My fifty cents advice to Kenyan Government. Please do not fight the NGO sector by putting a limit to the amount of funding that they can receive . Limiting liberties and spaces available for Kenyans to chart their course and map their growth curves is retrogressive and should not take root in fast-developing democratic nation as Kenya. The recent legislative conversations around the media and now INGOs and overall civil society has been worrying to speak the least. INGOs and local CSOs are established with mandates , strategic plans and budgets and that they drive. They have a self-regulating mechanism through the NGO Council. Their mandates run from relief and emergency response of CAT1 to CAT3 level of emergences , to long-term development engagements with communities and in partnership with county and National governments . They too drive advocacy that seeks to build local capacities for policy influence and civic competence. It is this civic competence that seeks to empower citizens on their rights and that holds government accountable that is often problematic. Indeed an empowered and informed citizenship has often been a problem to oligarchic and autocratic forms of leadership that thrive on gullibility and ignorance of the hoi polloi. If anything, I would expect the Government to advocate for better employment terms for many Kenyans who work in the regional offices of these wonderful INGOs but whose terms are always inferior to their counterparts in the same offices from other countries on the grounds of HCI(Home Country Internationals) Many are denied the opportunity to enjoy housing, and education allowances of their children on the basis of being in the home country. This has caused many of them to seek employment in other countries despite Nairobi being home to more than 300 INGOs serving the rest of Africa.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:23:40 +0000
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