This action guide is for communities and their allies who are working for development that honors human dignity and the earth. All over Asia, governments and companies are building huge, destructive projects that they say are for “development”. But communities often experience that these projects—such as dams, mines, and power plants—cause terrible harm to the environment, forcibly displace communities, impoverish families, and threaten many people’s human rights. More and more, communities are mobilizing to stop these destructive projects and are raising their voices to say: Real development does not violate human rights. In Asia, some of these destructive projects are funded and supported by an institution called the Asian Development Bank. One goal of this guide is to help communities understand the Asian Development Bank (also called the ADB) and utilize the ADB’s safeguard policies as tools in the struggle to make sure development respects human rights…

The guide is also available in Burmese here.