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The NGO Forum on ADB is an Asian-led network of civil society organizations (CSOs), based in Asia and the Pacific region. CASES COMMUNICATION WITH AIIB EVENTS SUGGESTED READINGS FAQ STATEMENTS LETTERS Re: Virtual Consultations Hosted by AIIB on the Energy Sector Strategy Update To: Mr. Jin Liqun, President, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Mr. Ludger Schuknecht, V.P. and Corporate Secretary, AIIB Sir Danny Alexander, V.P., Policy and Strategy, AIIB Mr. Bob Pickard, D.G., Communications Department, AIIB AIIB Board of Directors – Via Email – Over the course of last week’s virtual consultations hosted by the AIIB on the Energy Sector Strategy Update, we hoped to join and engage in discussions in good faith. However, while we appreciate this gesture from the Bank towards expanding the process for public input on the Strategy Update, several key concerns – despite being raised consistently in writing and during online discussions – have yet to be addressed. As a result, following a collective deliberation, we are writing once again to highlight key issues of contention. With all due respect, we firmly reiterate our shared perspective that the consultation sessions as scheduled do not provide an opportunity for meaningful and inclusive dialogue between diverse sectors of civil society across the institution’s membership and the responsible Bank representatives – necessary not least because of the major implications on the future possibilities for just transition and the livelihood prospects of populations across borrowing nations of the Bank’s membership as well as meeting global climate ambitions. READ MORE FORUM'S LATEST LETTERS SENT TO AIIB Civil Society Engagement and Issues of Concern Regarding Meaningful Participation at the AIIB Annual Meeting 2024 NGO Forum on ADB’s Comments on the AIIB Project-affected People's Mechanism (PPM) Re: AIIB’s Virtual Consultation Sessions on the Energy Sector Strategy Update AIIB’s Extended Deadline for Public Input on the Energy Sector Strategy Update AIIB response regarding the Extended Deadline for Public Input on the AIIB Energy Sector Strategy Collective Statement For the Energy Sector Strategy Update Re: AIIB’s Call for Public Input on the Energy Sector Strategy Update AIIB's Response: 'AIIB’s Call for Public Input on the Energy Sector Strategy Update' Follow Up Correspondence Concerning the 2022 Energy Sector Strategy Update Open Statement on Collective Concerns Re: AIIB’s 2022 Energy Sector Strategy Update 15th July 2022 We, the undersigned civil society groups from across Asia, the Levant, Europe, and the Americas are advancing the following key points of concern in relation to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) Energy Sector Strategy Update, specifically in light of the opaque drafting process underway and the absence of meaningful opportunities for public engagement.[1] I. Process for the Energy Sector Strategy Update: Neither Inclusive Nor Meaningful While we acknowledge that the AIIB management extended the deadline for public submissions of written comments and scheduled a series of online discussions, we firmly reiterate our shared perspective that the compressed nature of the period for public comment – including the ad hoc, last minute set of virtual consultations – has not provided the space for meaningful and inclusive dialogues between diverse sectors of civil society across the institution’s membership and the responsible Bank representatives.[2] Our reasons for raising concerns about the process at hand are numerous,[3] but include: READ MORE FORUM'S LATEST STATEMENTS SENT TO AIIB Collective Statement For the Energy Sector Strategy Update Collective Call for a New Forward-Looking AIIB Energy Sector Strategy

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The NGO Forum on ADB is an Asian-led network of civil society organizations (CSOs), based in Asia and the Pacific region. CASES COMMUNICATION WITH AIIB EVENTS SUGGESTED READINGS FAQ Suggested Readings Collective Statement For the Energy Sector Strategy Update

The NGO Forum on ADB is an Asian-led network of civil society organizations (CSOs), based in Asia and the Pacific region. CASES COMMUNICATION WITH AIIB EVENTS SUGGESTED READINGS FAQ

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PROJECTS BEING MONITORED COMMUNICATION WITH AIIB EVENTS SUGGESTED READINGS FAQ CASES RECENTLY APPROVED Bangladesh Bhola IPP Bhola is the only island district of Bangladesh under the administrative division of Barisal in Bangladesh. Mumbai-based Shapoorji Pallonji Infrastructure Capital Company Private Limited (SP Infra), a subsidiary of SP Group is constructing a 220/225 MW Gas and Diesel based power plant through its new company Nutan Bidyut Bangladesh Limited (NBBBL) in Kutba area under Burhanuddin Upazila in Bhola. NBBL has received USD 60.00 million from Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and signed another agreement for USD 60.00 million from the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB). Bangladesh Working Group on External Debt (BWGED) and CLEAN (Coastal Livelihood and Environmental Action Network) in collaboration with NGO Forum on ADB conducted a study on social and environmental impacts of the power plant along with potential violation of national and international standards.​ Watch Video Beijing Air Quality Improvement and Coal Replacement The objective of the project is to improve air quality and reduce air pollution, such as CO2 emissions, particulate matter, SO2 emissions, and NOx emissions, by replacing coal with natural gas in rural villages on the outskirts of Beijing. Upon completion, the Project will provide gas service connections to approximately 216,751 rural households, and reduce coal consumption by around 650,000 tons annually in Beijing.

ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) Project Monitoring Communications News What is AIIB? “The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a multilateral development bank (MDB) conceived for the 21st century. Through a participatory process, its founding members are developing its core philosophy, principles, policies, value system, and operating platform. The Bank’s foundation is built on the lessons of experience of existing MDBs and the private sector. Its modus operandi will be lean, clean and green: with a small efficient management team and highly skilled staff; clean, an ethical organization with zero tolerance for corruption; and green, an institution built on respect for the environment. The AIIB will put in place strong policies on governance, accountability, financial, procurement, and environmental and social frameworks. ​ AIIB Structure According to Finance Minister Lou, the governance structure of the Bank will consist of 3 levels: Board of Governors, Board of Directors and the Management, adding that all powers of the AIIB will be vested in the Board of Governors which may delegate to the Board of Directors and the Management its powers as stipulated in the Articles of Agreement (AoA) [http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2014-10/24/content_18799068.htm, 24 October 2014 .]. ​ In the Forum’s recent lobby meetings with the ADB Board of Directors and as stated in AIIB’s description of the bank of keeping its operations ‘lean’, AIIB will have a board of directors that will not reside in Beijing as opposed to the practice in other MDBs. The likelihood of such a scenario poses the question of how will the board of directors carry out fully its duties, particularly in reviewing and approving projects and other operations–related functions. ​ AIIB MOU: Key Points The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank specifies that the authorized capital of AIIB is $100 billion and the initial subscribed capital is expected to be around $50 billion, according to Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei. ​ Lou said Prospective Founding Members have agreed that GDP will be the basic parameter in determining share allocation among member countries. Therefore, China will be the largest shareholder. ​ Previously, China announced that it is willing to subscribe to up to 50 percent of the capital. This is an indication that China would like to provide strong support to AIIB, Lou said. ​ However, China will not seek to be “the single majority shareholder” and will not necessarily subscribe 50 percent of the capital. He said. “Moreover, China’ s share ratio will be gradually diluted with more members joining AIIB in the future.” ​ AIIB: What We Know So Far and Emerging Concerns from Civil Society The founding of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is partly a result of the United States’ unwillingness to reform the Bretton Woods institutions. Since 2010, the US Senate has refused to ratify an agreement on governance reforms that would have doubled resources available to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by increasing capital contributions from emerging market countries. This would proportionately expand their voting power on the IMF Executive Board – where current quotas treat France as though it were more economically dominant than China, and Belgium more dominant than Brazil.

