“Does The ADB Think Of ‘Vision & Mission’? Asking For A Country Friend!” – Frank A Hilario

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To finance Asian countries in combatting Climate Change, should not the Asian Development Bank (ADB) encourage million-dollar funding proposals that proceed from a Vision and a Mission? Asking for a friend!

Bonar Laureto shares on Facebook the above photo & the link to the message of ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa, which is in the news by ANN, “ADB Plans $14 Billion To Ease Food Crisis, Promote Long-Term Food Security In Asia And The Pacific” (Author Not Named, 30 Sept 2022, ADB SEADS, seads.adb.org). SEADS is Southeast Asia Development Solutions.

How do organizations find “solutions” to “problems”? A non-manager but an indefatigable digital researcher, my answer is: “First they have to find Vision and Mission.”

Now, how important are Vision and Mission? BDC says very clearly (bdc.ca/en):

A vision statement expresses a company’s main goal for the future while a mission statement concisely explains how that goal will be achieved.

So! The ADB might as well think in terms of corporate minds – so that it can consider funding proposals not only more intelligently but more incisively.

I know I'm trying to introduce a foreign matter into the affairs of the ADB, but what is more foreign than Climate Change, and it has become a common enemy?!

Upper image, caption: ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa is saying, “We need to act now, before the impacts of climate change worsen and further erode the region’s hard-won development gains.” Lower image: Continuing from Mr Asakawa: “The support will be targeted, integrated, and impactful to help vulnerable people, particularly vulnerable women, in the near-term, while bolstering food systems to reduce the impact of emerging and future food security risks.”

The $14 Billion loan package for 2022-2025 by the ADB “will be channeled through existing and new projects in sectors including farm inputs, food production and distribution, social protection, irrigation, and water resources management, as well as projects leveraging nature-based solutions.”

I go back to the management lessons on Vision and Mission I cited above. Therefore: When a country requests for a loan, I recommend that the ADB require clear statements of both the Vision and Mission of the project to be funded.

And, the ADB must prioritize the solution of Farmer Poverty and resolution of Climate Change – the modern Double Troublethat actually have the Same Origin: Conventional or Chemical Agriculture (CA). Quite unobtrusively, chemical fertilizers bring down incomes of farmers and bring up greenhouse gases (GHGs) that cause Climate Change. And the common solution is: Regenerative Agriculture (RA) – a practical approach being organic methods of farming.

I myself have been proselytizing about organic farming for at least 15 years, especially when then-US Vice President Al Gore came out campaigning against Climate Change. Thus –

Solving Farmer Poverty: Chemical fertilizers are very expensive while organic fertilizers are either inexpensive or can be produced by the farmers themselves. Also, the government can produce those materials in aid of farming.

Resolving Climate Change: Organic fertilizers generate zero (0) GHGs and therefore help negate Climate Change.

Now, ADB – are you listening?@517

 

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