Namibia Can Improve Further On Open Budget Rankings – IPPR

Namibia Can Improve Further On Open Budget Rankings – IPPR

by | May 6, 2020 | News

NAMIBIA has improved its transparency score slightly on the Open Budget Survey (OBS) 2019 moving from 50 points out of 100 in 2017 to 51 in the just-released survey. A score of 61 is considered the minimum threshold to foster an informed public debate on budgets. The...
New hope to curb disinformation with Namibia Fact Checking website

New hope to curb disinformation with Namibia Fact Checking website

by | Jun 14, 2019 | News

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has launched Namibia’s first fact-checking initiative, Namibia Fact Check, an initiative that aims to verify public statements and media reports. The IPPR is a member of the ACTION Namibia Coalition, a local network of...
Action Namibia hosts ATI and Elections panel

Action Namibia hosts ATI and Elections panel

by | Apr 18, 2019 | News

There was lively discussion when the ACTION Coalition Namibia in conjunction with the Namibia Media Trust (NMT) recently launched their Access to Information (ATI) and Elections Briefing Paper at a local hotel at a ‘breakfast Conversations’ event.   The paper explores...
‘ATI bill will be tabled in parliament during 2019’ – Geingob

‘ATI bill will be tabled in parliament during 2019’ – Geingob

by | Apr 17, 2019 | Blog

BY FREDERICO LINKS –    We’ve all heard it now, haven’t we. President Hage Geingob, in his 2019 State of the Nation (SONA) address, in the National Assembly on the afternoon of Wednesday, 17 April 2019, said that an ATI bill will be tabled in parliament this...