Examining the Readiness of Asia's Social Sectors to Thrive TABLEOF CONTENTS 2Acknowledgments3ExecutiveSummary8PART I:DoingGoodIndex2024Chapter 1.10DoingGoodin the Digital AgeChapter 2.18DigitalTechnologyand Asia’s Social SectorChapter 3.26Funding:Resourcesfor Doing GoodChapter 4.36Regulations:Easeof Doing GoodChapter 5.46TaxandFiscal Policy: Incentives for Doing GoodChapter 6.56Ecosystem:Communityfor Doing GoodChapter 7.68Procurement:Partnershipsfor Doing Good72MyanmarEconomyProfile76Conclusion78PartII:Economy Snapshots116AppendixI:Data Sources and Methodology121Appendix II:List of Partner Organizations122Endnotes ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The successful completion of the fourth iteration of theDoing Good Index™and our continuedresearch into Asia’s social sector have only been possible through the generosity of oursupporters. We would like to thank the following donors from Asia and across the globe whoseunwavering support over the past two years has been instrumental in bringing theDoing GoodIndex 2024to fruition: Alpine Investment Management Limited, Husodo Angkosubroto, Ronnie C.Chan and Hang Lung Properties, Nirvana Chaudhary and the Chaudhary Foundation, James Chenand the Chen Yat-Sen Family Foundation, Tae-won Chey and the SK Group, Dalio Philanthropies,the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Jamshyd N. Godrej and the GodrejTrusts, Gizela M. Gonzalez, Cherie Nursalim, Arif P. Rachmat and PT Triputra InvestindoArya, Chartsiri Sophonpanich and Bangkok Bank Public Company, Teresita Sy-Coson and SMInvestments Corporation, the Tanoto Foundation, TCL Charity Foundation, Daniel M. Tsai, andJamie and Elizabeth Zobel de Ayala. We are deeply grateful to our partners in the 18 Asian economies for collecting the underlyingdata for theDoing Good Indexand for helping us understand the nuances within each economy.Our partners are: Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Bangladesh; Cooperation Committee forCambodia (CCC), Cambodia; The NGO Forum on Cambodia, Cambodia; Non-Profit Incubator(NPI), China; Institute for Philanthropy, Tsinghua University (IPTU), China; Asian Charity Services(ACS), Hong Kong; GuideStar, India; Centre for Advancement of Philanthropy (CAP), India; Centrefor Asian Philanthropy India (CAPI), India; Public Interest Research and Advocacy Center (PIRAC),Indonesia; Japan NPO Center (JNPOC), Japan; The Beautiful Foundation, Korea; myHarapan—Youth Trust Foundation, Malaysia; Yever, Myanmar; Chaudhary Foundation, Nepal; PakistanCentre for Philanthropy (PCP), Pakistan; Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI),Pakistan; Association of Foundations (AF), the Philippines; Empact, Singapore; Institute of PolicyStudies of Sri Lanka (IPS), Sri Lanka; Center for the Third Sector, National Chengchi University,Chinese Taipei; School of Global Studies, Thammasat University, Thailand; and Management andSustainable Development Institute (MSD), Vietnam. We extend our sincere appreciation to the 2,183 organizations that completed our surveyand the 140 experts who shared their valuable insights in the interviews. Their contributions arepivotal to our understanding of the challenges and opportunities for private social investmentacross Asia. We would also like to thank our Board of Governors: Ronnie C. Chan, Elizabeth Eder Zobel deAyala, Jamshyd N. Godrej, Daniel M. Tsai and Tae-Won Chey for their unfailing support of CAPS and ourresearch. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society(CAPS) has published theDoing Good Indexsince2018, and this is the fourth iteration. Produced everytwo years, theIndexassesses the infrastructure forprivate social investment in Asia. It identifies theenablers and roadblocks to harnessing funding fromsources such as philanthropy, charitable donations,impact investment, corporate social responsibility(CSR) and more. While each economy in Asia has uniquecharacteristics and there are important differencesbetween and within economies, several region-widefindings stand out from this year’sDoing Good Index: •Against the backdrop of the tumultuous Covid-19years, there has been little change across the foursub-indexes of theDoing Good Indexin the lasttwo years.Aside from Sri Lanka, which improved inperformance, all other economies have remainedin the same cluster. But the lack of change is notnecessarily a bad thing. Stability lays the groundworkfor the social sector to thrive. Asia’s social sectors play a critical role in efforts toaddress pressing societal and environmental issues.iIna region of enormous diversity—of cultures, geography,government systems and socioeconomic status—approaches must be nuanced, and solutions specific tolocal realities. With over half of the world’s populationliving in Asia, including billions of people without accessto necessities such as safe drinking water, adequatehousing and medical care, governments recognize theneed to collaborate with the social sector and privatewealth to tackle challenges at scale. •Funding shortfall