A Model for Government-NGO Collaboration in China: Drawing on Case Studies of the Shanghai HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment International Cooperation Project
Collaboration between the government and NGOs (NonGovernmental Organizations, Social Organizations) as a third sector separate from government and enterprise, in the last few years has become a primary point of interest for research in public management studies. Western scholars, over a decade ago, had already begun to study models of collaboration between government and the NGO sector, for example Dennis R. Youngs three categories of complementary, adversarial and supplementary relationships; the widely-recognized model of Adil Najam The Four-Cs of NGO-Government Relations (Najam, A. 2000: 383-389) and so on. Taiwanese scholars Jiang Ming-Hsiu, Chen Ding-Ming and others, through collating and integrating the arguments of Western academics, and combining them with Taiwan, Chinas actual experience, have offered affirmation of the advantages of NPO-government cross-sectoral cooperation. They went on to point out that the use of cross-sectoral cooperation by governments to open up public service programs allowing for implementation by non-government and non-profit organizations, has already become a global trend in recent years. As such, they argue, governments must cast aside their bureaucratic thinking, and get rid of their top-down, negative and defensive attitudes; NGOs for their part, must not lose their public nature, their philanthropic nature or their autonomy, being reduced to secondary government organizations (Jiang M. ed. 2008,: 229-255). As an important target of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, fighting HIV/AIDS in itself is no simple task. Although within Asia, Mainland China is amongst those nations with a relatively low prevalence of HIV/AIDS infection, HIV/AIDS has already taken over tuberculosis and rabies to become the nations top fatal infectious disease (China MOH, 2010). Thus the exchange of and drawing from experiences between Taiwan, China and the Mainland China is of extreme importance. This paper, based on a model using the theories of Western scholars, presents a case study drawing on interviews and observation of NGOs working in the area of HIV/AIDS in Shanghai. In this way, it analyzes the model for govemment-NGO collaboration in Chinas HIV/AIDS sector. It summarizes the internal and external reasons for this model, and concludes by offering some policy proposals and areas for future research.
Tsai Chih-hung WANG Wei-nan
Administration and Policy Department MA National Taipei University Taiwan, China University of South Tsinghua University, School of Public Administration, NGO Research Center Assistant , Capital Normal
国际会议
2011 International Conference on Public Administration(2011公共管理国际会议)
成都
英文
549-563
2011-10-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）