Conservancies in both the ||Kharas and Hardap regions are reflecting on the extent to which the Community-Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) model has contributed to improving livelihood and protecting the environment.
The Okorukambe Constituency Office in the Omaheke Region has aided residents at Omitara Settlement with material to begin income-generating activities.
The office also assisted three local schools with modern technology, all to a combined value of N$200,000.
The African Monarch Lodges continues to empower local residents with vocational skills in various trades at the Sijwa Project in Zambezi's Kongola Constituency.
The project repurposes recyclable waste from the African Monarch Lodges into salable crafts.
Over a hundred residents of Rehoboth Block E have benefited from the town council's ongoing title deed handover and debt write-off initiative.
The Kavango West Regional Council has launched a constituency outreach program aimed at addressing both immediate needs and long-term development goals in rural communities.
Broad-Band Investment (BBI) has handed over food and non-food items to the Kanovlei Primary School in the Tsumkwe constituency to help improve learning conditions.
The Affirmative Repositioning (AR) party has encouraged the government to involve leaders at different levels when entering into project agreements with private investors.
Kavango West Governor Verna Sinimbo says there has been a change in the lives of beneficiaries since the start of these outreach programs by the various UN agencies in collaboration with the various ministries.
Sibbinda Constituency is the latest to receive fibre connectivity from Telecom Namibia.
Connected to the internet now are the constituency office, the health centre, and the education circuit.
Rundu-rural constituency councillor in the Kavango East Region, Paulus Mbangu, says that while the country has been liberated from external control, focus must now be placed on securing economic sovereignty.
