An interview with Wolf Kantelhardt, Finance and Evaluation Officer at Misereor, as part of the "Thinking Strategically about Civil Society Assistance in China" project
An interview with Wang Yi of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, as part of the "Thinking Strategically about Civil Society Assistance in China" series
An interview with Li Hong, Deputy Director General of the One Foundation, as part of the "Thinking Strategically about Civil Society Assistance in China" project
The 2014 China Grassroots Transparency Rankings, sponsored by organisations including the Dunhe Foundation, Narada Foundation, SEE Foundation, Western Sunshine, and China Foundation Center, was released on March 15 in Shenzhen. The list was based around information from 1300 grassroots NGOs.…
Interview with Liu Zhouhong, former Secretary-General of Narada Foundation, as part of the "Thinking Strategically about Civil Society Assistance in China" project
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today in Beijing launched Building Capacity of CSOs in China, an online e-course and scholarship programme to deliver expert training and qualifications to people studying or working in Chinese Civil Society Organisations (CSOs).
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The author writes that it is possible for NGOs to be “small and beautiful.” However, NGOs with too small a scope can encounter a number of barriers and restrictions to their development and effectiveness.
This article summarizes some of the main obstacles people can encounter when entering the public welfare sector in China for the first time. As the author explains, because Chinese civil society organizations are not as developed as in other countries,…
This article deals with government departments establishing NGOs. For the author, this creates problems in terms of NGOs using government influence to hold on to money, reform bonuses and increases the burden on both grass-roots and enterprises.
Guo Yuqiang, deputy director of the department in charge of public welfare and charitable foundations at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, stated that charitable organizations must disclose their funding situation once every three months.
The teams who authored five Charity law drafts met in Beijing to share their thoughts on the future of this legislation. According to the head of the Peking University Center for NPOs law, Jin Jinping, since the NPC has already called for opinions on the Charity law bill, it may be possible that the actual law will be published next year.
In order to standardize international NGO activity in China, the State Council has submitted a draft legislation concerning "the Management of Foreign NGOs". Yang Huanning, vice-minister of Public Security has explained the bill to the 12th meeting of the 12th National People's Congress Stanading Committee.
The State Council Recently published the “Leading Opinion Concerning the Healthy Development of the Charitable Sector”. The author looks at the implications of this document, the first such legislation launched by the Chinese central government.