The Belt and Road Initiative has shifted more international attention to China’s engagements with the world. Chinese overseas investments carried out under the label ‘BRI’ impact on the lives of millions of people in Asia and Europe. While Chinese companies possess the technical and management skills to realise large scale infrastructure projects, they often lack the capacity to properly assess the social and environmental implications of their actions. Moreover, official ‘Global China’ initiatives like the BRI rarely offer pathways for civil society actors from the bottom-up. In this workshop, Social Innovations Advisory and the China Programme of Stiftung Asienhaus focus on civil society participation in BRI projects in Asia. They would like to open a dialogue space on Chinese civil society organisations ‘going out’, trust buildings measures with civil society actors in BRI project countries, communication channels with Chinese state-owned and private companies as well as potentials to institutionalise civil society participation in BRI projects from the bottom-up.
This workshop focuses on Chinese civil society organisations ‘going out’, the question of trust in BRI countries, communication with Chinese companies and the potential to institutionalise civil society participation in BRI projects from the bottom-up.
Organiser(s):
Asia: Social Innovations Advisory and the organisations behind https://www.brivillage.asia/contact-us/
Europe: Stiftung Asienhaus, TNI
