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Timeline and Schedule for Key Milestones*
Updated: 20 July 2009

Milestones
Date
Web posting of initial SPU announcement [ PDF: 39kb | 2 pages ] July 2005
Web posting of the SPU Discussion Note [ PDF: 999kb | 21 pages ] October 2005
Stakeholder comment period on the Discussion Note November 2005- March 2006
Web posting of stakeholder comments on the Discussion Note and the SPU ongoing
OED Special Evaluation Studies on ADB's Safeguard Policies 2nd quarter of 2006 - 1st quarter of 2007
Web posting of the Consultation Draft of the Safeguard Policy Statement [ PDF: 509kb | 86 pages ] 12 October 2007
Stakeholder comment period on the Consultation Draft of the Safeguard Policy Statement 12 October 2007 – 30 April 2008
External stakeholder consultations
     Central and West Asia Consultation (Bishkek)      14-15 November 2007
     Consultation with Indigenous Peoples (Manila)      26-27 November 2007
     Philippines Consultation (Manila)      28-29 November 2007
     South Asia Consultation (New Delhi)      16-17 January 2008
     Consultation with Civil Society (New Delhi)      18 January 2008
     Pacific Consultation (Sydney)      30-31 January 2008
     Indonesia Consultation (Jakarta)      12-13 February 2008
     East Asia Consultation (Beijing)      27-28 February 2008
     Mekong Consultation (Hanoi)      5-6 March 2008
     Pakistan Consultation (Islamabad)            26-27 March 2008
     North America Consultation
          US (Washington) [ PDF: 42kb | 1 page ]
          Canada (Quebec) [ PDF: 41kb | 1 page ]
     1 April 2008
     3 April 2008
     Europe Consultation (Frankfurt)      17 April 2008
     Japan Consultation (Tokyo)      22 April 2008
Web posting of second draft of the Safeguard Policy Statement (SPS) [ PDF: 458kb | 83 page ] 3 October 2008
Comment period closes 4 December 2008
Comment-response matrix [ PDF: 595kb | 129 pages ] 8 October 2008
Internal safeguard review procedures (preliminary draft Operations Manual)* 24 October 2008
Web-posting of Provisional Agenda for Multistakeholder Consultation Workshop on the Second Draft of the Safeguard Policy Statement [ PDF: 45kb | 2 pages ] 27 October 2008
Web-posting of Provisional Agenda for Indigenous Peoples Consultation Workshop on the Second Draft of the Safeguard Policy Statement [ PDF: 41kb | 1 page ] 8 November 2008
External consultation workshop on the second draft of SPS in Manila 18 – 21 November 2008
Webposting of consultation workshop reports 16 January 2009
Web posting and circulation to the ADB Board of the draft policy paper (W-paper)** [ PDF: 404kb | 109 pages ] 19 January 2009
Board consideration of draft policy paper (W-paper) 24 February 2009
Circulation to the Board of the final draft policy paper (R-paper)** 29 June 2009
Board Approval of Safeguard Policy Statement [ PDF: 320kb | 97 pages ] 20 July 2009

* Timeline is subject to change. Stakeholders will be kept informed of major changes.
** Working papers and R-papers are draft policy documents prepared at certain stages of ADB's policy formulation cycle.