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Asia and the Pacific

• China
• India
• Indonesia
• Japan
• Kanaky / New Caledonia
• Philippines (Filippines)
• Thailand

About the Asia-Pacific Region and ECAs:

Urban, rural and indigenous communities throughout the Asia-Pacific region have long borne the brunt of devastating impacts associated with ECA-financed projects. In January 2003, at the invitation of leading Indonesian finance NGO NADI and the Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development, Environmental Defense identified and presented at the Asian Social Forum in Hyderabad, India, data on over 600 projects in 25 countries (from Agents of Mass Destruction: ECAs in the Asia Pacific Region - Stephanie Fried - Environmental Defense - Dec. 2002 ) throughout the Asia Pacific region with existing or planned ECA finance. In January 2004, NADI and Environmental Defense (Hawai`i) published an overview of Asia-Pacific ECA activities, including a survey of Asian ECAs. In November 2004, they sponsored first Asia-Pacific Regional ECA Strategy Workshop, hosted by NADI in Indonesia with a steering committee of Asia-Pacific civil society groups from India, Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, New Caledonia and Hawai`i. The groups met and outlined a strategy for broadening the reach and sharpening the focus of regional ECA campaigns. At the meeting, the following Asia-Pacific priorities were identified:

• a focus on the Japanese ECA, JBIC;
• the development and publication of regional and country-specific materials on ECAs;
• ECA and Multilateral Development Banks training workshops (training of trainers) throughout the Asia Pacific region;
• the development of an open-source code easily-accessible regional ECA database; and
• increased coordination on campaigns.

Analysis of 600 projects in 25 Asia-Pacific countries: Part 1 Text [PDF] ; Part 2 Graphs [Excel] Jan. 2004 by Stephanie Fried, Ph.D.

Overview of Asia-Pacific ECA Activities, presented at World Social Forum in Mumbai Jan. 2004 ed. by Titi Soentoro, NADI, and Stephanie Fried, Ph.D., Environmental Defense