CHINA-NEPAL: APECF-LUMBINI

Nepal's Social Welfare Council on December 14, 2014, stated that it had started the necessary process to blacklist the Asia Pacific Exchange and Cooperation Foundation (APECF), a Chinese non-governmental organisation, for its lack of transparency and accountability. SWC Director Madan Prasad Rimal said council would soon blacklist APECF for its non-cooperative attitude and lack of transparency in its functioning. “SWC has found faults with APECF, which has violated existing acts and regulations,” he said. He said the APECF has not submitted its audit reports to the council after the Hong Kong-based NGO signed the general agreement and a project agreement with the council. He said “SWC has even failed to establish contact with APECF to invite it for wrap-up evaluation and closure of its bank accounts.” He added that the APECF had followed a highly unorthodox approach while signing agreements with the council. “APECF has not reported to SWC about its activities after it signed general agreement on Lumbini Recovery Plan in March, 2012, and a project agreement on ‘Raise Rural Income in Mountainous Regions of Nepal’ in January, 2013, with SWC.” SWC Director Rimal said “Suspicions increased after APECF issued a notice in February seeking the cancellation of a half-million dollar project,” and neither APECF Executive Vice-Chairman Xiao Wunnan, country representative Liu Jianli or its local partner NGOs responded to SWC. He added that the “The council has no information on what the Chinese NGO had done in Lumbini region or other project districts, including Dolakha, Sindhupalchowk, Rasuwa and Nuwakot.”





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