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Team Malawi is a lost country
Team Malawi is a lost country
7 years ago

While I agree that the Malawi’s law on this subject is ambiguous; however, if you are to read the NGO Board Act it has a clear clause on registering and de-registering NGO. very clear and this has nothing to do with CONGOMA. In fact the writer of this article didn’t do enough reading on the matter.

bella Banda
bella Banda
7 years ago

This impunity is not good, really NGOs can operate in vacuum!!. let us respect laws, how do we go out there and start demanding parliamentarians and cabinet, civil servant to be accountable when NGOs think that they are not accountable to anyone. but to themselves so that they can continue misusing resources. Those who are speaking with arrogance may have been there during the time this law was being put in place and you never raised what you are raising today. Citizens that cannot respect laws of the of their country are a deterrent to development, order and sanity of… Read more »

J. Phiri
J. Phiri
7 years ago

Hede # 5, you must have never worked or operated a local NGO so you are stupidly calling an NGO that has no money bogus just because you are dull. An NGO does not mean money but idea, of course with a hope that you may get funding to fulfil the idea which is not always the case and that is why you will find that CILIC and Women’s Voice were very vibrant when they were being funded but are no longer active as they have no funding now. Should they be called bogus now? And there is nothing like… Read more »

Che Chipongwe
Che Chipongwe
7 years ago

CONGOMA has raised membership fees from Mk 54,000 to Mk 174,000 akuti they are pegging their price to a dollor and yet in my 20years + working in NGO sector have never heard of any NGO that was supported by CONGOMA to raise funds. Mr. Muhone and Matemba must understand that CONGOMA is an NGO that was also registered under NGO act like any other NGO in Malawi so there is no justification whatsoever that NGOs should be struggling to fundraise for CONGOMA just for it to be registered NO!. CONGOMA must find its own resources to operate IF NOT… Read more »

Hede
Hede
7 years ago

Mwana mayi, are you talking about K35,000 or K350,000. You mean an NGO worth its name can fail to source K35,000? Unless it is bogus!

sama
sama
7 years ago

Whether NGO Board has powers or not,what is important is that they must comply with the regulations. Some of these NGOs play double standards whereby they want to be seen as angels on the outside and yet they are full of dirty linen.In most of these NGOs there is rampant financial mismanagement, nepotism, cronyism, and even corruption.

Odandaula
Odandaula
7 years ago

I hate the way some Malawians portray themselves before the public. NGO Board is one of the failed institutions. Our organization registered with NGO Board in 2013 but since that time, we have never been engaged in any of their activities (if at all they organize one). Only threats and calls for membership fees are the communications we get from them. The problem is that the NGO Board thinks its certificate plays magic when an organization wants to get funding. That is wrong perception. We actually struggle to get funded and if you continue with your useless noise, we will… Read more »

Same same
Same same
7 years ago

I disagree with the decision also i magine CONGOMA registration is k87000 plus processing fee of´k5000 while NGO BOARD WILL NEED K100000 and all are annual and yet an NGO sweats to raise to assist the vulnerable whether in kind or cash. The problem is that NGO BOARD AND Congoma have HIGH FEES

Mwana Mayi
Mwana Mayi
7 years ago

Ameneyo ndiye Dzonzi, a real think-thank not a Maziko Matemba ongokhulupilira za u dictator just becoz you want to milk timaNGO tosaukati kuti muzipatsana ma allowances ku NGO board from tindalama toti the local NGO’s will get from their personal sweat not from the NGO as the NGO’s have no money. We say: remove the K35,000 requirement and the need to be a member of CONGOMA then ask the NGO’s to come for registration. They will come en-masse inunso kuchita kuboweka. Of course most of them will not bring the auditted accounts – what do you audit when you have… Read more »

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