The 2008 Sichuan earthquake marked a tipping point for nongovernmental organizations in China. The Chinese government has since established funding mechanisms for civil society and made it easier for local aid groups to register with the authorities.
However, the situation for international development organizations working in the country remains challenging, and suspicion still lingers on both sided.
So how can we move forward on this? Through partnerships, according to Lily Liu, China country director for Marie Stopes International. Liu oversees the provision of reproductive health education and HIV prevention and care in nine Chinese provinces — an area in which she could never have imagined working as a child.
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Zoe Smith
Zoe Smith is a Devex correspondent based in London, where she works as a journalist and communications consultant. Over more than 15 years, Zoe has written for publications including New Internationalist, The Guardian and Rolling Stone. She established Full Fact, a U.K. nonprofit, in 2010 and continues to provide strategic digital communications advice to the nonprofit sector. Zoe holds a master’s of science in violence, conflict and development from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
