Partnerships – ‘Otjiwarongo promotes empowerment through partnerships’

The objective of the COE good practice of partnership is to share knowledge, expertise and best practices with other Local Authorities on how partnerships can be used to overcome or address complex challenges that inhibit the upliftment of living standards and gender mainstreaming.
Background
It is a known fact that the mandate of local authorities as per the Local Authority Act 23 0f 1992, is to provide basic services to residents. However local authorities are faced with a challenge of social evils such as poverty, unemployment, diseases, alcohol abuse and crime. This implies that local authorities often do not have resources to address these challenges despite the fact that such challenges impact on their service delivery and cost recovery. Such problems are deemed as ‘national issues ’ that are supposed to be addressed through the various Government ministries assigned with such responsibilities. It is therefore imperative that such resources are decentralised to local authorities to empower them to be in a better position to address such challenges at grass root level as they are more in touch with communities. Partnership is therefore a tool that can be used to empower local authorities to fulfil their mandate and also overcome or address challenges that are beyond their mandate but that have a negative impact on the community. The COE has greatly empowered women because women are the most affected by social evils such as poverty, unemployment, diseases etc. and as such the upliftment of living standards and social welfare through the COE has a direct impact on women and as such on gender mainstreaming.

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