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2011-02: The Policy Research on the Protection of the Culture diversity during the Course of the Sustainable Development of Less-Population Ethnics in Yunnan, PRC

Sector: Ethnic Minority Rights

Implementing Partners:

Chinese Implementing Partner:

The Ethnic Development Research Center of the Department of Economics and Management College in Yunnan Normal University

Canadian Implementing Partner:

First People’s Heritage, Language, and Culture Council and GeoSpatial/SALASAN Consulting Inc.  

Purpose: In implementing the project, research will be conducted on the status of Yunnan Small-Population Minorities (SPM’s) with respect to cultural diversity. This includes; evaluating the impact of current development and ethnic minority culture protection programmes; summarize the causes for the contradiction between economic development and cultural protection rooted in policies; propose policy recommendations for The Regulations of Protecting the Folk Cultures of Ethnic Minorities in Yunnan Province; and enhance the institutional capacity to formulate policies and make decisions. By doing so, the current development models of SPMs in Yunnan would be modified step by step, programme plans or legislative regulations in rescuing, protecting and developing local cultural diversity will be formulated and a professional personnel team will be developed.

Anticipated Results:

-   To review the implementation of The Regulations of Protecting the Folk Cultures of Ethnic Minorities in Yunnan Province and clarify the areas which need improvement, such as

1)      how to protect the natural ecological environment and communities of ethnic residents;

2)      how to safeguard ethnic residents’ rights to participate in decision-making;

3)      how to use ethnic languages at home and in the community;

4)      how to foster cultural industries that uses ethnic languages;

5)      how to construct local villages with ethnic characteristics and protect the traditional architecture of ethnic groups;

6)      provide policy recommendations for The Regulations, focusing on expanding the scope of ethnic culture protection and preservation measures and policy guarantees.

-   Program planning on SPMs’ cultural diversity protection and the sustainable development,  focusing on how to protect the cultures of SPMs such as:

1)       emphasis on holidays and festivals of ethnic minorities;

2)       strengthen the minority education system including ethnic languages, folk artists, ethnic minority language teaching and ethnic sports;

3)      to create the family environment to protect and preserve the ethnic cultures, granting awards or prizes for model families;

4)       to enhance the development of national cultural heritage and a sense of community, establish a cultural eco-village, the formation of classes for teaching culture;

5)      to develop specialized culture and economy and

6)      to speed up the development of ethnic culture, increasing the supplies of minority language products.

-   Feasibility study on Yunnan SPMs Cultural Heritage Active-state Museum Pilots Project.

-   Yunnan SPMs local minority featured-villages protection and development planning.

-   Cultures and languages protection planning including: publish the materials in ethnic languages for local communities and families; develop local language textbooks; actively rescue minority language teaching materials; increase the supplies of ethnic languages products and teach ethnic languages in local community schools.

-   Research on measures that benefit economic development and culture protection both, such as:

1)      revisit the important role of SPM cultural development;

2)      give more support to the economic development in ethnic areas and respect the residents’ legitimate rights in developing the natural resources and cultural heritage;

3)      change the development pattern of ‘focusing on quantity vs. neglecting the protection’ to ‘equal emphasis on protection and development’;

4)      to protect the local ethnic cultures in line with the development of local ethnic cultural industry.

 Activities:

Work Planning Mission: The Canadian partner will travel to China December 4 - 10, 2011 to work with the ChIP to develop the implementation phase work plan for the sub-project.

2011-03: China-Canada Legislative Development Project for Community Corrections in China

Sector: Rule of Law

Implementing Partners:
Chinese Implementing Partner:
  The China Law Society (CLS) for Research College for Criminal Jurisprudence at Beijing Normal University
Canadian Implementing Partner:
   International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (ICCLR)

Purpose: The purpose of the sub-project is to develop an annotated “model law” for community corrections, together with supporting comparative research. This “model law” will serve the MOJ and integrated “legislative investigative task force” of the Chinese government as a key reference for the development of the State Council Regulations on community corrections and policies implementing these Regulations.

Anticipated Results:

• An annotated “model law” produced to recommend standards in the legislation;

• Studies/publications on best practice in pilot community corrections initiatives in China, including involvement of civil society;

• Studies/publications on international standards in corrections practice;

• Dissemination of information/data on pilot community corrections initiatives in China and on the development of the annotated model law through distribution to local institutions, publication in journals and on the internet.

 Activities:

Work Planning Mission: The Canadian partner traveled to China September 2-8, 2011 to work with the ChIP to develop the implementation phase work  plan for the sub-project.  The work plan was reviewed and submitted to CIDA and was approved on November 1, 2011.

First Activity - Study Tour to Canada: The study tour, which takes place November 19-29, 2011 will focus on Canadian policies, legislation and practices relating to community corrections, including both community-based (non-custodial) sanctions and post-release conditional release, aftercare or social reintegration programmes. The 10 day, 11 night tour will take the delegates to Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa and Toronto. The participants will include Faculty members of the College for Criminal Law Science and Law School of Beijing Normal University: China Law Society, Officials from the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and the Supreme People’s Court.