Under the Civic Advisory Hub- AML/CFT Regulatory Watch program, we are honored and excited to invite you, and all those within your networks, to our first series of virtual engagement, for the year 2024 on the topic” Reflecting on the Future of the FATF Recommendation 8”

This virtual event is designed to benefit NGO actors from within the East and Southern Africa region, by presenting a timely opportunity for participants to understand, and seek clarification, attendant to the regulators’ perspective on R.8, following the 16 November 2023 revised FATF R.8, its Interpretive Note,  and the best practice paper on the implementation of  R.8, which some countries had enforced disproportionately.

Expect to hear from key subject matter experts within the region, including among others the Executive Director of the National Bureaus for Non-Governmental Organisations – Uganda, the Executive Director of the Kenya-NGOs Co-ordination Board Office of the President, and the Chief Standards Officer, Department of Registrar for NGOs-Ministry of Community Development and Social Services Zambia.