Southern Africa 2020 Vision: priorities for public policy for the next decade. (360G-Wellcome-089093_Z_09_Z)

The conference will aim to bring together academics and civil society activists with an interest in public policy, from Namibia, from other southern African nations and from Europe and North America. Under a broad theme - 'Southern Africa 2020 Vision: priorities for public policy for the next decade' - the conference will consider topics on five areas: economic development, democratic political practice, legal processes, distributive justice, and access to health care. In this last respect we will focus on the attention that has been given to HIV/Aids in Southern Africa, whether it has strengthened or weakened health systems, whether, ethically, this has been the right priority and what should be done over the next ten years. The aim of the conference will be to promote dialogue between academics, civil society activists and public policy makers. The conference will consider what lessons Namibia and other African nations can learn from similar dialogues in the Northern Hemisphere; and it will also consider what Northern Hemisphere nations can learn from such dialogues in Africa. The conference proceedings will be published by the IPPR in Namibia in both print and electronic form.