Press
ADB warned of Asia's risks without strong safeguards, Press Release, May 6, 2008. (BIC website)
Paulson pressed on ADB funding rules, by Raphel Minder, March 9, 2008. (Financial Times website)
NGO Forum urges ADB to revise draft document, The Rising Nepal, February 8, 2008. (The Rising Nepal website)
NGOs cease talks with ADB on SPU, Times of India, February 8, 2008. (Times of India website)
NGOs to boycott ADB’s South Asia Consultation, The Hindu, January 12, 2008. (The Hindu website)
ADB Faces Boycott as it Subverts Environment, Resettlement and Indigenous Safeguard Policies Press Release, January 15, 2008 (BIC website)
Correspondence
US Congress Letter ADF Replenishment, March 6, 2008 (Acrobat pdf, 383 KB)
Open letter to ADB on the SPU from Burmese civil society groups, March 4, 2008. (Acrobat pdf, 37 KB)
VP Schaefer-Preuss Response to Urgewald-BIC-JACSES Letter, March 4, 2008. (Acrobat pdf, 46 KB)
Urgewald-BIC-JACSES Letter to VP Schaefer-Preuss, January 21, 2008. (Acrobat pdf, 150 KB)
Vietnam NGO letter to ADB Regarding Consultations in Hanoi, February, 28, 2008. (Acrobat pdf, 21 KB)
Vietnam NGO letter to ADB Regarding Consultations in Hanoi -- in Vietnamese, February 28, 2008. (Acrobat pdf, 133 KB)
Oxfam Letter Calling for Halt in Asian Development Bank Safeguard Policy Update Process, January 29, 2008. (Acrobat pdf, 85 KB)
BIC Communication on Asian Development Bank Safeguard Policy Update 11 Jan 2008. (Acrobat pdf, 128 KB)
ADB response to NGO Forum’s Oct. 24 & 25 Letters regarding SPU process and postponement November 6, 2007. (Acrobat pdf, 897 KB)
NGO Forum Letter regarding ADB SPU Process-Oct 25 2007 October 25, 2007. (Acrobat pdf, 37 KB)
NGO Forum on ADB Safeguards Consultations Postponement Letter October 24, 2007. (Acrobat pdf, 33 KB)
NGO Letter Regarding ADB Staff Resignations from Drafting Team, August 01, 2007 August 1, 2007 (Acrobat pdf, 22 KB)
NO to Weakened Standards, YES to Accountability: Open Letter to ADB on Safeguard Policy Update, March 16, 2006 (Acrobat pdf 36 KB)
Letter to the ADB, Earth Rights International - Southeast Asia, February 27, 2006 (Acrobat pdf 247 KB)
CSO Letter to President Kuroda SPU Concerns February 9, 2007 (Acrobat pdf, 37 KB)
Letter to ADB, Oxfam Australia, January 18, 2006 (Acrobat pdf 126 KB)
Letter to ADB, Oxfam Australia, October 4, 2005 (Acrobat pdf 250 KB)
Civil society letter to Kuroda on policy update process, NGO Forum on ADB, July 22, 2005 (Acrobat pdf 599 KB)
Civil Society Analyses on Consultation Draft SPS (October 2007)
BIC Clarifications on April 1, 2008 Safeguards Policy Statement Comments, Bank Information Center, June 2008 (Acrobat pdf, 160 KB)
Mekong Watch Comments on Consultation Draft SPS, April 22, 2008. (Acrobat pdf, 381 KB)
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide’s Comments on ADB draft SPS (October 2007), April 2, 2008. (Acrobat pdf, 86 KB)
BIC Comments On ADB draft SPS (October 2007), April 2, 2008. (Acrobat pdf, 141 KB)
Summary of Concerns regarding the ADB’s Draft Safeguard Policy Statement: Unacceptable Weakening of ADB Environmental and Social Standards, Stephanie Fried, Environmental Defense Fund, Steve Herz, for Bank Information Center, Helen Leake, Forest Peoples Programme, Joanna Levitt, International Accountability Project, Anne Perrault, Center for International Environmental Law, January 17, 2008 (Acrobat pdf, 166 KB)
Final Comment draft SPS: Involuntary Resettlement Sections (IAP) (Acrobat pdf, 255 KB)
Final Comments draft SPS: IP Sections (FPP) (Acrobat pdf, 363 KB)
Preliminary Analysis of draft SPS (October 2007 consultation draft)
