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Resettlement Infrastructure

PNPC is dedicated to provide the resettlement villages with new and improved individual and community infrastructure.

Existing houses will either be upgraded or new houses constructed. House construction and repair will be coupled with the provision of toilets to improve sanitation and the health of the local community. Each and every household will also be provided with electricity supply.

PNPC is also pledged to construct numerous new public infrastructure for the benefit of the entire community. These public infrastructure include (i) health center; (ii) school; (iii) villages meeting halls; (iv) water supply; (v) ethnic museums; and (vi) road improvement.

The PNPC Environmental & Social Team is working closely with the villagers and relevant government authorities to agree on, through consultations, the designs and locations of these infrastructure prior to commencement of construction. 

Resettlement Infrastructure Work Status

No. Item Unit Quantity Status Remarks
 I House        
   1  House Repairing No 346 Completed Additional one (1) house repair in Latsasin Village
   2  New House Construction No 99 Completed Included 13HH of New resettler, additional 16HH
   3  Kitchen Construction No 187 Completed Additional 17 Kitchens
   4  Toilet Construction No 507 Completed Included 61HH of Namhan & thonggyao, Additional 17 HH
   5  Seasonal House at New Agricultural No 152 Completed Included UXO clearance work
 II Water Supply        
   1  Water supply in resettlement villages Borehole 29 Completed Hand Pump
   2  Formerly Impacted Village of Houay Ho HPP Borehole 4 Completed Namhan and Thongyao 
   3  School and Health Center Borehole 5 Completed Electric Pump
   4  New Agricultural Land Borehole 10  Completed Hand Pump 
 III Electricity Supply        
   1  PAPs House House 428 Completed  
   2  School and Health Center  No  Completed Houayxoy and Xe-Namnoy 
   3  Formerly Impacted Village of Houay Ho HPP House  62  Completed Namhan and Thongyao 
   4  New Agricultural Land House  213  Under BID 22kV 5.98Km, 0.4kV 9.15Km, 160kVA Transformer Station 
 IV Irrigation System        
   1  Rehabilitation of irrigation in section 1 (north 2villages) Villages Completed  Houayxoy and Namkong
   2  Rehabilitation of irrigation in section 2 (south 6villages) Villages  Completed  Namtieng, Latsashin, Keokhounmuang
Xe-namnoy, Donekong, Namleng
   3  Irrigation system construction downstream Attapue Province KM  Left 0.8Km  On-going   
   4  Irrigation system construction at New agricultural land KM    Under Bid  Pipe Irrigation with Pump Station
 V Road Improvement        
   1  Temporary Upgrading KM 10.775 Completed   
   2  Road Improvement  KM  10.775  Completed  Mar 2018 (Concrete 7.36km + Aggregate 3.42km)


Public Building Status in Resettlement Villages

No. Item Unit Quantity Status Remarks
   1 Village meeting hall (12 x 25) No 4 Completed  
   2 New School (9x64) No 1 Completed Secondary School 
   3 Teachers' Accommodation (7x7.2) No 1 Completed In the New School
   4 Ethnic museum (6x10, 5x10.5) No 2 Completed Champasack and Attapeu
   5 New Health center (11x16) No 1 Completed  
   6 Nurse' Accommodation (6x12.6) No 1 Completed In the New Health Center 
   7 Village market (15 x 20) No 1 Completed 31 May 2019 


Infrastructure Work Status in Indirect Impacted Villages

No. Item Unit Quantity Status Remarks
   1 Water supply in indirect impacted villages Borehole 13 Completed Nongphanouane, HouayChod, Ta Od and Oupaxa
   2 SALA construction for Ban Oupaxay No 1 Completed Impacted by HMW
   3 Floating Bridge for Houay-makchan M 97.5 Completed Impacted by HMW



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Education

Education is a critical component of social development, and in the resettlement villages, PNPC has implemented an Education Program including, but not limited to, the following activities:

  • Constructed and equipped a new secondary school for the resettlement villages
  • Upgraded the construction of the existing primary school
  • Provided free nutritional school-lunches and milk for the kindergarten schools
  • Provisions of books and teaching materials
  • Established a library and promoted reading
  • Conducted capacity building for teachers in lesson planning and preparation of training materials
  • Granted short-term and long-term scholarships for higher vocational education
  • Promoted healthy vegetable production in school demonstration gardens
  • Provisions of sporting equipment and promotion of sports events

PNPC has been working closely in hand with the District Education Office to ensure that all schools have sufficient teaching equipment, teachers are adequately trained, and financially supported. PNPC strived to help teachers and parents maximize the potential of their schools.

