The Japan NPO Center (JNPOC) has been running and administering a searchable online database called NPO-Hiroba (http://www.npo-hiroba.or.jp) since 2001. This database contains data for all “Specified Non-profit Corporations” (approx. 50,000 incorporated non-profit organisations), which is the main type of nonprofits operating in Japan. The basic information of new incorporated organisations is added periodically, and with a unique user ID & password, each nonprofit can add and update its organisational information. We suggest that you use Google translate for translations from Japanese into other languages.
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Japan NPO Center’s Self-Assessment Check Sheet
In 2016, the Japan NPO Center (JNPOC) launched a bilingual portal site called CSO Accountability Portal (http://cso-accountability-portal.net/en) which introduces existing practices in Asia-Pacific as well as within Japan’s non-profit sector to ensure CSO accountability – a topic not too well-known in the CSO community in Asia-Pacific. Featured in this portal as a Japanese case is a JNPOC’s own initiative, a self-assessment check sheet tool created with World Vision Japan in 2014, as part of the NPO Training and Capacity-Building Project. Estimated time required for completing the Check Sheet is 150 minutes (15 min. for simplified version). JNPOC recommends to conduct self-assessment on a regular basis, preferably every three or six months, so that the respondents can observe his/her organisation’s changes and improvements.
JNPOC, with the help of NPO support centers’ leaders nationwide, developed a workbook called “15 Management Capabilities to Improve NPOs” (6,000 copies) which showcased 15 necessary capacities and skills for running a non-profit organisation sustainably and stably.
A supplement to the workbook was the Self-Assessment Check Sheet. This compilation of indicators allow an organisation’s condition to be examined according to each of these capacities to help problem-solving in non-leadership development and to strengthen the capacities of local nonprofits so the organisation can engage in sustained and multifaceted activities.
Self-assessment tool for the Global Standard for CSO Accountability
This self-assessment tool allows organisation to self-evaluate their organisations against the Global Standard for CSO Accountability. The tool is an electronic spreadsheet which explores each of the 12 Commitments of the Global Standard and their sub-points, allowing organisations to provide evidence for their progress in respect to the commitment, score their capacity, and identify areas of improvement. The tool then allows organisations to summarise their progress in relation to all 12 Commitments and assess the way forward.
The self-assessment tool was developed in March of 2018 by the Instituto de Comunicación y Desarrollo (ICD) of Uruguay. The recent version was published in November of 2018, and was improved with the contributions made by Federation RACI (Argentina), ONG por la Transparencia (Colombia) and the Asociación Nacional de Centros and Grupo Propuesta Ciudadana (Peru).
The self-assessment tool can be found here.