Our Partners: Projects which Seek Funding

Current Projects Seeking Funding
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Projects that Benefit the Environment

Training of Chinese CEOs on environmentally sound investments and how to include Environmental Impact Assessments in their investment plans and cost/benefit analysis
The project will build on an ongoing UNDP project, which is developing training packages for its target group and will fund the resource persons from a Chinese Management Training College to conduct a number of these courses. The ultimate aim is that such courses will run on a self-financing basis. Required funding: US$60,000.

Environmental compliance through voluntary agreements, community pressure and green marketing
The project, under the auspices of the State Environmental Protection Administration, will pilot a series of measures to enforce environmental compliance in a pilot, polluted county. In turn, the participating companies will receive technical advice on how to market themselves and their products as "green" products. Finally, the project will seek out locally responsible NGOs that can monitor environmental compliance in the county. Required funding: US$60,000

Training of loan officers in a Chinese commercial bank on how to assess loan applications for their environmental impact
The project will work in the context of ongoing training of loan officers at training facilities of the Banks. It will fund the development of a training package and run a number of courses to refine the package and methodology, which should then become a standard part of future training courses. Required funding: US$50,000

Projects that Relate to Improving Technology and its Training

Start up assistance to telecenters in remote rural areas and in urban neighborhoods of small and medium sized cities in Central and Western China
The project aims at closing the widening digital divide between rural and urban East and West/Central China. It will provide access to useful information for members of the community relevant to their economic activities, the education of their children and their general well-being. Each center should also provide access to poor households for telephone, TV and the Internet, where feasible. The project will equip the center and train a number of staff to manage and maintain the center in good working order. The project is closely related to UNDP's ongoing poverty alleviation projects in 48 rural counties and 12 urban districts for the creation of modern community services. Required funding: US$15,000 per center

Enhancing women's level of computer literacy
The sale of PCs and the use of the Internet are seeing phenomenal growth in china. But most users at present are urban-based, male and under 30 years of age. Women seem to take much less enthusiastically to these new means of communications and information sharing. The project aims at developing and running, in collaboration with women's group, a series of courses to familiarize women with the use of computerized system, and to develop a standard set of training material, which can be used easily. The project is similar to the UNDP project that is training women on environmental issues. Required funding: US$80,000

Projects that will Help Improve Trading Practices

Developing e-commerce and promoting freer internal trade
This project, under the Ministry of Internal Trade, aims to facilitate intra-provincial trade within China. Three provinces will be studied and the barriers to trade listed. A workshop and roundtable between concerned officials and leading businessmen in the provinces will be held, and steps to improve trade established. Key provincial figures will be convinced of the benefits of freer trade. In a closely related event, representatives of leading cities in china will be put in touch with e-commerce developers, and the use of e-commerce as a tool to facilitate intra-provincial trade will be developed. Required funding: US$80,000

Training on the role of competitive bidding in a market economy
The project aims to improve procurement practices in China. Specifically, it will raise awareness on the needs for professional competitive bidding in a market economy. It will highlight how competitive bidding can be effectively used as a tool against corruption, and it will develop competitive bidding skills. The project will target concerned officials on the national and the provincial level. Required funding: US$60,000

Training of DOFTEC staff, especially in the Western region, on WTO entry challenges and opportunities
The project aims at familiarizing DOFTEC staff with the service function, they will have to assume to facilitate new investments from private enterprises and how to interface with local authorities to create an enabling environment for potential investors. Required funding: US$60,000

Other Projects

Equipping legal aid centers with basic communications facilities
Under the Ministry of Justice, some 800 legal aid centers have been set up throughout China to provide legal assistance to poor citizens who would otherwise not be able to seek legal recourse against other parties. Many of these centers lack basic equipment, such as a computer, a laptop and a fax machine. The project aims at providing such basic office equipment to these centers. It is closely related to the UNDP ongoing project, which provides professional training to staff these centers. Required funding: US$60,000 for ten centers

Connecting teacher training colleges in Western and Central China to the Ministry of Education's long distance learning
The ministry of Education is paying particular attention to maintain the same quality of teaching throughout China. To facilitate this, an Internet-based long distance learning system is being put in place aimed in its first phase at enhancing teacher training by sharing curricula and teaching aids among universities. This project aims at connecting teacher training colleges in remote areas to this system so that they can benefit fully from this new, quick and efficient system of knowledge sharing. It will provide some basic equipment, train staff to operate the system and to monitor the viability of the connection over a 12 month period, after which it is assumed that the connection will be up and running on its own. Required Funding: US$20,000 per connection

For more information, please contact Mme. Luan Liying, UNDP Senior Officer for Strategic Partnership.
Address: 2 Liangmahe Nanlu, Beijing, China 100600
Phone: (8610) 6532-3731
Fax: (8610) 6532-2567
Email: [email protected]