The Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) Board has said the introduction of its NGO online registry will, among others, help it track the activities of the country\u2019s NGOs and in the process root out bogus ones.<\/p>\n
Over the years, billions of kwacha have been pumped into NGOs\u2019 activities but little has been happening on the ground in terms of Malawians benefiting from such activities.<\/p>\n
In an interview after launching the online portal in Lilongwe on Friday, NGO Board Chairperson, Abigail Dzimadzi, said elements like registration and the reporting of NGO activities will be simplified as people will no longer have to physically visit the Board\u2019s offices for such activities.<\/p>\n
She, however, indicated that for the successful rooting out of bogus NGOs that get funds but never undertake the activities for which the funds are given, Malawians must assist the Board in identifying them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mission of the NGO Board is to ensure all NGOs operating in Malawi are registered and having the portal that has been launched is going to make it easier for us to register NGOs. We will use other mechanisms of tracing the validity of the documents that an NGO has uploaded to support its application and when we find out that they are fake, we will not register the NGO,\u201d said Dzimadzi.<\/p>\n
She added that the introduction of the portal means no NGO will have an excuse for failing to register.<\/p>\n
Principal Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Mary Shawa, said the number of NGOs at the Council for Non- Governmental Organisations in Malawi (Congoma) is double the number of NGOs at the NGO Board.<\/p>\n
She said there also is an anomaly in the amount of money which reports indicate goes into NGOs to the point that a recent NGO mapping system found that over K25 billion is not clearly reported on.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe portal gives us an opportunity as a country to know the number of NGOs, what they are doing, the amount of money that goes into their operations, where they are operating and where they are getting their funding from,\u201d said Shawa.<\/p>\n
She added that the NGO Act also requires that for an NGO to be registered, it needs to have a board of trustees, a constitution and minutes of its first committee meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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