National Rural Development Strategy 2013/14 - 2017/18. Country/Territory Namibia Document type Date 2013 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Agricultural & rural development, Food & nutrition Keyword Policy/planning Agricultural development Capacity building Climate change Disasters Equity Research Agricultural land Financial agricultural measures Fiscal and market measures Poverty Smallholders/peasants Risk assessment/management Rural employment Rural youth Gender Sustainable development Sustainable use Food security Nutrition Geographical area Africa, AFRICA FAO, South Atlantic, Southern Africa Abstract This National Rural Development Strategy (NRDS) 2013/14 - 2017/18 is a cross sectoral policy document for the five year period. The overall objective is: Achieve a sustainable economic and social advancement in rural areas. Rural development has been defined in a broad scene in Namibia and it comprises all relevant actions in rural areas performed by the involved stakeholders. To deal with this complexity the NRDS has been structured around four dimensions each with related intermediate objectives drawn from the NRDP: I. Coordination and Institutional Capacities; II. Rural Economic Development; III. Social and Employment Development; IV. Spatial Planning, Environment and Climate Change. A number of key cross sectoral programmes (components) within the three strategy dimensions (economic, social and environment and climate change) are also outlined in the NRDS. Full text English Website www.murd.gov.na