Grants
Fiscal Year 2005
[April, 2005 - March, 2006]
Implementing the United Nations Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions in Asia
Center for Civil Society Studies, Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins Univeristy, USA
Amount for FY2006: $60,000 (Year 1)
Efforts to encourage the development and recognition of the civil society sector have long been impeded by a basic lack of reliable data about these organizations. To correct this, the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies joined with the United Nations Statistics Division and an international team of statistical experts to produce a Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions in the System of National Accounts to guide national statistical offices in their treatment of nonprofit institutions in regular national economic statistics. This project promoted the implementation of the handbook in Japan and other countries in Asia. (3-year project)
22nd Annual Mansfield Conference
The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
Amount: $13,700
The Mansfield Foundation held a two-day public conference and a one-day private retreat in Missoula and Big Fork, Montana, to focus on India's strategic role in Asia in the 21st century. Experts from the United States, China, Japan and India held discussions on Indiaís increasing regional power, how the India-China relationship will affect the United States' strategic interests in East Asia, and the impact of the U.S.-China-India strategic triangle on the U.S.-Japan alliance.