VIE: Song Bung 4 Hydropower Project Implementation of Gender Action Plan

Presentation by: Monawar Sultana Sr. Social Development Specialist, SEEN 05 July 2011
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Project Background
ADB approved Loan 2429-VIE on 26 June 2008 for $196 2429million, which became effective on 16 January 2009. 2009. The Project consists of the construction of 156 megawatt (MW) hydropower plant on the Song Bung in the Vu Gia-Thu GiaBon river basin. basin. The Project is located in Nam Giang district of Quang Nam province in central Viet Nam and its predominantly inhabited by indigenous people belonging to the Co Tu ethnic minority. minority. The Project will result in the relocation of 224 mainly Co Tu households in Zuoih commune of Nam Giang district. district. The Project is also supported by a complementary grant of $2 million financed by Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) 9120: 9120: Livelihood Improvement of Vulnerable Ethnic Minority Communities Affected by the SB4HPP in Quang Nam SB4 Province. Province.
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REMDP Document Structure

Resettlement and Ethnic Minority Development Plan
Volume 1: Cross Cutting Issues Volume 2: Reservoir Resettlement and Development Plan Volume 3: Project (Construction) Land Resettlement Plan Volume 4: Down/Upstream Mitigation and Resettlement Plan
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JFPR Project
Livelihood Improvement Program

Social Management Plan

Health and Safety

Gender Action Plan

Gender Analysis and Gender Action Plan

Co Tu Ethnic Minority People

Situation of Co Tu Women
All the four reservoir affected villages and the host village consist almost entirely of Co Tu ethnic minority people with an own culture and language. language. The ethnic minority culture, customary legal system, and subsistence economy defines the life of a Co Tu woman, her place, role, tasks and options in her life. Co Tu culture life. are dominated by patrilineal and patrilocal system. system. Women have no ownership of land, houses or other assets. assets. This makes them dependent on their husbands, or if widowed or divorced, on male relatives. relatives. Most Co Tu, especially women, have a low education level. level.
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Situation of Co Tu Women
activities. Both men and women take care of cultivation activities. Men do hunting and fishing in the river, while women do field preparation for agriculture activities, sowing, planting, weeding, and collect forest products, collect firewoods, catch small fish in rivers and take care of the fishponds in villages. villages. Men cut trees to clear the field and do the main construction work of houses, but women are involved in almost all tasks related to agriculture and animal breeding. breeding. Time-wise women apparently work more than men in Timecultivation, livestock breeding and forestry as well as in childcare and food preparation. preparation.

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Situation of Co Tu Women
Existing government programs extension training activities have been provided to the Farmers Union in villages and a few representatives for Womens Union. Very few Union. women have had possibility to participate in technical training. training. There is no other development agencies working in the reservoir affected villages. villages. Given the remoteness, the villagers do not have access to basic health service, water, sanitation and education facilities. facilities.

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Implementation of Gender Action Plan

Integration of gender concerns into all resettlement activities such as: as: (i) (ii) (iii) Resettlement; Resettlement; Community Mobilization and Capacity Building; Building; Livelihood Improvement Program

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Implementation of Gender Action Plan

Resettlement
Participation of women in all disclosure; disclosure; Participation of women in detailed measurement survey Participation of women in all consultations related to resettlement site development planning; village layout planning; planning (residential area, garden land, public buildings water and sanitation location, community hall, schools, etc); etc); Participation of women in land allocation for housing, upland and garden land Award of Land User Right Certificate for Upland and Housing Land to both husband and wife; Womenwife; WomenHeaded households
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Implementation of Gender Action Plan

Resettlement Identification of forest resource, wet rice field, fishpond in the resettlement sites; sites; resettlement site construction monitoring; monitoring; Compensation payment to both man and women Bank account in both husband and wifes names to save compensation money; Bank accounts have been money; open for 3 villages; villages;

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On the way to affected villages for Consultation

On the way to affected villages for Consultation

On the way to affected villages for Consultation

Womens Participation in Consultation

Womens Participation in Consultation

Womens participation in Village layout planning in the Resettlement sites

Meeting to Familiarizing AP with Detailed Entitlement Policy Matrix and Consultation on Draft Site Development Plan In Thon 2 Village

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Women participation in Consultation

Showing Village Boundary

Women and men in Pa Pang Resettlement Site Discussing Village Layout

Consultation in Pa pang host village

Women and men reviewing the village layout

Rice Field Identification by men and women team in the Resettlement Site

Village Womens Union leader presenting village layout map to the Villagers

Village Womens Union leader presenting village layout map to the Villagers

Womens participation in village layout planning

Women and men discussing village layout map of Resettlement Site

Women and men discussing village layout map of Resettlement Site

Implementation of Gender Action Plan in community mobilization, capacity building

Development of Village Resettlement Development Group (VRDG) with affected people 50% womens representation; Development of District level coordination meeting with VRDG (men and women members) and the District Resettlement Management Implementation Unit (RMIU) All VRDG Members (men and women) received training on Entitlement, Resettlement Site Development Plan; Monitoring of Construction of resettlement site, Leadership training, Extension training, opening of Bank account etc;
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Implementation of Gender Action Plan in community mobilization, capacity building

Formation of Womens group in each village; Monthly meeting of the VRDG with the men and women from affected households to discuss resettlement issues, livelihood program, health awareness campaign, HIV/AIDs and Human trafficking; Developed one man and one woman Community Facilitator from each village; Developed one man and one woman village extension workers on livestock, agriculture, fishery from each village;
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Implementation of Gender Action Plan in community mobilization, capacity building

Develop village health workers one man and one woman from each village; Literacy class in the 4 affected villages and Pa Pang host village (most participants are women)

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Capacity Development of Affected People

Village Livestock Extension Worker in Pa Dhi Village Trained

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Village Health Worker Trained

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Literacy Class

Bank account opened for both husband and wifes name in Pa Pang Host Village

Implementation of Gender Action Plan in Livelihood Improvement Restoration Program

Pilot programs have been introduced:
- Wet rice field development mostly women - Bean cultivation (mostly women) - Vegetables gardening (mostly women) - Livestock (men and women from the household) - Fishery (men and women from the household) - Revolving rice bank in one village managed by women

New skills and extension on agriculture information helps women to lessen their drudgery of work in the field:
- weeding in bean cultivation and wet rice field - vegetable gardening in the homestead
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New Extension Training

Green Manure Preparation for Wet Rice Field in Pa Pang Host Village

Wet Rice Field Development

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Wet Rice Field Development

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New technique of weeding

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Pilot Vegetables Gardening in Pa Dhi Village

Women Village Agriculture Extension Worker

Participation of Women in Bean Cultivation and Improved Storage Facility Training; Protection of Field from Wild Life Training

Women Village Agriculture Extension Worker

Field Training on Agriculture

Pilot Bean Cultivation (new technique lessen the drudgery of weeding because the new cultivation technique follow the contour line)

For queries: msultana@adb.org

Thank you!

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