2. BUSINESS DETAILS
SACONO -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 5947508
Email :tintswalom@Sacono.org.za Facebook: Tintswalo Cassandra Makhubele

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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 reform
2. Women empowerment and inclusion
3. Youth mobilisation
4. Broad-based civil society networking

12. 7.KEY BROAD BASE THEMATIC AREA
1. Institutional strengthening
2. Political transition and emerging issues
3. Women and children issues
4. Youth issues
6. Influence in national and international policy area
7. Issues of marginalized and geographically excluded
peoples

13. 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 funding
8. Income generation programme
9. sustainable job creation

14. 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.

15. 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

16. 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;

17. 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.

18. 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

19. 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.

20. 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