Namibia: Kavango Regional Poverty Profile Launched
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The Namibian (Windhoek)
30 April 2008
Posted to the web 30 April 2008
Rundu
The Kavango Regional Poverty Profile document was launched at Rundu yesterday.
The Regional Poverty Profile serves as a guiding document that aims to engage those living in poverty, and to provide them with an opportunity to describe their experiences and present their views on how their lives could be improved.
The profile also assesses the coping strategies of people who are poor, and their effect on the sustainability of their livelihoods.
The 113-page document indicates that the biggest contributors to poverty in the Kavango Region were lack of access to basic services such as water, medicine, education and employment.
The scourge of HIV-AIDS is also one of the big contributors to poverty.
The report said the majority of people in the region live in rural areas, where they are deprived of infrastructure such as telecommunication and markets.
Acting Kavango Regional Governor Bonifatius Wakudumo, who officially launched the document, said the poverty profile report would enable the Regional Council to foster an anti-poverty reduction strategy and improve service delivery to bring about positive change in the region.
"We need to work extensively hard and change the way we have been planning, and to start planning according to the demands of the poor if we need to see impacts of our policies on human development", he noted.
Speaking at the same occasion, the National Planning Commission's Permanent Secretary Mocks Shivute said the Kavango Regional Poverty Profile marks a new beginning, and opens immense possibilities for the future.
He said the profile represents the voices of poor people at grassroots level, which is necessary to influence poverty strategies and programs in order to improve their welfare.
Shivute stressed that the problem of poverty in the country needs continuous monitoring efforts so as to have an early warning on what strategies and programmes needed to be changed.
He said the fight against poverty could only be won if people changed their attitudes and developed a 'we can do it' mindset.
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