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EU CHINA

German Asia Foundation

This project is funded byThe European Union

A project implemented by the University of Nottingham and its consortium members

Civil Society DialogueDr Andreas Fulda | Beijing, China Wednesday, 09 May 2012

This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union and the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the University of Nottingham and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union or the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

This project is co-funded by the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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important noticeBackground

• RESEARCH

• New Researcher’s Fund („The Changing Role of Policy Entrepreneurs in Chinese Reform Processes“)

• TEACHING

• Convenor of new MA module on public policy („Public Policy and Social Change in China’s Reform Era“)

• CONSULTANCY

• Academic advisor for the American Bar Association and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund („Social Policy Advocacy Coalition for Healthy and Sustainable Communities. Strengthening the Role of Civil Society in Environmental Health Policymaking in the PR China“)

Our mobile journalists will invite participants to share your expertise on EU-China Civil Society collaboration

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Objective 1To establish and consolidate a structured ongoing dialogue between European and Chinese Civil Society.

Objective 2To establish durable and sustainable links between European and Chinese civil society stakeholders in eight policy areas.

Objective 3To deepen European engagement with Chinese civil society through innovative joint participatory public policy initiatives.

Building relationships

Societal self-organisation in China is an ongoing historical process which deserves attention and active support by European civil societies

SOLIDARITY

European civil society should play a supporting role for Chinese civil society rather than the role of an advocate

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Cooperation between European and Chinese civil societies should be based on burden and benefit sharing

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Long-term partnerships between European and Chinese civil societies require the appreciation, trust and friendship among individuals

sustainability

D1 in ningbo

D2 in Guangzhou

D3 in Bonn

D4 in Ningbo

2011

Climate Change (July)

Follow up activities 1 and 2

Environmental Health (August)


Labor Relations (November)


2012

ChildWelfare (February)


Social Entrepreneurship (July)


Freedom of Information(September)


Int. Conference 1(May)

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Gov. Finance Ref. (December 12)


Rule of Law (March 2013)


Int. Conference 2

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ChildWelfare (February)




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Social Entrepreneurship (July)

Freedom of Information(September)

• Dialogues are organised both by Chinese and European consortium members

• Joint development of dialogue agenda and participant list

• Use of participatory approaches and professional facilitators

• Putting ideas into practice through action planning & follow-ups

Best practicesBackground

• RESEARCH


• TEACHING


• CONSULTANCY


• “Each EU-China Civil Society Dialogue will enable participants to engage in conference-based learning.

• Participants will be invited to get involved in action planning for a minimum of two follow-up activities after the dialogue.

• Such follow-up activities are supposed to deepen European engagement with Chinese civil society through innovative joint participatory public policy initiatives which

• a. contribute to better decision making and implementation and

• b. help to convince the Chinese government of the value of further direct investment of its own in the development of China’s civil society.”

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EU-UoN grant agreement 2010

collective learning

Actionplan 1

Actionplan 2

Actionplan 3

Actionplan 4

FU 1(idea)

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FU 1 1st draft

FU 21st draft

Drafting of implementationplan and project budget

Drafting of implementationplan and project budget

FU 1start

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Revision and update, followed by money transfer

Revision and update, followed by money transfer

Two representatives (one of the dialogue organiser and another from the co-organiser) select two action plans to be developed into follow-up proposals a day after the dialogueand nominate a Follow-up Action Teams (FACTS) Coordinator (usually representing the lead organiser of the dialogue forum).

Implementation in six months

Implementation in six months

FU 1report

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The FACTS Coordinator liaises with FACTS members and supports them to draft an implementation plan and specific budgets, to be submitted to Program Manager Dr Andreas Fulda one month after the dialogue forum. Dr Fulda forwards the documents to a virtual evaluation committee consisting of 1) a representative from the lead organiser and co-organiser of the respective Dialogue each, 2) a selected member of the Program Advisory Board as well as 3) the Ethics Officer Dr Nora Sausmikat, and 4) Dr Fulda himself.

The selected member of the Program Advisory Board as well as the Ethics Officer provide timely feedback on the draft follow-up initiatives to the virtual evaluation committee. The FACTS Coordinator ensures key comments and suggestions for revision are taken into account and in a timely fashion liaises with the FACTS members to make changes to the follow-up implementation plans and budgets where necessary.

Program Manager Dr Andreas Fulda conducts a final review of the revised and updated follow-up implementation plans and project budgets. Once all requirements have been met the University of Nottingham will transfer a max. of 2x10000.00 Euro to the designated partner organisation in China.

The FACTS Coordinator ensures that the follow-ups are being implemented in six months, that EU/FCO accounting rules apply, the EUʼs visibility manual is being followed and he/she continuously monitors and evaluates the progress of the follow-ups.

