The International Journal
of Not-for-Profit Law
Volume 4, Issue 1, September 2001
A publication of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Corporate Philanthropy and Social Responsibility in Latin America
La Filantropia Empresarial: Un Deber Moral, Social y Legal
por Antonio L. Itriago Machado y Miguel Angel Itriago Machado
Regional:
Conference Report on the "Simposio de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial en Las Américas"
Brazil:
Corporate Social Responsibility Conference
Chile:
Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility
Chile:
New Web Site to Encourage Social Responsibility
Articles
Trends in Self-Regulation and Transparency of Non-Profit Organization in the U.S.
By Robert O. Bothwell
ICNL'S Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe: One Year Later
By Radost Toftisova
An Overview of Issues in Charity Litigation in Malaysia 2001
By Mary George
Charity, Politics and the Human Rights Act 1998: Chasing a Red Herring?
By Graham Moffat
Case Notes
Asia Pacific:
Australia
Central and Eastern Europe:
Hungary
Latin America:
The Bahamas
Middle East and North Africa:
Egypt
North America:
The United States
Western Europe:
The Netherlands | Switzerland | Turkey
Country Reports
Asia Pacific:
Regional | Australia | Cambodia | East Timor | Indonesia | Malaysia | New Zealand
Central and Eastern Europe:
Regional | Albania | Croatia | Hungary | Romania
Latin America and the Caribbean:
Regional | Argentina | Bermuda | Chile | Guatemala | Saint Lucia
Middle East and North Africa:
Egypt | Iran | Israel
Newly Independent States:
Armenia | Kazakhstan | Kyrgyzstan | Moldova | Russia | Tajikistan | Ukraine
North America:
Canada
South Asia:
India
Sub-Saharan Africa:
Gambia | South Africa | Tanzania | Uganda
Western Europe:
Austria | Ireland | Scotland | Turkey | the United Kingdom
International:
The London School of Economics Conference | The United Nations Global Compact
Self-Regulation Reports
The Humanitarian Accountability Project
Spain:
New Publication on Transparency and Accountability
Tanzania:
Tazania's First National NGO Forum Disucsses a Draft Code of Conduct
The United Kingdom:
Reports on Developments with Respect to Self-Regulation in the UK
Reviews
Charity Law Matters
By Ronan Cormacain, Kerry O'Halloran, Arthur Williamson
Reviewed by Karla Simon
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Self-Regulation Reports
Tanzania’s First National NGO Forum Discusses a Draft Code of Conduct
In July 2001 TANGO, the Tanzanian NGO umbrella organization, held the first ever National NGO Forum for Tanzania. The Forum was attended by NGOs from all over Tanzania, and by government officials, including the Permanent Secretary in the Vice President’s Office, who oversees the NGO Bureau. There were speeches by donors, describing their funding programs, a discussion of tax legislation (led by Lee Irish and Karla Simon of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law), a discussion of NGO capacity-building (led by T.S. Muyoya of MWENGO), working groups on a variety of practical issues, and a very successful NGO fair. Led by the Chief Executive of TANGO, Mary Mwingira, the Forum was an excellent opportunity for Tanzanian NGO leaders to come together and express their concerns.
One of the issues at the Forum was the draft Code of Conduct, presented by TANGO for discussion. The Code is based on extensive research by TANGO staff into other codes of conduct in Africa (Botswana, South Africa, and Ethiopia, for example) as well as in Europe and the US. While it is not yet complete and must go through a lengthy consultative process, this first effort to establish a code of conduct for NGOs in Tanzania.