【final】accountability in asia ~japan perspective~

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Accountability in Asia Japan Perspective

Tomoyuki Hashimoto

The Nippon Foundation

CANPAN Project

・The Nippon Foundation and CANPAN project

・Japanese Non-profit organization

・Culture of “Donation” in Japan

・NPO’s Accountability in Japan

Presentation

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About The Nippon Foundation

Established in 1962

Active in more than 100 countries to date

In partnership with 40,000 non-profit organizations

Making grants to more than 4,000 projects annually

Annual grant 25 billion JPY

(≒250 million USD)

Funds are from proceeds of

Motorboat Racing.

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Supporters -corporations,

individuals

Community website Blog service for NPOs

Credit-card donation platform for NPOs

NPO database(14,000) Rating of NPOs★★★

Civil society

supporting cycle

CANPAN project as Japanese NPO’s platform

New platform “Facebook donation”

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1.Japanese Non-profit Organization

1.Japanese Non-profit organization

(1)Public Interest Corporation

• 110 years of history

• Public Interest Corporation Reform

• 3 laws were enacted in 2006

• 25,000 Public Interest Corporation as of today

1.Japanese Non-Profit Organization

(2)Non Profit Organization

• Around 1980s, volunteer activities began active

• In 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake occurred, “the First Year of Volunteers”

• In 1998, “Non-profitable Activities Promotion Law” was enacted and Japanese NPOs were born.

Supporters -corporations,

individuals

Community website Blog service for NPOs

Credit-card donation platform for NPOs

NPO database(14,000) Rating of NPOs★★★

Civil society

supporting cycle

CANPAN project as Japanese NPO’s platform

CANPAN project and Japanese NPOs

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2.Culture of “Donation” in Japan

2. Culture of “Donation” in Japan

(1) Tax benefit organization

(2) People tend to think “government’s role”

(3) Virture of “secret good deeds”

~ Tiger Mask Movement ~

(3) After the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, culture of “donation”is changing!

2. Culture of “donation” in Japan

(3)Japanese people are shy…

Ex)Tiger-Mask Movement(2011/1)

2. Culture of “donation” in Japan

(3)Japanese people are shy…

Ex)Tiger-Mask Movement(2011/1)

Donation tends to be annonymous…

2.Culture of donation is changing

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3.NPO’s Accountability in Japan

NPO’s Accountability in Japan

(1) “Non-profitable Activities Promotion Law” requires

reporting…

Project Report

NPO’s Accountability in Japan

(1) “Non-profitable Activities Promotion Law” requires

reporting…

Financial Report

“Balance Sheet”

“List of Property” “Statement of revenues

and expenditures”

NPO’s accountability in Japan

(1) “Non-profitable Activities Promotion Law” requires reporting…

but NOT ENOUGH!! Information lacking

• Outcome of the project

• Evaluation

• Internal governance

• Law Compliance

・・・

・・・

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NPO’s Accountability in Japan

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(2)CANPAN’s challenges ahead

• Activist’s awareness for information disclosure is still weak…

Promoting NPO’s awareness for

accountability in a broad sense

• Japan’s “culture of donation” just began!

Create a new NPO’s platform for

facilitating the new “cuture of donation”

NPO’s Accountability in Japan

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