NAMIBIA SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS Category 1: Website analysis • • • • Of the eight public institutions surveyed, only five had fully functional websites. Two institutions have no website, while the third has a website that does not convey much information, except the physical address and contact details of their Public Relations Officer (PRO) and the person responsible Information Communication Technology (ICT). There is still a low presence of public institutions on social media. However, the Ministries of Environment and Tourism, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare, as well as International Relations and Cooperation have active and informative Facebook pages. Compared to 2015, institutional budgets are now more readily available. The institutions that were open about their budget include the Ministry of Finance, via their website, and the Anti-Corruption Commission, via written request. The Ministry of Industrial Trade and SME Development, and the National Council provided budget information by referring the researcher to a link to the 2016/17 budget. Most of the information on the websites that could be accessed were not dated, this made it difficult to determine the exact date the information was uploaded. Category 2: Requests for information • • • 48 All institutions had designated official(s) for information dissemination. The researcher only had one face-to-face interview with the AntiCorruption Commission. As with previous years, most of the surveyed institutions took their time to respond. Some did not respond with the requested information, although they did acknowledge receipt of the request. These were the Ministries of Finance, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare, as well as Youth, National Service and Sport. Ministries that did not respond, were International Affairs and Cooperation, and Environment and Tourism