Lanzhou University Center for Western Environmental and Social Development

Balancing community development and environmental protection through research, interdisciplinary cooperation, comprehensive community development and capacity building for public welfare organizations.

Goals

To achieve sustainable development in rural area through disaster management, ecological recovery and the improvement of livelihoods.

Major Projects

• September 2011 – June 2012, One Foundation “May 12 Post-Quake Rebuilding Ecology Recovery Program”
• April 2011 – October 2012, UN Women funded legislative body to make "Rules on Climate Change and Responding Policies Focusing on Requirements of Social Gender Sensitivity’”
• April 2009 – December 2012, Shih Wing Ching Foundation Ecology Recovery – Disaster Management – Livelihood Improvement Research Pilot Project
• April 2010 – December 2011, Kadoorie Charitable Foundation funded Ecology Recovery, Livelihood Improvement and Women’s Health Education Program
• 2012, National Science Supporting Project: Climate Change and its Influences on Desertification and Risk Evaluation Technology

Major Achievements

• January 2012, One Foundation Civil Disaster Relief Award
• June 2011, Director Dr. Wenguang Ding was awarded West China Ecological Protection Innovative Public Participating Program Individual Outstanding Contribution Award
• 2010, Ford Foundation Environmental Protection Award Emission First Prize
• December 2010, “Nature: Research on Social Environment and Poverty Risk— In the Case of Gansu” was awarded “Twelfth Gansu Social Science Outstanding Research” First Prize
• “Ecological Environmental Policies and Poverty Risk Research” was awarded 2012 Gansu Environmental Science Technology Second Prize

Major Funders

Kadoorie Charitable Foundation, Shih Wing Ching Foundation, UN Women, One Foundation, Science and Technology Ministry of China, Gansu Science and Technology Department, Gansu Grassland Observance Station

Major Partners

Lanzhou University, Gansu People’s Congress Legislative Affairs Commission, Gansu Agricultural Department, Gansu Women’s Federation, Gansu Forestry Department, Gansu Grassland Observance Station, Gansu Pingliang Kongtong District Women’s Federation, Gansu Jingyuan Science Association, Gansu Anding District Science and Technology Bureau, Gansu Jishi Shan County People’s Congress, Gansu Lintao County People’s Congress

Distinctions

We use our experience in community development to encourage policy makers to pay attention to rural sustainable development, and combine advocacy with actions and cases.