Research On The Credibility Of NGOs From The Social Management Perspective

The18thCPC National Congress pointed out that the main content of the socialmanagement is improving the people’s wellbeing and making innovations in socialmanagement. We should quicken the pace of building the following mechanisms and systems:a law-based social management system featuring Party committee leadership, governmentexecution, nongovernmental support and public participation; nongovernmental supportmeans the integration of a variety of social management resources and pay more attention tothe role of NGOs，then government and NGOs can work together. However, in recent years,many NGOs have the credibility crisis which sabotaged the reputation and image of theNGOs. Therefore, to do a research on the credibility of NGOs under the social managementperspective is required.The paper made a relatively comprehensive and in-depth study about the social thecredibility of NGOs under the context of social management. Firstly, the paper starts fromredefining the connotation of social management with the emphasis on enhance the credibilityof the NGOs, namely the NGOs should not only bring the role of government into full play, itshould also improve the NGOs’ own ability to make full use of their own advantages toparticipate in social management affairs. On this basis, the paper summarizes and analyzes ofthe concept, standards and functional advantages of the credibility of the NGO. Secondly，thearticle summarizes a series of credibility crisis of China’s NGOs, then outlines our NGOs’problems and analyzes the causes from the perspective of law, system and mortality. Finally,the article notes that improving the credibility of NGOs not only need the government tocreate conditions, but also should strengthen their own capacity. The paper specificallyaddressed the path to enhance the credibility of the NGOs by strengthen the guidance of ourgovernment, enhancing their own ability and organizational mission, improving the multi-supervision system, establishing a philosophy of cooperation and improving the lawsand regulations.