- Best Practice Manual

As recommended by the Lump Sum Grant Independent Review Committee, the welfare sector should develop a Best Practice Manual (BPM) for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on human resource management, financial management, as well as corporate governance and accountability.  To this end, the Social Welfare Department (SWD) commissioned a consultancy study (which included a research report and a proposed BPM framework) and has been working with the sector to develop the BPM since 2010 through a number of visits, meetings and consultation sessions.  The 14 items of BPM were finally endorsed by the Lump Sum Grant Steering Committee(LSGSC) in April 2014 and came into effect on 1 July 2014. And later, through the discussion of Working Group on Implementation Details of the BPM and deliberation of LSGSC at its meeting held in July 2018, LSGSC endorsed the implementation of 3 new items with effect from 1 October 2018.

For this purpose, SWD organised the first briefing for the sector in June 2014, and also held the second briefing in September 2018 as to share the implementation progress of the 14 items from 2014 to 2017, to introduce the enhanced monitoring measures and the 3 new items, and to invite NGOs to share the good practice on Level Two items. Both presentations (Chinese version only) can be downloaded here -