BUSINESS DETAILSSACONO -South African Congress of Non Profit Organization

Registration NO : 114-882 NPO Name of : Bank First National Bank, Type of Acc: Cheque Branch: Trade Route Mall Account No: 62412526024

Address: 2 President Street(Helen Joseph st), Johannesburg New town Building Art bank , Newtown JHB

Tel: 011 838 6266 Fax: 0865947308

Email: info@Sacono.org.za www.Sacono.org.za

Contacts persons:Phyllis Malope Chairperson Cell : 083 596 1601 phylismalope@Sacono.org.za

Tintswalo Cassandra Makhubele: Secretary Cell :0826809900 Fax:086 5947508Email :tintswalom@Sacono.org.za Facebook: Tintswalo Cassandra Makhubele

INTRODUCTION• SACONO is the voice of the voiceless and its main objective is to close the vacuum

between government and communities , assist in implement policy and strategy aligned to their day to day activities per geographic spread, NPO as a collective must align the mobilization strategy to the communications and resource mobilization strategy in order to function properly per sector and facilitates the implementation of the programmes with a view to influence the development agenda, to promote civil society outreach and to mobilize civil society support.

• The 9 provinces of South Africa gathered in the evening of the 14th August 2012 Gauteng province was a pioneer in mobilization to transform the biggest industry of the NPO sector, this was the last turning point and a new organization SACONO South African Congress of Non profit Organization was formed, they came from all walks of the bleeding communities i.e. religious background, health, OVC, people with disabilities, children, early childhood development, women and youth sector, education and senior citizen. This came as the alternative to liberate our communities from hunger and poverty this industry is still marginalized we have to work hard to set the trend

BACKGROUND

SACONO is an umbrella organization of NPOs working in various fields of social welfare and development. Established on the 14th -17th August 2012 at the National Social development summit in Birchwood hotel. As an alternative voice of the voiceless, for the promotion and protection of social justice, human rights and pro-poor development, SACONO is a national organization working for the entire NPO sector in 9 provinces of South Africa.

SACONO is an autonomous, independent and politically non-partisan organization, governed by its own Constitution, after the elective conference the exco will amend the constitution draft and enforced an NPO Code of Conduct (CoC) to increase the accountability and transparency of NPOs.

Executive committee

• The Executive Committee comprise of 9 members. Among them 18 are democratically elected members, including a president, a vice-president, a general secretary, a secretary and a treasurer. Immediate past president is the ex officio member of the committee.

• Among the 18 members, 5 are elected as regional representatives and 9 as women representatives. All the members of the central and regional committees are experienced and established personalities in NPO management.

• The Executive Committee will meet after the elective conference to draft meeting schedule. The present working committee shall convene every month to facilitated programmes until SACONO launches a national structure.

Exco summary continue

• SACONO is an autonomous, independent and politically non-partisan organization, governed by its own Constitution, after the elective conference the exco will amend the constitution draft and enforced an NPO Code of Conduct (CoC) to increase the accountability and transparency of NPOs.

• SACONO have members from the 9 provinces to affiliate through the district chapters. To coordinate and mobilize its member NPOs to carry out various programmes effectively and efficiently, SACONO will have regional committees comprised of 9 members each, one in each development region. Together, they work as a regional catalyst to support member organizations in leadership and professional skills development, and to enable them to face the challenges of sustainable development.

• SACONO follows a highly participatory approach in the delivery and implementation of its services. Its focus is on qualitative capacity building of local member NPOs and, in particular, on improving their management, governance, skills and competencies.

Mission

Organize and mobilize people to promote a democratic and just society.

Strengthen the NPO movement and promote capacity building processes.

Safeguard the autonomy of civil society and work as a change agent

Vision

• We seek to protect the interest of all community members, regardless of your geographic spread, colour, creed, nationality, physically challenged, status, class, political and religious affiliation, Our struggle is inspired by Community Solidarity.

• To be voice of the voiceless.• Building South African Congress of Non- profit

Organizations and Developing NPO’s to work better for all.

• SACONO envisions a democratic and just society through a vibrant and strengthened NPO movement striving for an economically sustainable, socially equitable and environmentally friendly nation.

