Anti-Corruption Website
Namibia's Zero Tolerance for Corruption Campaign

The NID’s Zero Tolerance for Corruption Campaign commenced in 2004 - funding provided by SIDA - with support to the Efficiency Charter Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister for an awareness program on the Public Service Charter, a public awareness campaign through the media and an analysis of actual cases of corruption as reported in the media since independence in 1990. The Embassy of Finland provided funding for a manual on corruption in 2005.

To ensure the long-term and sustained impact of this integrity promotion initiative, the program was extended in 2005 with funding by USAID to strengthen the “supply” of anticorruption initiatives by government by assisting relevant government institutions and authorities on all levels with regulatory and procedural reform and policies and the resulting training and technical assistance needs, and by providing technical support to civil society throughout Namibia to strengthen the demand for a corruption-free society. Further program partners include, amongst others, the Anti-Corruption Commission, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Efficiency Charter Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister, the Council of Churches of Namibia (CCN), the Association of Regional Councils (ARC), the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industries (NCCI), the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW), the Namibian Employer’s Federation (NEF), the Association of Local Authorities in Namibia (ALAN) and the Namibian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (NCCI).

The goal of the Program is to reinforce Namibian efforts to arrest the growing trend of corruption in Namibia that is being registered in the media and recognized by key stakeholders in government, as well as the private sector and civil society, and to maintain the currently still favourable reputation Namibia enjoys within the region and internationally with regard to transparency and integrity.