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...
Access to information and elections: The case of Namibia

Access to information and elections: The case of Namibia

by | Apr 15, 2019 | News

As a public service ahead of the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly Elections, the ACTION Coalition launched a briefing paper on Access to Information and Elections. This paper embraces a rights-sensitive approach to the holding and disclosure of election related...
Namibian CSOs crippled by limited funding

Namibian CSOs crippled by limited funding

by | Dec 14, 2018 | Blog

BY JANE MUNGABWA – The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) this week launched the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) Sustainability Index report, an attempt to evaluate the sustainability of CSOs in Namibia according to preset criteria. During the...

‘Access to information is good for Namibia’s development’

by | Jan 15, 2018 | Blog

Namibia continues to face many socio-economic challenges, including widespread poverty, high unemployment, endemic wealth and income inequalities, rampant malnutrition and significant health, educational and housing shortfalls. Without access to information for...