Publications
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Voices of the Witnesses This is a compilation of statements from diverse civil society organizations on the 40 years of the ADB. more |
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Four Decades of Crisis This
energy foldout provides a critique of the ADB's Environment, Energy and
Safeguard Policies.
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Untold Realities
Despite the number of
safeguard policies to manage the social and environmental impacts of ADB
operations, local people face severe impacts including loss of
livelihood and displacement. The recent Operation Evaluation Department
(OED) Special Evaluation Study (SES) on Environment Safeguards revealed
that current practice at the ADB is falling below international best
practice and reasonable expectations.
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Snapshots of ADB Disasters
This publication is a
collection of photographs illustrating the negative social and
environmental impacts of ADB projects. |
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Development Debacles
A compilation of 10
briefing papers covering problematic ADB projects in Sri Lanka, Papua
New Guinea, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, and Cambodia.
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Running Dry: Does the ADB Stand for "Water for All?" Running Dry. Does the ADB stand for "Water for All"? Submission of the Civil, Society organisations to the ADB Water Policy Implementation Review. The document is based on the case studied prepared by the NGO Forum on ADB member organisations and Jubileesouth Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development. |
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ADB and the Environment: A Monitoring Framework for the ADB's Environment Policy In 2002, a number of organizations participated in a campaign to influence the formulation of the ADB’s first Environment Policy, which was subsequently passed in November 2002. The campaign was seen as both a success and a failure. A success in that at long last, the ADB appeared to be taking some environmental concerns seriously (the passing of the policy was itself evidence of this); and a failure in that much of the language that campaigners wanted in the document was left out. In light of this experience, it became clear that NGOs and grassroots campaigners needed some hard evidence to document that the ADB’s approach to environmental management was (and remains) deeply flawed. Furthermore, regardless of what was on paper, there was the question whether the ADB was actually implementing what it had agreed to both after the passage of the 2002 Environment Policy and, before that, in the environment-related regulations in the ADB’s Operations Manual. This project, begun in 2003, represents a first step towards this end.
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