Welcome to FES Namibia Office

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Namibia Office

95 John Meinert Street
Windhoek-West

Postal Address:
PO Box 23652

Windhoek / Namibia

+264 61 417 500

office(at)fesnam.org.na

Our working lines

 Just City - Land and Housing

Just City - Land and Housing

Africa's urban population will double over the next 25 years. By 2040 at the latest, a majority of all Africans will be living in cities. Given this development, it is apparent that democratic political legitimacy will increasingly hinge on a socially and gender-equitable provision of public goods and economic opportunities in African cities.


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Forum for Experts on Social Protection

Forum for Experts on Social Protection

In partnership with the School of Education and Social Development, the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Namibia, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), initiated the Forum of Experts on Social Protection (FESP) in 2017.


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Youth Matters

Youth Matters

As Democracy needs Democrats, Democrats must have the capacities and share the same behavioural and ethical standards to take responsibility as Namibian citizens and servants. With the median age in Namibia being 21,8 years (2020), youth is the pillar of the current and the future society.


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Gender Justice

Gender Justice

For more than 40 years, FES has been working with its partners on the African continent to transform unjust social and economic contexts and to build conditions for democratic transformative change.


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Labour relations in the Informal and Formal Economy

Labour relations in the Informal and Formal Economy

FES Namibia works with organized labour to drive a socio-ecological transformation that will lead towards more just societies.

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Decolonial dialogues

Decolonial dialogues

To progressively address the destructive legacies of the colonial past in Namibia, FES Namibia organizes various platforms of debate for inclusive postcolonial dialogues and sensitive people-to-people approaches.


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Party and Parliamentary Cooperation

Party and Parliamentary Cooperation

Party and Parliamentary Cooperation have been a traditional working line of FES Namibia since Namibia’s independence.

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Decent work

Decent work

Decent work for us is not a slogan is our mission.

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Informality

Informality

Global statistics reveal that more than 60% of the world’s employed population earn their livelihoods in the informal economy.

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Latest News

16.02.2024 | News
FES Namibia and Fesmedia Africa hosts partners

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Namibia and Fesmedia Africa jointly hosted a partners’ engagement and reception under the theme “Reimagining Access to…


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19.12.2023 | News
Message of gratitude for a year 2023

We at FES Namibia express our gratitude to all our partners and stakeholders for your cooperation and support throughout the year 2023.


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28.09.2023 | News
Youth in Namibia "The Whys of Moving In and Out"

On the 28th of September 2023, the second session of the Fireside Chats platform took place at the Goethe Centre in Windhoek from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The…


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Latest Publications

This home is my home

Wietersheim, Erika von

This home is my home

Motions and emotions around urbanisation in Namibia
Windhoek, 2023

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Just city Namibia survey results

Just city Namibia survey results

Report on findings: Urbanisation, public goods provision and quality of democracy in Namibia - survey
Windhoek, 2022

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Operational guidelines for the code of conduct for the Namibian informal economy

Operational guidelines for the code of conduct for the Namibian informal economy

Windhoek, 2022

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