Whenever faced with a social crisis, associations can always play an important role in mobilization, rescue, mutual assistance and advocacy, but the SAR government has always neglected organizational work. It is up to the social groups to exert their mutual power.
For example, since its establishment two years ago, the "Hong Kong Community Anti-epidemic Link" (Link) has distributed more than 60 million supplies, covering at least 4 million citizens.
Huang Ziqian, director of the National Hong Kong and Macau Research Association, who participated in the coordination of "Connect" volunteer services, summed up his organizational experience and believed that the authorities must take the initiative to take the responsibility of building and leading "social capital" in order to make good use of non-governmental organizations to improve the effectiveness of regional governance.
As early as ten years ago, Wong Tsz-him has established the "Conditioning Hong Kong Sports Fund" to actively participate in community services, mainly by gathering social resources to provide professional sports training for grassroots children.
After the fifth wave of the epidemic broke out at the beginning of the year, Huang Ziqian learned from the news that the "Hong Kong Community Anti-epidemic Connection" would assist in distributing the central aid to Hong Kong. He joined the team responsible for coordinating volunteer matters, including establishing a volunteer recruitment system, managing and matching volunteer services.
When summarizing the three-month anti-epidemic experience, Huang Ziqian frequently mentioned "crossing the river by feeling the stones" - from allocating resources, improving logistics, and stabilizing the work mode, all need to move forward in exploration.
He emphasized that in order for volunteers to show their strengths, the most important thing is to connect "demand" and "supply"; however, non-governmental volunteer organizations may not have enough technology and ability to integrate materials, grasp demand, and accurately supply, so the government needs to take the lead in coordinating and providing Support, such as the creation of a unified database.
He believes that this will not only facilitate the rapid integration of supply and demand, but also facilitate the construction of "Social Capital"...
For details, please read the 322nd issue of "Hong Kong 01" e-Weekly Newsletter (20 June 2022)
"Connected" Touching the Stones to Fight the Epidemic Huang Ziqian: The Government Must Actively Build Social Capital
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Community Governance 1 | When a small government meets a big society - Hong Kong's community organization is weak?
Community Governance II｜Anti-epidemic by feeling the stones Huang Ziqian: The government must take the initiative to build social capital
Huang Ziqian described that during the anti-epidemic period, it can only be "crossing the river by feeling the stones". The capacity of non-governmental organizations is limited, and the government always needs the government to connect supply and demand and allocate from it. He also broadened his perspective to how the SAR government should make good use of non-governmental organizations to improve the efficiency of regional governance. , believes that the key is that the authorities must pay attention to the construction of "social capital" (Social Capital).
(File photo/Photo by Zheng Zifeng)
Whenever a social crisis is faced, associations can always play an important role in mobilization, rescue, mutual assistance and advocacy. However, the SAR government has always neglected organizational work and is reluctant to intervene in leadership.
(provided by the community-wide anti-epidemic link)