International Committee (2008 - 2010)

India
Wilfred Dcosta, Jubilee South - International Convenor

Wilfred Dcosta is the new International Convenor of the Forum. He is the General Secretary of the INDIAN SOCIAL ACTION FORUM (INSAF), a platform of over 600 organizations all over India. As a democratic membership-based forum, INSAF is committed to broaden the space of resistance against the processes that threaten the lives and livelihood of the majority of the citizens, and struggle to secure and revive secular and democratic values. The main thrust areas are to resist globalization, combat communalism (religious conflict), and defend democracy.

He also represents INSAF as the regional coordination committee member of Jubilee South — Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development.

INSAF plays a key role in the Peoples' Forum against the ADB, Independent Tribunal on the World Bank Group in India, Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP), Bhutan Solidarity Forum, and Coalition for GM free India, among others.

INSAF is located at A-124/6 (First Floor), Katwaria Sarai, New Delhi 110016 (India). You may contact them at telefax +91 11 26517814, email: insaf@vsnl.com, or visit www.insafindia.org

Indonesia
Fabby Tumiwa, Working Group on Power Sector Restructuring, Indonesia, Southeast Asia - Treasurer

Profile Fabby Tumiwa Fabby Tumiwa has been active in NGO campaign specializing in energy technology and policy, climate change and development issues since 1996.

Fabby was the founder of the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), the Jakarta-based NGO active in the advocacy of energy and environmental issues and privatization of energy services. Since 2008, he has been the Director of IESR. Before that, he was the coordinator of the Working Group on Power Sector Restructuring (WGPSR).

He has also worked with Pelangi Institute as energy policy analyst, Indonesia Climate Action Network (ICAN) as coordinator, and International NGO Forum on Indonesia Development (INFID) as adviser for international advocacy. He is also a regional board member of WALHI (FoE Indonesia) in Central Java. Fabby is known as an independent energy analyst. His comments and analyses on energy and electricity are published regularly in the national media. He has written a number of books and articles criticizing the role of international financial institutions (IFIs) and multilateral development banks (MDBs) in privatizing energy and water services, electricity and energy policies, and climate change issue. You may contact him: fabby@nusa.or.id

Central Asia and Caucasus
Parviz Umarov, Center for Development of Civil Society, Tajikistan

South Asia
Suranjan Kodothuwakku, Sri Lanka Green Movement, Sri Lanka

Ahmed Swapan, VOICE, Bangladesh

Mekong
Pen Raingsey, NGO Forum on Cambodia, Cambodia

Philippines
Milo Tanchuling, Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC)

Japan
Yuki Tanabe, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES)

The Netherlands:
Pieter Jansen, Both ENDS

Ex-Officio
Renato Redentor Constantino, Executive Director, NGO Forum on ADB

IC Members (2006-2008)

Philippines
Ms. Ana Maria Nemenzo, Freedom from Debt Coalition - International Convenor
ANA MARIA R. NEMENZO is a staunch political activist and feminist. She is the incumbent Convenor of the International Committee of NGO Forum on ADB 2006.

She is also the president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC), a multi-sectoral policy advocacy and mass-based campaign coalition with seven chapters and more than 200 organizations throughout the Philippines. Since its founding in 1988, the network has focused its work on the country’s debt problem, budget and fiscal policies, neo-liberal globalization policies, particularly privatization of public utilities (i.e. power and water), and alternative economic development strategies.

In addition, she is the founder and national coordinator of Woman Health Philippines. From 1999 until March 2002, she held the positions of vice chairperson for the Basic Sector of the country’s National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) and commissioner for the Women Sector of the NAPC.

South Asia
Mr. Gururaja Budhya, Urban Research Centre- Karnataka (India) - Treasurer

Gururaja Budhya joined the FORUM as a member in 2004. He is the incumbent Treasurer of FORUM. Gururaja was the team leader for Urban Governance Group in Technology Informatics Design Endeavour (TIDE), Bangalore, India during 1998–2005. He was also the coordinator of Paper Forum (1995-1998) and a conservation core volunteer with World Wide Fund for Nature-India (1993-1998). He is the founding member and the chief functionary of Urban Research Centre, Bangalore, India. He has been in the development sector since 1993 and works on issues such as environment, governance and development issues. Presently, he is pursuing his PhD studies in urban governance.

Mr. Ashraf-ul-Alam Tutu, Coastal Development Partnership (Bangladesh)

Ashraf-ul-Alam Tutu is the coordinator of Coastal Development Partnership (CDP), engaged in natural resource management, environmental conservation, and social rights and good governance issues for the sustainable development of the Southwest Coastal Region of Bangladesh.

Tutu was a freedom fighter during the great liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971. From then on, he has been actively involved with different people’s movements. He was engaged with the people’s movement on issues such as water logging in Khulna-Jessore on Commercial Shrimp Faming, saving the biodiversity of Sundarbans, land rights and livelihood in 1990.

Since 1996, Tutu has been monitoring ADB projects in Bangladesh. Since December, 2001 he works as the coordinator of the Bangladesh Chapter of the Asia Pacific Network of Food Sovereignty (APNFS). He has authored more than 20 books and his publications are widely published in different international journals.

Mr. Suranjan Kodithuwakku, Green Movement (Sri lanka)

Suranjan is a founding member and the chief organizer of the Green Movement of Sri Lanka. The Green Movement was founded in 1998 and is now the largest environmental network in Sri Lanka. It was the leading organization for the preparation of the People’s Report on Sustainable Development formulated by a consortium of civil society organizations.