STRATEGIC FRAME WORK

• Areas of intervention requiring immediate consideration and remedial action in human rights, social justice, democratic governance and pro-poor development are immense. This is more challenging due to the current transitional political situation. Broadly, SACONO has developed a four-pillar strategy, realizing the need for collaborative work and intervention

Key achievements

• SACONO have Formed mobilizing task teams which are part of national NPO structure

• Have drafted a working document that seeks to unite NPO sector into one voice• Call a NPO summit to deliberate on their status quo• Mobilize provinces to form task teams• Manage relationships with all stakeholders• Assist provinces in drafting their working documents and form structures• Align programmes with IDP and government mandates• Work along the 10 point plan • Consolidate the transformation model• Transform the NPO sector make it cohesive and inclusive• Capacitate all structures from board members, managers and project coordinators

KEY DELIVERABLES

• SACONO has adopted a four-pillar strategy to meet the needs of its members in the current period of political transition. The four pillars are:

1. Capacity building and NPO governance reform2. Women empowerment and inclusion3. Youth mobilisation4. Broad-based civil society networking

7.KEY BROAD BASE THEMATIC AREA

1. Institutional strengthening2. Political transition and emerging issues3. Women and children issues4. Youth issues6. Influence in national and international policy area7. Issues of marginalized and geographically excluded peoples

STRATEGIC KEY 10 POINT PLAN

SACONO intends to implement its strategy through the following points:1. Advocacy and Networking 2. Organization and Capacity 3. Women ,children, youth, 4. Communication 5. Human Rights 6. Inclusion 7. Resource mobilization funding8. Income generation programme9. sustainable job creation

aspirations

SACONO aspires to mobilise both individuals and institutions to initiate change of their own choosing in the NPO sector.

Linking local initiatives with international policy can be a catalyst for making an impact at various levels focusing on rural areas.

Short term goals (quick wins)

• Providing essential logistics to these children like clothes, food, blankets, utensils, mattresses, etc.

• Recreation center for computer literacy, basic engineering skills, sports arts and culture.

• Establish mini factories for manufacturing and packaging e.g. pillows, duvet, napkin food bank packaging

• Providing scholastic materials like books, pens, pencil, paper• Medical examination by our collaborating doctors and psychological

assessment social services• Visiting the children in their respective schools• Providing games equipment to these children like balls, Jersey, nets, etc.• Form a coalition with vibrant NPOs and cooperative as implementing

agencies

Mobilization and Advocacy work for rural women and children

• Mobilize resources to ensure that the policy is implemented in the rural community;

• Advocate effectively at all levels to ensure that concerns of• orphans and other vulnerable children are appreciated in the marginalized

areas;• Use the media to promote mitigation and care efforts ; and advocate for

the strengthening of positive cultural values that foster for the care and protection of orphans and other vulnerable children

• Development of specific donor fund-raising strategies and approaches; • Development and conduct of a Competitive Landscape Analysis of

partners, their priorities and characterization of their relationships/partnerships;

• Development of a Client Relationship Management mechanism to support office promotion of a partnership culture in the office at all levels;

conclusion

• SACONO is the organization of choice therefore it works at community level with all community stakeholders in poor communities and rural areas. Integrate economic development activities and social programme to alleviate poverty.

Create agriculture markets

• Ensure that the agriculture sector in SA becomes more competitive and market-oriented;

• Promote higher quality and greater efficiency in production on SA farms;

• Promote diversification of activities, for example indigenous food processing , indigenous food farming, creation of indigenous food market, create a data base of the indigenous food farmers, capacity building on horticulture, establish cassava farms this will be our sustainable sources of agricultural income;

• Promote higher standards of animal welfare especially goat farming, chicken, duck and piggery, introduce community abattoir and protection of health and safety on Irish farms;

• Ensure higher environmental standards on agriculture produce farms and reduce overall gas emissions

Village renewal programmes

• Provide an integrated approach for the protection of the local heritage through a number of related preservation actions, complemented by a range of initiatives designed to develop the sustainable economic contribution of the natural heritage.

• Actions to preserve and develop language architecture; crafts, archaeology, cultural traditions etc

• Integrated plans for the restoration and development of locally heritage sites natural areas, features and areas of environmental significance

• Community environmental , management programmes championed by this women actions to protect and restore the amenity value of local water resources and high value nature areas

• Environmental initiatives aimed at waste recycling centers championed by rural young girls

• Renew energy to meet community energy needs, have awareness campaigns for community groups, request mine owners and big industrial parks to release capital to assist community groups adopting such technology.

Support NPO entrepreneurs

– Provision for a range of assistance types for start-up enterprises and the expansion of existing enterprises including the adoption of new technologies

– Development of innovative products and activities– The provision of a range of assistance types for adding value to

local products, including support for business networks, collective marketing, local branding initiatives, improved quality and the development of artisan processing facilities

– Utilization of local ICT capacity, for example centralized online processing of micro enterprise administrative activities, will also be supported

– Actions to foster rural entrepreneurship particularly combined with support for small-scale research, analysis and development