Role of traditional leaders in Namibia's decentralization policy

This paper looks at the role of traditional leaders in the new decentralization dispensation in Namibia. The paper contends from the onset that the decentralization policy does not have ample provisions intended to harmonize traditional leadership with modern forms of government. What prevails are inconclusive sections that indicate the need to involve traditional leaders in some of the development committees of regions. An exposé of this phenomenon is done by looking at the position of traditional leaders before gazetting in 1995 and their role thereafter; that is, whether the roles of traditional leaders and elected functionaries have been appropriately rationalized and harmonized as well as the reactions of traditional leaders themselves on their role as expressed in the decentralization policy

Author dc:creator

• Ndiyepa, Erika Kaenda

• Decentralization
• Traditional authorities

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11070/288

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.unam.edu.na:11070/288