The Bank's Policy on Forestry
Asian Development Bank | March 2005
Abstract
The Bank’s forestry operations began in 1977, with loans totaling more than $250 million over the first decade, complemented by some $15 million in technical assistance (TA) grants. A 1978 Working Paper on the “Role of the Bank in Forestry and Forest Industries Development” guided the Bank’s investments in the sector during this initial period. The Working Paper emphasized production-related aspects of forestry, agriculture-supportive forestry, watershed rehabilitation and the establishment of forest industries. This Policy Paper acknowledges the need to balance the three imperatives of production, protection and participation. It also underscores the involvement of beneficiaries at an early stage of project development through to implementation and management to ensure that investments in the forestry sector are sustainable. The Paper makes explicit statements on (i) conditions for Bank involvement in forestry sector investments; (ii) the potential role of NGOs in the entire process of the project cycle from design to implementation and monitoring; (iii) the treatment of old-growth forests; and (iv) areas of Bank involvement, taking into consideration emerging priorities.
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Asian Development Bank. 2005. The Bank's Policy on Forestry. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/4861. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Work Environment
Urban Environment
Social Environment
Regulatory Environments
Marine Environment
International Environmental Relations
Institutional Environment Assessment
Global Environment
Environmental Sustainability
Environmental Strategy
Environmental Services
Environmental Resources
Environmental Management and Planning
Environmental Issues
Environmental Guidelines
Environmental Effects
Environment and Pollution Prevention
Environmental Control
Environmental Technology
Land Development
Forestry Development
Fishery Development
Environmental Statistics
Environmental Planning
Environmental Management
Environmental Education
Environmental Capacity
Pollution Control
Nature Protection
Environmental Conservation
Air quality indexes
Ecological risk assessment
Environmental impact evaluation
Analysis of environmental impact
Environmental toxicology
Health risk assessment
Rain and rainfall
Acid precipitation
Ozone-depleting substance mitigation
Greenhouse gas mitigation
Prevention of pollution
Air quality
Air quality management
Pollution
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