The Desert Research Foundation of Namibia is organizing a Training Workshop on Applying Ecosystem Approaches at Basin Scale with technical support from the International Union for Conservation of Nature East and Southern Africa (IUCN ESARO). The training is made possible through the generous financial support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The training will take place from 30 November 2015 at Namibia Institute of Public Administration and Management (NIPAM), Paul Nash Street,Olympia,Windhoek.

The Training Workshop is an interdisciplinary course that focuse...

The Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) and DRFN are co-implementing a three year project from 2015-2017 with the focus on contributing to environmental sustainability through awareness-raising on environmental protetion and climate change adaptation and mitigation. HSF published a newspaper inlay titled Commemorating 20 Years Of Tackling Climate Change In Namibia 1995-2015.

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Topic of discussion: Youth opportunities for development,financing and empowerment in the water,sanitation and environment sectors.

Water is the main driver for current and future socio-economic growth, development
and more importantly, improved livelihoods. In order to effect development and sustainable utilization of our water resources on a national scale, there is a need to establish mechanisms that will build networking opportunities and encourage skills transfer between senior professionals, incoming young professionals, and students. A lack of funding in these vital sectors thus disto...

Drawing lessons from the implementation of the project titled: “Building the Capacity for Participatory Democracy and Development for Improved Access to Water and Sanitation Services”, which is funded by the Embassy of Finland and being implemented by the Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN) in partnership with the Anti-Corruption Commission of Namibia (ACC) and cewas, a public dialogue was convened on 10 November 2015 with the aim of sharing and reflecting on the implementation of the Integrity Management Toolbox as a resource tool to optimize the institutions business model and event...