17 May 2016
The Shandumbala community workshop is a workshop that was conducted at
the multipurpose centre on the 16
th of April 2016 with the citizens
of Shandumbala (a suburb in Katutura, Windhoek). It was conducted to present
the results of the study entitled
Citizen Wellbeing and GDP: Towards more appropriate measures of Namibia's success and progress. The workshop also served as a platform to discuss options
and activities on improving these results within the community. The workshop was
well attended with officials designated from various spheres of government, these including;
officials from The City of Windhoek, National Planning Commission, UNDP,
and the Councillor’s Office and they all gave their insight. On the other hand, the forefront of the
project, being the residents living in Shandumbala ranged from elderly leaders,
youth and children. This made the workshop attendance satisfactory and led to
great discussions constituting different opinions. Through various conducted methods
of facilitation carried out by the facilitators, community members were able to
identify key focal areas such as circulating issues that needed to be resolved,
community strengths that can best be described as things currently working for
them in the community and lastly, possible activities towards improving the
results of the study on wellbeing and bringing about anticipated change in the
community of Shandumbala.
The workshop gave birth to an action plan to take forward feasible activities identified by the community. We are currently
working on this action plan in consultation with the Councillor’s office to
make sure community members take ownership of their proposed activities to bring about change in their Community and
to built on existing community strengths. For more details please have a look at our
workshop report, and view our little summary video
here. We will be sharing the action plan once it has been approved by the Councillor, and the participants.
