ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty.
Established in 1966, it is owned by 69 members—49 from the region.
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ADB supports projects in developing member countries that create economic and development impact, delivered through both public and private sector operations, advisory services, and knowledge support.
Safeguards
ADB's safeguard policy aims to help developing member countries address environmental and social risks in development projects and minimize and mitigate, if not avoid, adverse project impacts on people and the environment.
Indigenous Peoples
Nearly three-quarters of the world’s indigenous peoples live in Asia and the Pacific. Their rights are increasingly threatened by development programs that could encroach on areas they traditionally own, occupy, use, or view as ancestral domain.
ADB’s indigenous peoples safeguards aim to ensure that the design and implementation of projects foster full respect for indigenous peoples’ identity, dignity, human rights, livelihood systems, and cultural uniqueness as defined by the indigenous peoples themselves so that they receive culturally appropriate social and economic benefits, are not harmed by the projects, and can participate actively in projects that affect them.
For a project with impacts on indigenous peoples, the Safeguard Polciy Statement (SPS) requires borrowers to carry out meaningful consultation and to prepare and implement an indigenous peoples plan. The plan includes measures to ensure that indigenous peoples benefit, and that adverse impacts are prevented, or where this is not possible, mitigated. The SPS requires that broad community support of affected indigenous peoples’ communities be ascertained for project activities to which indigenous peoples are deemed particularly vulnerable.
Assessment reports are required depending on the project's impact.
Related
- Indigenous Peoples Safeguards: A Planning and Implementation Good Practice Sourcebook
- How to Apply Safeguards for Indigenous Peoples in Education Sector Programs and Projects in Bangladesh - Final Report
- Applying Safeguards for Ethnic Minorities in Transport Projects in the Peoples Republic of China: A Learning Process from Yunnan Province - Final Report
- Safeguarding the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Sector: A Toolkit for the Philippines - Final Report
Safeguards Documents All Indigenous Peoples Safeguards Documents
Safeguards documents are project documents that provide information on assessments, measures, monitoring, and due diligence conducted for Environment, Resettlement, and Indigenous Peoples safeguards. View ADB's project cycle.
Indigenous people's planning documents
Indigenous People's Planning Frameworks
Indigenous Peoples Planning Frameworks provide guidance on safeguard screening, assessment, institutional arrangements, and processes to be followed for subprojects or subsequent tranches that are prepared after Board approval.
Indigenous Peoples Plans
Indigenous People's Plans are prepared for projects that will have impacts, positive or negative, on Indigenous Peoples.
Environmental and Social Management System Arrangements
Provide guidelines and frameworks for establishing the environmental and social management system for a project that is consistent with the safeguard policy principles and requirements of ADB.
Safeguards Due Diligence Reports
Safeguards due diligence reports are prepared as part of safeguard due diligence and review to ensure compliance with ADB safeguard policy due diligence requirements.
Social Monitoring Reports
Social monitoring reports provide the status of social issues or mitigation measures related to project implementation.
Other documents
Initial Poverty and Social Analysis (IPSA)
Initial Poverty and Social Assessment/Analysis (IPSA) identifies people who may be beneficially or adversely affected by a project. It determines the scope of poverty and the current state of social issues, such as consultation and participation, gender and development, and social safeguards and other social risks that will need to be addressed during project design. It is conducted for all ADB investment projects and programs.