FAO Civil Society Regional Consultation on Food Security in Asia and the Pacific Region: ADB Opportunities and Entry Points

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FAO Civil Society Regional Consultation on Food
Security in Asia and the Pacific RegionADB
Opportunities and Entry Points

• Chris Morris
• Head NGOC, RSDD

23 February 2010 Richmonde Hotel, Manila
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Contents list

• Strategy 2020
• NGO/CSO cooperation
• Types of CSO/NGO Participation in ADB Activities
• Some trends

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Strategy 2020 ADB Corporate Vision
An Asia and Pacific Free of Poverty,"
helping its developing member countries (DMCs)
reduce poverty and improve living conditions and
quality of life
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Strategy 2020
focuses on complementary development agendas of
the region inclusive economic growth,
environmentally sustainable growth, and regional
integration.
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Strategy 2020cont.
ADB will engage in partnerships with a more
diverse group of institutions. Partnerships with
international development agencies, multilateral
and bilateral institutions, the private sector,
NGOs, community-based organizations, and
foundations will become central to planning,
financing, and implementing ADB operations.
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World Bank on Civil Society

• the growth of civil society has been one of the
  most significant trends in international
  development.  Partnerships between governments,
  businesses and CSOs are now one of the most
  effective ways to raise standards of living and
  achieve sustainable development

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POLICIES (sample)

• Accountability Mechanism
• Anticorruption
• Bank Criteria for Subsidies
• Cooperation between ADB and NGOs
• Cost Sharing and Eligibility of Expenditures for
  ADB Financing A New Approach
• Disaster and Emergency Assistance
• Environment
• Financing Foreign Exchange Component of Local
  Expenditure
• Financing of Interest and Other Charges During
  Construction
• Gender and Development
• Governance Sound Development Management
• Increasing the Impact of the Asian Development
  Bank's Technical Assistance Program
• Indigenous Peoples
• Involuntary Resettlement
• Mainstreaming the Multitranche Financing Facility
  
• Pilot Financing Instruments and Modalities
• Private Sector Operations

• Procurement Guidelines
• Program Lending
• Public Communications Policy (PCP)
• Regional Cooperation
• Revising the Framework for Asian Development Fund
  Grants
• Safeguard Policy Statement
• Sector Lending
• Supplementary Financing
• Use of Consultants by the Asian Development Bank
  and Its Borrowers

Sector policies
Agriculture and Natural Resource Research Education Energy Fisheries Forestry Health Population Water
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• ADB Works with NGOs
• And Civil Society
• (to strengthen) the effectiveness,
  sustainability, and quality of development
  services ADB provides
• - Cooperation Between ADB NGOs, 1998

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What Value do CSOs Provide?

• Innovation
• Accountability
• Responsiveness
• Participation
• Sustainability

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Areas of Interaction

• Loans and technical assistance
• Policy development
• Country programming
• Developing ADB staff and NGO capacity

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CSOs External Relations
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Mainstreaming Civil Society Cooperation in ADB

• Regional departments engage NGOs in operational
  activities
• Resident Missions/Rep Offices have regular
  contact with NGOs in the field
• DER interacts with NGOs on information and
  disclosure issues
• RSDD work closely with NGOs in several
  sectoral/thematic areas

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NGO Civil Society Center (NGOC)

• Situated in Governance, Financial Management and
  Participation Division, in the Regional and
  Sustainable Development Department
• Window for ADB interaction with civil society
• Engage NGOs in a continuing dialogue
• Improve ADB's institutional capacity to interact
  proactively with NGOs
• Provides knowledge, advice, and resources

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NGO Civil Society Center (NGOC)

• Established in 2001,
• Has established a network of NGO/civil society
  anchors in ADBs Resident Missions (RMs)
  recognizing that RMs are the frontline for CSO
  engagement in ADB Operations.
• NGO Anchors in RMs

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Levels of Cooperation

• Consultation
• Information Provider
• Policy and Advocacy
• Co-financer
• Beneficiary
• Expert/Trainer
• Implementing Agency
• Monitoring and Evaluation

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Types of CSO/NGO Participation in ADB Activities

• Consulting assignments
• Partnerships
• Consultation, feedback, meetings
• ADB Annual Meetings
• Country coordination and sector meetings
• Applications to sector funds

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Types of CSO/NGO Participation in ADB Activities

• Consulting assignments
• ADB employs consultants regularly in a wide range
  of positions. Consultants may be individuals or
  organizations, including NGOs. NGOs can lend
  skills and experience to plan, implement and
  evaluate projects. Therefore, if ADB is funding a
  project in the geographical area and sector where
  your organization has expertise, please register
  in the ADB consultant's database and monitor new
  opportunities as they are posted.

