PBORA Director Mwangangi Mwania
By MKT Correspondent
The Public Benefit Organisations Regulatory Authority (PBORA), formerly the NGO Coordination Board, is urging registered organisations to file annual returns, as only 2,829 out of 12,000 have done so.
PBORA Director Mwangangi Mwania underscored the importance of returns as they will help the government plan and trace the money NGOs have pumped into the country.
He also urged organisations to be accountable by performing their mandated functions to avoid sanctions.
The government is committed to implementing the Public Benefit Organisations Act, 2013, which came into force on May 14, 2024, after court cases halted its operationalization.
The act repealed the Non-Governmental Organisations Co-ordination Act of 1990, and all NGOs will now be known as Public Benefits Organisations (PBOs).
“We note that in the year 2022-2023, they spent close to Sh200 billion on development initiatives in this country. They employ a large number of Kenyans in the implementation of these programmes,” said Mwania.
The new law encourages self-regulation and progressiveness, and Mwania praised PBOs for augmenting government efforts to develop the country.
PBOs are encouraged to align their programmes with the government agenda, as espoused in the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA).
PBORA Director Jacob Odari emphasised the importance of filing returns for the government to ascertain their activities.
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