NGO's encouraged to invest in the face of shrinking foreign aid

Janet Mawiyoo, the executive director of KCDF, gives a speech during the conference, held at Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi [Gardy Chacha/Standard]

In the coming years, aid to Africa will reduce progressively, if the views of players in the civil society sector are anything to go by.

This emerged last week at a two-day conference attended by heads of civil society organisations as well as leaders of various corporate sectors locally and abroad.