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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Preamble
1. This report represents the Semi-Annual Social Monitoring Review (SASMR) for the
Wholesale Metering and Transmission Reinforcement Project on the social safeguard
implementation and the project compliance with ADB SPS 2009 requirements.
2. The health and safety aspects, including the community ones, have been covered in
the Semi-Annual Environmental Monitoring Review report.
3. This report is the 18th Social Monitoring Report (SMR) for the project. The dates of the
previous monitoring reports are July 2022, February 2023., July 2022, March 2022,
October 2021, January 2021,September 2020, December 2019, July 2019, February
2019, September 2018, March 2018, February 2018 (joint monitoring of environmental
and social safeguards, only for Lot 1), October 2017 (only for Lot 2), September 2017,
July 2017 and November 2016.
1.2. Headline Information
4. The status of the environmental and social management plans for the project is
presented in Table 1 below.
Table 1. Status of Environmental and Social Management Plans
Management Plan Date of approval
Date of
Submission
Contractor´s Environmental Management Plan, including
H&S Plan for Package 4
April 2021 February 2021
Contractor´s Environmental Management Plan, including
H&S Plan for Lot 1 and 2
January 2017 June 2016
Contractor´s Site Specific Environmental Management Plan
for Lot 1 and 2
June 2017 June 2017
Updated Social and Environmental Management Plan
(annex to the revised IEE) to incorporate Package 4
September 2020
(previous version
from January 2017)
August 2020
5. In Lot 1 on Wholesale Metering System, the meters Factory Acceptance Testwas
conducted successfully in July 2018 by the Contractor Huawei/ TBEA. The Contractor
has selected the subcontractor Cuculus GmbH for the software part. 100% of the
metersin the substations have been installed as of end of December 2020. The
construction of the foundations and erection of the Current and Voltage Transformers
inside the substations was completed by September 2019.The only missing activities
are several open items related with training and reporting.
6. Regarding the Amendment 2 of Lot 2´s work, which includes the renovation of 110 kV
switchyard at Rudaki Substation, it started in April 2018. Every activity was developed
inside the plot of the Substation and on a working installation. TBEA completed the
construction of OHL in October 2018. Renovation of SS Rudaki and extension of SS
Ayni were completed in March 2019.
7. Package 4. The objective of the additional subproject is to enhance the system
enabling it to control the fluxes of energy in the Transmission Grid item by item from
higher to lower levels, meaning all the items, lines, power transformers and busbars in
the levels of voltage 500, 220, 110 and 35 kV. The objective is increasing redundancy
of measurements on the top levels and full control of losses. Besides, it can provide
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