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A group of influential business people in Mulanje have formed a Trust called Friends of Mulanje with the aim of...
This proposed policy has close resemblance to what the Muluzi-adminstration did to the Danish financial support (popularly known as DANIDA). As a country we lost in many ways including eductation scholarships to Denmark. Please DPP stop this nosense of sounding as if Malawi can fund all its programs; compare this to relatively better African economies such as South Africa, Nigeria etc that still get foreign assistance. Shame on our corrupt and visionless leaders who celebrate while the country is cruising to a complete collapse in terms of the economic and governance indicators. Sadly, the leadership comprises people with titles that… Read more »
MORE AN “ILLITERATE STATE”….
As usual, everything in Malawi is seen through a political glass. When you have political leaders who are afraid of the unknown, you see bad policies like the one proposed here. All the government needs to do here is to make sure that the regulating body for the CSOs does its work properly, and that includes making sure the money is accounted for. For the government to stop foreign funding would mean admitting failure to properly regulating CSOs. Malawi is a poor country and it needs all the help it can get. As you have seen brothers and sisters, these… Read more »
Really NGOs,CSOs need to have a guiding light through drafting policies that will bring them into one umbrella to easily detect their movements,activities,implementations&achievements of projects that attract foreign funding.Some NGOs,CSOs run for personal gain they write a proposal as a bait to hook the most wanted dollars as funding to a ghost project while on the actual ground nothing exists.They personalise everything in the name of vulnerable people need humanitarian aid,human demographic rights,civic education,awareness campaign only to make sure money is in their pockets,some divert funds into political groupings in the name democratic governance,some still converts the foreign currency into… Read more »
The country’s needs forex and this stupid dpp govt for political reasons wants no foreign funding for our csos.
If the govt is responsible and accountable, no Cso would bother it. The country is the poorest, so we need whatever forex we can lay our hands on.