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This study provides a picture of the extent of poverty within a sub-sample of Namibian society. The three study zones chosen provide a contrast between different types of communities and environments in Namibia: (1) Ombalanto district in Omusati region, a rural community in northern Namibia; (2) Katutura, an urban community around Windhoek; and (3) Gibeon in Hardap region, a rural town in the south. The authors identify the socio-economic characteristics of the poor and provide a base line which will assist in the assessment of relevant policies. (DÜI-Hff)

The socio-economic survey was carried out as part of the five year Household Food Security Programme which is supported by UNICEF. The aim of the survey was to generate information on the social, cultural and economic circumstances and processes at community level which influence the lives of the rural population and their capacity to organise for development. This report is the first of a series and covers the southern communal areas which are characterized by small scattered settlements with seemingly limited economic potential. The communal areas south of Mariental are comprised of the so called Namaland between Keetmanshoop and Mariental, the Bondelswarts area south-west and the Warmbad area south of Karasburg. (DÜI-Hff)

This article reports on variations of the Cinderella fairytale as told by two southern Namibian storytellers, Martha Frederik and Katrina Louw. The analysis concentrates on the self-imagery of these storytellers as reflected in their performances. Although their stories are not overtly political they interpret their social environment, the relationships between men and women and employment interactions. In this sense these narratives communicate deeper dimensions of Namibian colonial relationships. Life in the towns of Aranos and Gochas is uninspiring, since these are small agricultural supply stations, settled in the mostly arid, sparse, semi-desert southern region of Namibia, Hardap. These communities are generally dirt poor, inhabited mainly by the unemployed, children, women and pensioners. The article further explores facets of the Frederik and Louw's re-interpretations of Cinderella. A few salient sections in especially the performance of Frederik are selected to demonstrate how the storytellers reconstruct their experience of life. Both texts are adapted intuitively to the storytellers' social circumstances and lived experience. The article concludes that it is through the exploration of such narrative experiences that the dialogical relationship between the powerful and the powerless can be understood.

This study was undertaken to provide an initial link between the national development planning process and the 13 new regions in Namibia. It provides summary statistics on each region together with an indication of views in each region about development achievements, priorities and problems. (DÜI-Hff)

Efficient cooking has long been of interest for its presence in multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including Good Health and Well-Being, Affordable and Clean Energy, Quality Education, Gender Equality, and Climate Action among others. Widespread uptake of an efficient cooking device, such as an "improved" biomass or LPG cookstove, has the potential to contribute to progress on many simultaneous fronts. However, unlike other sustainable development and public health initiatives, few cookstove programs include all household stakeholders, and rarely are youth, the future and current users of cookstoves, purposefully engaged in diffusion efforts. The results of a 2019 stratified survey of 200 households in two rural towns, one serving as a control group, in the Hardap region of Namibia indicate that youth-oriented Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) programming may be an effective means of inspiring changes in energy-related attitudes and behaviors in the home and across the community. Households with children who were past participants of an ESD program in the Namib Desert demonstrated an awareness of, and an openness to, solar energy as an alternative to biomass. This study highlights the importance of broadening the definition of stakeholder in the cookstove and energy development sector to include children, and points to youth-oriented ESD as a potential framework for shifting attitudes and behaviors, generationally at home and across the community.

This study on the reasons why learners drop out from NAMCOL was important to do because NAMCOL has experienced an increase in the drop outs rate. Of course, the reasons for dropout are numerous and complex. Accordingly, the phenomenon of adult learner dropout cannot be understood by looking at just one or two variables. // This paper examines the issue of college learner dropout in four NAMCOL educational regions: // Northern Region, which caters for § Omusati, Oshana, Ohangwena and Oshikoto political regions // North-Eastern Region, which caters for § Kavango and Caprivi political regions // Central Region, which caters for § Kunene, Erongo and part of Otjozondjupa political regions // Southern Region, which caters for § Khomas, Hardap, Karas, Omaheke and part of Otjozondjupa political regions. // The study focused on the dropout learners in grade 10 and 12 in 2008-2009. The researcher used regional office staff and the head office NAMCOL centres to reach out to learner through the learner representative councils and minister semi-structured interview schedules. Regional managers, area coordinators, head of centers, tutors, parents or caregivers were also consulted to detect at-risk factors so that these can be addressed early on an attempt to reduce the likelihood of learner dropout. // Most states are far from the 90% graduation rate that was targeted in the early 1990s (National Educational Goals Panel, 2002).

Vol. 1: Geographic, migration, household, demographic, social, literacy and educational characteristics. - XXVII,436 S. : zahlr. Tab. - ISBN 0-86976-339-3.; Vol. 2: Economic characteristics. - S. 437-903 : zahlr. Tab. - ISBN 0-86976-340-7.; Vol. 3: Fertility, disability and housing conditions. - S. 904-1315 : zahlr. Tab. - ISBN 0-86976-341-5