| Targeted location (aggregate) |
National - All of Namibia, with focus on areas where marginalised indigenous communities reside. |
|---|---|
| Verification status | Verified Find out more |
Commitment description
The Namibia Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare commits to revise and convert the Food Bank, Special Feeding for Marginalised Communities and Marginalized Grant into a monthly cash transfer, as a first step to phase in a Conditional Basic Income Grant over 5 years (from 1 January 2022 through 31 December 2025). Progress will be assessed using the Second Harambee Prosperity Plan Programme Delivery Unit monthly meetings. NAD 424,095.00 annually have been secured by the government to cover the associated costs.
Global Nutrition Targets
Under-5 stunting
Under-5 wasting
Nutrition Action Classification across all goals
Enabling
- Financial
- Operational
- Leadership and governance
- Research monitoring and data
Policy
- Food environment
- Food supply chain
- Consumer knowledge
- Nutrition care services
Impact
- Undernutrition
- Diet
- Obesity and diet-related NCDs
- Food and nutrition security
N4G themes covered by goals
- Food
- Health
- Resilience
- Data
- Financing
Total funding and costs across all goals
| Funders | Government of the Republic of Namibia |
|---|---|
| Funding mechanism | Public |
| Cost secured | N$ 2,500,000 of the total costs have been partally secured, yet further funding and development and scaling up of this approach required, and for additional stakeholders to come on board. |
| Total costs estimated | Yes, and the amount publicly disclosed |
| Currency | (NAD) - Namibian dollar |
| Cost amount | 14,000,000.0 |
| $USD equivalent | 851,000.0 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021) |
