What unifies ACTION coalition members is our work to promote the right to information as a basic human right, necessary for the enjoyment of all other rights and critical for human development.
The list below includes organisational members:
Citizens for an Accountable and Transparent Society
Citizens for an Accountable and Transparent Society (CATS) is a pressure group campaigning for effective investigation of corruption cases. Its core value is based on the Namibian people’s democratic right to know.
Editors’ Forum of Namibia
The Editors’ Forum of Namibia (EFN) is a non-profit, non-governmental voluntary organisation comprising editors and senior journalists of Namibia’s print, broadcasting and online media. The EFN is committed to a programme of action to defend and promote freedom of expression and media, pluralism, independence and self-regulation.
Institute for Public Policy Research
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)’s mission is to deliver independent, analytical, critical yet constructive research into social, political and economic issues that affect development in Namibia. It was established in the belief that free and critical debate informed by quality research promotes development.
Internet Society Namibia (ISOC Namibia)
The Namibian chapter of the Internet Society is Africa’s 32nd Chapter of the Society. It works for an open and free Internet.
Legal Assistance Centre
The Legal Assistance Centre is a public interest law firm. Its main objective is to protect the human rights of all Namibians.
MyDigitalBridge Foundation
MyDigitalBridge Foundation is committed to enriching the lives of marginalised communities through equitable access to technology by facilitating and implementing appropriate private public sector initiatives in order to attain universal access and service and to act in an advisory capacity to relevant stakeholders.
Namibia Institute for Democracy
Namibia Diverse Women’s Association (NDWA) aims to work with Women, Girls and Trans Diverse persons who identify within and beyond their sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sexual characteristics. NDWA further aims to strengthen a collective women’s, girls and trans diverse movement that envisions gender equality is systematically realized by the achievement of human rights for all through facilitating women’s leadership, socio-economic development and social rights.
https://www.facebook.com/NamibiaDiverseWomenAssociationNDWA/https://sisternamibia.com/
Namibia Institute for Democracy
The Namibia Institute for Democracy (NID) implements civic education, civil society development, socio-political survey and research, and anti-corruption programmes in Namibia. Current programmes include a domestic civil society election observation programme, political party training, civic and voter education, anti-corruption and study circle programmes.
NMT Media Foundation
The NMT Media Foundation, formerly the Namibia Media Trust, is a media development and journalism support organisation that promotes the sustainability of public interest journalism to enhance citizens’ participation in public life, through training, advocacy, capacity building and community mobilisation.
Sister Namibia
Sister Namibia has been amplifying women’s voices since 1989. From a focus on inclusion in a democratic post-colonial society back then, to a focus on responding to our realities on the ground now, we know without any doubt that empowered women is not only the most urgent need of our country, but the most effective means of change for us all.
