5.1. Status of Income/livelihood Restoration Program
52. As of June 2018, the IRP has not yet started in all 03 districts. There are 1,415 households eligible to the IRP, of which 243 households are severely affected and 1,172 affected households belong to vulnerable group. The implementation process of the IRP will be updated in the IMR report of the second half of 2018. However, during the SES, DMS, RP and UREMDP implementation, the Consultant has conducted preliminary surveys relating to the IRP. The IRP implementation will be updated in the next internal monitoring report.
5.2. Income Restoration Activities
53. According to the result of Detailed Need Assessment (DNA) the following activities will be implemented:
(i) Cash Assistance for Vulnerable Households: vulnerable households will receive additional cash assistance by VND 1,000,000/HH.
(ii) Assistance for Severely Affected Households: The household losing from 10% and more of their total production land holding (agricultural land) and or relocation households will get additional assistances includes assistance for stabilizing households’ life equivalent to 30 kg of rice/household’s member/month for all family members, minimum in three months and maximum in 36 months (it depends on the level of land acquisition impacts), and other assistance will be also provided to severely affected households as follows:
(iii) Agriculture extension with sustainable production technique to improve current cultivation capacity will be provided to households through programs of the Government and through guidance of agriculture extension staffs of commune and district;
(iv) Prioritized to access to agricultural credit;
(v) Technical assistance and support in accessing to credit for starting business or other economic activities through the National Fund for Employment Support of MOLISA, Agriculture and Rural Development Bank, Policy Bank for the Poor.
(vi) Be prioritized in recruitment of labors for construction of Project.
54. In addition to the above, In-kind support will be specially paid attention to severely AHs who lose their productive land, buy new land or look for non-farm jobs. However, each
severely affected household is entitled to receive only one economic recovery allowance package at different assistance levels which depends on whether they lose their house or lose more than 10% of their land holding.
55. In-kind support will include supply of breeding/seedling, veterinary materials, and fertilizers to households who want to receive in-kind support to develop their livestock and cultivation activities. In-kind support can be either full scholarships or a certain percentage to provide occupational training for severely affected AHs who want to change their jobs. In the process of developing a detailed livelihood program by Livelihood Restoration Board of District, severely AHs will be provided the guidance on how to use in-kind support to get the most effectiveness that corresponds to the level they are entitled to receive.
56. It is allowed if the household opts to receive assistance in cash, to restore livelihood by themselves, however the guidance how to use money effectively shall be provided to households, especially poor households before they receive money for livelihood restoration on the base of approved budget of the project, the need and impact level of households as a sustainable method to restore livelihood.
57. Besides allowance in cash for job changing and creation as regulated in entitlement matrix, the project will facilitate one member of severely affected household in registering to participating in occupational training center of the province basing on the results of survey on the need of livelihood restoration of households. Through consultation with Division of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of District, fund for occupational training will be applied in accordance with the Plan of Decision No.1956/2009/QD-TTg dated 17th November, 2009 by Prime minister allocated to districts and provinces.
58. Support in accessing to loans: Policy on fund assistance for affected households will be implemented in accordance with regulations in Decision No.52/2012/QD-TTg of Prime Minister dated 16th November, 2012 regarding the policy for supporting employment and training for employees who lose their agricultural land.
59. Introduction of job and labour export opportunities: Policy on introducing labour export opportunity for affected person will be implemented in accordance with regulations in Decision No.52/2012/QD-TTg of Prime Minister dated 16th November, 2012 regarding the policy for supporting employment and training for employees who lose their agricultural land.
60. Prioritize to employ members of severely affected households when Contractor needs to recruit local labours for site clearance, excavation and other construction activities for the works of constructing road section in 3 Districts. Bidding document and conditions in the contract for civil works regulate that when recruiting local labours, construction contractors and labour contractors will:
- Prioritize in recruiting qualified labors and especially severely affected persons;
- Pay salary for labors in compliance with regulation of law; and - Do not use children labor.
61. Livelihood Restoration Board of District will contact with contractors to organize recruitment in locality in accordance with regulation in bidding document. Schedule and requirement on minimum skill will be planned. Information on job opportunities will be disseminated to villages in order for people to easily access. Severely affected women need to be specially paid attention in consultation meetings and assistance programs as mentioned above. In addition, severely affected women should be also specially paid attention in priority of recruitment equality in the construction process.
5.3. Implementation arrangement and monitoring
62. Detailed livelihood restoration program will be managed and implemented by the stakeholders with the roles as follows:
(i) Thang Long PMU will be responsible for: (i) cooperating with Thanh Hoa PPC and related departments to manage implementation progress of livelihood restoration program of the project and preparing reports to ADB; (ii) DCARBs and implementation board of livelihood restoration program of district carry out livelihood restoration program; (iii) ensure that fund is available in bank account to implement livelihood restoration program.
(ii) Board in charge of implementing livelihood restoration program at district level:
which is established by DPCs, will be responsible for: (i) developing livelihood restoration program in details and then submitting the program to PMU-TL for reviewing before submitting to DPC for approval; (ii) following up the detailed implementation plan of approved livelihood restoration program; (iii) providing necessary documents to PMU-TL to timely allocate fund for livelihood restoration activities; (iv) closely working with local authority at levels (DPC, CPC), organizations/unions (Women union, farmer association) to find out resolutions for arising issues during the process of implementing livelihood restoration program; (v) preparing reports on implementation progress of livelihood restoration program to submit to PMU-TL, Ha Trung, Ba Thuoc and Cam Thuy, DPC.
