‘BARNABAS PLEDGED E5M TO NGO’

 LOBAMBA - The Finance Sessional Committee has questioned why non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were benefitting from government. 
This was with particular reference to the Junior Achievement (JA) programme and Women Farmer of the Year. 

This was during the scrutinisation of the E76m Supplementary Budget presented by Finance Minister Neal Rijkenberg last Thursday. 
The MPs wondered why such programmes were benefitting these organisations when there were a lot of others which were not part of the government budget. 

In response, the MPs were told that as the Planning and Budgeting Committee, they received guidance from Cabinet to allocate resources to some organisations. It was reported that it was under that premise that JA was allocated resources.

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However, the MPs were requested to note that the money that went to JA was a grant from Taiwan and was coming through government as per the donor policy that all funds coming to the country should be recorded with the Ministry of Economic Planning and Development. 

The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Trade reported that JA had written to Taiwan requesting for funding and it was given E2.2 million in total. 
“The disbursement of the funds is in tranches and the E882 000 is the balance after having received the other payment, “ reads the Finance Sessional Committee report which was tabled yesterday.

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The report continued to state that the previous Cabinet granted JA funding from the national budget as they had E500 000 in recurrent budget which was transferred to the organisation. It was reported that a memorandum of understanding with an approval from Cabinet was signed between the ministry and JA in this regard.

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