The following full-time staff
coordinate and conduct the NID’s programs.
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Dr. Justine Hunter
Tel. (264) 61 229117/8
Fax (264) 61 229119
Mobile (264) (0)81 124 5820
hunter@nid.org.na
Executive Director of the NID since May 2007. Previously
she worked as the Program Manager of the NID’s Public
Dialogue Centre. She has wide experience in conducting
local research and surveys on socio-political issues such
as HIV/AIDS, land reform and public policy, and conducts
M&E training with NGOs in Namibia. She is the editor
of Who should |
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own the land? Analyses and views on
land reform and the land question in Namibia and Southern
Africa (NID, 2004) and Spot
the difference. Namibia’s political parties compared
(NID, 2005). She also wrote articles on transitional
justice. She holds a PhD in Political Science, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität,
Freiburg i.Br., Germany (2004) and a Masters in Political
Science, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm- Universität,
Bonn, Germany (1998).
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Theunis Keulder
Tel. (264) 64 401079
Fax (264) 64 462346
Mobile (264) (0)81 124 1434
tkeulder@iway.na
As Regional Director of the NID and previous Executive
Director between 1995 and 2007, he has extensive experience
in the overall coordination and implementation of projects
funded by a variety of donors in Namibia, such as civic
education, integrity promotion, anti-corruption, organizational
management skills and the administration of small grants
to local civil society organizations programs. |
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He has participated internationally in a number of conferences
relating to anti-corruption, civic education, civil
society development and organizational management and
designs and conducts management training programs for
a wide range of organizations in Namibia. He holds a
Masters Degree in Business Leadership (MBL) from the
University of South Africa Business School (2000) and
a Masters Degree in Communications (1992).
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Naita Hishoono
Tel. (264) 61 229117/8
Fax (264) 61 229119
Mobile (264) (0)81 292 4850
naitah@nid.org.na
Manager of all civil society related programs at the
NID. She has wide experience in leading teams and networks
of rurally based Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and
Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in conducting development
projects in Namibia. In this process, she assists, trains
and provides technical assistance to such CSOs and NGOs
to interact with relevant authorities, addresses their
training needs, |
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includes CSOs and NGOs in national civic education,
public awareness and research programs on issues such
as anti-corruption, voter education and HIV/AIDS.
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Naomi Kisting
Tel. (264) 61 229117/8
Fax (264) 61 229119
Mobile (264) (0)81 147 3558
naomi@nid.org.na
Naomi is currently responsible for the implementation
of the civil society elections observer program. She is
an experienced trainer in advocacy skills, and has conducted
several communal land reform workshops for farmers unions,
communal and commercial farmers. She is spearheading an
educational campaign on anti-corruption in schools and
responsible for seven study circles in the Kunene and
Hardap regions. She is involved in civil society activism
in empowerment programs for |
disadvantaged
women as well as violence against women and children.
She is a member to the Genocide Committee of the Southern
Traditional Council, serving as translator in consultative
meetings with the Namibian President and other government
officials.
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Uakundja Lucas Katjiremba
Tel. (264) 61 229117/8
Fax (264) 61 229119
Mobile (264) (0)81 252 2226
Lucas has been a civic educator with the NID since 1992,
during which time he has conducted numerous civic education
workshops, programs and campaigns on principles of multi-party
democracy throughout Namibia. He participated in a trainer
development workshop in Marburg, Germany in 1995, and
was part of an international civil society elections observation
team in Malawi in 1999. He obtained a Management and Leadership
certificate from IMLT in 2007 and a Diploma in Political
Science from the University of Western Cape in 2008. |
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Erika Benz
Tel. (264) 61 229117/8
Fax (264) 61 229119
Mobile (264) (0)81 292 4850
erika@nid.org.na
As the NID’s accountant, she possesses extensive experience
in providing the administrative and accounting function
for multi-donor programs in Namibia, as well as in administering
small grants programs to CSOs and NGOs, as part of which
she assists such organisations to establish and maintain
bookkeeping and administrative systems to properly account
for grants. Apart from a BComm degree, she |
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in Business Leadership (MBL) from the University of South
Africa Business School (2003). |
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Where required, the NID appoints short-term experts, project
assistants and volunteers on a contract basis to assist
with the implementation of programs. |