(iii) Members of Board in charge of implementing livelihood restoration program at district level include deputy chairman of DPC being in charge of development of agriculture, representative of PMU-TL (one person), Division of Labor, Invalids
and Social Affairs (one person), head and cadastral officers of District Agriculture Extension Station, representative of farmer association (one person) and Women Union at district level (one person) Deputy chairman of DPC will be the head of Board in charge of implementing livelihood restoration program.
(iv) External monitoring consultant: will externally monitor and assess the implementation of livelihood restoration program, reflect arising issues in restoring livelihood of severely affected households in periodical monitoring reports and give recommendations or adjustment for livelihood restoration program if necessary. The effectiveness of resolutions in livelihood restoration program will be assessed in independent monitoring program and will be implemented during the process of implementing the project.
5.4. Estimate for IRP
63. The cost estimate for income restoration implementation is presented in Table below Table 11: Cost estimate for income restoration programe
Occupation
Districts
Unit cost Amount Ba Thuoc Cam
Thuy
Ha
Trung Total
Cultivation 0 0 11 11 10,000,000 110,000,000
Livestock 40 51 11 102 10,000,000 1,020,000,000
Cultivation and livestock 88 71 14 173 10,000,000 1,730,000,000 Development of small
business 130 148 13 291 10,000,000 2,910,000,000
Occupational training 110 78 17 205 10,000,000 2,050,000,000
Introduction of job
opportunities 142 83 18 243 10,000,000 2,430,000,000
Access to preferential
loan 269 97 24 390 10,000,000 3,900,000,000
Total 779 528 108 1,415 14,150,000,000
(Source: URMDEP – Ha Trung - Cam Thuy and Ba Thuoc district – January and March /2018)
5.5. Consultation with Eligible APs
64. A Detailed Need Assessment (DNA) was conducted in August and October 2017 by the Social Safeguard Consultant together with representatives of affected households, local authorities and the DCARB. Twelve (12) Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with severely affected households, and vulnerable affected households (with 408 people: 178 women (43.6%) and 230 men (56.4%), and nine (09) key informant interviews with income restoration program (IRP) eligible households and local authorities were carried-out. In addition, survey on livelihood preferences of all AHs by questionnaire was also conducted.
65. Result of DNA also shows that out of the total 1,415 affected households. In the 1,415 AHs, include: 291 households wish to development of their small business and 286 households opted to develop livestock or combination of livestock and cultivation and receive technical supports as well as loan support to raise cattle and chicken. Together with the need of livestock development, severely affected households also proposed to be trained and guided on technique of growing rice, especially severely affected households with remaining land is enough for cultivation. There are 205 households who have the need of occupational training for their children and 243 households that expect that their children who have graduated from university will be introduced on job opportunities. The remaining 390 households want to access to preferential loan to develop economy of their family. IRP preferences of the IRP participating households are summarized in the Table below:
Table 12: IRP preferences of IRP eligible households
Occupation Cultivation Livestock
Cultivation and livestock
Development of small business
Occupational training
Introduction of job opportunities
Access to preferential
loan
Total
Ha Ninh 9 8 12 9 13 13 18 82
Ha Trung
town 2 3 2 4 4 5 6 26
Total - Ha
Trung 11 11 14 13 17 18 24 108
Cam Thuy
Town 0 2 3 20 6 4 13 48
Cam Binh
Commune 0 11 36 62 34 38 47 228
Cam Thach
Commune 0 24 14 21 12 18 13 102
Cam Thanh
Commune 0 14 18 45 26 23 24 150
Total - Cam
Thuy 0 51 71 148 78 83 97 528
Occupation Cultivation Livestock
Cultivation and livestock
Development of small business
Occupational training
Introduction of job opportunities
Access to preferential
loan
Total
Thiet Ong 11 22 29 43 37 97 239
Lam Xa 11 31 31 18 25 34 150
Ai Thuong 12 12 15 20 27 38 124
Dien Quang 0 4 7 2 1 6 20
Dien Lu 0 8 17 6 9 18 58
Dien Trung 6 11 31 21 43 76 188
Total - Ba
Thuoc 40 88 130 110 142 269 779
Total 11 102 173 291 205 243 390 1415
(Source: URMDEP – Ha Trung - Cam Thuy and Ba Thuoc district – January and March/2018)
5.6. Other Remarks on Livelihood Restoration
66. General difficulties: For DCARBs, the IRP implementation is currently new as the DCARBs staff have not considerably experienced in the ADB projects. Therefore, during the IRP implementation, there should be supports from the other stakeholders for the implementation. In March 2018, DCARB of Ba Thuoc, Cam Thuy and Ha Trung made written to ADB and TL-PMU for requests Consultant to support in preparation and implementation of the detailed IRP, but TL-PMU not yet approved.
67. Households' livelihood needs may change by the time because this will inevitably face difficulties for the stakeholders when implementing activities.