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ENHANCING STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT IN MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANK PROJECTS IN ASIA IN THE CONTEXT OF LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT
CLIMATE-SMART CONNECTIVITY INFRASTRUCTURE: FINANCING INNOVATIONS AND BEST PRACTICES
06

December 2023

TIME:09:30 – 16:30 (GMT+8)

LOCATION:Virtual

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Co-organized by the Multilateral Cooperation Center for Development Finance (MCDF), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), and World Bank (WB), this workshop aims to enhance stakeholder engagement practices in land acquisition and resettlement among AIIB, ADB, and WB clients in Asia, with a focus on connectivity projects that have a regional or cross-border component. The workshop is designed to foster collaboration and experience sharing among project management units (PMU) of AIIB, ADB, and WB clients.

AUDIENCE

Participants will include select AIIB, ADB, and WB clients in Asia, primarily those engaged in the implementation of environmental and social framework and safeguard policy statement requirements related to land acquisition, grievance management, and stakeholder engagement in general. This includes members of Project Implementation Units, governmental agencies, and local consultants involved in the implementation of stakeholder engagement and grievance redress mechanisms in the land acquisition process.

AGENDA
SPEAKERS
Moderator
Session Speakers
Ross Butler
Ross Butler
Lead Social Development Specialist, World Bank
<p>Ross Butler is the Lead Social Development Specialist for the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region and is responsible for coordination of Social Risk Management functions across the region. He is based in Singapore.</p> <p>Ross is an urban planner and development anthropologist who has extensive experience in country-team coordination and providing direct social risk management support to high-risk and complex operations across key development sectors in diverse geographic, political, economic, and social settings. Ross has extensive experience in social assessment, land tenure, indigenous peoples, consultation, capacity building and analytical work in thirty countries in Europe and Central Asia, South Asia, and EAP, including fragile and conflict affected (FCV) countries. He was previously based in Beijing where he was the Social Sustainability &amp; Inclusion (SSI) coordinator for China &amp; Mongolia. Prior to that role he was the social risk management coordinator for the 12 Pacific Island countries, based in Sydney.</p> <p>Prior to joining the World Bank in 2013, Ross worked with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) where he was the social risk coordinator for the Central and West Asia Department based in ADB’s Manila headquarters. Earlier in his career, Ross worked for a major international engineering advisory firm and as a director of a sustainability consultancy advising on environmental and social risks for public and private public partnership (PPP) projects globally.</p>
Le Trung Thong
Le Trung Thong
Senior Social Development Specialist, The World Bank
<p>Thong is Senior Social Development Specialist of The World Bank. He is responsible for social risk management of the Bank financed project across different sectors in Vietnam: transport, urban development, energy, disaster risk management and rural development. He is based in Hanoi, Vietnam.</p> <p>Thong has been designing social risk mitigations and monitoring social risk management measures for the Bank financed projects in Vietnam using the Bank Environmental and Social Framework (ESF). He also possesses in depth experience in grievance redress management, with effective solution to resolve the prolonged and complicated complaints related to disputes on land-use history, land tenure, and resettlement arrangement, helping projects to move ahead and achieve development objectives. Thong was co-Task Team Leader of the Results-Based National Urban Development Program in the Northern Mountains Region with total investment of USD 200 million, implemented from 2015 to 2022, with performance-based transfers and capacity supports for those mountainous cities to plan, implement and sustain urban infrastructure. Thong is also co-Task Team Leader for the Bank’s technical assistances to adopt International Sustainability Standard Board’s ESG standards for Cambodia 2023 – 2025. He is also working with the Government of Vietnam for ESG disclosure framework for public sector entities.</p> <p>Prior to joining the World Bank in 2016, Thong had 17-year experiences working in social development and social-economics policies. Thong was team leader of several research in land acquisition, traditional craft, and culture preservation in National Centre for Socio-economic Information and Forecast, Ministry of Planning and Investment. He also worked with Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Electricity of Vietnam, KFW and ADB funded projects in land acquisition, involuntary resettlement, traditional craft village development, ethnic minorities and environment protection. Thong has a Master’s degree in Social Science.</p>
Annabelle N. Herrera
Annabelle N. Herrera
President and CEO of ECOSYSCORP INC.
<p>Annabelle N. Herrera is the President and CEO of ECOSYS, the only Company in the Philippines that has a full range of in-house resettlement planning expertise and services, including but not limited to Parcellary and As-Built Survey, Independent Property Appraisal, Inventory of Losses, Stakeholder Engagement and Public Participation, Socio-Economic Profiling, Livelihood Restoration and Improvement, and Gender and Development, among others.</p> <p>Annabelle holds a Master’s degree in Geology and started as an Environmental Specialist in the late 90’s for various major infrastructure and mining projects. In 2000, she pioneered as a consulting Resettlement Specialist, together with two other experts who were tasked to prepare Resettlement Action Plans for projects under the IBRD-Funded National Roads Improvement and Management Program (Phase I) of DPWH. From then she continued to be actively involved in resettlement planning for various major infrastructure projects such as national roads, expressways, railways, and bridges. Although backed up by experts she continues to undertake almost all, if not all Stakeholder Consultation Meetings with affected persons.</p> <p>From 2014-2016 she was deeply involved, as DPWH Adviser on R-O-W Matters and assisted in the drafting of technical paper that was used by the House of Representatives and Senate of the Philippines in drafting R.A. 10752, which was passed into law on 07 March 2016. All social safeguards feature of the prevailing law on Right-of-Way acquisition were from her contributions. From then she has been involved in the drafting of procedural manuals on Right-of-Way acquisition, as well as training of government officers and staff salient provisions of the law and the use of the manuals. She continues to serve as Resource Person in the latest amendments to the R-O-W legislation.</p>
ORGANIZING PARTNERS
CONTACT

If you would like to learn more about this workshop, please contact Ines Fejzic (ines.fejzic@themcdf.org) and Jenny Lou Fernandez (jenny.fernandez@themcdf.org)

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