS

and other social evils.

VND/commune)

for 2 other

communes.

4 Giving books for

pupils

Local people are mostly low

educated with low level of

understanding. So if giving

them money, they will not

pay school fees and buy

books for children.

So every new school year,

the Company will give books

for pupils in 2 communes

where there are many

affected households.

Support for 5

consecutive

years (5 million

VND/ year).

Quang Ngai

Sovico company.

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VII. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

A. Institutional Arrangement

86. 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 Son Tay Hydropower Project

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:

- Quang Ngai Sovico company 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 Son Tay 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 Quang Ngai Sovico

company.

87. 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.

88. Leaderships of villages, social mass organizations and EM people will conduct

monitoring and evaluation of implementation of EMDP of the investor of Son Tay

Hydropower.

89. Provincial Ethnic Minority Committee will on a regular basis check and comment

on implementation outcomes of the EMDP of Quang Ngai Sovico company.

B. Implementation Plan

90. 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

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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 Implemenation schedule for entire project

Activities Implementation schedule

Information dissemination and public consultation 6/2014 - 7/2014

Preparing RP 7/2014 –8/2014

Submission of RP 8/2014

Approval of RP 8/2014

Information dissemination after RP has been

approved

1/2015

Payment of compensation and assistance 1-3/2015

Monitoring and evaluation 1/2015-6/2016

Implementation of construction 12/2014 – 12/2016

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VIII. COMPLAINTS AND GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM

91. 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:

92. 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.

93. 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.

94. 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..

95. 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.

96. The procedure to resolve the grievance of EM people that have been described in

the document “ Information of Son Tay hydropower plant”- PIB and delivred 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.

97. 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.

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IX. MONITORING AND EVALUATION

A. General requirements for monitoring and evaluation

98. 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.

99. 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.

100. 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

101. 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.

102. 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

103. 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.

104. 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

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

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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

105. 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

Issues

Basic indicators

1. The progress of EMDP

implementation

- The plan has been shared with the community.

- 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

consultations and local

people’s participation

- Local EM community, commune authorities and village

leaderships and mass organizations are provided

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

measures to mitigate negate

impacts from the facility.

- All measures for mitigating negative impacts from the

facility are effectively implemented.

- 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.

- 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

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Monitoring and Evaluation

Issues

Basic indicators

developmental interventions

for local ethnic minority

people

out in the EMDP are implemented effectively.

- 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.

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X. BUDGET AND DISBURSEMENT PLAN

106. Total cost of the EMDP is estimated to be 401,500,000 VNĐ (approximately

19,119 USD). including 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. The items of road upgrading, building a new road and public works will be prepared

at technical design phase.

Table X-1: Total funds for implementation of EMDP

N

o. Item Unit

Unit cost

(VND)

Quantit

y Cost (VND) Note

1 Education

support, give

books every year

Book

10.000 2.500 25,000,000 Assistance of

books in 5

years

continuously

2 Training young

workers to create

jobs in the plant

when the plant is

at the peak

construction

period and goes

into operation,

training will be

implemented on

site

People 1.000.000 250 250,000,000 Before the

plant goes into

operation.

3 Training on

techniques of

production

Class 15.000.000 03 45,000,000 Focus in three

affected

communes

(Son Dung,

Son Mua, Son

Tan)

4. Assistance for

propaganda in

improving life

skills

15.000.000 03 45,000,000 Integrating into

meetings,

activities in the

villages

Sum 365,000,000

Contingency 36,500,000

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(10%)

Total 401,500,000