As BOCONGO notes, "NGO Week represents a time for deep reflection and renewal of our commitment, strategic directions and mandates for the years ahead".
The Botswana Council of NGOs (BOCONGO) activities have as their theme: "Our roadmap towards the attainment of Vision 2016 and MDGs". This is the 117-member organisations' fifth event. BOCONGO says the theme aims at engaging NGOs as vehicles of change to drive and promote community participation in the implementation of Vision 2016 and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It also intends to encourage NGOs, government, private sector and development partners to integrate the MDGs into the national development plans". NGOs are indeed partners in development, particularly for a developing country such as Botswana. We shudder to think of the direction the development of Botswana could have taken without the critical input of the NGOs. The member organisations that comprise BOCONGO touch all social, political and economic facets of life in our society.
