SECTOR 4 There are, however, some isolated initiatives for in-house training and training incentives. The Namibian invites different experts to come into the newsroom to address writing skills on a weekly basis, Namibia Media Holdings (NMH) is setting up its own in-house training programme, and at the New Era you can get an interest free study loan. At NBC you can also get funding for training if you identify a relevant course, and the institution is teaming up with the Deutsche Welle Akademie (German organization for international media development) for training that is mostly technical. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 3.3 (2005: 2.8; 2007: 3.0; 2009: 3.3; 2011: 2.7) 4.8 Equal opportunities regardless of race or ethnicity, social group, gender/sex, religion, disabilities and age are promoted in media houses. Generally, media houses have no policies in place that promote equal opportunities within institutions. In fact, media houses could be considered quite ignorant, and send their 8-month pregnant reporter to cover an outside demonstration, for example, whereas they could/should have sent her somewhere else for health and safety reasons. Management is usually male-dominated, while women tend to earn less than men. It was noted that this is the case “even if they do the same job and that is partly due to there not being fair representation structures”. “...you don’t find minorities represented at high levels or positions of importance.” “There is lots of testosterone up there” was the comment of one member of the panel, and there are no real efforts to create platforms for women to AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER NAMIBIA 2015 63