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The impact of education quality on rates of return to education in Namibia
Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2006This study investigates the effect of education quality on rates of return to education in Namibia.DocumentAchieving quality distance learning in Africa
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Distance education and open learning can be flexible and cost effective. It is particularly important for women and others unable to attend full-time education in rural areas. However, while South Africa has around fifty providers, the rest of sub-Saharan Africa has very few.DocumentNiassa Reserve community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) project: end of first phase project evaluation
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2005The Niassa Community-based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) Project in Namibia was originally designed as a pilot project to assist Niassa Reserve authorities to find ways of addressing the management issues that arise from a large number of people living within the reserve.DocumentWHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence Against Women
World Health Organization, 2005Violence against women by their male partners is common, wide-spread and far-reaching in its impact. For too long hidden behind closed doors and not mentioned in public discussions, such violence can no longer be denied as part of everyday life for millions of women.DocumentSo this is democracy?: 2004 report on the state of media freedom in Southern Africa
Media Institute for Southern Africa, 2004This report gives an overview of the state of the media in Southern African countries, namely Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.DocumentTinkering on the fringes?: redistributive land reforms and chronic poverty in Southern Africa
Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006In Southern Africa, landlessness due to the asset alienation that occurred during colonial occupation has been acknowledged as one of several ultimate causes of chronic poverty. Land redistribution is often seen as a powerful tool in the fight against poverty in areas where a majority of people are rural-based and make a living mostly, if not entirely, off the land.DocumentLocal governance, urban poverty and service delivery in Namibia
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005This report focuses on challenges for improved service delivery in poor urban areas in Namibia. It uses two town councils as case studies. The objective of the study is to identify viable approaches to the delivery of housing, water, electricity, and sanitation – the inadequacy of which all currently have detrimental effects on the poor.DocumentLiteracy in South Africa and Namibia: What works for whom?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004What are the difficulties of designing a literacy project based on the way learners use literacy in everyday life? Evidence from a recent literacy project in South Africa and from the National Literacy Programme in Namibia demonstrates that difficulties are likely to arise from differences between learners' everyday uses of literacy and their understanding of what it can offer them.DocumentCustomary land delivery practices in African urban areas
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004Urban poor people in sub-Saharan Africa, often excluded from formal systems of land management, increasingly obtain shelter through other means. Informal systems to deliver land in cities borrow features from rural customs.DocumentTackling illegal fishing practices in Africa’s protected waters
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is increasingly affecting the fisheries revenues of developing countries. The global cost of IUU fishing practices is estimated to be in excess of US$ 2.4 billion annually, about US$900 million for sub-Saharan Africa alone.Pages