VIE: Central Region Water Resources Project
Resettlement Plans
Six Subproject Resettlement Plans
The provinces of Binh Dinh, Quang Binh, Quang Ngai, Quang Tri, Thanh Hoa, and Thua Thien Hue in the central coastal region of Vietnam, have high rural poverty incidence, and suffer disproportionately from natural disasters, leading to loss of life and damage to crops and property. The project is aimed at assisting the Government to achieve improved performance of irrigated agriculture, and reducing the risk of natural disasters, through investments in improved irrigation and drainage infrastructure, and management of irrigation systems, in the six provinces in the central coastal region of Vietnam.
Six irrigation sub projects have been selected in the six provinces with good potential for increased agricultural production. These sub projects have been selected on the basis of agreed selection criteria:
- financial and economic viability
- strong contribution to poverty reduction
- environmental sustainability
- compliance with principles of integrated water resources management
- responsiveness to natural disaster risk reduction initiatives
In these sub projects the project will
- improve irrigation management through reform of service providers and concomitant capacity building of client water users as partners in scheme operation and maintenance
- improve irrigation and drainage infrastructure and strengthen natural disaster risk reduction
- support project management
Physical works will include rehabilitation and new construction of water conservation, irrigation drainage and protective measures.
The six subprojects were prepared with a view to minimize land acquisition and resettlement requirements. Structural works in the six subprojects require land acquisition of approximately 308 hectares, including 181 hectares of agricultural land, 5.2 hectares approximately of residential lands, and approximately 47 hectares of forest lands, and some uplands and unused lands, affecting approximately 5505 households.
Temporary land borrows from local communities will affect approximately 4874 households. Approximately 73 households are likely to be relocated within the same communes. Approximately 90 households within the sub project areas likely to be affected by impacts on secondary structures such as animal pens, yards, walls etc.
Approximately 3639 households will lose standing crops and trees. For agricultural households losing land, they will be entitled to replacement land of equal productivity as a priority, or an income restoration and subsistence allowance if there is no land of equal productive value available in the commune. If there is a shortage of paddy rice land in the commune, but sufficient other land, the project will assist communes to prepare paddy land by clearing and initially preparing land. If there is a shortage of paddy rice land in the commune, but sufficient other land, the project will assist communes to prepare paddy land by clearing and initially preparing land.
In consultation with communes, the project will develop fishponds at appropriate locations in the subproject area. During the detailed design, every effort will be made to reduce the need for relocation. Households whose lands are being temporarily borrowed will be provided rent for all land and structures borrowed as well as full compensation for crops, trees, and or structures lost, and all lands will be restored to pre-project condition.
For households that have to move, the project will assist communities and households by leveling land identified by the commune administrations for residential and garden land plots and livestock pens. Relocating households will be assisted with house dismantling and rebuilding.
Summary Resettlement Plan for Central Region Water Resources Project
The Thach Thanh Sub project in Thanh Hoa province will construct and rehabilitate pumping stations, reservoirs and earth canals.
The Thach Han subproject in Quang Tri province includes
- upgrading the Thectaresch Hectaresn headworks and canal system, and
- construction of Ben Da weir to serve an area of 350 hectares
The My Trung sub project in Quang Binh province works include
- 82 kilometers of embankment
- rehabilitation of 66 existing and construction of 23 new sluice gates
- rehabilitation of 25 existing and construction of 15 new pumping stations
- related bridges and aqueducts
The Huong Tra sub project in Thua Thien Hue province includes
- enlargement if the Khe Ngang reservoir
- construction of 8.6 km of main canal
- raising the spillway of Tho son reservoir
- upgrading the 3-,5-, 7- community canals
The Tra Cau sub project in Quang Ngai province includes
- construction of Chop Vung reservoir
- heightening the dam and spillway of the Dien Trung reservoir, and rehabilitating and extending the canal system and building an access road to the dam
- completion of primary and secondary lower level canals in the Nui Ngang system
The La Tinh sub project in Binh Dinh province will involve
- reconstruction of the Cay Ke weir
- lining of 80 km of irrigation canal and rehabilitation of canal structures
- rehabilitation of 21.5 km of flood protection embankments between Phu Ly bridge and Cay Ke weir, and between La Tinh and Can rivers
- rehabilitation of three flood diversion /retention spillways
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