The NGO Board of Malawi has stepped in to settle the feud over projects, funds, and grants between local non-governmental organisations (LNGOs) and international non-governmental organisation (INGOs).

Development Diaries gathered that the NGO Board has started receiving recommendations from stakeholders to develop subsidiary regulations that will help enhance a good working partnership between LNGOs and INGOs.

It is understood that the recommendations will be submitted to the country’s Ministry of Justice which will draft the regulations.

LNGOs, it was gathered, have accused the INGOs of monopolising projects, funds, and grants.

In April, LNGOs petitioned the then Minister of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare, demanding her office to issue a decree stopping INGOs from implementing projects at district and community level, saying they should be working through LNGOs.

‘As a board, we are determined and moving forward with the process of helping to come up with recommendations of partnerships of INGOs and LNGOs in order to help the NGO sector’, Director of Corporate Services for NGO Board of Malawi, Linda Njikho, said.

‘We want to ensure that there is peace and no other issues in the sector. We want to involve all parties and stakeholders so that when regulations are eventually done and approved they should be implementable and acceptable by everyone’.

To achieve this task, the NGO Board has collaborated with the Council for Non-Governmental Organisations in Malawi (CONGOMA).

Executive Director of CONGOMA, Ronald Mtonga, said the regulations would help govern partnership between LNGOs and INGOs in order to achieve unity of purpose between the two parties.

Source: Nyasa Times

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