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Upon completion of the follow-ups and for the financial reporting on the follow-up initiatives the FACTS Coordinator needs to provide Dr Andreas Fulda ([email protected]) and Mrs Beth York ([email protected]) with a full breakdown of how the money has been spent including copy invoices/receipts of the recipient for any items over EUR 100.

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From action planto follow-up

During day three of the dialogue forum at least four follow-up action groups are being formed. They develop initial ideas for EU-China civil society collaboration in participatory public policy initiatives. These groups are called Follow-up Action Teams (FACTS). The dialogue organisers keep contact details of FACTS members.

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Participatory public policy initiatives

Dr Andreas Fulda | Nottingham, UK

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After the first two days of listening intensively to presentations about climate change and sustainable consumption and production from politicians, academic experts and NGO representatives from China and Europe, the participants were looking eagerly forward to the third day to start action planning for the follow-up projects. Each of the EU-China dialogues provides for two small grant follow-up projects in the order of 10,000 Euro which need to be implemented within six months after the dialogue jointly by Chinese and European NGOs. During this final day of the dialogue on climate change and sustainable consumption and production, the Chinese and European participants worked hard together to design innovative and concrete cooperation projects with the goal to make real progress and to move from “high-carbon dialogue to low-carbon action”.

Open process yields great ideasFollowing good NGO practices, the process of

identifying and developing ideas for these follow-up projects was conducted in an open and participatory way. In a first round of brainstorming every participant was invited to bring in their ideas and share them with the whole group. Following this interactive warming up session, the participatory method of “Open Space” was used to facilitate small group discussions to sketch out these ideas further. After holding the small group discussions, which generated more than a dozen of already quite concrete project ideas, a number of six project proposals was selected by the group to be developed into more detailed project implementation plans. In this final session of small group discussions, fighting the onslaught of “conference fatigue” after almost three days of intense dialogue, the participants focused passionately on their final task and managed to work out detailed project implementation plans including time lines, concrete activities, expected results and ways to measure impacts.

The six project plans that at the end of the day emerged from this process clearly reflected the participants’ efforts, expertise and creativity that were put into the whole procedure. The project plans encompassed various fields of possible action including inputs by NGOs into climate change policy making, NGO climate campaigning, low-carbon city development or linking climate change and rural development. The variety of project plans generated clearly displayed the multitude of issues that still need to be addressed, not only by civil society, to avoid the negative impacts of unsustainable consumption and production patterns of which climate change is the most pressing one.

One project proposal envisaged Europe-China NGO cooperation on poverty alleviation and protection of ecosystem services to increase resilience of rural communities facing climate change impacts. Especially the protection of wetlands and water resources was considered as a priority under this proposal.

One project plan outlined the participation of Chinese NGOs in China’s climate change legislation process, a very direct way of public participation in policymaking. China’s central government recently announced the drafting of a Climate Change Law for which the Climate Change Department of China’s National Development and Reform Commission has invited stakeholder comments in an open process that closes in September 2011 – an opportunity Chinese environmental NGOs will not let pass by.

Another proposal was titled “C+ Initiative – Beyond Climate, Beyond Commitment and Beyond China”. Under this project NGOs would mobilise stakeholders and organisations such as universities, companies or communities to take climate action and initiatives supporting the achievement of government targets – or even go beyond that aiming for more than official energy efficiency requirements and emissions reduction goals demand. As part of this project Chinese NGOs would also develop specific systems of MRV (“measurable, reportable and verifiable”), where NGOs would act as independent third party verification bodies.

A further project plan, also closely related to both the MRV issue and climate change legislation, proposed to focus on the issue of environmental information disclosure to the public. Under this project NGOs would engage with local governments and media to improve systems for information disclosure of environmental information such as emissions and pollution data.

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The criteria for selecting these two follow-up projects included amongst others potential for cooperation between European and Chinese NGOs, participation of NGOs in public policymaking processes, feasibility of implementation, degree of innovation and chances for scaling up the small grant projects into larger initiatives.

Patrick Schroeder 2011, Putting Ideas into Practice, EU-China Civil Society Dialogue on Climate Change & Sustainable Consumption and Production, 13-15 July, Dialogue Documentation. p. 8.

Rio +20

Background

• RESEARCH


• TEACHING


• CONSULTANCY


• Under the “Rio+20 – Evaluation of Agenda21 Implementation Project” a number of Chinese NGOs will form a working group and systematically evaluate environmental, social and economic aspects of China’s Agenda21 implementation over the last 20 years.

• In doing so they will particularly focus on China’s efforts for climate change mitigation and atmospheric protection. The plan also includes presenting the outcomes of this evaluation during the 2012 Rio+20 Summit held in Brazil in June 2012 – 20 years after the Agenda21 was were adopted by more than 178 Governments at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janero, Brazil, in June 1992.

