This Good Practice Guidance (GPG) on the Management and Control of Asbestos was produced by the Safeguards Division (SDSS) of the Asian Development Bank’s Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department (SDCC). Its preparation was led and managed by Felix Oku, Senior Social Development Specialist (Safeguards) and led by Bruce Dunn, Director of SDSS, under the oversight of Bruno Carrasco, SDCC Director General, and concurrently Chief Compliance Officer.

Production was managed with core support from the following consultants: Geosyntec Consultants Pty Ltd.

(Cheryl Halim, Kylie Lloyd, and Rachael Martin), Rocilyn Laccay, Rebecca Salvo, and Maria Cristina Velez.

ADB’s Technical Working Group on Occupational and Community Health and Safety comprising members of ADB operations and other departments, provided inputs and conducted technical reviews on this GPG.

We acknowledge contributions from the following staff: Zehra Abbas, Manjula Amerasinghe, Ricardo Barba, Haidy Ear-Dupuy, Beatrice Gomez, Glen Harris, Duncan Lang, Emma Marsden, Antoine Morel, Takako Morita Lalinka Padrinao, Ninette Pajarillaga, Noel Peters, Francesco Ricciardi, Susann Roth, Christopher Tabungar, Antoinette Virtucio, Jean Williams, and Jenny Chu.

We also acknowledge the review and guidance of Debbie Cousins and Derran Williams of the European Bank for Reconstruction Development (EBRD), and Bruce Gordon of the World Health Organization (WHO). Development of this GPG was funded by the Urban and Climate Change Resilient Trust Fund (UCCRTF) for the Regional Technical Assistance (TA 9901 – Strengthening Safeguards Implementation in ADB Projects).