Some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) under the banner of the National Anti-Corruption Alliance have launched a sustained campaign dubbed ‘Pay back our money’ to demand back resources from convicted ‘criminal entrepreneurs’. Some initiatives under this campaign include: public interest litigation, the introduction of a Black Monday, strict monitoring of cases, doing life audits of suspected […]
Malawi’s human rights watchdogs, the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and the Youth and Society (YAS), have expressed excitement with the arrest 12 police officers suspected to be behind the killing of Buleya Lule. Lule died in police custody at the Lilongwe Police Station on 21 February 2019, just a few hours after […]
Some civil society organisations (CSOs) have asked government to reduce the cost of information and communication technology (ICT) services, especially Internet and mobile phones in view of the suspension of physical meetings. The call has been made in a statement jointly issued by leaders of Centre for Human Rights and Rehabiliation (CHRR), Youth and Society […]
Malawi Watch executive director Billy Banda, a human rights activist , has questioned the conduct by the law enforcing agencies Malawi Police Services and the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) of persecuting the opposition while serving the interest of the state while Youth and Society (YAS) says there long arm of the law should reach offenders. […]
The legal provisions to bar handouts from Malawi politics are proving to be mountainous obstacles that authorities have been challenged to thoroughly enforce. This was reported by a consortium comprising civil society organisations (CSOs), namely National Initiative for Civic Education (NICE) Public Trust, Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP), the Public Affairs Committee and […]
Minister of Population Planning and Social Welfare, Mary Clara Makungwa, has said government, through the Non Governmental Organisations (NGO) Board of Malawi, is accrediting local and international NGOs that are willing to put their resources together to help with interventions aimed at addressing the devastating effects inflicted by the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Makungwa disclosed this […]
Minister of Population Planning and Social Welfare, Clara Makungwa, on Tuesday became the first senior government official to tour the newly purchased headquarters of the Non Governmental Organisations (NGO) Board of Malawi in the capital Lilongwe where she promised to help address the board’s challenges including resolving its misunderstandings with the Council for Non Governmental […]
Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Malawi say the requirement to submit externally audited annual financial reports to the NGO Board of Malawi, is the main reason some of them are not reporting to the board because they cannot afford fees for hiring independent auditors. External auditors fees is allegedly very high, ranging from MK2 million […]
The Non Governmental Organisations (NGO) Board of Malawi, with technical support from the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, on Monday began the consultative process of developing reporting regulations for NGOs in a bid to promote transparency and accountability in the NGO sector. Section 22 of the NGO Act compels NGOs in Malawi to submit […]
Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare Mary Navicha has issued a stark warning to take the rare move of naming and shaming civil society organisations (CSOs) which do not provide audited accounts of funds and the technical support they receive from local and international donors. Navicha alleged that there is a lot happening within CSOs ranging […]
About two decades ago, as a cub reporter at one of the two print media giants, I was a newsroom resource of little consequence and so my editors placed me on call to periodically travel the country with several NGOs, covering their projects and documenting the success stories (only success stories) for the newspaper’s features […]
NGO Board of Malawi has called for openness and enhanced working relationship between government and the local civil society organisations (CSOs) in order to accelerate the realisation of the country’s social, economic and democratic aspirations of the citizens. The NGO Board chief executive officer, Voice Mhone, observed that constructive engagement between government and the civil […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USaid) has called for enhanced coordination, governance and financial accountability among civil society organisations (CSOs) in Malawi so that they can make effective and meaningful contribution to the socioeconomic development of the country. USaid Malawi Mission Director, Littleton Tazewell, predicted that Malawi faces tremendous challenges in the coming […]
The Non Governmental Organisations (NGO) Board of Malawi has issued fresh threats to NGOs that are not submitting their annual returns, audit and technical reports to the board, warning that such NGOs risk encountering the fate that has befallen their counterparts in Uganda. About 12 089 NGOs have just been closed in Uganda in what […]
The Non Governmental Organisations (NGO) Board of Malawi has announced that it will stop issuing annual operating licenses to NGOs that are not complying with a section of the NGO Act which compels them to submit their annual returns, audit and technical reports to the board. NGO Board Chief Executive Officer, Voice Mhone, has said […]
The 2019 International NGO Accountability Conference began on a high note on Thursday in Malawi’s lakeshore District of Mangochi with the key note speakers calling upon Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the country to be accountable themselves in order to have a moral ground on which they can criticize government and other service providers. The […]
Governance, Gender, Justice and Development Centre (GGJDC) has urged Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to actively engage men in implementation of women empowerment programmes if they are to achieve their goals. GGJDC Executive Director, Ruth Manda made the remarks on Wednesday during a training conducted to identify gaps in the Women Empowered for Leadership Programme which […]
Two civil society organisations under the banner National Advocacy Platform (NAP) and the Joint Civil Society Platform on Good Governance (JCSPG) have strongly condemned radicals who threw petrol bombs at human rights activist Timothy Mtambo’s in the early morning of Thursday August 15 2019. Mtambo is both the chairperson of the Human Rights Defenders Coalition […]