With this new call for the subsequent research phase (2019 - 2022), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research continues to fund research in southern Africa, building on results achieved during the first phase and referring to stakeholder and decision maker’s needs. The overarching goal of this call is to provide scientific inputs into SASSCAL’s strategic research framework that builds on the achievements of the first phase of SASSCAL and is in alignment with the institution’s mandate. The SASSCAL research framework addresses regional research needs and imperatives within the contex...

The DRFN is part of the Regional Sustainability Network (RSN), which is an HSF-Kenya initiative that was launched in September of 2018 and this project will run from 2018-2020. RSN is comprised of various institutions from the civil society sphere currently representing eight countries from sub-Saharan Africa. This network aims to contribute towards achieving of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement through:

• Enabling a strategic, innovative and efficient information exchange between actors in Africa in the thematic area of Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability
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Chief Fredrik Langman as the recognised traditional leader of the Aao//aen Traditional Authority in the Omaheke Region has requested an audience with President Hage Geingob at Skoonheid. Chief Langman’s jurisdiction goes across 4 constituencies, the Kalahari, Okurukambe, Eiseb and Otjimbinde. The President delegated Hon. Pea Muselenga, Minister of Urban and Rural Development and Hon. Minister Royal /Ui/o/o  the Deputy Minster under the Vice President’s office, marginalised communities division to attend the meeting on his behalf on the 7th of March 2019.

The Minister and Deputy Minister arrive...

This is often the question those in the water sector have to answer with regards to the current management of water especially in the rural areas where so much responsibility is placed on Water Point Committees (WPC), who most of the time do not have the resources (human, financial and technical) to successfully manage these water points. Last year the ASSAR project published a briefing note on lessons from decentralised water governance in Namibia and this highlights important lessons why the current practice does not work and why new approaches to governance are needed to support effective p...