Project Monitoring Communications Events Suggested Readings FAQ PROYEKTO MONITORING Bangladesh Bhola IPP Bhola is the only island district of Bangladesh under the administrative division of Barisal in Bangladesh. Mumbai-based Shapoorji Pallonji Infrastructure Capital Company Private Limited (SP Infra), a subsidiary of SP Group is constructing a 220/225 MW Gas and Diesel based power plant through its new company Nutan Bidyut Bangladesh Limited (NBBBL) in Kutba area under Burhanuddin Upazila in Bhola. NBBL has received USD 60.00 million from Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and signed another agreement for USD 60.00 million from the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB). Bangladesh Working Group on External Debt (BWGED) and CLEAN (Coastal Livelihood and Environmental Action Network) in collaboration with NGO Forum on ADB conducted a study on social and environmental impacts of the power plant along with potential violation of national and international standards.​ Watch Video Beijing Air Quality Improvement and Coal Replacement The objective of the project is to improve air quality and reduce air pollution, such as CO2 emissions, particulate matters, SO2 emissions, and NOx emissions, through replacing coal with natural gas in rural villages on the outskirts of Beijing. Upon completion, the Project will provide gas service connections to approximately 216,751 rural households, and reduce coal consumption by around 650,000 tons annually in Beijing.

ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) Project Monitoring Communications News PROYEKTO MONITORING AIIB’s investments today undermine our tomorrow, say CSOs at the Bank’s Annual Meeting ​ Manila, Philippines – As the 6th Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) 2021 Annual Meeting, themed “Investing Today, Transforming Tomorrow”, opens today – days before COP26 in Glasgow – civil society organizations (CSOs) around the world have come together to highlight key critical concerns about the way the bank’s investments to date are already undermining peoples’ rights and ecosystem resilience, and about the institutions’ plans going forward, in light of the urgency of the climate, debt and health crises. In this context, civil society organizations are asserting a wide range of concerns about the specific projects and initiatives financed since the AIIB’s inception in 2016, while also issuing specific questions about the Bank’s policy frameworks being incorporated into its “Infrastructure for Tomorrow ” (i4t) approach. By all accounts, they charge the Bank with exacerbating social and economic despair, the crisis of illegitimate debt within borrowing member states, the security of environmental and human rights defenders, and toxic contamination of planetary commons; all without any regard for transparency or accountability. As Rayyan Hassan, Executive Director of NGO Forum on ADB explained: “Time and again, we have seen the AIIB insulate its annual meeting from direct engagement with project-affected communities, systematically averting any meaningful integration of our concerns into program sessions and consistently denying us the opportunity to organize or even co-host sessions within the formal agenda. While the bank has formalized its new corporate strategy, rolled out a new Environmental Social Framework, and is expected to announce timelines for revising its Energy Sector Strategy, the voices of an existing project impacted communities once again remain unheard through this virtual meeting agenda.” Dr. Nora Sausmikat, Head of the China Desk at Urgewald in Germany, stated, “The one who gives money bears responsibility! A multilateral bank initiated by China focussing on building infrastructure causing huge interventional into the social and environmental environment needs strong safeguards. Operating six years without time-bound information disclosure is a scandal.” Vidya Dinker, of GrowthWatch in India, elaborated further, “We see AIIB financing more and more projects that are non-transparent, cause environmental damage, biodiversity loss and serious violations of human rights, like in the Bangalore Metro Rail Project, while stubbornly refusing to be accountable. We, South Asians, are already vulnerable to climate change. Clearly, the bank is a part