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Press
Release 29/11/2005 |
The Acting Minister of
Foreign Affairs and also Minister of Local Government, Dr. Matumelo
Ponts’o Sekatle says NGOs and the government should join hands
together in fighting the development challenges to improve the lives
of the people.
The Acting Minister said this when she was officially launching a
booklet called “Engaging the New Pan Africanism Strategies for Civil
Society” at Lehakoe Recreation Centre on the 28th/11/05, organized
by Lesotho Council of NGOs.
She urged NGOs to come up with constructive solutions instead of
crictising the government on its shortcomings.
Speaking at the same occasion, LCN President Ms. Motseoa Senyane
said the booklet that was launched is a tool to help NGOs in
engaging interstate institutions and their structures and NGOs
should look for channels in influencing those structures for
development of work.
The launching of the booklet is happening at the time when LCN is
having its 16th Annual General Meeting and the 6th NGO Week at the
Lesotho Cooperative College which kicked off on the 28th November
and will end on the 2nd December 2005.
The Minister of Agriculture will make a presentation on the 30th
November, 2005 at the same venue on the government’s complementarity
on poverty and HIV/AIDS in Lesotho.
The NGO Week is a gathering where Lesotho Council of NGOs reflects
on its own progress during 2004 and looking forward to the future.
This year’s theme is “Getting to Good Governance: Overcoming hurdles
of Poverty, HIV/AIDS and Weak Governance”.
The following thematic topics will be dealt with in depth; Getting
to Good Governance overcoming hurdles of poverty HIV/AIDS and weak
governance. Hiv/aids; a discriminatory factor in our society,
Environment in the Textile Industry, Enhancing Youth Development,
Issues facing food security policy in lesotho. Issues facing
community empowerment: challenges facing Cbo’s and ngos, Promoting
women participation in politics, Enhancing CSOs participation in the
public budget expenditure and management. Enhancing the Government
Capacity in Development AID Coordination, Towards building a culture
of human rights, Towards a Corruption free society and Intergrating
Maths and Science technology in poverty reduction.
Invited are the member NGOs, government officials and Council of
NGOs in Botswana. LCN is an umbrella body of NGOs in the country
with a mission to stimulate, promote and support NGOs in their
developmental efforts.
Thandiwe Solwandle (Ms.)
Information Officer
Lesotho Council of NGOs
Tel: 22317205/22325798
Email:
thandiwes@lecongo.org.ls
www.lecongo.org.ls
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