• 11 November 2022

This State of Land Information (SOLI) report from the Land Portal assesses the state of land data in Namibia against principles of land data openness, land information availability and accessibility, and overall ...

  • 6 May 2021

The restitution of ancestral land rights in Namibia has  divided opinions since independence. Some argue it is a fitting process in dealing with colonial era land dispossessions, others are concerned about the ...

  • 23 March 2021

On 5 March 2021 the Namibian Ministry of Land Reform issued 988 land holder titles to nine associations in Freedom Square, an informal settlement in Gobabis municipality, with an additional 122 to be printed in due ...

  • 13 April 2020

In a pioneering legal case, which began more than 10 years ago, the indigenous Hai//om are suing the Namibian government to have their ancestral land rights recognised. Thousands of Hai//om have been resettled ...

  • 26 September 2018

The shortcomings of the current land reforms suggest that voluntary, market-based transactions of land might not be a suitable measure to redistribute land, not to speak of wealth and power. The “policy” of ...

  • 4 August 2016

Focuses on communal land and attempts to better understand the intersection of gender, communal land, and land reform in Namibia. Concentrates on two regions that adopted different approaches. The Oshana region ...

  • 30 November 2015

Members of rural communities in Namibia often lack a basic understanding of what their user rights and responsibilities are under the Communal Land Reform Act and are also unaware of their rights to object to a ...

  • 11 June 2015

Describes a long-standing grazing dispute in northern Namibia that provides critical lessons on the challenges that people living in communal areas face to secure their land rights. Several large livestock owners ...

  • 10 November 2014

Includes views of land registration in Omahalya Village in the Omusati Region of Namibia, connection to the land, value of registration, protection from land grabbing and conflicts, investing in their land, ...

  • 9 September 2014

Examines MCC projects in Benin, Lesotho, Mali and Namibia to understand how each project applied gender to its design and implementation and how that approach impacted on results. Aims to help practitioners ...