To:
Priyantha Wijayatunga
Senior Director, ADB Energy Sector
David Morgado
Senior Energy Specialist, ADB Energy Sector
Cc:
Executive Assistant Angelica Apilado
8 July 2024
Re: Request for a Meeting on ADB’s Energy Policy Review and other related plans
Dear Priyantha and David,
Hoping you are both safe and well. We are formally reaching out to your office about urgent matters concerning the ADB Energy Policy Review. In one of your letter responses to us during the ACEF 2024, you mentioned that the said policy will undergo key changes in 2025. While we appreciate this heads up, we have yet to receive any information on the definitive timeframe and key elements/processes involved over its course.
In this light, the Forum, together with its members and allies, would like to request a meeting with your office to further touch on 1) any initial plans for the review, 2) the conduct of public consultations, and 3) the scope of the discussions at this venture. As we enter the third quarter of the year, we find it imperative to initiate dialogue efforts with the Bank and carry on a space for the civil society and constituent communities vis-à-vis the anticipated policy changes in its energy sector. On our side, we are looking forward to arranging it in an earlier timeline, the earliest in the third week of July. Please let us know the time and date would be possible on your end. We will set up a calendar invite and a Zoom link once the date is finalized.
The NGO Forum on ADB and its allies have been actively engaging on matters concerning the ADB Energy Policy since it was first subjected to a review. Hence, we would like to sustain these efforts, in good faith, hoping to foster more people-centered consultations and a stronger Energy Policy, with a clear articulation of safeguards and more robust implementation mechanisms.
Thank you very much and we are looking forward to your favorable response.
Sincerely,
NGO Forum on ADB
Endorsed by the following organizations:
350 Pilipinas, Philippines
350.org Asia, Asia
ACJCE, Pakistan
Adarsha samajik Progoti Sangstha, Bangladesh
Aksi! for gender, social and ecological justice, Indonesia
Alternative Law Collective (ALC), Pakistan
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Regional, Asia
Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), Regional
Bangladesh Working Group on External Debt (BWGED), Bangladesh
Bank Information Center, United States
Big Shift Global, Global
Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods (CSRL), Bangladesh
CEE Bankwatch Network, Georgia
Community Empowerment and Social Justice Network (CEMSOJ), Nepal
Center for Environmental Justice, Sri lanka
Centre for Environment and Participatory Research - CEPR, Bangladesh
Centre for Human Rights and Development, Mongolia
Centre for Research & Advocacy, Manipur, india
CLEAN (Coastal Livelihood and Environmental Action Network), Bangladesh
Coorg Organisation for Rural Development, India
DIPTO - A Foundation For Gender & Development, Bangladesh
Ecological public society, Armenia
Freedom from Debt Coalition, Philippines
Fundación CAUCE: Cultura Ambiental - Causa Ecologista, Argentina
Gender Action, Global
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Asia Pacific, Regional
Green Advocates International, Liberia
Growthwatch, India
Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF), India
Indigenous Women Legal Awareness Group (INWOLAG), Nepal
Initiative for Right View, Bangladesh
International Accountability Project, Global
International Rivers, (International)
ISDE Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Jamaa Resource Initiatives, Kenya
Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center - Kasama sa Kalikasan, Philippines
Lumière Synergie pour le Développement, Senegal
Mangrove Action Project, USA
Manushya Foundation, Thailand
Mekong Watch, Japan
Nash Vek PF, Kyrgyzstan
NGO Forum on ADB, Bangladesh
Oil Workers' Rights Protection Organization Public Union, Azerbaijan,
Oyu Tolgoi Watch, Mongolia
Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum, Pakistan
Participatory Research & Action Network- PRAAN, Bangladesh
Peace Point Development Foundation-PPDF, Nigeria
Recourse, The Netherlands
Riverine People Trust, Bangladesh
Rivers without Boundaries Coalition, Mongolia
Society for Participatory Education and Development (SPED), Bangladesh
SoDESH, Bangladesh
Songshoptaque, Bangladesh
Urgewald, Germany
Waterkeepers Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Youth chance of Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Youthnet for Climate Justice, Bangladesh
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