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PRIMEX CEO engaged to assist |
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Posted on 27 February 2009
As SPU Administrative Manager from December 2008 to March 2009, Ms Ablaza has been assisting and supporting the ADB SPU Team in managing the "last leg" of the long and extended process of updating ADB's environment, involuntary resettlement, and Indigenous Peoples safeguards to make them more relevant to the needs of ADB's developing member countries and ADB's new lending modalities. The SPU will help ensure that ADB projects achieve sustained development impact and poverty reduction by minimizing and mitigating adverse environmental impacts, social costs to third parties or marginalization of vulnerable groups that may result from development projects. Currently, ADB's safeguard policies include the Environment Policy (2002), Policy on Indigenous Peoples (1998), and Policy on Involuntary Resettlement (1995). Meanwhile, another PRIMEX consultant, Mr. Charles Adamson, was engaged by ADB from January to April 2009 to help improve the implementation of environmental safeguards for ADB-supported projects in Central and West Asia. ADB has observed that while some projects have been successful in implementing the environmental safeguard requirements, others have fallen short of the expected outcomes. Mr Adamson has been tasked to examine successful projects and determine their reasons for success, and those considered 'less than successful' by determining the cause and issues leading to the underperformance. (Arvin Yana/ PRIMEX) |
PRIMEX President and CEO Elvira C. Ablaza has been tapped by the Asian Development Bank to help manage its Safeguard Policy Update (SPU), an undertaking that ensures ADB projects do no harm to the environment, the community and other immediate stakeholders, in the process of achieving their objectives.