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Title: Social Enterprises and Enhancing Self-Reliance Through District Partnership Programme


1
Social Enterprises andEnhancing
Self-RelianceThrough District Partnership
Programme
2
Content
  • Contact Me
  • Wealth Gap in Hong Kong
  • Hong Kongs Labour Market
  • Social Enterprises in Hong Kong
  • Challenges of Poverty Prevention and Alleviation
  • Support from the Business Sector

3
Contact Me
  • Professor CHEUNG Yan-leung, Stephen
  • Chairman of the Advisory Committee for Enhancing
    Self-Reliance Through District Partnership
    Programme (the Programme) under the Home Affairs
    Department (HAD)
  • Address Department of Economics and Finance
  • Faculty of Business
  • P7410, Purple Zone,
    Academic Building
  • City University of Hong
    Kong
  • Telephone no. 2788 7960
  • Fax no. 2788 8040
  • E-mail address efsteven_at_cityu.edu.hk

4
Poverty Situation Gini Coefficient
  • Gini Coefficient (based on household income
    before netting the effects of taxation and social
    benefits)
  • Gini Coefficient (based on household income after
    netting the effects of taxation and social
    benefits )

Year 1981 1986 1991 1996 2001 2006
Gini Coefficient 0.451 0.453 0.476 0.518 0.525 0.533
Year 1996 2001 2006
Gini Coefficient 0.466 0.470 0.475
Source Census and Statistics Department
5
Profile of the Unemployed Population
  • Higher unemployment rate among the younger age
    group
  • Higher unemployment rate among the less educated
  • The unemployed population comprises mainly of
    non-skilled workers, such as those from the
    construction and manufacturing industries
  • Structural unemployment, making it difficult to
    find suitable jobs despite economic recovery

6
Demand for Human Resources
  • Decreasing demand for the less educated
  • Increasing demand for professionals and
    paraprofessionals
  • Service-led economy
  • ? Mismatch of the skills of the unemployed and
    the
  • demand of the job market
  • ? Retraining

7
Enhancing Self-Reliance Through District
Partnership Programme(the Programme)
  • Background
  • 2006-07 Budget
  • 150 million over the following five years to
    strengthen district-based poverty alleviation
    work and assist socially disadvantaged groups to
    gain self-reliance
  • HAD established the Programme in June 2006 to
    implement the above initative

8
What is Social Enterprise?
  • To run the business mainly through generating
    revenue from the provision of services or
    products
  • Sustainable development and self-financing basis
  • Social objectives
  • Providing the needed services or products
  • E.g. Support service for the elderly
  • Creating employment and training opportunities
  • Funding its other social service organisations
    through the profits earned
  • To reinvest the profits earned principally in the
    business or in the community

9
Objectives of the Programme
  • Promote sustainable poverty prevention and
    alleviation efforts at the district level
  • Helping enhance self-reliance,
  • Targeting socially disadvantaged groups.
  • Increasing the skills and capacities of the
    employable and providing opportunities for the
    disadvantaged and to be effectively integrated
    into the community

10
Implementation
  • Approximately 50 million to about 50 SE projects
  • creating about 1 000 jobs for the socially
    disadvantaged.
  • Many of them are implemented in less well-off
    districts
  • Kwun Tong, Sham Shui Po, Tuen Mun, Yuen Long and
    Tung Chung.
  • Achieve social objectives
  • Include enhancing the skills and employability of
    the socially disadvantaged and their
    self-confidence as well as promoting community
    integration

11
Distribution of Businesses of the Approved
Projects
11
12
Social Enterprise Case (1)The Salvation Army
Tuen Mun Family Store
  • A grant of 900,000 from the Programme
  • Creation of about 11 jobs
  • A family store in Tuen Mun
  • Sell at medium to low prices second-hand articles
    collected and goods donated by manufacturers
  • Provide daily necessities to the elderly poor and
    Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA)
    recipients
  • Social Objectives
  • Provision of jobs, enhancing their employability
    and participating in social economic activities

13
The officiating guests at the opening ceremony
The store of about 1 000 square feet provides a
wide variety of goods
14
Social Enterprise Case (2) Tung Wah Group of
Hospitals Mrs Mc Dessert
  • A grant of 960,000 from the Programme
  • Creation of about 28 jobs
  • Theme Dessert Shop
  • Also selling McDull products and providing online
    retail and delivery services
  • With the support of Regent Lane Ltd, the sole
    distributor of the Yellow Bus Magazine, McDull
    products are sold at wholesale price and McDull
    short videos are shown in the shop
  • Concessionary rent offered by the Olympian City
    Management Company under the Sino Group

15
  • Mrs Mc Dessert
  • in Olympian City

16
Other Government Supports
  • A pilot scheme is being implemented by the
    Government to facilitate SE
  • Bidding 38 government cleansing contracts
  • Cover all 18 districts and involve 19 departments
  • Governments commitment to promoting the
    development of SE
  • The contract sum amounts to about 17 million,
    providing more than 300 employment opportunities
    for SE

17
Challenges of Poverty Prevention and Alleviation
  • Government handouts ? Poverty alleviation
  • Improper handouts Poverty creation
  • Incentives for the unemployed to re-enter the job
    market
  • Persistent inflation
  • The poor, in particular, suffers from price
    inflation
  • Inflation rate in January 2008 was 4.3

18
Challenges of Poverty Prevention and Alleviation
  • Widening wealth gap
  • After netting the effects of taxation and social
    benefits on household income, the Gini
    Coefficient is still on the rise for the past
    decade
  • Any prospect of upward social mobility?
  • Hope for the poor
  • Equal opportunities
  • Reducing intergenerational poverty

19
Challenges of Poverty Prevention and Alleviation
  • Concerted efforts of the business sector, the
    Government, non-governmental organisations and
    individuals
  • Business sector corporate social responsibility
  • Government SE, retraining
  • Individuals self enhancement

20
Business Sectors Support for SE
  • Support through the following channels
  • Outsourcing to SE certain operations (e.g.
    cleansing services)
  • Providing SE with concessionary rental of their
    property (e.g. shopping malls or factory
    premises)/vacant land (e.g. agricultural land for
    organic farming)
  • Partnership with SE (e.g. technical support and
    staff training)
  • Financial support to SE
  • Mentorship Scheme providing SE with voluntary
    professional and business advisory services

21
How can the Business Sector support SE
  • The Social Enterprise Partnership Programme,
    currently launched by HAD
  • Provides a matching forum through which business
    organisations interested in providing support
    services can partner with non-governmental
    organisations
  • For information, please contact HAD

22
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