Meeting Between Civil Society Organizations and ADB Management

ADB senior management, represented by the ADB President, addressed representatives of civil society organizations (CSOs) and nongovernment organizations (NGOs). It was followed by questions and answers covering topics related to ADB’s support to development across Asia and the Pacific and ADB’s continuing engagement with civil society.

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Meeting Between Civil Society Organizations and ADB Senior Management

ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa met with CSO participants of the 56th ADB Annual Meeting. He invited CSOs to dialogue constructively with ADB and looks forward to hearing ideas and solutions from CSOs on meeting ADB’s climate ambition and rebounding from the COVID-19 pandemic. He expressed appreciation for the CSOs’ extensive participation in the ongoing Safeguard Policy Statement review, particularly in areas of safeguard implementation, stakeholders’ participation, grievance redress, and protection of communities from reprisals.

Policy Dialogue with CSOs 1: Challenging Ways Forward: Asserting Communities' Considerations on Just Transition

by NGO Forum on ADB, Asian People’s Movement for Debt and Development, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives – Asia Pacific, and Indus Consortium.

In his opening remarks, ADB Vice President for East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Ahmed Saeed highlighted that ensuring sustainable energy and development in the region cannot happen until it is just. He confirmed that more than mobilizing financing, knowledge, and collaboration with a range of actors to ensure sustainable and clean energy, ADB is doing purposeful work toward just transition.