External Resettlement & Monitoring of Hebei Rural Renewable Energy

The Hebei Rural Renewable Energy Development Project is a project financed by the World Bank for the development and ongoing management of large-scale bio gas projects in rural areas in the Chinese province of Hebei. The project aims to provide technical support, project management and monitoring, including technical services, training and promotion, and evaluation. The main objective of the project is to demonstrate sustainable bio gas production and utilization to reduce environmental pollution and supply clean energy in rural areas of Hebei province.

Within this project, Hebei World Bank Biogas PMO has been granted with 71.5m USD from World Bank. As required by WB, the PMO needs to contract a consulting firm to conduct Resettlement Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) during project implementation.

Stantec was commissioned to perform the annual (expected to be extended for a total of four years) resettlement and social (R&S) monitoring for the Project. The services that our team provided were external resettlement monitoring against the Resettlement Policy Framework (RPF) and the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) on three subprojects involving land acquisition for the Project sittings and external social monitoring on all five subjects against the Social Action Plan (SAP) established during Social Impact Assessment (SIA).