Implementation of an Evidence-Based Programme for women offenders: A Namibian Perspective

ICPA2024 Presentation by Ndeyapo Nafuka and Eleanor Mwasinga-Nawa (ICPA2024-PID056)

Authors

Ndeyapo Nafuka

Head of the Directorate Rehabiliation, Namibian Correctional Service

Ndeyapo Emma Nafuka holds a PhD in Psychology with a specialization in Forensic Psychology. She is employed by the Namibian Correctional Services, where she serves as the head of Rehabilitation. Ndeyapo Nafuka’s career in corrections can be traced back 16 years when the Namibian Correctional Service was in the infant stages of its transformation from a punitive to a system more focused on the rehabilitation of inmates. Over the years, she has honed and mastered the ability to translate knowledge on effective correctional strategies into the training and supervision of others. Ndeyapo possess a profound understanding of how to implement a reintegration and treatment-oriented approach based on modern principles of effective correctional practice. Aside from her work in Namibia, she represented the Namibian Correctional Service at international forums on the challenges of implementing evidence-based models in an African context. Ndeyapo was privileged to represent at the African Correction Services Association in Uganda and the International Correctional and Prison Association in Mexico in 2012. She also co-authored and published an article titled "Implementation of the Offender Risk Management Correctional Strategy: From a Punitive to Rehabilitative Approach" in an African criminal journal. Ndeyapo believe that her skills and experience make me a forerunner in the implementation of correctional evidence-based principles in Africa.

Eleanor Mwasinga-Nawa

Head of Case Management Services at Windhoek Correctional Facility, Namibian Correctional Service

Eleanor Mwasinga-Nawa is a social worker who holds a Degree in Social Work and a MA in Child Studies. She has been employed with the Namibia Correctional Service for the past 11 years gaining experience in two interesting areas of Correctional Management namely; delivery of core structured programmes and case management services. Prior to her employment with the NCS she worked in the sphere of Child Welfare and Child Protection with a specific focus on adoptions, foster care, custody and control, children in conflict with the law and residential care. She believes the afore-mentioned experience has allowed her to develop keen interest into understanding why individuals commit crime and how both cognitive reasoning and structural inequalities that exist at community and societal levels be addressed if inmates are to be effectively reintegrated back into the community.

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