Managing for the future
The goal is to have a more inclusive approach, and to regulate the use
of natural resources to prevent wastage, inefficiency and degradation.
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Designing inclusive environmental investments
The Fund’s business strategy is designed to complement Namibia’s overall development agenda.
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Promoting technologically and environmentally sound development
The Fund operates within the ambit of institutional policies and guidelines whereas its operations are also guided by national laws and policies.
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Ensuring Sustainability
The Fund ensures that the goals of financed projects continue to be met through activities that are consistent with the current conditions and resources available.
Learn MoreWHO WE ARE
The Environmental Investment Fund (EIF) is a fund created by Act 13 of 2001 of the Parliament of the Republic of Namibia with the overall aim of continuing this great legacy by supporting individuals, projects and communities that ensure the sustainable use of natural resources.
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LATEST NEWS
Conservation Agriculture: Learning and Adapting Together
May 19 2019Namibia has been experiencing variability in rainfall over the past three agricultural seasons due to the climate change effects experienced the world over. As a result, innovative mechanisms to help small-scale crop farmers deal with climate change and to improve their resilience are needed. ...
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Review Committee
May 8 2019The Environmental Investment Fund appoints a first-of-its-kind governance structure i.e. the “Review Committee” (RC) consisting of six (6) members....
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Environment Ministry reinvests N$7 million into the Environmental Investment Fund
May 2 2019Ministry of Environment and Tourism has re-invested N$7 million of the environmental levies collected in the 2018/19 financial year into the Environment Investment Fund (EIF) for environmental protection measures....
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Donation Handover
Apr 10 2019Pupkewitz Megabuild and Kaap Agri Namibia handed over a donation of N$ 60,000 to the Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia this morning. The two companies collected a voluntary plastic carrier bag charge per bag as part of their Break-Free-from-Plastic campaign....
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Science commission fills in research gaps in Environmental Investment Funds climate change response
Mar 25 2019Environmental Investment Fund signs a 5-year cooperation agreement with the National Commission Research, Science and Technology....
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Environmental Investment Fund gains unlimited access to extensive southern African climate data base.
Mar 18 2019EIF signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management,...
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Shifeta awarded Tourism Minister of the year, Namibia awarded best Destination at ITB 2019
Mar 8 2019Namibia was awarded the Best Destination Safari and Wildlife....
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Green Climate Fund approves Ecosystem based Adaptation project for Namibia
Mar 5 2019A landscape based adaptation approach is part and parcel of the fourth climate change grant project that the EIF has successfully accessed through the Green Climate Fund....
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The Green Climate Fund Board selects Yannick Glemarec as new Executive Director
Feb 25 2019GCF new Executive Director ...
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African Union calls for an ambitious and successful GCF replenishment
Feb 21 2019GCF replenishment...
Read moreSTATISTICS
12,938,191.00
Value of Concessional Loan book (N$)
3,000.00
Organic fertiliser produced (tonnes/annum)
3,402.00
Glass waste recycled (tonnes/annum)
1,164.00
Cardboard waste recycled (tonnes/annum)
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TESTIMONIALS & FEEDBACK
“EIF is a sterling example of the realization of the vision Africa has about the direct access modality, empowering national entities and demonstrating how Africa is taking charge of its developmental agenda”
"An internship at EIF prepares you on how to deal with the real world whether you are an aspiring young Scientist, Environmental specialist, Natural resources specialist or environmental lawyer."
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Appeal and Grievance procedures
As a result of the Fund being public entity that utilises public funds in pursuit of its objectives, the Fund needs to abide to the principles and provisions of, natural justice. The said principles and provisions dictate that potential and actual loan and grant beneficiaries of the Fund have a right of recourse, against the Fund, in the event that the beneficiary is discontent with the decision or procedure followed by the Fund in allocating the loan or grant. Such right of recourse is limited to appeals against the Fund’s decisions on loan and grant applications and appeals against the processing procedures of the grant and loan applications (procedural fairness).
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