Official Documents
ADB Medium Term Strategy II (2006-2008)
ADB Forest Policy (Working Paper), June 2003 (ADB website)
ADB’s Policy on Forestry (active), March 1995 (ADB website)
ADB’s Policy on Forestry (active), March 1995 (ADB website)
Civil Society Analysis
“Secrets and Lies: The Asian Development Bank’s new Forest Policy”, World Rainforest Movement Bulletin No. 95, June 2005
Model Forest Policy for Financial Institutions, World Wildlife Federation and Friends of the Earth (Acrobat pdf 307 KB)
Putting Profits before People: A critique of the ADB's June 2002 draft forest policy: 'Forests for all and forever’, by Chris Lang, Oxfam Mekong Initiative, May 16, 2003
BIC letter to Paul Speltz, US Executive Director at the ADB, regarding the Forest Policy Review, October 21, 2003 (Acrobat pdf 200 KB)
Friends of the Earth International and NGO Forum on ADB letter to the ADB Executive Directors re: ADB Forest Policy review, July 16, 2003
ADB response to July 16 letter, July 28, 2003 (Acrobat pdf 44 KB)
Useful Websites
World Rainforest Movement webpage on ADB’s Forest Policy Review