Workshops

2016 Development Finance Institutions Social Experts Meeting (ADB Headquarters, 20-22 September 2016)

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) hosted for the first time the Development Finance Institutions (DFI) Social Experts Meeting on 20-22 September 2016 at the ADB Headquarters in Manila. The meeting discussed the latest policies and good practice on labor standards and supply chain management, migrants and refugees, livelihood restoration, and urban peri-urban resettlement. It provided a venue for sharing knowledge and expertise on emerging issues and challenges among social development and safeguards practitioners.

Country Safeguard Systems South and Southeast Asia Subregional Workshop (Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, 23-25 August 2016)

Eighty participants from 13 DMCs in South and Southeast Asia attended the Country Safeguard Systems Subregional Workshop in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam on 23-25 August 2016. The workshop was organized by Asian Development Bank's Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department with support from South Asia Department and Southeast Asia Department under TA 7566 for Strengthening and Use of Country Safeguard Systems (CSS). It featured CSS developments and highlighted progress of work on Powergrid Indiaís agency-level and Indonesiaís national and sectoral-level CSS application.

Country Safeguard Systems Subregional Workshop (Tbilisi, Georgia, 30 May to 1 June 2016)

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, West, and East Asia. Over 60 participants from governments, civil society, ADB, and development partners attended the workshop. Organized by SDCC with support from CWRD and EARD under TA 7566 for Strengthening and Use of Country Safeguard Systems, the workshop aimed to highlight lessons, challenges, and opportunities in addressing the environmental and social risks and impacts of projects through safeguards; identify specific gaps and challenges in applying CSS across the subregions, and determine possible approaches in bridging these gaps. GRM CD Yesim Elhan-Kayalar delivered the opening remarks while SDES Principal Social Development Specialist (Safeguards) Indira Simbolon officially closed the proceedings.

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