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Annual Report 2003

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Broadening Development Partnerships

ADB continued to provide support for partnerships throughout the region. Indicative of its active engagement in regional and international issues was its support for and participation in the following:

1. the High-Level Forum on Harmonization,
2. the Third World Water Forum,
3. the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Growth Area Leaders’ Meeting,
4. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation,
5. Asia-Europe Finance Ministers’ Meeting,
6. the Twelfth Ministerial Conference on Subregional Cooperation in the Greater Mekong Subregion, and
7. the Second Ministerial Conference on Central Asian Economic Cooperation.

In addition, ADB signed cooperation agreements with the following institutions:

1. Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization to complement their knowledge base and to expand the network of institutions active in educational development;
2. World Health Organization to fight SARS and other emerging diseases;
3. United Nations Human Settlement Programme to build the capacity of Asian cities to secure and manage pro-poor investments and to help the region meet the MDG of “halving, by 2015, the proportion of people without safe drinking water and basic sanitation”; and
4. Gender and Water Alliance to promote gender mainstreaming into DMC water sector activities.

ADB’s resident missions played an essential role in enhancing the institution’s country focus enabling staff to work more closely with all stakeholders to achieve results. ADB and its resident missions worked with nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and civil society to strengthen partnerships and interaction in all areas and to build capacity. In May 2003, ADB approved the ADB-Government-NGO Cooperation: A Framework for Action, 2003–2005. The Framework put in an operational context the directives contained in ADB’s Long-Term Strategic Framework 2001–2015 and Medium-Term Strategy 2001–2005, particularly promoting improved conditions for wider and more effective participation in decision making by civil society.

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