Buried under the road. Affected people of the ADB-funded West China-West Europe road project are complaining about unfair compensation and corruption by local authorities. Photo by Svetlana Koshelekova/NGO Taraz Press Club
Fair compensation and peasant's rights buried under the road
ASTANA/BISHKEK, 20 Jul 10 -- Local communities are crying foul over the implementation of the ADB-funded "Western China-Western Europe" road project. Issues surrounding the project include unfair compensation, violation of people's social rights and ADB's policies, and corruption.
Yvo de Boer making his final speech as UNFCCC Executive Secretary. Photo by Nina Somera/Forum
Charting Cancun and beyond
MANILA, 19 Jul 10 -- Six months from now, what remained incomplete in Copenhagen may finally be resolved in Cancun. However, civil society organizations still fear that the sustained operation of the Climate Investment Funds, despite the sunset clause, may lead in the institutionalization of the mechanism in the UNFCCC's financial architecture.
Access to information is a right. Affected people by the ADB-funded Highway One road project in Cambodia during a community consultation. Photo c/o CDCam.
CSOs score ADB for transparency failure of communication policy
MANILA, 20 Jun 10 -- Local and international civil society organizations urged the ADB to be more transparent in its Public Communication Policy. The Philippines' leading business newspaper takes on CSOs' comments on the ongoing review of the ADB's communication policy.
Forum's PCP Facilitation Team in action in a small group discussion, Forum South Asia PCP consultation, Nepal. Photo by Lala Cantillo/Forum
NGO Forum doubts seriousness of ADB's communication policy review
MANILA, 16 June 10 -- Forum expressed  its dissatisfaction with the ADB's draft revised Public Communication Policy (PCP). "We question the ADB's good faith coming into the series of national consultations on the PCP," said Forum Executive Director Dr Avilash Roul.
Women are particularly vulnerable. They are affected in more complex ways than men in development projects with regard to tradition, religious beliefs and social structure, the latter still being male dominated in many cultures. Photo by Tipakson Manpati
Sharing spirit of women’s persistence toward justice development
KALASIN, 2 JUN 10 -- Women have become vulnerable due to projects funded by the ADB. Tipakson Manpati talks about the role women could play in struggles against development-induced gender injustice.
What befalls us? Photo by Avilash Roul/Forum
To be or not to be
DUSHANBE, 14 May 10 -- Tajik CSOs criticized ADB's local office for brushing off their request for an actual draft of the country partnership strategy as basis for consultation. "None of the participating CSOs had a copy draft CPS in either English or Russian before the meeting, as well as during the meeting."
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