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Types of CSO/NGO Participation in ADB Activities

• Partnerships
• ADB lends to governments of its member states, so
  the most direct way is to partner with an ADB
  recipient government of the country where your
  organization operates in a sector addressed in
  the joint ADB-host nation Country Strategy
  Partnership. ADB funds projects as well as
  technical assistance, and both often involve
  civil society support. NGOs can represent
  marginalized groups and communities and NGO
  projects can serve as models for similar programs
  that will have a wider scope. Often partnerships
  are established at the project design phase, not
  during the project. Although it may seem
  challenging for an NGO to work with optimally
  with the government, approximately 75 of ADB's
  loans to governments include some level of civil
  society participation. ADB engages in a variety
  of partnerships with a range of development
  actors. Learn more about ADB and partnerships.

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Types of CSO/NGO Participation in ADB Activities

• ADB Annual Meetings
• By attending the ADB Annual Meeting, CSOs can
  engage with ADB on a variety of issues,
  contribute to policy discussions, and network
  with many other CSO participants from across the
  region. ADB welcomes the participation of civil
  society organizations (CSOs) including NGOs,
  labor unions, foundations, professional
  associations, and other nonprofit organizations.
  CSOs attending for the first time are required to
  go through an accreditation process that is
  coordinated by ADB's NGO and Civil Society Center
  (NGOC). View information on the accreditation and
  registration process. Please note that the
  accreditation process is only open from
  January-April of each year, however.

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Types of CSO/NGO Participation in ADB Activities

• Consultation, feedback, meetings
• ADB regularly seeks comment from civil society on
  its country strategy partnerships, policies, and
  strategies. NGOs can provide alternative
  perspectives on development issues. Monitor the
  ADB website and post comments or look to join
  upcoming consultative meetings in your country.
  An easy way to do so is to register on the E-mail
  Notification Service on the ADB home page to
  receive new postings that match your
  organization's interests. Upcoming consultative
  events are posted on the NGOC website under News
  and Events. ADB also encourages NGOs to be a
  voice for people adversely affected by
  ADB-assisted projects to voice and seek solutions
  to their problems and also report alleged
  violations of ADB's operational policies and
  procedures. Learn more about ADB how ADB seeks
  advice from CSOs.

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Types of CSO/NGO Participation in ADB Activities

• Country coordination and sector meetings
• Other collaboration develops on the ground when
  ADB and another organization are working in the
  same sector and/or geographical area. In country
  coordination and sector meetings are
  opportunities to get to work together and build
  relationships. Find contact details for NGO
  coordination bodies in your country.

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Types of CSO/NGO Participation in ADB Activities

• Collaboration
• ADB has a strong record of collaboration with
  ADB. However, ADB does not allocate any funds
  exclusively to NGOs, but instead to its client
  governments. Therefore, civil society
  organizations in a developing member country
  wishing to work with ADB should familiarize
  themselves with the Country Partnership Strategy
  of the country where they are working and
  identify if there are contributions that the
  organization can make to ADB's work. ADB seeks to
  work with organizations with expertise relevant
  to ADB's work.

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Types of CSO/NGO Participation in ADB Activities

• Applications to sector funds
• From time to time, different sector funds are
  open to NGO applications. The NGOC does not
  monitor or operate these funds, but all of the
  relevant information is available on the websites
  of each topics. Sectors who have, in the past,
  had funds available to NGOs include water,
  gender, and climate change. Again, the E-mail
  notification service is a useful way to monitor
  new postings that may be applicable to your
  organization. ADB also provides links to other
  funding sources.
• Questions about how your CSO can work with ADB?
  Email us at ngocoordinator_at_adb.org.

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CSOs/NGOs in ADB Loans (Lala get recent figures
up to 2009 and add to chart)
Year Total Loans Approved Loans with NGO Participation
2004 74 48
2003 72 47
2002 73 40
2001 64 36
2000 70 41
1999 48 25
1998 54 28
1997 75 27
1996 83 25
1995 71 20
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Some Trends

• Continued high levels of CSO engagement in loan
  activities
• More scrutiny of ADB (due to expanded disclosure,
  and nature of projects)
• Greater ADB collaboration with foundations and
  think tanks
• More attention on labor and human rights,
  subregional issues, and the MDGs
• Possibility of stepped up CSO involvement in
  project monitoring

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NGO Civil Society Center Asian Development Bank

• CHRIS MORRIS, Head NGOC, ADB
• P.O. Box 789
• Metro Manila 0980
• Philippines
• [phone], 5925
• ngocoordinator_at_adb.org
• http//www.adb.org/ngos