PAD - LGED

and strategy for consultation with indigenous communities and development of IPP for any
subprojects that impact indigenous peoples.
52. LGED has staff members in PMU who have previous experience in managing
involuntary resettlement in RTIP-I. To enhance the capacity on social safeguard, LGED has
conducted orientation to the Executive Engineers and Assistant Engineers of all the 26 project
districts in two training workshops up to February 2012. PMU will continue similar discussion
and sharing of experience on social safeguards during project implementation.
Gender mainstreaming
53. LGED has developed and adopted a Gender Strategy for its investment programs. Much
experience was accumulated over the years in its implementation within LGED. LGED will
continue to follow this strategy to mainstream gender in its operations under this project, with
specific proposals to improve its implementation. They include:
• Continuation of the employment program of rural women in off-pavement routine
maintenance through the Labor Contracting Societies (LCS);
• Enhancing impact of Women Market Sections (WMS) in GCMs throught implementing a
menu of specific interventions;
• Encouraging the employment of rural women thourgh arrangement of their employment
in maintenance work of paved segments;
• Providing gender-related training to sensitize LGED officials and increase capacity of the
Labour Contracting Socieities.
54. Community Consultation. Extensive discussions will be carried out with communities
during the subproject planning and implementation process. If subproject screening determines
an impact on IPs, LGED will conduct free, prior and informed consultations with the affected IP
communities regarding their views on selection of the program activity and their participation in
the subproject design and implementation. LGED is preparing a Bangla translation of the SIMF
and will ensure that copies of the translated document are available at its headquarters and
district and upazila offices, MLGRD&C, public libraries and local government offices in the
project districts, and other places accessible to the general public. The entitlement matrix for the
project will be made available to all affected persons in Bangla before civil works start.
55. Grievance Redress. The Project will set up a Suggestions and Complaints Mechanism
(SCM) for receiving complaints and suggestions from stakeholders including the affected
communities. A Grievance Redress Committee (GRC) as a component of the SCM will be
formed in each Upazila for resolving land acquisition and resettlement related grievances. The
other component will be the Suggestions and Complaints Committee (SCC) to deal with project
related issues other than land acquisition and resettlement and cases forwarded from the GRCs
on resettlement complaints. Where indigenous communities are among the affected persons, the
membership composition of the GRCs will take into account any traditional conflict resolution
arrangements that IP communities may practice.
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