Name of the Assignment: Social Safeguard Survey and Preparation of Resettlement Action Plan
Project Location: Dhaka to Chittagong
Project Authority: Roads and Highway Department (RHD), Ministry of Roads, Transport and Bridges
Financier: Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Project Background: The project built on the findings of the conceptual design study of the Dhaka-Chattogram expressway, which determined the selected route alignment to be technically, economically, and financially viable. The envisaged impact of the project was the Dhaka–Chattogram Expressway to be efficiently constructed, operated, and managed under a public–private partnership (PPP) scheme. The expected outcome was an agreed design of the Dhaka–Chattogram Expressway for implementation under a PPP scheme. The objective of the project is to enhance and ensure safer and more reliable road communications between Dhaka and Chittagong.
Objectives of the Assignment: The overall objectives of the project are to identify impacts and to plan measures to mitigate the various adverse impacts and restore and or improve the overall standards of living of the people in post-project period, based on the proposed ROW or Corridor of impact of the expressway in accordance with ADB’s guideline. The main object of the project is to identification of project affected household’s and preparation of resettlement and livelihood restoration plan.
Actual Services provided by SAMAHAR:
- Review the project documents, ADB’s safeguard policies and GoB’s guidelines
- Identification of the project boundary
- Census (100%) survey, IOL survey, socio-economic survey, land and property valuation survey etc.
- Identification of PAHs and PAPs and collection of additional key information regarding project affected households and project affected persons and poverty mapping through PRA
- Identification of Non-Title Holders and institutional mapping to identify the stakeholders
- Develop and Implement user friendly menu-driven MIS for monitoring progress and generate report
- Poverty and social assessment survey based on the stakeholder’s identification
- Labor Market assessment, social risk Identification through consultation and
- Identification of social characteristic and transport users through KII, FGD’s and PRA
- Preparation of resettlement budget and livelihood restoration budget
- Preparation of socio-economic, census, IoL survey report, market survey report
- Preparation of stakeholder/FGD/Consultation meetings report
- Preparing STI/HIV/AIDs and human trafficking assessment report
- Preparing road safety awareness assessment and road users analysis report
- Gender Assessment and Preparation of gender action plan
- Preparation of Indigenous People Plan
- Preparing land and property valuation survey report
- Preparation of Livelihood Restoration Plan
- Preparation of Resettlement Action Plan