To improve the implementation of environmental and social safeguards and to harmonize approaches among international financial institutions for the further use of national safeguard systems in the Developing Member Countries (DMCs), the ADB launched its Country Safeguard Systems (CSS) pilot project. CCCS played a key role in this process by: comparing DMC safeguard systems with Bank regulatory frameworks and identifying aspects where the ADB policy could be adapted or improved to help build national regulatory capacity overseeing pilot application of the methodology in selected DMCs identifying practical operational approaches for ADB to be more effective in business processes and to strengthen CSS capacities of DMCs establishing capacity building programs with selected DMCs to fill identified gaps and strengthen country safeguard systems.