2009 China Visit

Prof. Lester Salamon of the Center on Civil Society of Johns Hopkins University joined Prof. Karla Simon of the Columbus School of Law of the Catholic University of America and Dr. Leon Irish, President of ICCSL, in a visit to China in early June. The principal purpose was to have a seminar at the World Bank's Beijing office to discuss the draft report "Outsourcing Social Services to CSOs: Lessons from Abroad," which was prepared for the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Meetings were also held at the Ministry and with other officials. In addition, CANGO and the NGO Research Center of Tsinghua University hosted a meeting to discuss NPO Law developments with the team from the U.S. The final report has now been prepared by Profs Salamon and Simon and Dr. Irish and will be available on the website of the World Bank. It surveys outsourcing trends practices world-wide (Part 1) and contains 10 individual Country Studies (Part II). The Conclusions and Recommendations section (Part 3) will be made available on the ICCSL website.

Photos from the visit

Seminar at the World Bank

Another shot from World Bank seminar

Meeting at Ministry of Civil Affairs

Team with Sun Wei Lin, Director of NGO Office MoCA

Peking University Law School with Prof. Ge Yunsong

Meeting at CANGO

Meeting at CANGO

Team Strategy meeting