Project Data Sheet
Project 49290-001
Project Data Sheet
Project 49290-001
| Project Name | Developing Environmental Justice Court Procedures and Training Materials for the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China | ||||
| Project Number | 49290-001 | ||||
| Country / Economy | China, People's Republic of |
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| Project Status | Closed | ||||
| Project Type / Modality of Assistance | Technical Assistance |
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| Strategic Agendas | Environmentally sustainable growth Inclusive economic growth |
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| Drivers of Change | Governance and capacity development Knowledge solutions |
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| Sector / Subsector | Public sector management / Law and judiciary |
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| Gender | No gender elements | ||||
| Description | The TA will enhance the capacity of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China to adjudicate environmental lawsuits, and enhance the capacity of the court system to perform its environmental law enforcement role more effectively. | ||||
| Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy | |||||
| Impact | Enforcement of environmental laws and regulations by PRC courts and protection of the rights of pollutions victims strengthened. | ||||
| Project Outcome | |
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| Description of Outcome | Capacity of PRC courts to manage environmental litigation, including environmental public interest litigation improved. |
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| Implementation Progress | |
| Description of Project Outputs | 1. International symposium to address procedural topics in environmental lawsuits 2. Leading international environmental cases and commentary on their procedural aspects and relevance for PRC environmental jurisprudence selected 3. Intensive training for environmental judges to study "green benches" in one or more foreign jurisdictions |
| Status of Implementation Progress (Outputs, Activities, and Issues) | |
| Geographical Location | Nation-wide |
| Summary of Environmental and Social Aspects | |
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| Environmental Aspects | |
| Involuntary Resettlement | |
| Indigenous Peoples | |
| Stakeholder Communication, Participation, and Consultation | |
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| Business Opportunities | |
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| Consulting Services | ADB will engage two international environmental legal experts for a total of 4 person-months; a national legal expert to serve as the team leader for 4 person-months; and a national coordinator for 2 person-months. An editor will also be engaged for 2 person-months (national or international) and approximately 6 international resource persons and 5 to 10 domestic resource persons. All will be engaged as individual consultants in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2013 as amended from time to time), and disbursements will be made in accordance with ADB's Technical Assistance Disbursement Handbook (2010 as amended from time to time). |
| Procurement | To be determined. |
| Responsible ADB Officer | Connell, Fiona A. |
| Responsible ADB Department | Office of the General Counsel |
| Responsible ADB Division | Office of the General Counsel |
| Executing Agencies |
Supreme People's Court Foreign Affairs Bureau 27 Dongjiaominxiang Beijing, PRC |
| Timetable | |
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| Concept Clearance | 19 Oct 2015 |
| Fact Finding | - |
| MRM | - |
| Approval | 14 Dec 2015 |
| Last Review Mission | - |
| Last PDS Update | 13 Nov 2015 |
| Milestones | |||||
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| Approval | Signing Date | Effectivity Date | Closing | ||
| Original | Revised | Actual | |||
| 14 Dec 2015 | 05 Jan 2016 | 05 Jan 2016 | 31 Dec 2017 | 31 Dec 2018 | 30 Apr 2019 |
| Financing Plan/TA Utilization | Cumulative Disbursements | |||||||
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| ADB | Cofinancing | Counterpart | Total | Date | Amount | |||
| Gov | Beneficiaries | Project Sponsor | Others | |||||
| 320,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 320,000.00 | 17 Jun 2022 | 290,416.09 |