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20 century 'zuŋ u 'not for profit' empires
"Veni, Vidi, Vici ",Steti - ego adduxit amicis meis

Charitable organisations actively helped to suppress anti-colonial struggles. For example,
in Kenya the Women's Association, Maendeleo Ya Wanawake (MYWO) and the Christian
Council of Kenya (CCK) were both involved in government-funded schemes designed to

subvert African resistance during the Mau Mau uprising.

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Britain's Department for International Development (DfID) allocates around 8% of its aid
budget to NGOs. The US government transfers nearly 40% of its aid programme through
NGOs.

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In the early 1970s, less that 2% of NGO income came from official donors. By the mid-

1990s, this figure had risen to 30%. In 10 years between 1984 and 1994, the British
government increased its funding of NGOs by almost 400% to £68.7million.

Then, like a balloon, British government funding of UK-based international NGOs swelled

as the budget of DfID was increased from £2.33billion in 1998-1999 to £3.22billion in
2001-2002. NGOs in Australia, Finland, Norway and Sweden all saw similar increases in

official funding from the early 1980s onwards.

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Today 40% of NGOs working in Kenya are foreign. “

"NGOS IN AFRICA: A TAINTED HISTORY," 200
New African Magazine. (March 2018)
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“ NGOs' levels of capacity and operating environments vary significantly between
countries and even within countries...

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From the more than 350,000 NGOs registered between 1997–2005 in Kenya to the mere

150 currently registered at the national level in Mozambique, NGO sectors in each of the
nineteen countries surveyed in the Index are products of unique historical, geographic,

economic and cultural factors.

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Few African NGOs are able to generate significant income by pursuing economic
activities, charging fees for services, or collecting membership dues, and individual and
corporate philanthropy tends to be weak, although CBOs and faith-based organizations

often benefit from remittances from abroad and individual donations. Government
contracting of NGOs is very limited, and often impeded by bureaucracy and corruption.

As a result, in most countries NGOs are primarily dependent on foreign donors for
funding, and in many cases this has led to donors' dictation of NGOs' priorities.