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UNDP Namibia remains committed to leaving no one behind The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Namibia, supports government to simultaneously achieve the eradication of poverty by 2025, through empowering lives and building resilient nations. UNDP Namibia has a people centered approach, and provides continued support to government on the path to achieving all national development plans including: NDP 4, the Harambee Prosperity Plan (HPP), Vision 2030, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP Namibia’s support to Namibia in 2017 is based on two pillars; Poverty Eradication and Energy and Environment. Under the poverty pillar we aim to: • Continue to strengthen national capacity for development of policies and strategies aimed at reducing poverty. • Support capacity development for implantation of community based poverty eradication measures. • Mainstream, governance, gender, HIV and health issues into poverty eradication interventions. “UNDP has a people centred approach” UNDP Namibia Under the Energy and Environment pillar we aim to: • Strengthen national capacities to improve energy security and to mainstream renewable energy. • Improve capacities for climate change adaptation and resilience within the northern regions of Namibia, focusing on women and the youth. • Strengthen national capacities to improve water security and to mainstream green technologies. This year we will produce a National Human Development Report- a UNDP flagship publication; and further support the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare to mainstream Gender Responsive Budgeting across all government ministries. UNDP Namibia will be focusing on SDG 1 No Poverty, SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy, SDG 13 Climate Action, SDG 14 Life below Water and SDG 5 Gender Equality. Enumerator collecting data using an android tablet, during the food and nutrition survey. WFP WFP works towards Zero Hunger In Namibia, the World Food Programme (WFP) provides technical assistance to the Government aimed at strengthening the food and nutrition security sector to advance the achievement of zero hunger (SDG 2). WFP in 2017 will align its operations with SDG 17, which calls for strengthened partnerships to support the implementation of SDGs by the Government of Namibia. Hence partnerships will be important in WFP’s operations, which seeks improved collaboration with the Government, other UN agencies and civic organisations working in food and nutrition and other areas contributing to the Zero Hunger agenda. WFP technical assistance will support Government’s efforts to enhance capacity to respond to shocks through effective early warning systems, to strengthen the ability to plan, assess and design inclusive response programmes and implementation. A SCORE Project beneficiary smiles as she explains that her garden has provided her with a steady income and food security, allowing her to take care of her family and become a leader in her community. The SCORE Project scales up resilience to climate variability and climate change in Northern Namibia, which a specilal focus on women. UNDP WFP will continue working with the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture in the National School Feeding programme with a focus on providing assistance in exploring further the possibility of linking the programme to smallholder farmers. This follows the development of the Namibia School Feeding policy in 2016. The policy aims to improve the management and coordination of school feeding and proposes the diversification of the school diet with locally produced foods and also for the programme to expand its target to cover secondary school learners. To assist the Government to increase efficiency of its safety nets, WFP will provide technical assistance that will strengthen the operational capacity to implement food-based safety nets. Assistance will target, among others areas, programme design, beneficiary identification and registration. January 2017 - Page 4
“Namibia records one of the highest percentages of international migrants in Southern Africa and is also experiencing increasing internal migration due to various reasons, such as rural-urban migration.” IOM Namibia As part of its Resettlement Program, IOM Namibia has helped thousands of refugees resettle to USA, Canada and Australia. IOM Namibia IOM promotes humane migration IOM, a leading intergovernmental organization in the field of migration is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society. Migration and migration management have become key issues in the 21st Century due to globalization and the increasingly interconnected world. Namibia records one of the highest percentages of international migrants in Southern Africa and is also experiencing increasing internal migration due to various reasons, such as rural-urban migration. Therefore, IOM Namibia supports the Government of the Republic of Namibia (GRN) in migration management activities in several thematic areas including but not limited to migration policy development, labour migration, migration and health, counter-trafficking, migration, environment and climate change, or resettlement of refugees to USA, Canada and New Zealand. In 2017 IOM will, in addition to its usual fields of work, increase its efforts to support the GRN in the area of migration, environment and climate change. The goal of these activities is to gather factual evidence for the nexus between climate change and human mobility in Namibia. This evidence will then guide policy makers and technical experts when developing adequate and evidence-based policies for Namibia. Migration is in cooperated in SDG 10, target 7, to facilitate orderly, safe regular and responsible migration and mobility of people including through implementation of planned and well managed migration policies which appears under Goal 10, “to reduce inequality within and among countries”. Did you know? UN Women, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNO- DC), the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) and the UN Volunteers (UNV) also work in Namibia. According to experts, climate change will affect the Zambezi River Basin more severely than any other river system in the world. The resulting increase in flooding, drought and levels of disease threaten lives and livelihoods along the river. (FAO, Namibia and FAO) It’s the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. According to the World Bank, World Tourism Organization, Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, Compendium of Tourism Satistics and data files, international tourism receipts totaled USD 517,000,000 for Namibia in 2014. “States owe their people justice, equality and dignity, under the rule of law.” Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR promotes and protects human rights for all As the principal United Nations office mandated to promote and protect human rights for all, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) leads global human rights efforts and speaks out objectively in the face of human rights violations worldwide. OHCHR Regional Office for Southern Africa is based in Pretoria, South Africa, and covers 14 countries of the region, including Namibia. While the Office does not have a presence in the country, it provides technical assistance upon request to a number of partners, including Government, Parliament, Office of the Ombudsman of Namibia, national and international civil society organisations and our UN colleagues. Human rights are essential to achieving sustainable development and are deeply anchored in each and every SDG Goal. Having said this, OHCHR is most widely associated with SDG Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. In 2017, the Office will continue its efforts to represent the world’s commitment to universal ideals of human dignity, including through supporting the work of international human rights mechanisms, namely UN Treaty Bodies, Universal Periodic Review and Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council. January 2017 - Page 5
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