OPINION: The pandemic has amplified the lack of a proper national framework for funding of community-based organisations and a lack of consistency in funding non-profit organisations in the country.
We learned the hard way that you cannot postpone poverty. While the government delayed payments for the delivery of services for government programmes in order to confirm quality assurance, civil society could not hold the government accountable for their non-delivery.
This lack of support has the impact of undermining the very sustainability we hope that NPOs will achieve. For example, the government, which is able to pay stipends and allowances, often attract the best talent away from community boards where they volunteer in order to serve on government boards in paid positions.
Clearly, community organisations cannot build sustainability without funds. They cannot support government health research and development initiatives without sustainability mechanisms. Twenty-seven years post-democracy, a transformation agenda remains a pipe dream within the NPO Sector. But who is to blame? Who needs to correct the abnormality? We are here, as the sector, willing to work with anyone bold enough to balance the equation. Otherwise, history remains our biggest and objective critic.
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