Final Report - Asian Development Bank

TA 4721-PRC: Preparing the Shaanxi-Qinling Mountains Integrated Ecosystem Management Project
Final Report Appendix 13
Total 589.9 1787.5 4192.6 2658.7 2162.1
91. The investment in component 2 is predicted to generate approximately 4,000 jobs during the
construction phase of the Project and approximately 450 from 2015. These levels of employment are
significant and suggest that close to 1/3 rd of in-situ households could receive an additional wage after
the construction period. Equally the conservation forestry program could impact in excess of 70% of
current in-situ households through participation in planting programs and obtaining secure tenure to
collective forests.
Component II Tourism
Facilities
Component II Reforestation
and Road and Path
Construction
Table 30: Estimated Employment Impacts of Component Two
Construction: Full-Time
Equivalents Aggregated Over the
2008-2013 Construction Period
1,070
(Average of 214 per year from 2009
to 2013
3,000
(Average of about 500 per year over
the 2008-2013 period)
3. Component Three Supportive Institutional Arrangements
Operations
66 in 2011, 175 in 2013, 192 in 2014,
and expanding to 230 from 2020 on
220 in 2013 and 270 per year from
2014 on
92. Component three provides a number of institutional inputs to undertake project management,
training, undertake policy and legal research on topics identified as creating significant constraints to
the proposed management approaches. The subcomponents for Project Management and Institutional
Strengthening are considered as overheads to the rest of the Project and the benefits are not
quantified.
93. Subcomponent three will provide a range of replication programs built on action based
conservation planning, endangered species management, and monitoring within the Project Area and
then disseminating these and other project lessons to the wider Qinling Mountains. The potential
impact of small changes to biodiversity management and livelihood improvement is likely to be large
however the nature and extent of these is uncertain and therefore these have not been quantified.
94. The component investments are outlined in Table 29 below.
Table 31: Investment Costs Component 3 (CNY0’000’s)
Financial Costs 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Project Management 160.8 92.3 110.9 92.1 111.6
Institutional Strengthening 41.2 67.9 69.9 72.0 0.0
Replication 282.5 1112.8 528.0 223.0 217.1
Total
Economic Costs
484.5 1272.9 708.8 387.1 328.7
Project Management 148.7 85.1 99.8 79.9 94.6
Institutional Strengthening 40.6 65.0 65.0 65.0 0
Replication 278.6 1065.8 490.4 201.1 190.1
Total 467.9 1215.8 655.1 345.9 284.6
4. Summary of Project Assessment
95. The Project results in significant benefits arising from the visitation program associated with
the QBG, SARC, and the Hot Springs enterprises. To these direct employment benefits can be added
the indirect benefits from the supply of goods and services by local businesses and households and
contracts to village groups and small businesses to conduct biodiversity conservation activities that
are funded by the Project or by subsequent activities financed by local governments and the ex-situ
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