Key points that emerged from the consultation process included: Civil society representatives, who are from the regions and those that travel the country for their work, said that the levels of poverty and desperation among ordinary Namibians is unprecedented since independence. [...] Unfortunately, as no national surveys have been undertaken since 2017 to establish the extent of poverty and unemployment (and the 2023 Census is unlikely to produce results until later this year), civil society activists have to follow the evidence of their eyes - and that is that extreme poverty is pervasive across the country. [...] The previous Cabinet decision to convert the food bank into a monthly cash grant is welcome but the numbers of beneficiaries are negligible in comparison to the scale of the problem. [...] The slowness in developing and implementing policy in the area of housing and sanitation is a major concern e.g. [...] Submissions that were received from the Council of Churches in Namibia, Development Workshop, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia, the Namibia Housing Action Group as well as several other CSOs concur on these points.
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