中国发展简报与美国全国国际事务民主学会（National Democratic Institute for International Affairs） 计划合作出版一本手册，用以帮助中国环境领域的非政府组织更有效地参与公众听证工作。为了顺利开展这项工作，我们定于2006年4月26日（星期三）在北京召开一次为期一天的咨询会议。

26日上午，一些专家将做专题发言。下午的时间会专门留给中国的非政府组织展开讨论，听取他们对于此问题的意见和看法。通过这些意见和看法，我们希望最终出版的手册能满足中国非政府组织需求。

我们会邀请三家北京以外的组织参加此次研讨会。同时，为北京地区的组织预留了7个名额。每个组织最多均可派出两名代表参加。欢迎对此次研讨会感兴趣的北京地区的组织写信至lily@chinadevelopmentbrief.cn申请。最先申请的前7家组织将会有机会参加此次研讨会。尽管这不是一次培训，但是我们相信，参加的组织会从中受益，同时也可以保证我们最终能够出版一本对中国环境NGO和一般公众都有价值的实用手册。

Invitation to Environmental NGOs to Participate in Workshop on Public Enquiries

China Development Brief and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs are working together to publish a short manual/resource book to help Chinese environmental NGOs participate more effectively in public enquiries. In order to start this process, we are convening a day-long consultation meeting on Wednesday, April 26.

The morning will be spent listening to presentations by invited, expert guests. The afternoon will be devoted to a facilitated discussion, involving only the Chinese NGOs, so that we can listen to the points they raise, in order to tailor the final publication to their needs.

We are directly inviting three organisations from outside of Beijing to send two delegates each to this meeting. We also have places for seven, Beijing-based groups (two delegates each). These places will be given to the first seven organisations to indicate their interest, in writing, to lily@chinadevelopmentbrief.cn. This is not a “training workshop,” but we do believe that it will be of use and interest to the organisations who participate, and an important way of making sure that we finally publish a product that is of use and value to the Chinese environmental community and the general public.