In full compliance with the Concession Agreement obligations, the Education Program was successfully handed over to the GOL though the PNPC still continues to support maintenance of the new secondary school.

 

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Consultation

Engaging communities in pro-active consultation is a core aspect of the Government of Lao’s environmental and social legislation and a key requirement of many international financing institutes. Through a consultation and disclosure strategy, PNPC is ensuring that project affected communities and other stakeholders are kept well informed of environmental, social and other project related matters prior to and during the construction of the project. The objectives of PNPC’s stakeholder relations plan is to build two-way communication between PNPC and the affected community to seek input and engage communities in the development of sustainable mitigation measures.

Project stakeholder consultation and information disclosure commenced in 2010 through the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Social Impact Assessment (SIA) process. Activities conducted during the EIA/SIA process included meetings at the household, village, district, and provincial level. During these meetings, information about the Project and potential environmental and social impacts and associated management measures was disseminated and the opinions, concerns and perspectives of stakeholders were collected.

Proactive engagement of local communities has continued since the initial EIA/SIA process. More specifically, Project Affected People have been consulted on (i) the project and its potential impacts; (ii) their entitlements; (iii) compensation registration and payment process; (iv) suite of social development programs; and (v) the mechanism for grievance. 

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Compensation

During the Detailed Design phase of the project, the design and location of project infrastructure are being reviewed and revised in order to reduce the social impact on lands owned by local communities. The alignment of key structures (i.e. Transfer Conduit, Tailrace and Transmission Lines) have already been modified to avoid, as much as possible, impacts on housing and agricultural lands.

However, impacts on community lands cannot be totally avoided and therefore PNPC has conducted comprehensive Land and Asset Surveys to document the land type, land size, and ownership. Based on the data, land owners will be adequately compensated at rates agreed at the Provincial Government level. The land owners are being fully involved in the compensation registration process and PNPC is ensuring each and every PAP knows their entitlements, compensation rates, and method for calculating their compensation.

PNPC has established a grievance procedure and trained local government and village authorities to facilitate the grievance process to guarantee that any unsatisfied PAPs are consulted in a fair manner and resolve the grievance to the satisfaction of the PAP.  

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Livelihood

The PNPC is committed to improving the livelihood and income of the Project Affected People (PAPs) by providing materials, equipment, training and technical assistance in various livelihood activities for PAP income generation.

The Project’s Livelihood Program is managed through a consultative approach aimed to actively engage with the PAPs to understand their livelihood preferences and equipment/training needs. The approach encompasses: (i) augmenting existing livelihoods to be more productive; (ii) providing training and equipment; (iii) developing new and/or alternative sustainable livelihood activities to supplement their livelihood.

To achieve this, the PNPC has improved the PAPs’ existing agricultural lands and irrigation system, and, also developed a 261ha of new agricultural land provided with corresponding seasonal houses, water supply and a demonstration training center. In addition, equipment and training were provided for livelihood activities on their home plots and on off-farm activities, respectively.

Over the years, the PNPC Livelihood Program supported numerous income-generating activities, including, but not limited to:

  • Provisions of hundreds of thousands of coffee seedlings
  • Improving the quality of coffee production
  • Provisions of thousands of fruit tree seedlings
  • Household greenhouse vegetable production
  • Mushroom cultivation
  • Training, equipment, and provisions of fingerlings for aquaculture
  • Fish fingerling production for aquaculture
  • Provisions of seedlings and training for integrated cropping
  • Poultry raising
  • Organic fertilizer and organic pesticide production
  • Livestock vaccination program
  • Training and equipping of Village Veterinarian Volunteers
  • Coffee end-product processing, which includes; roasting, packaging and marketing
  • Promoted cash-crops with links to markets, including; (i) peanuts; (ii) ginger cultivation; (iii) Japanese Ginseng; (iv) corn cultivation, etc.
  • Planting of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs)
  • Established and supported Village Revolving Fund (VRF) in villages to facilitate villagers’ access to credit for business
  • Promoted banana and broom grass processing

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