Customize Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

Katjimune proposes NYC, NYS merger

Home National Katjimune proposes NYC, NYS merger
Katjimune proposes NYC, NYS merger

Lahja Nashuuta 

 

Popular Democratic Movement member of parliament Maximalliant Katjimune has advised government to consider merging the National Youth Council with the National Youth Service to avoid a duplication of responsibilities, programmes, resources and overlapping policies affecting the youth demographic.

Addressing parliament on Tuesday, he submitted that the NYS and NYC’s powers and functions are similar as they all serve as a meeting point for youth from various social and cultural backgrounds to enable the youth to share common experiences, and to encourage notions of equality.

Katjimune said both institutions intend to provide the youth with opportunities for further studies and training to enhance their opportunities of employment, and for the youth to take part in national development voluntarily.

In the current financial year, the NYC was allocated a total of N$32 million from the N$679 million which was allocated to the Ministry of Youth, Sport and National Service. 

The  NYC, which runs the youth development grants programme, is earmarked to enhance business productivity among young people. They were allocated a total of N$96 million to administer almost the same programmes as those of the NYC.

“This is a clear duplication of responsibilities, programmes, resources and conflicting policies. There is simply no need to have two different bodies which are serving the same strata of the population, especially for a country with a small population like Namibia,” the MP said.

Katjimune was also of the view that various horticultural, mushroom and charcoal production projects run by the NYC in the Erongo, Kunene, Omusati, Oshana, Ohangwena and Oshikoto regions should be merged with the already-existing civic and skills’ training programmes being offered by the NYS, and be consolidated under one division administered by the NYS. 

“The affiliates of the NYC, comprising Christian youth, political bodies, youth NGOs and students’ organisations, should be consolidated into a department administered under the NYS,” Katjimune proposed. 

He further emphasised the need for the government to avoid the duplication of bodies to be able to provide higher quality, efficient, faster and more transparent services to citizens. 

He made reference to countries such as India, where about 94 government departments were merged into 37, and saw a major increase in service delivery and structural cost outputs. 

“Equally, in 2017, the Singaporean government executed one of the most successful mergers of government agencies  when it merged two government entities, the International Enterprise and the Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board into one single entity, which saw the rise of enhanced competitiveness and support for business,” he reasoned.

– lnashuuta@gmail.com