China - Western Provinces Rural Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Promotion Project : resettlement plan (Vol. 1 of 3) : Shaanxi Province resettlement action plan

Page 1 WESTERN PROVINCES RURAL WATER SUPPLY, SANITATION AND HYGIENE PROMOTION PROJECT SHAANXI PROVINCE Resettlement Action Plan December 2006 RP481 v 1 Page 2 2 Contents Part A. Resettlement Action Plan of 20% Project ............................................................................ 4 A. Project Objectives and Description.................................................................................... 4 1. Project Background.................................................................................................... 4 2. Project Distribution.................................................................................................... 7 3. Project Monitoring...................................................................................................15 B. First Batch Project Implementation Affected Counties...................................................22 4. Socio-economic Survey of the First Batch Project Implementation Counties (4 Counties)......................................................................................................................22 5. Affected Quantity and Kinds of the First Batch Project Implementation (Land, Attachment and Population).........................................................................................24 C. Resettlement Policy.........................................................................................................26 6. The Laws and Formulations of Land Acquisition, Housing Demolition and Resident Resettlement of China..................................................................................................26 7. Guiding Principle of Resettlement of World Bank...................................................28 E. Fund Budget and Compensation Cost..........................................................................37 8. Total Cost.................................................................................................................37 9. The Fund Procedure.................................................................................................38 F. Executive Organizations and Resettlement Process of the First Batch Implementation Project ...................................................................................................................................39 10. Executive Organizations.........................................................................................39 11. Implementation Organizations ...............................................................................40 G. Complaint, Appeal and Public Participation....................................................................41 12. Complaint and Appeal............................................................................................41 13. Public Participation................................................................................................42 14. The Internal Supervision........................................................................................44 15. The External Supervision (contents, method, time and right)................................47 Part B. Resettlement Policy Framework of 80% Projects.............................................................49 1. Project Objectives and Description in Other Project Areas..............................................49 2. Affected Quantity and Kinds in 11 project counties.........................................................52 3. Resettlement Policy..........................................................................................................53 4. Resettlement Program......................................................................................................56 5. The Implementation of the Plan.......................................................................................62 6. Executive Organisations and Resettlement Process.........................................................63 7. Cost and Fund Procedure .................................................................................................64 8. Project Supervision ..........................................................................................................66 Page 3 3 Appendix 1. Relevant laws and documents 2. Countryside socio-economic survey of the project affected areas (2005) 3. Sampling household data of Shaanxi Province Rural Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project 4. Resident sampling survey table of Shaanxi Province Rural Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project (2005) (one sheet each village, main items for each household) 5. Distribution of Shaanxi Province Rural Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project 6. Photographs of present situation of rural drinking water and environmental sanitation Page 4 4 Part A. Resettlement Action Plan for the 20% Project A. Project Objectives and Description 1. Project Background a) Significance of the project construction The Shaanxi Province Rural Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project is a social development project, which makes use of a World Bank loan and an international grant to improve water, latrines and health education in rural areas as the main construction content. Since the reform and open policy, the social economy in our country has greatly developed in the rural areas, but the low environmental sanitation level is still a main issue which threatens the peoples physical and mental health. Guanzhong (Central Shaanxi) and North Shaanxi in Shaanxi Province are both areas seriously lacking water in China. At present, in the Shaanxi Province countryside, there are still 10.53 million people who have to drink high-fluorine water, salty water, polluted water or have not enough drinking water. Among them, 8.6 million people have to drink unsafe water. At the same time, intestinal disease is the main disease harming the heath of rural residents in Shaanxi Province. Therefore, improving water and changing latrines are a social revolution to help the people in rural areas to say goodbye to the traditional customs, to accept healthy lifestyles, and to change existing habits and customs. The fourth plenary session of the Sixteenth CPC National Congress explicitly proposed that China must persist "humanist" approaches and set up a comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable economic and social development model to promote the economy and society and human development. General Secretary Hu Jintao has also made the important written comment on the rural areas drinking water issue: