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Main Page: Country Safeguard Systems

26 August 2022

ADB’s safeguard policy statement is the comprehensive articulation of ADB’s safeguard provisions in three areas: environment, involuntary resettlement, and indigenous peoples. Country safeguards systems are composed of the policies, practices, legal frameworks, and institutions that a country puts in place to avoid, minimize or mitigate potentially adverse environmental and social impacts of development activities. ADB believes that the application of country safeguards systems to development projects reduces transaction costs, enhances country ownership, and helps ensure the long-term sustainability of development efforts.

The use of country safeguards systems is neither automatic nor mandatory. Country safeguards systems cannot be used on projects that ADB considers highly complex or sensitive.

Program and Learning Materials: 
Date Session / Activity Presentation Material Speaker(s)
01 Aug 2022 Country Safeguard Systems: Central and West Asia
ADB’s safeguard policy statement is the comprehensive articulation of ADB’s safeguard provisions in three areas: environment, involuntary resettlement...
01 Aug 2022 Country Safeguard Systems: East Asia
ADB’s safeguard policy statement is the comprehensive articulation of ADB’s safeguard provisions in three areas: environment, involuntary resettlement...
01 Aug 2022 Country Safeguard Systems: South Asia
ADB’s safeguard policy statement is the comprehensive articulation of ADB’s safeguard provisions in three areas: environment, involuntary resettlement...
01 Aug 2022 Country Safeguard Systems: Southeast Asia
ADB’s safeguard policy statement is the comprehensive articulation of ADB’s safeguard provisions in three areas: environment, involuntary resettlement...
01 Aug 2022 Country Safeguard Systems: Pacific
ADB’s safeguard policy statement is the comprehensive articulation of ADB’s safeguard provisions in three areas: environment, involuntary resettlement...
Date Session / Activity Presentation Material Speaker(s)
02 Aug 2022 30 May - 01 June 2016 Country Safeguard Systems Subregional Workshop
ADB held the Country Safeguards Systems Subregional Workshop on 30 May to 1 June 2016 in Tbilisi, Georgia for representatives from 11 DMCs in Central, ...
02 Aug 2022 23 - 25 August 2016 Country Safeguard Systems South and Southeast Asia Subregional Workshop
Eighty participants from 13 DMCs in South and Southeast Asia attended the Country Safeguard Systems Subregional Workshop in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam...
02 Aug 2022 20 - 22 September 2016 2016 Development Finance Institutions Social Experts Meeting
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) hosted for the first time the Development Finance Institutions (DFI) Social Experts Meeting on 20-22 September 2016 at...
Date Session / Activity Presentation Material Speaker(s)
03 Aug 2022 Publications
03 Aug 2022 Briefing Note No. 1: Country Safeguard Systems - An Overview
ADB's Safeguard Policy Statementcalls for strengthening country safeguard systems as an objective in itself, to ensure that such systems achieve the benchmarks...
03 Aug 2022 Briefing Note No. 2: Strengthening Country Safeguard Systems For Effective Environmental Management
Countries and multilateral financial institutions alike recognize the need to establish and implement legal and administrative frameworks thatassess potential...
03 Aug 2022 Briefing Note No. 3: Strengthening Country Safeguard Systems For The Protection Of Displaced Persons
ADB's Safeguard Policy Statement recognizes efforts by developing member countries to improve involuntary resettlement safeguardsand paves the way for...
03 Aug 2022 Briefing Note No. 4: Safeguarding Indigenous Peoples Through Strengthening Country Safeguard Systems
Opportunities remain to strengthen country safeguard systems for indigenous peoples by improving developing member countries' capacity to implement projects...
03 Aug 2022 Briefing Note No. 5: Strengthening Capacity To Apply Country Safeguard Systems
The 2009 Safeguard Policy Statement of the Asian Development Bank calls for strengthening country safeguard systems as an objective in itself, to ensure...

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