PROGRAMME AREAS
Based on its mission, its mandate, its historical involvement, its capabilities and the present priorities of politics in Namibia, the Foundation has defined its current main areas of intervention in Namibia to be

• The consolidation of the Namibian democracy and its institutions.
• The support to conceptual and practical efforts for broad-based economic development.
• The promotion of social development and distributional justice.

by taking into account that in a rapidly globalising world, Namibia as a small country of just 2 million people on its own cannot meet all of the major challenges it is confronted with.

This is why the region, in particular the Southern African Development Community (SADC) sub-region, where Namibia is a member, has become an increasingly important terrain for institution building, policy development, standard-setting and exchange of experience on common challenges. With this in mind, activities in the Southern African regional programme tend to rapidly gain in importance in comparison to purely national ones.

FES pursues this lines of activities in close co-operation with its Namibian (as well as its regional) partners primarily through the organization of conferences, seminars, workshops, lectures and public dialogues, as well as through the commissioning of research and the publication of paper, presentations, and research reports.