Welcome to DPI/AP

The review and update provides an opportunity for the Bank to build on the core principles of the current safeguard policies: improve coverage of environmental and social risks, deliver better environmental and social outcomes in the projects and programs it supports, and help strengthen country systems and institutions to deliver sustainable results on the ground. Some stakeholders have asked the Bank to consider a number of emerging areas that are not addressed under the current set of safeguard policies. These areas include climate change; disability; the right of indigenous peoples to free, prior and informed consent; gender; human rights; labor and occupational health and safety; and land administration, tenure and natural resources.

The one day Expert Focus Group on Disability sought the participants' opinion on how the World Bank should incorporate disability perspectives in its safeguard policies of investment operations.

Agenda

1. First session: Why is it important to integrate disability in the World Bank’s new safeguard policy document? How can this be done?
2. Second session: Why is it important to integrate disability as a standard in the World Bank’s new Social and Environmental Impact Assessment Document?
3. Third session: What are the essential mechanisms and strategies that the Bank could pursue to implement a safeguard with a strong commitment to issues of disability mainstreaming?
4. Fourth session: What are the outcomes from the expert meeting? How could the World Bank follow up with the invited experts on the process of integrating disability into its safeguards?

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Report Civil Society Committee for Organizing ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples' Forum 2012 14-16 November 2012 at Phnom Penh, Cambodia

"ASEAN People's Assembly grassroots" or "(ASEAN Grassroots People's Assembly - AGPA)" organized by the "Cambodia Cross-Sector Network" will be held for four days from Tuesday. To the summit with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) or the ASEAN and the ASEAN People's Assembly, as part of a grass roots movement by the people in the Southeast Asian region. To participate in the formulation of government policy.

Please read the report from: http://www.dpiap.org/reports/pdf/Report_ACSC_Nov_12_Cambodia_12_12_26.pdf

Country: Cambodia
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