Present Activities Environment, School and Society - a comprehensive environmental education programme for Namibia. For six years, the Student Desertification Project has involved DRFN staff, visiting scientists and students from the University and the Polytechnic working together to understand some aspect of Namibia's arid environment. Water use by major user groups in the Kuiseb Catchment, soil degradation in southern Kunene, and illegal fencing in eastern Oshikoto Region have all received attention. The project provides students with an opportunity to identify a problem and the tools with which to study it, to gather and analyse data, and to present the results in written and oral form. Interns work in various projects such as the Global Climate Change study, Namibia's Programme to Combat Desertification and the Hoanib Catchment project , as well as the Longterm Ecological Research Programme at Gobabeb.
Interns also participate in environmental assessments .
The Enviroteach project worked with teacher educators and student teachers in Namibia's four Colleges of Education. Using materials produced by Enviroteach and the other DRFN projects, student teachers and teacher educators learned how to incorporate relevant examples from Namibia's dry, variable environment into their everyday teaching activities. Enviroteach has helped pave the way for a comprehensive programme called Environment, School and Society . We will also be working closely with Ibis , a non-governmental development agency originating in Denmark. As a part of our performance management process, an annual assessment of training needs is made for each individual staff member.