14 December 2004
The Working Paper will be available for public comment for a 30 day period after which it will be revised and submitted to the Board as a Restricted Paper for final approval.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) plans to publicly release the Working Paper of the draft Public Communication Policy (PCP) by December 23, 2004. The Working Paper will also be sent to the ADB Board which is scheduled to review it at a meeting scheduled for January 21st, 2005. The ADB also promises to post on its website a matrix of the comments received from civil society on the 2nd draft PCP, with ADB’s responses. The Working Paper will be available for public comment for a 30 day period after which it will be revised and submitted to the Board as a Restricted Paper for final approval. A schedule of the Disclosure Policy review process is available on the ADB website at: http://www.adb.org/Disclosure/schedule.asp.
For more on this review process and comments submitted, see BIC's Transparency at the Asian Development Bank page