• In this project Chinese NGOs will also provide inputs into the global stakeholder consultation process for Rio+20 on the summit topics of “Green Economy” and “Global Environmental Governance”. Especially the second issue is relevant for enhanced participation of civil society, not only in China, but in all countries. For this project component Chinese NGOs will be working closely with ANPED, the Northern Alliance for Sustainability, which is facilitating NGO participation in the Rio+20 Summit.

• Through this project Chinese NGOs not only provide policy recommendations for the next decade for Chinese transition to a “Green Economy”, but also to global macro-level frameworks for future development pathways.

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D1 / FU 1

Low-carbon City Development

Background

• RESEARCH


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• The “China-Europe NGO Cooperation Project for Low-carbon City Development” project will see close collaboration – potentially long-term cooperation – between one or two European NGOs with Chinese NGOs on the design and implementation of low-carbon cities.

• The project will enable NGO cooperation based on existing city-level cooperation, particularly building on sister city partnerships between Europe and China. The six-month project will enable stakeholder consultations to be carried out in one Chinese and one European city. A likely candidate is the existing Bonn-Chengdu sister city partnership which already includes some elements and exchanges of city officials for low-carbon development.

• NGOs will contribute to this process and further promote city-level cooperation and exchanges to support low-carbon development of their respective cities. The result will be a scoping study summarising the current state of low-carbon development and identifying potentials in priority sectors such as for low- carbon community development, energy efficiency in buildings, renewable energy applications, waste management and low-carbon transportation systems. The results of the scoping studies will be used for further joint- acquisition activities to implement low-carbon city projects

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• RESEARCH


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• CONSULTANCY


D1 / FU 2

Green supply chain ofmobile phone manufacturers

Background

• RESEARCH


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• Through a series of activities, we hope to attend the objective below.

• Activities in Pearl River Delta Region and the surroundings can finally tend to brand mobile phones’ consumers be aware that human as well as environment benefits are important part for brand value. By advocating and actions of green supply chain, brand mobile phone corporate, factories, the environmental protection department, trade unions, labor organizations, environmental protection NGOs and so on, would come together to talk about supply chain management of brand mobile phone in Pearl River Delta Region. And they could come to consensus to a certain extent on environmental protection and labor protection in the supply chain management. During the project, the public and the media will be easier to the supervision, the item thus improving the brand mobile phone on supply chain management and procurement policy. At the same time, the program can prevent brand to shift pollution to the urban Midwest. The final aim is to protect the foundry workers and the surrounding environment and personal interests of the people.

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Food safety newsletters

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• Aiming to bridge the gap between civil society, academia and media on the understanding of food safety issues in China and initiate constant concern from the public on food safety, this project will produce five Food safety Newsletters and one forum.

• The timeline of this project is from November 1st, 2001 to April 30th, 2012.

• The final five Food safety Newsletters will show the situation, the problems, and possible solutions of food safety in China from social, economic and environmental views, such as community supports agriculture, promotion of ecological agriculture technology, establishment of organic agriculture cooperatives. Besides, Food safety Newsletters and the forum will cover experts and best practices from Europe in order to provide a more comprehensive vision in this field.

• Specifically, the project will explore the food safety issue from at least six perspectives:

• 1. Overview of the current several different food supply chains in China and safety problems generate from the nature of the supply chains.

• 2. Social perspective of food safety issues, such as the economic gap between urban and rural areas, discrimination, urbanization, employment, etc.

• 3. Environmental impact of current agricultural production and its impact back on food.

• 4. Business models in practice and challenges they face.

• 5. NGOs’ practice in this field.

• 6. Good practice or lessons learnt from other developed (e.g. Europe, US) and developing countries.

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D2 / FU 4

ASAS Seminar and Training

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• The Association for Social Administration Studies in Macau (ASAS) and its sister-research organization (Research Institute on Social Transition in China) participated in the EU-China Civil Society Dialogue on Informal work and migration. This association is based on the collaboration of four different organisations: The University of Saint-Joseph (USJ) in Macau is a catholic tertiary institution (affiliated with the Capital University of Portugal). Provincial Centre of Research on Development (PCRD), People’s Government of Guangdong Province; Institute for Civil Society (ICS), Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou (NGO); China Labour Bulletin (CLB), Hong Kong.

• Together these four organisations will organise the following activities in the next six months (March - August 2012):

• 1. Seminar on the role of new media and the transformation of governance in China in March 2012. We intend to pursue the policies we mentioned during our meeting in Bonn on November 2011. Our working context will be in the promotion of dialogue and better understanding between government officials and social activists.

• 2. Creation website of our association.

• 3. Training on collective bargaining for workers and activists from NGOs in May 2012.

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D3 / FU 5

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