CEOSS and Dr. Rev. Andrea Zaki, CEOSS General Director, complemented the draft of the new NGOs law, presented by Freedom and Justice party, that has been put up for discussion in the Shura Council with a number of representatives of civil society, as the first law of associations issued after the January revolution, and which tackled some of the obstacles that were standing in the face of the civil society institutions to perform their role in the service of the country at this critical stage.
In this context, Dr. Zaki had some concerns on a number of articles in the draft of this law, including the presence of more than one authority to give approval on grants or donations from home and abroad to the organizations, stressing on the need to have a specialized authority concerned with grants approval and provision of how organizations spend these grants according to the law.
Dr. Zaki also stressed on the need to clarify the meanings of some terms that came in the context of some articles of the law, without waiting for the issuance of the final draft.
