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Uncertainty Hangs Over Gambia's NGOs Week

Thursday, 09 December 2010 13:32

OUSMAN_YABOBy Abdoulie John
Ousman Yabo, Director of The Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (TANGO) in The Gambia has expressed displeasure over the slow pace taken by NGOs to register to the organization's biggest plan of organizing the most awaited NGOs Week.
He made this revelation during the recent launch of Action Aid Human Rights handbook that took place at TANGO's premises, located in Fajara.OUSMAN_YABO
The NGOs Week aims at providing an opportunity to the country's NGOs to not only showcase their activities to the general public, but also to other development stakeholders.
However, it seems effort to ensure a successful occasion is not being heeded to by the NGOs as if they prefer opacity triumphing over transparency.
For some analysts, such an attitude denotes a flagrant ambiguity in the way some of the NGOs are being managed.
"They need to be audited," voiced out a prominent member of the Gambian civil society.
Speaking under condition of anonymity, this critic said he was still wondering why NGOs were dragging their feet to respond to TANGO's call which, in his view, was only "geared towards creating better relationships between NGOs community and the corporate sector."

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+2 #1 2010-12-09 20:16
NGOs have become a law to themselves that is why for most of them their role is increasingly under question. It is time to re-examine what these NGOs are doing and what they accomplish. The indegenisation -hiring local employees- of most of these NGOs have provided life time career opportunities for some Gambians albeit with fat salaries but the general public is yet to be convinced about their contributions toward development. Apart from those providing humnanitarian assistance,the majority of these prefer operaring very low and only accountable to their fund providers or donors. We need NGOs that are motivated by the best humanitarian concerns not those that provide perks and compete for best compensation to their employees. Almost 70% of most NGOs funds go towards staff salaries, travelling and other staff benefits.
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