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Ogechi Njoku
Ogechi Njoku
National Publicity Secretary, Women In Nigeria (WIN)
 
Ms. Njoku a member of the US based Business and Professional Women Foundation has over 10 years experience in NGOs activities in Africa. She has been actively involved in seminars and workshops on women and community empowerment in Africa. Ms Njoku who holds a Master of Business Administration Degree from the University of Lagos, Nigeria has been involved in grass root mobilisation and local capacity building projects in Nigeria and across the West of Africa.
 
She is the National publicity Secretary of Women In Nigeria (WIN), a Nigeria based NGO devoted to the cause of women empowerment and protecting the rights of women and the vulnerable in the society. Ms. Njoku has also participated in numerous Education and Civil Rights seminars and workshops. Ms Njoku who’s work and research interest is on NGOs, Advocacy Groups, Justice and International Development, is presently pursuing a Law degree at the University of Lagos Nigeria.
 
Paper/Presentation: NGOs and Africa's Development and Economic Growth
     
While NGOs have gone from being only marginal actors in Africa’s post-colonial development to being the central actors through whom the world helps African states, Njoku recognizes that there has comparably little development in good governance and economic growth on the continent. Thus, Njoku seeks to answer the question: What are NGOs really doing in Africa? Should Africa should discard NGOs or should NGOs working in Africa be more grass root oriented to achieve more results? How best can NGOs serve Africa’s development interests? This paper reviews the above issues and argues that NGOs mandate in Africa should be redefined from that of conduit for disseminating aids from western donors and policy and good governance monitors, to channels for capacity building and local community empowerment as this is the only way that development and economic growth can be encouraged and achieved in Africa.
     
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