Lands and Resettlement
The Namibia Nature Foundation promotes and supports Sustainable land management initiatives with the aim of developing integrated approaches in collaboration with the Government through its relevant Ministries, local communities, private sector and NGOs to achieve Namibia's development objectives and vision.
One such initiative has successfully been established through "Country Pilot Partnership for Integrated Sustainable Land Management framework programme" funded by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF). The main feature in this programme is the establishment of umbrella approach (breaking down the sectoral barriers) that links institutions, programmes and Namibia's priority development goals into one unified country programme that focuses on promoting action at National, Regional and community levels.(for more info contact www.cppnam.net)
NNF in collaboration with the Ministry of Land and Resettlement also supports the Government Land Reform initiatives. Areas of support include:
- Land Reform - Providing supports in the development of a national strategy for effective and enhanced land reform in Namibia
- Resettlement support
- Collaborate with the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement to facilitate efforts by resettled farmers within selected pilots sites to develop a common vision, management objectives and plans, and build capacity to allow them to become self-reliant and to sustainably optimise their livelihoods and quality of life;
- Facilitate the building of partnership between resettled farmers, relevant Government departments and other support organisations to help implement the objectives, plans and initiatives to achieve optimal sustainable levels of development
- Technical Support for Land Boards - To assist in securing technical support for newly established Land Boards to fulfil their mandate in effective ways, within the legal and developmental setting of various regions of the country.