68. Implementation of consultation with the affected HHs, affected organizations and community will reduce the conflicts and minimize delay of the project. Based on this, it enables the project to update the resettlement plan which is compliance with the needs, benefit of the affected HHs and organizations.
69. The objectives of the public consultation and participation of local people include: (i) ensuring the participation of the affected HHs, affected organizations and local community into the progress of design, preparation and making decision of project; (ii) disseminating all the information, activities related to the project to APs; (iii) collecting the idea, concern, need or priority of affected people; (iv) ensuring that all the APs notified all the decision which is related directly to their income and living standard; and (v) ensuring the transparency in implementation of land acquisition, compensation and assistance payment, and relocation.
6.2. Consultation and Disclosure
70. PMU-TL under support of project consultant organized series of public meetings with Ha Trung, Ba Thuoc, Cam Thuy DPC and affected households in the District from March 2016 to February, 2018. In the meeting, DPCs and the affected households were informed about the project and the activities for updating of REMDP; discussed about the plan and completed necessary activities for updating of REMDP. DPCs, affected households and organizations/unions participating in the meeting committed to actively support the project.
71. In the meetings, the following information was disseminated:
• (i) land acquisition scope; (ii) potential impacts of the Project; (iii) entitlement for compensation, assistance and rehabilitation; (iv) implementation progress of the project and DMS; (v) procedure for implementation of DMS and establishment of compensation plan; (vi) option for publicizing DMS result and compensation plan;
(vii) participation of affected person and community; (viii) grievance redress mechanism.
• Resettlement activities and monitoring process
• Responsibility of agencies, including information on the agencies at all levels related to site clearance process;
• Necessary documents provided to affected person and community include: (i) the PIB; and (ii) the Compensation unit rate of PPC for lands, trees and structures;
and assistances and allowances to the affected households.
72. Households participating in the meeting expected that the project should be implemented soon to facilitate in socio-economic development of locality. Households also agreed with compensation policy of the project.
73. In general, consultations and dissemination of information in subprojects are carried out in accordance with ADB's procedures in each phase of the subprojects, such as RP preparation, RP updates, REDMP, IRP, additional monitoring, internal monitoring. In consultations and dissemination of information to sub-projected AHs (AHs are ethnic minority), in meetings there are interpreters for AHs who are not fluent in the national language, interpreter is the village leader in the affected area.
74. The consultation meetings have been carried out in 03 districts since the resettlement project has been implemented until now. The number of consultative meetings for information dissemination is relatively high. There were 1952 participants to the consultations, including 1494 men (76.5%) and 458 women (23.5%). The following public meetings were held in the subproject area. (Details see Appendix)
Table 13: Consultation/Information Dissemination Meetings Conducted During Reporting Period
District Total
Participants
Consultation content Meeting Minutes with PMU
Male Female Ems
Answering questions, disseminating regimens and compensation plans
for affected households.
Responding publicly so that households have
no opinion.
Ha Trung 147 78 69
Cam Thuy 1047 826 221 294 Above Above
Ba Thuoc 758 590 168 312 Above Above
Total 1952 1494 458 607
% 100% 76.5% 23.5% 31.1%
75. There is a local translator to translate into ethnic languages for participants in public meetings. In fact, people of minority ethnicities who are 40 year olds and older have no schooling, so they are illiterate and could only confirm with fingerprints in the minute of public meetings and questionnaire. To help them understand scope of subproject and subproject entitlement, grievance redress mechanism…PMU-TL staff and consultants often make use of large size (A0), high definition graphics and maps to communicate project information to ethnic minority households, at the same time local interpreters will explain clearly the information in Thai, Dao, Muong... languages.
76. In addition to public meetings in subprojects, information disclosure of URP, UREMDP to LFDC and local authorities have been completed. Consultant translated URPs and UREDMP into national language and PMU delivered hard copies to LFDC and local authorities to disclosure project entitlement, compensation and assistance policy and grievance mechanism.
Table 14: Means of Disclosure of URP/UREMDP/UEMDP by Location
District Translated approved URP/UREMDP/UEMDP disseminated to village
office? (yes/no)
PIB disseminated to AHs (date/
method)
PIB posted in
public place?
(yes/no)
Public meeting to present approved URP/UREMDP/UEMDP
(date)
Target date to complete disclosure
(date)
Community board support required (Yes/No)
Ha Trung Yes Yes Yes 22/1/2018 31/1/2018 Yes
Cam Thuy Yes Yes Yes 16/3/2018 31/3/2018 Yes
Ba Thuoc Yes Yes Yes 12/2/18 28/2/2018 Yes