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Social Welfare
the core values and spirit of voluntary work into their daily lives. By year-end, over 2,500 organisations and more than 1.2 million individuals had registered for voluntary service at the SWD's 'Volunteer Movement' website.
Subventions and Service Monitoring
Recurrent subventions were given to 171 NGOs to provide social welfare services in accordance with government policies. Capital grants from the Lotteries Fund were allocated to NGOs on the advice of the Lotteries Fund Advisory Committee to meet NGOs' non-recurrent commitments. The Service Performance Monitoring System keeps track of the output, outcome and service quality of subvented units, according to 16 well-defined service quality standards. and specific funding and service agreements, through regular self-assessment reports. submitted by NGOs and review/surprise visits conducted by the SWD.
The Lump Sum Grant Independent Complaints Handling Committee handles complaints related to the use of subventions and service quality that cannot be satisfactorily addressed at the NGO level.
Social Welfare Development Fund
A $1 billion Social Welfare Development Fund (launched in January 2010 for implementation in three three-year phases from 2010-11 to 2018-19) supports all subvented NGOs in carrying out training and professional development programmes, business system upgrading projects and service delivery enhancement studies. About $263 million was approved for 150 NGO applications under Phase 1. Phase 2 (2013-14 to 2015-16) was launched in January 2013 and at year-end about $200 million had been approved for 144 NGO applications.
Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged
The Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged promotes tripartite partnership among the welfare sector, the business community and the government in helping the disadvantaged. Donations in money and in kind from the business sector are matched dollar-for-dollar by the government to enable NGOs to carry out social welfare projects. By year-end, 146 NGOs had obtained matching grants totalling over $269 million to implement 626 welfare projects, benefiting over 1 million disadvantaged persons since the fund was established in 2005.
Community Investment and Inclusion Fund
The $300 million Community Investment and Inclusion Fund (CIIF) was established in 2002 to implement diversified social capital development projects in the community, promote trust and reciprocity between the public and different sectors, and build a cross-sectoral collaborative platform and mutual help network so as to build a caring Hong Kong. In January, the government injected an additional $200 million to the fund. By year-end, the CIIF had allocated around $300 million to 268 approved projects, involving 450,000 project participants (including 50,000 volunteers) and about 7,000 collaboration partners building 1,600 mutual support networks.
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