LEAD works with traditional communities like the San

Through education workshops, information sessions and radio broadcasts LEAD is helping communities learn more about the law.

Communal Land Boards
LEAD has helped implement a course for Communal Land Boards to “implement sustainable development and environmentally sound decision-making principles” when allocating communal land rights.

Together with other stakeholders all of Namibia´s 12 communal land boards received training in 2007.

LEAD has also been involved in a pilot training course to provide Communal Land Boards with improved conflict management skills. It is anticipated that the course will be offered to other Communal Land Boards in 2008.

San Human Rights Training
LEAD has conducted a number of workshops predominantly inhabited by San communities. The objectives of the workshops were:

• To provide general legal education to the selected leaders.
• To educate the Khwe leadership on human rights standards and the obligations which such standards impose on the state and its functionaries.
• To discuss and highlight pertinent legal and social problems confronting the community.
• To train the selected leaders on the main provisions of identified laws which is of immediate relevance to them.
• To install a sense of assertiveness in the Khwe leadership to address the challenges faced by the Khwe community in a proactive and assertive manner.

Some of the topcis covered included:

1. Constitutional, Customary Statutory Law and Human Rights
2. Structure and duties of Government, Duties of Police, Criminal Procedure Act
3. Functions of Ombudsman and Prosecutor General
4. Traditional Authority Act
5. Communal Land Reform Act

LEAD program on human rights and HIV and AIDS has been broadcasted on !Ah Radio for a Sunday afternoon program.