Preliminary Analysis: Environment sections of ADB draft SPS Environmental Defense, December 2007 (Acrobat pdf, 58 KB)
Preliminary Analysis-IP Sections of ADB draft SPS Forest Peoples Programme, December 2007 (Acrobat pdf, 325 KB)
Preliminary Analysis-Involuntary Resettlement sections on ADB draft SPS International Accountability Project, December 2007 (Acrobat pdf, 57 KB)
Preliminary Gender Analysis of ADB draft SPS Gender Action, December 2007 (Acrobat pdf, 43 KB)
Initial Country Systems Analysis of draft SPS Center for International Environmental Law, December 2007 (Acrobat pdf, 54 KB)
Draft Comparison-EA Principles and Requirements Center for International Environmental Law, December 2007 (Acrobat pdf, 50 KB)
Draft Comparison-IP Principles and Requirements Center for International Environmental Law, December 2007 (Acrobat pdf, 44 KB)
Draft Comparison-IR Principles and Requirements Center for International Environmental Law, December 2007 (Acrobat pdf, 44 KB)
Comparison-ADB draft SPS and IFC Performance Standards by Steve Herz, Bank Information Center, December 2007 (Acrobat pdf, 40 KB)
Comparative Matrices of ADB Policies and International Best Practice
Comparative Matrix-ADB Policy on Indigenous Peoples Tom Griffiths, Forest Peoples Programme(Acrobat pdf, 118 KB)
Comparative Matrix-ADB Environment Policy Stephanie Fried, Environmental Defense (Acrobat pdf, 125 KB)
Comparative Matrix-ADB Involuntary Resettlement Policy Joanna Levitt, International Accountability Project (Acrobat pdf, 165 KB)
Case Studies and Other Documentation
U. S. Government Revised Comments on October Draft SPS, April 28, 2008. (Acrobat pdf, 74 KB)
Safeguarding or Disregarding?Community Experiences with the Asian Development Bank’s Safeguard Policies January 1, 2007 (Acrobat pdf, 2018 KB)
Comments on ADB SES on Involuntary Resettlement Safeguard, International Accountability Project, January 2007 (Acrobat pdf 203 KB)
Comments on ADB SES of Environmental Safeguards, (NGO Forum on the ADB, November 2006)
Comments on ADB SES of Involuntary Resettlement Safeguards, (NGO Forum on the ADB, November 2006)
Snapshots of ADB Disasters September 1, 2006 (Acrobat pdf, 2393 KB)
Country Systems: Does it mean better social and environmental outcomes for ADB projects?, Bank Information Center, Published by NGO Forum on the ADB in the Bankwatch newsletter, November 2006 (Acrobat pdf 35 KB)
Comments on the Discussion Note of the ADB Safeguard Policies Update, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES), February 28, 2006 (Acrobat pdf, 243 KB)
Europe money in Asia! The art of Asian Development Bank’s Co-financing, NGO Forum on the ADB, October 20, 2005 (MS Word doc)
ADB Documents
Consultation Draft-ADB Safeguard Policy Statement October 12, 2007 (Acrobat pdf, 654 KB)
Special Evaluation Study on Environmental Safeguards, September 12, 2006 (ADB website)
ADB Management's Response to Special Evaluation Study of Environmental Safeguards: Final Report, September 22, 2006 (ADB website)
Special Evaluation Study on Involuntary Resettlement Safeguards, September 26, 2006 (ADB website)
ADB Management's Response to Special Evaluation Study on Involuntary Resettlement Safeguards: Final Report, October 6, 2006 (ADB website)
Technical Assistance for Strengthening Country Safeguard Systems, December 2005 (Acrobat pdf 209 KB)
Safeguard Policy Update: A Discussion Note, October 2005 (Acrobat pdf 976 KB)
Announcement: ADB Updates Safeguard Policies for Enhanced Effectiveness and Relevance, July 18, 2005 (Acrobat pdf 39 KB)
Environment Policy, November 2002 (ADB website)
Policy on Indigenous Peoples, 1999 (ADB website)
Policy on Involuntary Resettlement, August 1995 (ADB website)