of the problem and not the solution as they'd like to project.” “AIIB should not allow projects offering support to rogue governments into its pipeline – like approving the 116-million-Euro project to the illegitimate regime of the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko for purchasing medical equipment and paying unnamed consultants. With little or no transparency in the procedures and the dysfunctional system of justice, the loans given to such governments will most likely be misused or stolen” says Art Ledovsky of the international movement of Belarusian communities ‘Belarusians Abroad’ As Dustin Schäfer of Urgewald enumerated, “six years of operation, 142 projects and over $28 billion invested, the Project Affected Peoples’ Mechanism (PPM) has yet to receive a single complaint. The empirical evidence is concerning and leaves many questions unanswered. Therefore, the PPM review must be open and transparent, involving not just other Independent Accountability Mechanisms and Multilateral Development Banks, but also NGOs and of course, those affected by AIIB projects. The AIIB should consult not only on the policy itself but on the scope of the review, its timeline, and the plan for consultation.” Petra Kjell Wright, Campaigns Manager at Recourse in the UK, added: “The worsening climate crisis threatens and affects all humanity, but it does not do so uniformly. Existing gender inequalities aggravate gender-differentiated climate change impacts, in particular for women and other marginalized gender groups. Despite years of civil society pressure AIIB has failed to take gender issues seriously. We call on the AIIB to finally make amends and implement a mandatory, robust, and freestanding gender policy, which also recognizes the impact of the global climate crisis.” Lidy Nacpil, Coordinator of the Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development, explained: “We are living in the most climate-vulnerable countries in the Global South that suffer from fossil fuel projects supported by financiers like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. The AIIB claims to be lean, clean, and green but has spent almost half of its energy portfolio on fossil fuels and still intends to fund fossil gas as a transition fuel. There is no more space to further expand fossil fuel production. We urge the AIIB to revise its Energy Sector Strategy to explicitly exclude coal, oil, and gas in future financing and immediately phase-out of all existing finance and assistance for fossil fuels, direct and indirect.” Tanya Lee Roberts-Davis, Energy Policy and Campaigns Strategist at the NGO Forum on ADB concluded: “The Bank has undermined - rather than upheld - i4t’s stated pursuit of environmental, social, and economic sustainability, in the very places that are at the frontlines of the climate crisis. With COP 26 on the immediate horizon, what better time for the Bank to confirm its Energy Sector Strategy will be revised through a robust public consultation process? Crucially, at this year’s Annual Meeting, they can – and must – commit to upholding provisions in a revised energy policy that rule out any further financing of fossil fuel and other destructive energy infrastructure projects (such as large dams and waste-to-energy incinerators), and instead incorporate actionable support for just, sustainable, inclusive energy transitions, wrested in the hands of publicly accountable institutions, with the utmost regard for all international human rights standards and conventions.” Watch the Press Conference

ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) Project Monitoring Communications News PROYEKTO MONITORING 19 July 2022 AIIB asked to go green, turn back on fossil fuels ​ 28 June 2022 Re: Virtual Consultations Hosted by AIIB on the Energy Sector Strategy Update ​ 22 June 2022 Re: AIIB’s Virtual Consultation Sessions on the Energy Sector Strategy Update ​ 13 June 2022 AIIB’s Extended Deadline for Public Input on the Energy Sector Strategy Update ​ 19 May 2022 Collective Statement For the Energy Sector Strategy Update ​ 2 May 2022 Re: AIIB’s Call for Public Input on the Energy Sector Strategy Update ​ 23 February 2022 AIIB response to NGO Forum on ADB network’s letter regarding Energy Strategy update ​ 15 February 2022 Collective Call for a New Forward-Looking AIIB Energy Sector Strategy ​ 28 January 2022 Follow Up Correspondence Concerning the 2022 Energy Sector Strategy Update ​ 24 January 2022 AIIB Withdraw Proposed Financing for 1.4GW Gas Project and Pipeline in Thailand ​ 28 October 2021 Joint Submission by NGO Forum on ADB & Urgewald on the AIIB Environmental and Social Framework ​ 23 September 2021 Key issues regarding the AIIB Annual Meeting 2021 Letter

ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) Pagsubaybay sa Proyekto Gitnang Asya | Mekong | Timog Silangang Asya | Timog asya Road Network Development Program PAMAGAT NG PROYEKTO Road Network Development Program ​ PROJECT NUMBER 39176-023 ​ HALAGA NG LOAN Karaniwang mapagkukunan ng kapital $ 190.00 milyon Asian Development Fund $ 10.00 milyon ​ BANSA Azerbaijan Ang Masalli–Astara Motorway Ang Construction Project ay pinondohan ng Asian Development Bank (ADB) at World Bank (WB) sa ilalim ng MFF Road Network Development Program 39176, dating kilala bilang ang Southern Road Corridor Improvement Project. Ayon sa Report and Recommendation of the President (RRP), ang proyekto ay magpapadali sa pag-unlad ng socio-economic. Papataasin din nito ang access ng mga lokal na komunidad sa mga pamilihan, mga oportunidad sa trabaho, at mga serbisyong panlipunan. May mga sambahayan at tao na malamang na maapektuhan ng pagtatayo ng bagong express highway sa 11 settlements katulad ng Khil, Sarchuvar, Boradigyah, Mollaoba, Turkoba, Yeddioymag II na mga nayon (Masally Rayon); Boladi, Girdani, Liman, Urga, Shirinsu mga nayon (Lenkaran Rayon). Bago pa magsimula ang paggawa ng kalsada, WALANG impormasyon tungkol sa disenyo ng kalsada, mga mapa, pinakabagong bersyon ng plano ng resettlement, at Draft Design and Monitoring Framework sa mga apektadong barangay na ginawang available sa publiko. At ito ay dapat na sumusunod sa Public Communication Policy (PCP) ng ADB. Ayon sa pinuno ng executive authority sa isa sa mga barangay administration, 126 na pamilya ang maaapektuhan ng pagtatayo ng expressway, na makakaapekto sa 21 ektarya ng agriculture land. Karamihan sa mga tao ay walang impormasyon tungkol sa proyekto at sa kaugnay nitong plano sa pagpapatira. Ang pinuno ng ehekutibo ng nayon ay hindi makapagbigay ng anumang mga dokumentong nauugnay sa proyekto maliban sa isang handmade na mapa ng buong kalsada mula Alyat hanggang Astara. Ang Patakaran ng Involuntary Resettlement (IR) ng 1995, para. 34 ay nag-aatas na ang prinsipyo ng pag-iingat ay itaguyod sa paghahanda at pagpapatupad ng mga proyektong pinondohan ng ADB; tiyakin na ang mga lumikas na tao ay tumatanggap ng tulong, mas mabuti sa ilalim ng proyekto, upang sila ay maging kasing husay kung saan sila ay wala sa proyekto. Tinukoy ng IR Policy ang tatlong uri ng tulong para sa IR: kabayaran para sa mga nawalang ari-arian at pagkawala ng kabuhayan at kita tulong para sa relokasyon, kabilang ang pagkakaloob ng mga relocation site na may naaangkop na mga pasilidad at serbisyo tulong para sa rehabilitasyon upang makamit ang hindi bababa sa parehong antas ng kagalingan sa proyekto tulad ng kung wala ito. Gayunpaman, iba ang sitwasyon sa proyekto. Ang mga tao ay walang anumang mga dokumento tulad ng plano sa pagpapatira dahil kinakailangan ito ng Patakaran sa IR at PCP. Ang tanging impormasyon na maibibigay nila noong nakaraang taon ay ang mga pasaporte at legal na dokumento na kanilang isinumite sa mga awtoridad ng ehekutibo. Noong kalagitnaan ng Hulyo 2009, ang parehong mga apektadong tao ay pumirma sa ilang mga dokumento na ibinigay ng executive authority. Dahil sa kanilang kamangmangan, hindi alam ng mga tao ang dokumentong kanilang pinirmahan. Ilang may-ari ng lupa ang tumanggi na pumirma sa dokumento dahil hindi sila sumang-ayon sa halaga ng kabayaran. Naging malinaw na ang mga lokal na ehekutibong awtoridad, nang walang anumang kasunduan at legalisasyon ng pagkuha ng lupa, ay nagsimulang tumanggap ng pahintulot ng mga apektadong tao na magbigay ng lupa para sa pagtatayo ng kalsada. May mga taong walang legal na karapatan para sa kanilang lupain at ari-arian. Ang Para 34 (7) ng IR Policy (1995) ay nag-aatas na ang kawalan ng pormal na legal na titulo sa lupa ng ilang apektadong grupo ay hindi dapat maging hadlang sa kabayaran. Ang mga problemang nauugnay sa proyekto ay isinumite sa ADB.