Abstract: A comparative research work was on ‘Asia's Third Sector: Governance for Accountability and Performance' with the involvement of at least two dozen researchers in six participating countries. It resulted in a book (Comparative Third Sector Governance in Asia, Springer, 2008)...

This panel is an effort by the APPIN partners to revisit the legal environment, in four of the twelve participating countries, after a decade. The panel authors have experiences in working for the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Information Network (APPIN; 2000-06) that also looked at the legal and...

This panel with four presentations report the outcomes of a major comparative research work complied in the Comparative Third Sector Governance. This first of its kind work is an overview of third sector organization (TSO) governance in Asia, especially in the six participating countries (China,...