NGOs to Face Bleak New Year

Many NGO employees face a new year without work and others have to tighten their belts this festive season as essential European aid funding dries up, leaving the future of a number of civil society programmes in jeopardy.

The South African National NGO Coalition (SANGOCO) Western Cape says the NGO sector is facing a crisis as long-time European donors curtail aid to South African organisations, partly due to the deepening global financial crisis, and partly due to South Africa’s own economic development.

SANGOCO Western Cape programme manager, Jacky Thomas, says that European donors now saw South Africa as a middle income country and are shifting their focus to North Africa and more impoverished nations within the Southern Africa Development Community.

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