Common Contracts

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN LILONGWE DISTRICT COUNCIL AND LILONGWE CIVIL SOCIETY NETWORK ON COOPERATION IN LOCAL GOVERNANCE SYSTEM

November 19th, 2015

• Filed
  November 19th, 2015

A number of people both on the national and the local level have supported the development of this manual. The exercise has taken close to 11 months of consultations and refining but it was worth the effort. This model MoU could not have been possible without the hard work of officials from MLGRD, GIZ-MGPDD, CONGOMA, CISANET, NGO Board, Tilitonse Fund, NICE, MoGCSW, MoAFS, MALGA, DCP, UNIMA; District based CSO networks and NAC. The model MoU is just complementing and strengthening already existing initiatives, law, guidelines and policies as stipulated in the National Decentralisation Policy, Non Governmental Organisations Act, Local Government Act, Urban/District Development and Strategic Plans and the Malawi Public Service Charter Programme. Under decentralisation, the existence and effectiveness of civil society organisations matters because they may not only help to coordinate citizen’s actions and get their aspirations and concerns heard by the local authorities but also act as ch