{"id":28405,"date":"2016-07-20T13:05:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T11:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=28405"},"modified":"2016-07-20T13:05:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T11:05:27","slug":"aicc-lobbying-for-sustainable-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/07\/20\/aicc-lobbying-for-sustainable-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"AICC lobbying for sustainable projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The African Institute of Corporate Citizenship (AICC) says Malawi can only experience sustainable development if non-governmental organisations (NGOs) start engaging the private sector and not just government on development issues.<\/p>\n<p>AICC says all players need to get involved and make use of multi-sector platforms and private sector partnerships in their development programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Officer of AICC, Felix Lombe, said this when the organisation unveiled corporate citizenship manuals to raise awareness around the corporate citizenship phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDevelopment can only be achieved in a situation where all players involved be it private sector, government, NGOs or the community play their part,\u201d Lombe said.<\/p>\n<p>Lombe said unless NGOs in Africa collaborate with government as well as the private sector, the depth of their development interventions will continue to have short term impacts.<\/p>\n<p>The six manuals that were unveiled include Corporate Citizenship Manual, Guidelines for Private Sector Investment in Agriculture in Malawi, A Handbook on Facilitating Market Access and Linkages and Guidelines o f Establishment and Development of Innovations Platforms in Agriculture Value Chains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Institute of Corporate Citizenship (AICC) says Malawi can only experience sustainable development if non-governmental organisations (NGOs) start engaging the private sector and not just government on development issues. AICC says all players need to get involved and make use of multi-sector platforms and private sector partnerships in their development programmes. Chief Executive Officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28408,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28405\/revisions\/28408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}