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🔔 In Case You Missed It: WIN Global Update Issue 3 Out Now for Subscribers!

📰 Last week, issue 3 was published for all subscribers of the WIN Global Update, the tri-yearly newsletter featuring all the latest updates from the past 4 months of activity of the WIN network and associates!

📑 Issue 3 features:
▪️ News on the upcoming WIN report
▪️ Exclusive Membership Focus section on the Institute for Public Policy Research Namibia (IPPR Namibia )
▪️ 6 New featured resources
▪️ 3 New Spotlights
▪️ Exclusive walkthrough explainer video on the EU Whistleblowing Monitor
▪️ Plus much more!

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WIN Global Update Newsletter - Whistleblowing International Network The WIN Global Update is our newsletter featuring the latest news and information from the WIN network and civil society experts from around the world. Subscribe to the WIN Global Update! Archive: Issue 1 - 3 October 2025 Issue 2 - 1 January 2026 (Upcoming) Issue 3 - 1 May 2026 (Subscribe to re...

Fishrot showed us what happens in the dark. It’s time to switch on the lights - IPPR The recent high-level engagement with the fishing industry in Walvis Bay was welcome – although long overdue. Unfortunately, judging from the speeches and contributions that have since been made public – as the meeting itself was closed to the public and civil society – the opportunity to conf...

Article 8(5) of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (2003) advocates that states parties should initiate systems that require public officials to make declarations regarding outside activities, employment, investments, assets and gifts or benefits from which a conflict of interest may result with respect to their functions as public officials. At the continental level, Article 7 of the African Union Convention Against Corruption (2003) obliges states parties to require all public officials to declare their interests.

How Disclosure Can Change a Culture of Corruption | ISS Africa Public officials should disclose their financial assets as a sign of their commitment to transparency and accountability. It also promotes public trust in government.

Will the Engagement on the Fisheries Industry address the substantive issues and come up with solutions. We can only hope that the meeting signals an end to the secrecy and therefore corruption in the industry.

After Fishrot: Urgent Need For Transparency & Accountability - IPPR In the three years since the news of the Fishrot corruption scandal made global headlines, nothing has been done to reform the highly secretive way in which the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources operates. This briefing paper calls for a complete opening up of the fisheries sector and urges....

Why are we lagging behind on asset declaration when the standards we have signed up to - the UN Convention Against Corruption and the AU Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption - say such declarations should be mandatory for elected politicians and top officials?


UNCAC Coalition

Asset Declarations in Namibia - IPPR Namibia is lagging behind on asset declaration. What can be done about it?

Transparent and competitive bidding: Namibia’s best protection against procurement corruption

IPPR warns direct Govt tenders risk corruption, waste in N$350‑million projects %%title%% %%sep%% %%primary_category%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% %%sep%% The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has described the government’s decision to bypass the Central Procurement Board of Namibia (CPBN) on its latest N$350-million projects as a recipe for corruption.

The Perils of Preferences - IPPR This edition of Procurement Tracker Namibia examines the growing push for preferential procurement in Namibia and the risks this may pose for transparency, accountability and performance in the public procurement system. The bulletin analyses the implementation of the Code of Good Practice on Prefer...

REMINDER - that this is happening this morning at 10h00. The essential details:

📍 Date: Thursday, 19 February 2026
🕙 Time: 10h00 – 12h00
📌 Venue: House of Democracy, 70–72 Dr. Frans Indongo Street, Windhoek

If you can't make it in person the presentation and discussion will be livestreamed on this page.

Supported by the Embassy of Ireland, Zambia

Electoral Commission of Namibia - ECN

Namibia posts worst performance in corruption perceptions for 2025 as confidence in fighting corruption at all-time low The CPI was first introduced in 2012.