Open Society Foundations President, this month in South Africa in South Africa. (X / @ nowrojeeosf)
Open Society Foundations (OSF), one of the most influential philanthropic networks in the world, returns the physical existence in Africa as part of the global re-structure effort, which has seen more than 40%.
The organization, and the criticism of the courts – some of these real but conspiracy theories are so much.
Like our rest, OSF woke up in a different world in January of the United States.
This Mail and Guardian OSF President, Biniifer Nowrojee sat in the organization to understand where it was in this reformed landscape.
Nowrojee reaffirmed the organization’s obligations of the organization, emphasizing the role of supporting the civil society, promoting civil society and influencing the world-scale policy discussions.
However, in Africa, it is a question of closer to look at OSF’s activities, its effects, decision-making processes and long-term sustainability.
Tracking footprint in Africa
The reconstruction of OSF has led to the closure of many offices African as part of a wider strategy to improve their transactions.
In October 2023, ASF announced the closure of Offices in Cape, ADDIS Ababa (Ethiopia), Kampala (Uganda), Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Freetown (Sierra Leone).
Johannesburg, Nairobi (Kenya) and Dakar (Senegal) protected offices.
Reconstruction of the main offices reflects a turn in OSF operating model that aims to focus on the resources more effectively in specific target areas.
Nowrojee, in a framed strategy as a strategic regulation than withdrawing this turn, OSF has been committed to democracy and social justice in Africa.
“The volatility in the South African continent is so much – we see the countries in the conflict – and so on.
According to the foundations, the group translates $ 125.2 million in Africa in Africa and 7.2% of global expenditures.
However, the continent is contrary to the support of open societies in the regions such as the network reduction, water, DRC and Ethiopia, and democracy is under the threat.
To change the administrative location, the OSF strategy increases the possibility of pushing foreign philanthropy to reach local networks in the continent.
USAID FALOUT
The last decision to reduce certain foreign assistance programs from the US government, especially HIV / AIDS, and many groups left the groups of trust in humanitarian aid.
For example, last year, the Emergency Situation (PEPFAR) in order to help AIDS in October 1, October 30, in order to South Africa, 439,537,828 to South Africa.
Nowrojee, President Donald Trump criticized the sharpness of the decision to return USAID services, but also said that it is time to interrogate Africa’s foreign assistance.
“I think that this is an awakening call for an African governments, it is a wake up to think about the help and wealth and the continent and how to think about the opportunity and re-work,” he said.
OSF does not plan to fill the remaining financial power of financial power by USAID due to the financing of the polling stations, but will support nature and controversy in nature.
“Open Society’s finance is not large enough to fill the space that USAID has left. We do not have a financing scale.”
As a special entertainment and “service provider”, the organization’s mandate was a “service provider”.
Nowrojee’s thinking depends on the wealth of a single donor family, which came from an organization out of a thought-provoking organization, and it came out of an organization that African peoples did not find a clear way to secure itself.
Soros’s shadow
The fund, his founder, left-winged billionaire George greeted his role as a proxy for political landscapes of Soros. This idea found the currency between both liberal skeptics and European strotmen.
In Hungary, Prime Minister Victor Orban, opposition groups and media financing, accused the government of trying to violate the government. The Orban government made an anti-soros campaign that claims that “full of European migrants” and the foundations were fired.
OSF Russia was banned in 2015 and labeled “threat to national security” for the financing of non-governmental organizations protesting against President Vladimir Putin’s policy.
And in MyanmarSoros support groups supported Rohingya minorities that make the nationalist groups angry.
Nowrojee, Soros’s personal political contributions, the founder, founder, said that the founder uses money from his pocket to finance their candidates to the Democratic Party in the United States.
“George Soros uses its own funds, separate from open society foundations.
However, given that the OSF historically aligned with liberal democratic actions, the question remains a question that an organization funded by a single ideological billionaire is a question.
While OSF people wanted to overthrow governments, it makes his participation in politically sensitive issues a favorable target for such charges.
“The foundation is often accused of trying to overthrow governments and not only to overthrow OSF governments to celebrate, and we do not try to do so.
“What we do is, in the case we see that we have seen or populations differently, we want to inform the grant and inform.”
Charity and Media
OSF is a well-known entertainment of media organizations based on the left. While supporting independent journalism, it is very important for democracy, the impact of a strong charity such as the fund is concerned about the independence of editorial independence.
Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Africa support research networks in various countries.
Nowrojee admitted this tension, and funded the media without interfering with the content of the OSF.
“I think we also want to support groups without a secret prejudice, but as founders, but the foundations, but George Soros or others intervened.”
