Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

TA 4580: NGO - Government Partnerships in Village Level Poverty Alleviation - People's Republic of China
Financed by Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

Project Summary

The TA shall formulate and demonstrate replicable models and mechanisms for NGO participation in government-funded village-level poverty alleviation efforts, with consensus built behind a comprehensive framework for mainstreaming NGOs' role in national poverty reduction efforts.

The activities are as follows:

1. Analysis design and framework development for NGO-government partnerships in reducing poverty, incorporating demonstrated models and mechanisms and concrete recommendations for institutional and policy reforms
2. Capacity building among local officials and NGOs for NGO-government partnership in village poverty alleviation work
3. Pilot test and implementation of models and mechanisms for NGO participation
4. Monitoring and evaluation on the efficacy and impact of NGO-implemented projects, as well as comparisons to government-implemented poverty alleviation projects in small control and hybrid samples of villages

• TA Paper
• News
• China's NGO learn to stand alone
• ADB Vice President C. Lawrence Greenwood Meets with PRC Government, NGOs, and Villages in Jiangxi, PRC, 15 April 2006
• Kick-off of NGO-Government Poverty Work in Jiangxi, PRC, April 2006
• ADB Supports First Selection of NGOs for PRC Poverty Reduction Programs
• ADB to Help Tap Potential of NGOs to Fight Poverty in PRC, 13 September 2005
• NGOs Win Bid for Poverty Relief*
• NGOs will get State funds to help poor, China Daily, 20 December 2005*
• Phase II selection Launched for NGOs in PRC poverty work
• Related Website
• China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation website (Chinese)*
• Case Study [ PDF: 80kb | 3 pages ]

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