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Safeguard Policy Review
A source for the latest important information on the environmental and social safeguard policy review, development, and consultation process.
References on the Safeguard Policy Review
The following resources serve as consultation materials, guiding documents, and background information that aim to support ADB and its stakeholders in the review and update process.
Consultation materials
- Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Policy Architecture
- Summary of the Analytical Study for the Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Safeguards in Different Financing Modalities
- Summary of the Analytical Study for the Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC)
- Summary of the Analytical Study for the Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (SEAH)
- Summary of the Analytical Study for the Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Gender and Safeguards
- Summary of the Analytical Study for the Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Safeguards and Climate Change
- Summary of the Analytical Study for the Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Strengthening and Use of Country Safeguards Systems
- Summary of the Analytical Study for the Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Safeguards for Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations and Small Island Developing States
- Summary of the Analytical Study for the Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Environmental and Social Impacts and Risks Management
- Background Note for the Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Lessons from ADB’s Accountability Mechanism
- Summary of the Analytical Study for the Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Stakeholder Engagement, Grievance Redress and Information Disclosure
- Summary of the Analytical Study for the Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Cultural Heritage
- Summary Analytical Study for the Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Resource Management
- Summary Analytical Study for the Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Involuntary Resettlement
- Summary Analytical Study for Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Community and Occupational Health and Safety
- Summary Analytical Study for Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Labor and Working Conditions
- Summary Analytical Study for Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Pollution Prevention and Abatement Study
- Summary of the Analytical Study for the Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Indigenous Peoples
- Updated Stakeholder Engagement Plan
- Background Information Paper on the Safeguard Policy Review
- Brochure on the Background Information Paper on the Safeguard Policy Review
Phase 1 Stakeholder Engagement Materials
- Preliminary Information Sessions (Regional)
- Summary Discussion of the Preliminary Information Sessions
- Written Feedback from Stakeholders
- NGO Forum on ADB
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Letter
- Attachment: Comments on the Review of the safeguard Policy Statement
- International Trade Union Congress
2009 Safeguard Policy Statement
- 2009 Safeguard Policy Statement
- Operational Manual for the Safeguard Policy Statement
- Environment Safeguards: A Good Practice Sourcebook
- Involuntary Resettlement Safeguards: A Planning and Implementation Good Practice Sourcebook
- Indigenous Peoples Safeguards: A Planning and Implementation Good Practice Sourcebook
Independent Evaluation Department evaluation reports
- Corporate Evaluation on the Effectiveness of the 2009 Safeguard Policy Statement
- Safeguards Operational Review: ADB Processes, Portfolio, Country Systems, and Financial Intermediaries
- Learning Lessons: ADB's Safeguard Policy
Technical Assistance projects supporting the review and update
- Technical Assistance Report for KSTA (53125-001)-REG: Strengthening Safeguards Implementation in ADB Projects
- Technical Assistance Report KSTA (54203-001)-Reg: Strengthening ADB's Safeguard Policy Provisions and Procedures
Accountability Mechanism reports
Message from the Managing Director General
Managing Director General Woochong Um encourages stakeholders, including civil society, to take part in the consultation opportunities during the review of ADB's environmental and social safeguard policy.