ADB's Safeguard Policy Statement recognizes efforts by developing member countries to improve involuntary resettlement safeguards and paves the way for the application of country safeguard systems to ADB-financed projects.

Countries and multilateral financial institutions alike recognize the need to establish and implement legal and administrative frameworks that assess potential risks and manage the impacts of development projects on the environment.

ADB's Safeguard Policy Statement calls for strengthening country safeguard systems as an objective in itself, to ensure that such systems achieve the benchmarks set by international good practices.

The term Indigenous Peoples is used in a generic sense to refer to a distinct, vulnerable, social and cultural group possessing the following characteristics in varying degrees: (i) self-identification as members of a distinct indigenous cultural group and recognition of this identity by others; (ii) collective attachment to geographically distinct habitats or ancestral territories in the project area and to the natural resources in these habitats and territories; (iii) customary cultural, economic, social, or political institutions that are separate from those of the dominant society and c

This presentation discussed the introduction to the LCIPP and its establishment, IPs participation in the UNFCCC, and funding for IPs related to climate change.