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Policies and Acts

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Policies

Community Based Tourism Policy
Concession Flyer Policy
Desertification and biodiversity Policy
Drafts Tourism Policy
Drafts Wetlands Policy
Environmental Assessment Policy
Minerals Policy
National Agricultural Policy
National Forestry Policy
National Energy Policy 1998 
National Environmental Law and Policy
National Policy and Strategy for Malaria
National Policy: Enabling Safe Use of Biotechnology
National Drought Policy 
National Policy on Human Wildlife Conflict Management 
National Seed Policy
National Water Policy 
Proposed Climate Change PolicyWater and Sanitation Policy 1998 


Acts 

Guidelines, Constitutions, Reports and Reforms

MET Strategic Plan 2007/08-2011/12
MET Annual report 2009/2010
Framework for Land Reform
Procedure and Guideline for SEA
Communal Land Reform Guide
Millenium Development Goals Namibia
Namibian Constitution
National Poverty Reduction Action Program
National Sanitation Strategy
National Development Plan (NDP3)
Namibia Vision 2030
Environmental Legislation Project Report 1999
Fourth National Report UNCBD

Links to web-sites involved in environmental legislation and policy:

Environmental Law and Policy in Namibia	http://www.environment-namibia.net/
ECOLEX "A gateway to environmental law." A new initiative to provide global access to environmental law information.	www.ecolex.org/
ENTRI Environmental treaties and resource indicators. ENTRI is a fast, convenient, comprehensive online search service for finding information about environmental treaties and national resource indicators.	http://sedac.ciesin.org/entri/
Environmental law in Africa	www.igc.apc.org/
FAOLEX Contains treaties, laws and regulations on food, agriculture and renewable resources world-wide.	http://faolex.fao.org/faolex
GRAIN Global trade and biodiversity in conflict, is a series of exposés produced jointly by the Gaia Foundation and Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN). The series examines critical points of conflict between the privatisation of biodiversity, which is being driven by corporate interests and the World Trade Organisation, and peoples' efforts to empower local communities in biological and cultural diversity management, particularly in developing countries.	www.grain.org/gtbc.htm
Hieros Gamos "The comprehensive law and government portal."  World Environmental Law.	www.hg.org/environ.html
IUCN The Environmental Law Programme	www.iucn.org/themes/law/index.html
Parliament of Namibia Navigate to the Parliament of Namibia website to view all the Bills and Acts of Parliament	www.parliament.gov.na
RMA NET "The on-line source for legal decisions affecting New Zealand's environment."	www.rma.co.nz