36. Is the provision of direct public funding to political parties tied to gender equality among candidates?

EISA Pre-Election Assessment Mission Report, 2014, https://www.eisa.org/pdf/nam2014eisa1.pdf, p.13. 

The Electoral Act 5 of 2014. 

"The new Electoral Act (Act 5 of 2014) in Namibia does not provide for gender representation or equality. In the absence of these deliberate provisions aimed at ensuring gender equality at the various positions under contestation, political parties are at liberty to decide for themselves on whether to include women in their lists or not."