Items tagged:
Namibia
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Q&A: Community-based natural resource management is the future
Brisetha Hendricks is treasurer of a small Namibian community conservancy and also chairs the Southern Kunene Conservancies Association. In this interview she discusses her work for communal conservancies and the challenges of being a young woman undertaking a senior role in Namibia's conservancy movement
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Encouraging collaboration: drafting a new law to stop biopiracy in Namibia
Communities and indigenous groups have worked with Namibian government departments to analyse the value of their country's biodiversity and shape a national bill to protect genetic resources and the ecosystems in which they live
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Protecting land and community resources in Africa
Rural communities across Africa face a variety of threats to their claims to customary and indigenous land and natural resources. Advocates working to support these communities must draw on a range of experience and expertise. The NGOs Namati and Natural Justice brought together experts to consider the issues and published the results in a new book of 18 case studies
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Namibia's women lead the way in housing development
Persistence, celebration and the First Lady's help have turned around the fortunes of women's savings organisations helping to meet Namibia's housing needs
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Mainstreaming biodiversity and development: Namibia workshop coverage
Coverage of the third NBSAP 2.0 workshop in Namibia in July 2014 that considered what successful mainstreaming of biodiversity and development would look like
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Namibia shows how to support low cost housing
Around a quarter of Namibians live in informal urban neighbourhoods; they live without secure tenure and without adequate access to services. So how has the country gained its reputation for progressive state action on housing?
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Wanted: Community wildlife conservation success stories
Ensuring local communities benefit from wildlife is key to successful conservation in the long term and can also help to fight the illegal wildlife trade. Share your community success stories with us on World Wildlife Day.
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Botswana: Biodiversity and dragons come together
With the Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May, a new biodiversity project highlights its importance and draws out tensions that arise when biodiversity is put at the centre of development policies.
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Helping parliamentarians drive national climate change policy
Members of parliament can help break the international stalemate on climate change action by ‘domesticating’ global decisions, using national legislation. But to do that they often need long-term capacity-building programmes to catalyse the process: programmes that have support within the government and across parliaments
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Helping parliaments across the Southern African Customs Union region address climate change
Parliamentarians can play a key role in building climate resilience by bringing constituents' concerns into national forums, scrutinising how governments are responding to domestic and global climate change issues, and ensuring policy continuity
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Basic service provision shouldn’t just be a money maker
Are utility companies forgetting that their core function is to provide services and not just make money?
