Final Report - Asian Development Bank

TA 4721-PRC: Preparing the Shaanxi-Qinling Mountains Integrated Ecosystem Management Project
Final Report Appendix 3
addition, the arrangement in Shaanxi province for implementing the ongoing PRC-GEF Partnership on Land Degradation
will provide an opportunity to build capacity in project planning and implementation. The PMO has provided assistance in
making local experts from different disciplines available to work with the consulting team during the PPTA phase.
A participatory and consultative methodology was adopted to undertake the social analysis and rural livelihood survey
during the PPTA. It involved (i) a formal questionnaires survey with 200 households;(ii) discussions with project
stakeholders; (iii) key informant interviews in rural communities; (iv) a series of stakeholder workshops; and (v) interviews
with key government staff, non-government organizations; and (vi) interviews with women.
During project implementation, the participation of stakeholders will be further supported and deepened. An IEM institutional
framework is included which will provide further opportunity for participation in both planning and implementation. The
institutional capacity building will be undertaken early in the project design to facilitate successful operation of the IEM
approach. The Resettlement Plans (RPs) include plans for consultation and participation during implementation. And
Participatory Village Development Planning will further enhance the participation of beneficiaries.
Participation strategy required: Yes.
D. Gender and Development
Strategy to Maximize Impacts on Women
Gender analysis: Gender roles are determined by a combination of cultural factors, occupations, environmental conditions,
education levels, and employment opportunities. In the project area, income inequities create incentives for rural workers to
migrate to urban labor markets. However, due to its close location to good roads and to both county town and township
compounds, female laborers - particularly young women - share the opportunities with men for off-farm jobs. Only slight
agricultural feminization in the ex-situ is observed, while in the in-situ area young people tend to be mobile and the group
left behind is older and has high illiteracy, which reaches a rate of 95% among women in some in-situ villages.
Gender Plan Prepared Yes No
In general, the project will benefit women significantly and will not have an adverse impact on women or children. They will
benefit from tourism facilities that are provided, greater access to information and jobs and increased opportunities for
starting small income generation activities. Women will gain employment during the construction of the Botanical Garden,
Animal Rescue Center and Hot Springs. As part of the participation strategy, priority will be given to women for direct and
indirect project benefits and for protection against social risk; special gender measures have been included in the RPs.
Gender disaggregated indicators will be monitored in the project performance management system. The project will not
have significant negative impacts on women, but a gender plan proposes systems to ensure equal participation of women
on project activities and equal opportunities of women for access to social services, training, employment, land relocation
and beneficiary agreements.
Has an output been prepared? No
E. Social Safeguards and other Social Risks
Safeguard Significant/Non
Significant/None
Resettlement Significant With close consultation and careful
screening procedures, the land
acquisition and resettlement impacts are
considered significant 1 . Two subprojects
are defined with potential resettlement
impacts, namely the Animal Rescue
Center and Botanic Garden. Both subcomponents
require permanent land
acquisition and the latter requires
relocation of houses and people. The
Resettlement involves about 143
households for relocation, 115
households for land acquisition and 948
households for land use restriction for
Strategy to address issues Plan Required
A Full
Resettlement
Plan for Botanical Garden, a
Short Resettlement Plan for
Animal Rescue Center, a Due
Diligence report for Hot
Spring
1 ADB's policy on involuntary resettlement [ADB. 1995. Policy on Involuntary Resettlement. Manila,] defines resettlement as
“significant” where 200 or more people experience major impacts. Major impacts are defined as involving affected people
being physically displaced from housing and/or losing 10% or more of their productive, income generating assets.
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