Annual Reports of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)

Gender Research & Advocacy Project (GR&AP), Legal Assistance Centre (LAC): 2022 Annual Report & updated GR&AP Publication’s list

HIGHLIGHTS IN 2022

PUBLICATIONS

• Statute Summaries on the three branches of Government: Executive, Legislature and Judiciary
• Civil Society Registration Laws: Malign or Benign?
• Three updates to NAMLEX: Index to the Laws of Namibia along with regularly updated texts of amended statutes and regulations, all available free online
• Regular ProBono newspaper columns researched and written for publication in The Namibian (15 columns published, 9 drafted by GR&AP and 6 drafted by LAC colleagues and edited by GR&AP)
• Update and revision of the pamphlet on how to set up an NGO
• Reprints of our comprehensive Guide to the Child Care and Protection Act for service providers as well as 18 existing comics and several posters on corporal punishment, gender-based violence and the Child Care and Protection Act

RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY

Research and advocacy on a range of legal topics:

• draft bill on civil registration
• draft bills on marriage, divorce and marital property
• amendments to the laws on rape and domestic violence
• proposals for law reform on harassment and sexual exploitation
• various LGBTI+ issues

2022 BY THE NUMBERS

• 49 media appearances, including print media, radio, television & online interviews
• 17 training sessions on the Child Care & Protection Act, family laws and gender-based violence, for professionals, community groups & schools, involving over 1000 participants
• over 152 000 publications distributed
• close to 2 200 clients assisted

Read/Download the LAC's GR&AP:

1.  Annual Update by clicking here: https://www.civic264.org.na/images/pdf/2023/3/2022_GRAP_Annual_Report.pdf
2. Publications Catalogue by clicking here: https://www.civic264.org.na/images/pdf/2023/3/GRAP_Publications_List_UPDATED_January_2023.pdf

Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN) and Nambia Housing Action Group (NHAG) - Annual Report 2021/2022

To date, NHAG’s contributions have resulted in many accomplishments, tangible and intangible. Until June 2022, the Shack Dwellers Federation with the technical support of NHAG and funding through the Twahangana fund, have built a total of 7,244 houses for poor and low-income people in Namibia. By way of intensified engagement with national and local authorities, there is enhanced potential for the lowest income population to receive priority attention in housing and infrastructure policy implementation. The private sector has become a key partner in the development of low-cost housing and for the Twahangana Fund, despite the challenging economic climate caused by the pandemic. Last but not least, national and international civil society partnerships have widened and so has joint learning and innovation in bottom-up housing and settlement upgrading.

Click here to read/download the NHAG & SHDFN Annual Report 2021/2022: https://www.civic264.org.na/images/pdf/2023/3/2021-2022_Annual_Report_SDFNNHAG.pdf

Legal Assistance Centre: Gender Research & Advocacy Project (GR&AP) 2021 - Annual Update and Publications Catalogue

The Legal Assistance Centre's (LAC's) Gender Research & Advocacy Project (GR&AP) team recently shared an illustrated overview of their 2021 activities, along with an updated GR&AP Publications Catalogue.

Some of the GR&AP’s highlights for 2021 include:

• Regular ProBono newspaper columns researched and written for publication in The Namibian (16 columns published, half drafted by GR&AP and half drafted by LAC colleagues and edited by GR&AP)
• Statute Summaries on 12 key human rights laws, grouped by theme (hopefully to be followed by future instalments)
• Research and advocacy on a range of legal topics, including civil registration, draft bills on marriage and divorce, obsolete laws, hate speech, proposed amendments to the law on rape and domestic violence, access to abortion and various LGBT issues
• A question-and-answer session on the Civil Registration & Identification Bill for the NGO community
• 26 training sessions on the Child Care & Protection Act and other family laws, for professionals, community groups and schools, involving 840 participants
• 82 media appearances, including print media, radio, television and online interviews and podcasts

Read/Download the LAC's GR&AP:

1.  Annual Update by clicking here: https://www.civic264.org.na/images/pdf/2022/2/2021_GRAP_Annual_Update.pdf
2. Publications Catalogue by clicking here: https://www.civic264.org.na/images/pdf/2022/2/GRAP_Publications_List_UPDATED_January_2022.pdf
   
   

Annual Report 2020/2021 of Nambia Housing Action Group (NHAG) and Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN)

Until June 2021 SDFN/NHAG have built an overall of 6,865 brick houses, each of them with its own toilet and water connection. Assuming 4 or more people live in such a house built by SDFN/NHAG this means that around 30,000 people have moved into a life with dignity and hope.
And most importantly, doing so through their own commitment and persistence; sometimes saving for years and often waiting for land for decades.

Click here to read/download the NHAG & SHDFN Annual Report 2020/2021: https://www.civic264.org.na/images/pdf/2022/4/NHAG_Annual_Report_2021_Grand_Final_07_compressed.pdf