Results for Impact: Deepening Engagement with Civil Society (2020 CSO Anchors Training)
17 to 19 November 2020

Philippines

The 2020 CSO Anchors Training aimed to enhance the knowledge and skills of key ADB staff to engage effectively with CSOs in the pandemic context and using current ADB procedures throughout the project cycle. The target core participants of this 3-day training were the CSO Anchors or ADB specialists and officers from the headquarters and Resident Missions who are also appointed as focal persons for civil society engagement (CSE) and who comprise the ADB CSO Cooperation Network. 83 ADB staff participated in the training.

The training featured a conversation with ADB management represented by SDCC DG Woochong Um, SARD DG Kenichi Yokoyama and SERD DG Ramesh Subramaniam, who shared that ADB values CSOs for their knowledge of local contexts and ability to identify ADB’s blind spots and provide neutral oversight on ADB-supported projects, as well as their important inputs and perspectives on policy and country programming work. The training also featured a dialogue with women CSO leaders Oxfam Asia Regional Director Lilian Mercado, India’s Self-Employed Women’s Association CEO Reema Nanavaty, and grassroots NGO leader Kapina Rasnon, who recommended that ADB looks at the current pandemic situation as an opportunity to support positive and creative disruption or ‘a great reset’ of existing social, economic, political and environmental systems that perpetuate inequality. Furthermore, the CSO Anchors exchanged insights and lessons on their CSE experience from operational departments and identified concrete steps to enhance CSO engagement towards a dream where empowered CSOs are involved in all ADB-supported projects at various stages and contributing to Strategy 2030.

2020 CSO Anchors Training Day 1 Plenary

2020 CSO Anchors Training Day 2 Plenary

2020 CSO Anchors Training Day 3 Plenary

Program and Learning Materials
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Day 1 Day 1 Image: 2020 CSO Anchors Training
Module 1 Visions: Reimagining Civil Society Engagement in the New Normal Ramesh Subramaniam, Kenichi Yokoyama, Woochung Um, Pinsuda Alexander
Module 2 Stories of Change: Meaningful Civil Society Engagements
Module 2 CWRD Highlights: CSO Engagement in 2020, Plans for 2021
Module 2 Meaningful Civil Society Engagements in SARD’s Operations
Module 2 PARD’s Engagement with Civil Society: 2020 NGO Anchors Annual Training
Module 2 CSO participation in ADB operations in Mongolia in 2020
Module 2 NGO works in PRCM
Module 2 Engagement with Civil Society Organizations in the Southeast Asia Regional Department
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Day 2 Day 2 Image: 2020 CSO Anchors Training
Module 3 The Great Reset: Challenges and Opportunities of Civil Society Engagement in the New Normal
Module 3 Perspectives from CSOs: Oxfam in Asia Lan Mercado
Module 3 Perspectives from CSOs: Self-Employed Women’s Association Reema Nanavaty
Module 4 Learning Exchange: Special Topics in Civil Society Engagement
Module 4 Meaningful Youth Engagement in ADB Operations Chris Morris
Module 4 Documenting Civil Society Engagement in ADB-Finance Operations Lanie Thomas
Module 4 M&E for Civil Society, Youth and Citizen Engagement Hyun Joo Youn
Module 4 Monitoring and Evaluation at NGOC Training
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Day 3 Day 3 Image: 2020 CSO Anchors Training
Module 5 Power Up: The New Staff Instructions - A Guide to Promoting CSO Participation in ADB Projects Emma Walters
Module 6 Level Up: Way Forward on Civil Society Engagement Roselle Rasay

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Event Coordinator/s

  • Roselle Rasay

ADB Organizer/s

  • Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Topics

  • Capacity Development
  • Civil Society