| Acronyms
and Abreviations
AIWO
- African Indigenous Women’s Organisation
APSO - Irish Agency for Personnel Service Overseas
CASS - Centre for Applied Social Sciences (Namibia)
CCN - Council of Churches in Namibia
CKGR - Central Kalahari Game Reserve
CBO - Community-Based Organisation
CPA - Communal Property Association
CSIR - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
(South Africa)
ECOSOC - Economic and Social Council (UN)
EED - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst / Church Development
Service (an association of the Protestant Churches in Germany)
FPW - First Peoples Worldwide
GA - General Assembly (WIMSA)
GEF - Global Environment Facility (UN)
GRN - Government of the Republic of Namibia
IFAT - International Federation of Alternative Trade
IPACC - Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee
IRDNC - Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation
(Namibia)
ITFEMC - Intersectoral Task Force on Educationally Marginalised
Children (Namibia)
KZN - KwaZulu/Natal Province (South Africa)
LAC - Legal Assistance Centre (Namibia)
MAWRD - Ministry Agriculture, Water and Rural Development
(Namibia)
MBESC - Ministry of Basic Education, Sport and Culture
(Namibia)
MET - Ministry of Environment and Tourism (Namibia)
MRG - Minority Rights Group
MRLGH - Ministry of Regional and Local Government and
Housing (Namibia)
MWACW - Ministry of Women Affairs and Child Welfare (Namibia)
NAMCOL - Namibian College of Open Learning
NANGOF - Namibia Non-Governmental Organisations’
Forum
NCA - Norwegian Church Aid
NIED - National Institute for Educational Development
(Namibia)
NNDFN - Nyae Nyae Development Foundation of Namibia
NORAD - Norwegian State Agency for International Development
NT - Negotiating Team (CKGR)
OCADEC - Organização Cristã de Apoio
ao Desenvolvimento Comunitário / Christian Organisation Supporting
Community Development (Angola)
OST - Omaheke San Trust (Namibia)
PRO - Public Relations Officer
SADC - Southern African Development Community
SASEF - Southern African San Education Forum
SGP - Small Grants Programme (of the GEF)
TA - Traditional Authority
Tdh - Terres des hommes
TAF - Treatment Action Forum (Namibia)
TOCaDI - Trust for Okavango Cultural and Development
Initiatives
TRIPS - Trade-related intellectual property rights
Trócaire Irish Catholic Agency for World Development
TUCSIN - University Centre for Studies in Namibia
UB - University of Botswana
UNAM - University of Namibia
UNHCR - United Nations High Commission for Refugees
UNWGIP - United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations
YMCA - Young Men’s Christian Association (Angola)
WCE - Windhoek College of Education
WIMSA - Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in Southern
Africa
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