The National Planning Commission is currently hosting the first validation workshop of the Sixth National Development Plan (NDP6) at Otjiwarongo in the Otjozondjupa region from 11-22 November 2024, with second validation planned for February 2025.
The workshop will enable stakeholders to review and validate the first drafts of the NDP6 chapters, ensuring that these are robust, inclusive and effectively address the country’s needs. The Focus Area chairpersons presented the chapters, thereafter all stakeholders present, provided their inputs and validated the work done in plenary, as part of further improvement of the document.
The workshop brings together about three hundred (300) government officials, industry experts and representatives from various public and private, Civil Society (CSO’s) and development partner institutions, that are attached across the fifty-one (51) focus areas within the NDP6.
The event is conducted at two venues running concurrently, with NDP6 pillars 1 and 3 (i.e. Pillar on Economic Recovery, Transformation and Resilience; and Pillar 3: Sustainable Development and Environmental Sustainability) hosted at the Otjozondjupa Regional Council; while Pillars 2 and 4 (i.e. Pillar on Human Development and Community Resilience, and Pillar on Effective Governance and Public Service Delivery), are accommodated at the Out of Africa Town hotel.
In his welcoming remarks at Out of Africa Town Hotel, Mr. Sylvester Mbangu, Chief: National Development Advice at the National Commission, emphasised that the NDP6 is a national document which will be implemented in six years, unlike previous national plans that were usually implemented over five years. This is because NDP5 was extended with two years.
The implementation of the NDP6 will end one year after the end of Vision 2030. Mr. Mbangu further stressed that the workshop which combines the public sector as the driver of the Government’s business, and the private sector as the agents of transformation, is a perfect approach that ensures integrated planning. He urged participants to ensure a successful implementation of the plan, so that it addresses the needs of the Namibian people across all corners of the country.
