Local Economic Development (LED) in Namibia is an integral part of the broader national development agenda as encapsulated in numerous national policies and legislation. LED has been confronted with various partnership dynamics that have posed challenges among its stakeholders and actors. While remaining underresearched, this developmental challenge has generally remained prominent due to the complexities involved in the numerous interrelated processes, institutions and stakeholders that are expected to work together and achieve accelerated LED. In an effort to lend scope and understand of these dynamics, insights were drawn from existential elements of communication, cooperation and collaboration, social issues, creation of ownership and pride as well as welcoming attitudes from a single case study unit. Using the quantitative research design, this paper sought to delve into the partnership dynamics of LED in Namibia, by using the Khomas region as a case study. Stratified random sampling was used to identify the sample, which included beneficiaries of LED projects, the Khomas Regional Council and the City of Windhoek. Empirical results found that the social issues and welcoming attitudes in the Khomas Region were generally conducive for the advancement of LED, while communication, cooperation and collaboration; creation of ownership and pride served as deterring factors for LED. The study recommends that the Khomas Regional Council fosters communication, cooperation and collaboration among actors on challenges, opportunities and plans regarding LED. Additionally, it is expected of the regional council and municipality to organise prestigious awards and recognise outstanding volunteers, the best community betterment projects and/or businesses that are socially involved in the community, in order to create ownership and pride amongst actors.

This paper focuses on the assessment of the implications of research policies on the performance of research at the institutions of higher learning in Africa. There are numerous challenges the institutions face and these among others include limited supply of high quality evaluation evidence, which is seen as the market failure for both education outcomes and the institutional research. The public seems to have limited information about performance in universities and educators face limited incentives to improve performance. In the market for institutional research, consumers face information problems, which in turn make it difficult to determine the quality of research product due to work overloads on the part of the lecturers and students. The success of institutional research policies are therefore based on requiring better data in the institutions under study to ascertain the workloads and  to limit management interferences in research.

The issues of good corporate governance has emerged to be matters of serious concern in State-Owned Enterprises. So much scholarly articles have been published all over the world about good corporate governance, thus, guidelines, practice and principles. Namibian StateOwned Enterprises (SOEs) have been under criticism publicly over the poor governance in recent times. This report reviews the governance at one of Namibia’ State-OwnedEnterprises, NHE which was under public criticism over its governance recently. This paper seeks to understand the causes of poor governance in State Owned Enterprises in Namibia. The data used in this research paper is drawn from literature available and interview conduct with NHE employees on good governance. The findings of the research paper points out to inexperienced Board members, lack of transparency and openness, the size of the structures of the Board, imbalanced Board in terms of skills and knowledge, lack of diversity, size and Board compositions.