He started environmental activism as the co-editor of the Citizens’ Report to the Rio Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 which was formulated by a group of civil society organizations in Sri Lanka. He subsequently joined the Organization for the Safeguard of life and Environment (OSLEN) in 1993.

In addition, he was also a leading campaigner against the proposed privatization of the phosphate mine in Eppawela, Sri Lanka and against the ADB-funded policy for the privatization of water resources. He was also the founding member of the Sri Lankan Working Group on ADB which became the Sri Lankan Working Group on Trade and IFIs. He was also a founding director of the Centre for Environmental Justice and currently the director of the Central Environment Authority.

South East Asia / Pacific
Mr. Fabby Tumiwa (Indonesia)

Fabby Tumiwa is active in NGO campaign specializing in energy technology and policy, climate change and development issues since 1996.

Fabby was the founder and has been the coordinator since 2003 of the Working Group on Power Sector Restructuring (WGPSR). The Jakarta-based WGPSR is a group of NGOs active in the advocacy of energy and environmental issues at the national level, and privatization of energy services. Before that, he was the executive director of Yayasan Gemi Nastiti (GENI) in Salatiga, Central Java in 1999-2001.

He has also worked with Pelangi Institute as energy policy analyst, Indonesia Climate Action Network (ICAN) as coordinator, and International NGO Forum on Indonesia Development (INFID) as adviser for international advocacy. He is also a regional board member of WALHI (FoE Indonesia) in Central Java. He wrote a number of books and articles criticizing the role of international financial institutions (IFIs) and multilateral development banks (MDBs) in privatizing energy and water services, electricity and energy policies, and climate change issue.

Japan
Mr. Yuki Tanabe, Japan Center for Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES)

Yuki Tanabe is the current program coordinator of the Sustainable Development and Aid Program (SDAP) of JACSES. His work mainly involves monitoring and advocacy activities on Japanese ODA institutions and international institutions, in which Japan is financing large amount of money. He is also involved in investigation and policy advocacy of problematic projects in Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Yuki has conducted researches and advocacy activities on IFI’s policies (e.g. ADB’s Disclosure Policy and Safeguard Policies) and destructive projects in South Asia, including Chashma Project (Pakistan) and Melamchi Project (Nepal).

Yuki started his career in the international NGO environment as a campaign volunteer for “A Seed Japan” and participated in the “3rd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP3)” in 1997. He worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Japan, working on the Climate Change Program. He started working for JACSES in February 2003. He has been a member of the IC since 2003.

Central Asia
Ms. Kaliya Moldogazieva, Tree of Life Kyrgysthan

Kalia completed her post-graduate course on Human Physiology (Aspirantura) in 1980. She is a Ph.D. candidate of medical sciences, Certificate of Highest Certificate’s Commission, Moscow in 1989.
She began her career as a doctor-therapist. At present, she works as the director of Human Development Center, “Tree of Life.” She is also a part-time lecturer of the ecology faculty of Bishkek Humanitarian University on the subject: Ecological problems and ecological law in Kyrgyz Republic. In 2004, she was a member of National Supervisory Board of Bio-safety project in KR (UNEP). She was awarded the laureate of State Premium of Kyrgyzstan together with eight other people for scientific work in August 1998. She was also nominated for the Goldman Prize for her work on the Kumtor gold mine 2000.

At present, she engages in monitoring and advocacy work on Kumtor gold mine creation and coordination of eco-safety and advocacy NGO network in Kyrgyzstan. She also participates in the promotion of healthy environment, and promotion of extractive industries transparency initiative through network of ecological safety and advocacy.

Non-Regional Donor Member Countries
Mr. Marnix Becking, Both Ends (Netherlands)


Marnix served the International Committee until December 2006 as the representative of the Both Ends, a Netherlands-based advocacy organization. He is an expert in the environmental field and especially on the Environmental Impact Assessment. He is also an expert on the water sector.


Ex-Officio
Mr. Hemantha Withanage, Executive Director

Hemantha Withanage has been the Executive Director since April 2005. Previously, he was the elected international convenor of FORUM for the period 2001-2003. Hemantha held the Executive Director and the Senior Environmental Scientist positions of the Environmental Foundation, Sri Lanka until December 2003. He founded the Centre for Environmental Justice and the Sri Lankan Working Group on Trade and IFIs in 2004. He has more than 15 years of experience in NGO work in the areas of development work, and networking in local and international field.

MEMBERS OF IC (March 2004 - APRIL 2006)

South Asia
Mr. Gopal Siwalkoti, Water and Energy Users Federation (Nepal), Former Convenor
Mr. Sanjai Bhatt, PAIRVI (India)

South East Asia
Ms Arimbi Hereopoetri, Debt Watch (Indonesia)

Central Asia
Ms. Natalia Ablova, Bureau on Human Rights and Rule of Law (Krygystan)

Pacific
Ms. Ruth Pune, Center for Environmental Law and Community Rights (Papua New Guinea)

Japan
Mr. Yuki Tanabe, Japan Center for Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES)

Netherlands
Mr. Marnix Becking, Both Ends

Philippines
Ms. Ana Maria Nemenzo, Freedom from Debt Coalition

Ex-Officio
Mr. Hemantha Withanage, Executive Director