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ADB's Safeguard Policy Update
Consultation with Civil Society Organizations

Meeting Format | Participants

Professional facilitation by ADB consultants was provided. The consultation included:

Presentations

• ADB's proposed safeguard policy objectives, principles, and requirements highlighting key differences in existing and proposed safeguard policies
• Policy delivery process including general and specific requirements (such as strengthening and use of country systems), and ADB-borrower/client roles and responsibilities
• Preliminary results of assessments of country safeguard systems

Sessions in Plenary

• Following each presentation, a brief clarification session was provided. At this point, questions of understanding were discussed in order to establish a clear basis for the breakout group.
• An additional session in plenary is set on the second day to provide space for broader comments on the Consultation Draft of the Safeguard Policy Statement [ PDF: 509kb | 86 pages ].

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