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and medical services are planned to be provided to the community in cooperation with the Ministry of Health
and Social Services.

Lecture Halls. Southern Campus (commencement date: August 2016)
Establishment of the UNAM Southern Campus is a strategic development initiative of UNAM, mandated to provide
decentralized higher education to all corners of Namibia. Valued at a cost of N$81 million, the “Lecture Halls”
project aims to develop part of the academic infrastructure for teaching and research purposes to the programs
of Education, Nursing and Geoscience, as well as offices and boardrooms for lecturers and administrative staff.
Pending the availability of funds, this will the first building to be erected at the newly established Southern
Campus.

Extension of Administration Building (commencement date: August 2016)
At its inception during 1992, UNAM had only one campus with 3 639 students and a staff component of 322
members. The current UNAM physical infrastructure cannot carry the continuous growing demand of the
University. This development is therefore directly aligned to the strategic objectives and is envisaged to improve
the expanding administrative functions of the University. The project entails the construction of administrative
and academic facilities as well as a fully equipped staff canteen. The project will also cater for the existing
administration building to be linked to the new wing. Valued at a construction cost of over N$340 million and
depending on the availability of funds, practical completion of the building is envisaged for end of 2018.

Human Capital
In organizational context, human capital refers to the collective value of the organization’s intellectual capital
comprising of competencies, knowledge and skills. Thus, measuring aggregation of skills, education, capacity
and attributes of the entire labour force to influence the productive capacity and earning. It is therefore, not
surprising that productivity capacity is manly driven by policies and innovation. During the 2018 academic year,
the reviews of the Disciplinary Code of Conduct and Ethics, Disciplinary Policy and Procedures to regulate
behavior and conducts as well as procedures to be followed was undertaken. The approval of such policies was
set for 2019. The review of these policies is expected to boost productivity of the workforce by aligning its work
ethics to expected standard of performance and conduct. To ease the labour strikes, the University embarked
on finalizing the Recognition Agreement that regulates the relationship between unions and the University.

The Organisation Development section under Human Resource Directorate during 2018 ensured compliance
with the Employment Equity Act and has henceforth received the Affirmative Action Compliance Certificate. In
addition, the institution participated in the study on the skills gap that was concluded by the Ministry of Labour
with the aim to provide information to Policy makers.

The University of Namibia staff complement has grown exponentially, and by 2018, the Institution had a total of
2 521 staff members (this included academic and part-time staff).

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