[{"bbox": [97, 152, 1030, 207], "category": "Text", "text": "**Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the action:**"}, {"bbox": [97, 231, 271, 259], "category": "Text", "text": "**Anti-Corruption:**"}, {"bbox": [97, 284, 1135, 419], "category": "Text", "text": "**Namibian population:** Anti-Corruption is high on the media's and public's agenda. A majority of Namibians perceive corruption in Namibia as very high. The action in its entirety will positively affect the life of Namibian women and men through a decrease in corruption and corruption related improvements in the governance system. Women and men are subjected to corruption: 1) when accessing basic services, markets and credits; 2) while engaging in politics; 3) in situations where human rights are violated; 4) negligence and /or mismanagement."}, {"bbox": [97, 443, 1135, 737], "category": "Text", "text": "**Civil Society including women's organisations and other associations representing the rights of those living in the most vulnerable situations:** Civil Society has a strong watchdog, awareness raising and consultative function for anti-corruption in Namibia. There are a couple of local organisations that are very versed in anti-corruption research and advocacy. Frustrations over the government's lack of progress in advancing anti-corruption measures are very high within civil society, which has led to the launch of a project \"Integrity Namibia\", funded by the U.S Embassy. The overall aim of the project is to establish a sustainable national anti-corruption network operating across civil society, the private sector, media, traditional authorities, faith-based organisations and other non-state actors. Civil Society's pressure on government will significantly increase during the next years, supporting a more conducive environment for the implementation of the proposed EU action and creating synergies with CSOs and private sector's actions. Civil Society will also benefit from the action through targeted financial support through grants, where the needs arise."}, {"bbox": [97, 761, 1135, 923], "category": "Text", "text": "**Media:** The media play a pivotal role in keeping the public discourse on corruption afloat by regularly and extensively informing the public about already ongoing corruption cases and new corruption cases. Apart of their informative function, they also play an important role in educating their audiences about corruption and most importantly, through their work they keep up and even increase the public pressure on the national integrity system. As part of civil society, they could also benefit from this action, e.g. through a small grant for investigative journalism and research training or whatever else is necessary to support the media ecology"}, {"bbox": [97, 946, 1135, 1082], "category": "Text", "text": "**Office of the Prime Minister (OPM):** The OPM carries an oversight function for OMAs in ensuring enhanced public service delivery. The OPMs Ethics and Integrity Division will be a critical stakeholders in supporting the advocacy and implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy and Action Plan (NACSAP). The OPM has identified ethics and integrity champions across all OMAs who should champion the fight against corruption in their respective agency."}, {"bbox": [97, 1106, 1135, 1161], "category": "Text", "text": "**Office of the President:** The Office of the President should play a key role in supporting advocacy towards ending corruption."}, {"bbox": [97, 1185, 1135, 1344], "category": "Text", "text": "**Anti-Corruption Commission:** The ACC is the main anti-corruption body mandated to receive or initiate and investigate allegations of corrupt practices and to take measures for the prevention of corruption in public and private bodies, amongst others²¹. The body is facing significant budgetary, capacity and reputational challenges. The action will address a whole range of capacity gaps of the ACC, including the strengthening of monitoring and evaluation frameworks, strengthening of the steering committee and other internal relevant structures."}, {"bbox": [97, 1370, 1135, 1506], "category": "Text", "text": "**Office of the Prosecutor General:** The OPG plays a key role in Namibia's fight against corruption with regards to its procecutional powers. The office is facing capacity constraints, mainly at human resource and organisational/procedural level) which is creating back locks and significant delays, creating a challenge to for the country's anti-corruption efforts. The OPG could be supported by this action with targeted, needs based capacity building."}, {"bbox": [85, 1597, 1009, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²¹Anti-Corruption Act: https://acc.gov.na/documents/31390/31509/Namibia_Anti_Corruption_Act_2003_R09-41.pdf/4729540e-8362-555c-a1bd-be9ebcb0a324"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1680, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 9 of 29"}]