{"id":56548,"date":"2022-06-23T09:11:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T06:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=56548"},"modified":"2022-06-23T09:11:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T06:11:37","slug":"president-museveni-agrees-to-lift-ban-on-dgf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/president-museveni-agrees-to-lift-ban-on-dgf\/","title":{"rendered":"President Museveni agrees to lift ban on DGF"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Museveni has agreed to lift the ban he imposed on Democratic Governance Facility (DGF), a civil society funding body, whose activities were suspended last year.<\/p>\n

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In a press statement issued by the Presidential Press Unit, Museveni made the commitment Wednesday in Kampala while meeting the Danish Minister for Development Cooperation, Flemming M\u00f8ller Mortensen.
\nIt is almost two years ever since Museveni suspended DGF accusing it of operating a multibillion donor fund without the government being represented in its decision-making structures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe president’s promise came following an appeal by Hon. Mortensen and the Danish Ambassador who said that the project has only six months left to elapse. The President said he would formally communicate the position to the relevant government departments,\u201d the press statement reads in part.
\nEver since DGF was suspended, a number of meetings have been held between the European Union donor countries that pool together the Fund\u2019s resources and senior government officials. However, up until now, no concrete results have been realized.<\/div>\n
Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/president-museveni-agrees-to-lift-ban-on-dgf-3856944<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Museveni has agreed to lift the ban he imposed on Democratic Governance Facility (DGF), a civil society funding body, whose activities were suspended last year. In a press statement issued by the Presidential Press Unit, Museveni made the commitment Wednesday in Kampala while meeting the Danish Minister for Development Cooperation, Flemming M\u00f8ller Mortensen. It is almost two years ever since Museveni suspended DGF accusing it of operating a multibillion donor fund without the government being represented in its decision-making structures. \u201cThe president’s promise came following an appeal by Hon. Mortensen and the Danish Ambassador who said that the project has only six months left to elapse. The President said he would formally communicate the position to the relevant government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":56549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}