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Policy Advocacy and Research

As social service organisations do have the responsibility to advocate for just and proper people-centred social policies, and to strive for an open, equal, and transparent balanced participation mechanism for all the citizens, irrespective of whether they are poor or rich, or if they are tax-payers or not. Our Agency did the following policy advocacy and research works in the past year:

Past Work

  1. We organised the Citizen Envisioning@Harbour program together with 15 other professional bodies and NGOs, including the Hong Kong Institutes of Architects, Hong Kong Institute of Planners, the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport, and CUPEM. Through activities such as Collective Memory of Victoria Harbour, Exhibition, Workshop, and Public Hearing, the public was able to voice out their ideas and suggestions on the planning of the Victoria Harbour. This program also attracted the participation of relevant government officials. The Citizen Envisioning@Harbour program is in fact a successful demonstration of such a participation model, and subsequently has contributed to the establishment of the government Harbour-Front Enhancement Committee.
  2. We continued to keep an eye on gambling issues. From the result of a survey on the soccer betting behaviour of secondary school students conducted by the Great Alliance on Soccer Gambling (of which our agency is a member), the phenomena of soccer gambling among them is very alarming.
  3. We have also forwarded our opinion to the government on issues like Labelling Scheme on Nutrition Information, Development of the West Kowloon Cultural District, Nature Conservancy Policy, Arrangement on Monitoring Fund Raising Activities, and Multi-facts Career Orientation Program for Higher-Form Secondary School Students.

Future Development

In the coming year, although the Legislative Council election will have finished, political development in Hong Kong will still be one of the foci of public agenda debates. The future blueprint of social welfare in Hong Kong will be another. For the coming year, we will continue our role of advocator for just and reasonable public policies, and to reinforce multi-disciplinary collaboration, so as to strive for a balanced participation and social inclusion of all walks of people and avoid them being excluded and marginalized.

For enquiry, please contact our Professional Assistant.

Tel : (852) 2731 6213
Fax : (852) 2311 0275
Email : alvinkwok@hkcs.org

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