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National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
In China since: 2000
Mainland China contact:
Christine Chung (郑柯宁)
China Programme Director，中国项目主任
Tel: +852 2547 2400
Activities in Other Countries:
Around 70 countries
Established in 1984, the Institute is an independent, non-profit organisation affiliated to the United States Democratic Party. It seeks to promote citizen participation, and government openness and accountability worldwide, but emphasises that ‘NDI shares experiences and offers a range of options so that leaders can adapt those that may work best in their own environment be replicated elsewhere. . . NDI does not impose solutions’.
The Institute started work in China in 2000 with a programme to increase public participation in law making. A series of national seminars brought together scholars, deputies from national and provincial People’s Congresses and professional staff from those legislative bodies to consider the mechanism of public legislative hearings. This resulted in the drafting of general procedural guidelines that have since been used informally by the Legislative Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress. NDI also helped Beijing University’s ‘Centre of the Study of People’s Congresses and Foreign Legislatures’ to create a resource centre and website devoted to comparative study of legislative reform, and to publish a series of books.
The China programme expanded after 2002, when NDI opened an office in Hong Kong. Partnering with various academic institutions, government agencies and think-tanks on China’s mainland, the Institute has engaged in joint research and seminars on topics such as: the use of legislative hearings at provincial level; regulation of the mass media; the use of public administrative hearings; women’s political leadership; the comparative role of political parties in electing legislators in Europe, the U.S. and China.
In 2004, NDI cooperated with the Ministry of Civil Affairs in a training workshop, for elected urban community officials in Fuzhou, on increasing citizen participation. A second workshop, on increasing citizen participation in urban governance, was held in Nanjing for Civil Affairs staff.
NDI receives an annual appropriation from the US Congress, but also applies for grant funds from national and multilateral development agencies, and seeks donations from individuals, trade unions and corporations.
Links
http://www.ndi.org
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