From pioneer to promotion: How can residential waste diversion non-profit organizations (NPOs) best co-evolve in modern China?
Against the background of China's policies to intensify efforts in residential municipal waste sorting, some non-profit organisations (NPOs) have shown that they can make a significant difference in changing residents’ behaviours. However, this is a very new policy and implementation context fo...
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doaj-12dae56636e14eb0bd4aec5f3190835d2021-07-08T04:05:13ZengElsevierEnvironmental Challenges2667-01002021-04-013100055From pioneer to promotion: How can residential waste diversion non-profit organizations (NPOs) best co-evolve in modern China?Zongliang Ma0Changjun Li1Yunshu Xue2Chibuike K. Nduneseokwu3Xiao Wang4Marie K. Harder5Sustainable Behaviour Research Group, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Fudan University, 2205 SongHu Road, Shanghai 200438, P.R. ChinaCorresponding authors.; Sustainable Behaviour Research Group, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Fudan University, 2205 SongHu Road, Shanghai 200438, P.R. ChinaSustainable Behaviour Research Group, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Fudan University, 2205 SongHu Road, Shanghai 200438, P.R. ChinaSustainable Behaviour Research Group, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Fudan University, 2205 SongHu Road, Shanghai 200438, P.R. ChinaSustainable Behaviour Research Group, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Fudan University, 2205 SongHu Road, Shanghai 200438, P.R. ChinaSustainable Behaviour Research Group, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Fudan University, 2205 SongHu Road, Shanghai 200438, P.R. China; Values & Sustainability Research Group, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton BN2 4GJ, United Kingdom; Corresponding authors.Against the background of China's policies to intensify efforts in residential municipal waste sorting, some non-profit organisations (NPOs) have shown that they can make a significant difference in changing residents’ behaviours. However, this is a very new policy and implementation context for schemes of tasks, facilities and responsibilities that previously did not exist – even the formal roles for community-level governance officers, NPOs and other stakeholders are still evolving. Here we use a SWOT-PEST analysis to analyse the current operating context of six pioneering NPOs over the last year, to extract generalisable learning to accelerate scaling up as China widens the policies. The results show that the NPOs benefit much from having or establishing a network with the grass-roots level community, and nurturing a positive interaction with all stakeholders: their ability to interface lowest-level government structures with the public was key. The government's support for NPOs in terms of finance or facilities was important, but introductions to stakeholders was crucial. Most NPOs struggled with growing too fast, and insufficient expertise in operational details (such as keeping facilities clean). To be sustainable, they needed more experience in communicating their core goals (e.g. environmental), in terms that the urban planners and funders would appreciate. Non-alignment with current government waste agenda was not seen.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667010021000342Non-profit organisationResidential waste sortingSolid waste managementSWOT-PEST analysisWaste reduction |
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From pioneer to promotion: How can residential waste diversion non-profit organizations (NPOs) best co-evolve in modern China? |
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From pioneer to promotion: How can residential waste diversion non-profit organizations (NPOs) best co-evolve in modern China? |
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From pioneer to promotion: How can residential waste diversion non-profit organizations (NPOs) best co-evolve in modern China? |
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From pioneer to promotion: How can residential waste diversion non-profit organizations (NPOs) best co-evolve in modern China? |
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From pioneer to promotion: How can residential waste diversion non-profit organizations (NPOs) best co-evolve in modern China? |
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from pioneer to promotion: how can residential waste diversion non-profit organizations (npos) best co-evolve in modern china? |
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Environmental Challenges |
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Against the background of China's policies to intensify efforts in residential municipal waste sorting, some non-profit organisations (NPOs) have shown that they can make a significant difference in changing residents’ behaviours. However, this is a very new policy and implementation context for schemes of tasks, facilities and responsibilities that previously did not exist – even the formal roles for community-level governance officers, NPOs and other stakeholders are still evolving. Here we use a SWOT-PEST analysis to analyse the current operating context of six pioneering NPOs over the last year, to extract generalisable learning to accelerate scaling up as China widens the policies. The results show that the NPOs benefit much from having or establishing a network with the grass-roots level community, and nurturing a positive interaction with all stakeholders: their ability to interface lowest-level government structures with the public was key. The government's support for NPOs in terms of finance or facilities was important, but introductions to stakeholders was crucial. Most NPOs struggled with growing too fast, and insufficient expertise in operational details (such as keeping facilities clean). To be sustainable, they needed more experience in communicating their core goals (e.g. environmental), in terms that the urban planners and funders would appreciate. Non-alignment with current government waste agenda was not seen. |
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Non-profit organisation Residential waste sorting Solid waste management SWOT-PEST analysis Waste reduction |
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