New law will boost relations between State and NGOs

On September 9, Devolution CS Mwangi Kiunjuri signed and forwarded a gazette notice to the Office of the Attorney General to publish the commencement of the Public Benefit Organizations Act of 2013.

For starters, the Act is the new law providing for the establishment and regulation of Public Benefit Organizations (PBOs), commonly known as NGOs. The law will repeal the NGO co-ordination Act of 1990.