Omitara
title: "Omitara" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-the-omaheke-region", "universal-basic-income"] topic_path: "general/populated-places-in-the-omaheke-region" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omitara" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Omitara.jpg" caption="Station Omitara, Namibia"] ::
Omitara is a settlement in the Steinhausen electoral constituency in the Omaheke Region of Namibia. Together with the adjacent village of Otjivero — the two places are often referred to as one — it had a population of approximately 1,200 as of October 2008. Otjivero and Omitara Railway Station are two contiguous TransNamib railway stops en route from Windhoek to Gobabis.
Economy and Infrastructure
Basic Income Grant project
In 2008 and 2009, Omitara and Otjivero were the site of a basic income grant test project. Every person under the retirement age of 60 was given 100 Namibian dollars (Namibian pensioners get an independent allowance of 550N$ per month). The follow-up study, published in October 2008, reported that poverty-related crime, malnutrition rates among children and school drop outs had decreased since the inception of the project. The coalition advocating for a BIG in Namibia was led by labour and church organisations, hoping for a nationwide implementation of this grant to alleviate the worst effects of poverty in the country. The government of Namibia has however not supported this initiative.{{cite news |url = http://www.economist.com.na/general-news/699-big-resources-depleted |title = BIG resources depleted |date = 9 March 2012 |work = Namibia Economist |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121120092024/http://www.economist.com.na/general-news/699-big-resources-depleted |archive-date = 20 November 2012
After the last payment was scheduled for December 2009, a bridging allowance of 80 N$ per month was introduced in order not to "let residents slide back into the dehumanising levels of poverty that they experienced before". This bridging allowance was paid until the end of 2011 when the BIG coalition ran out of money. Payments resumed again in July 2014 with support from the Waldensian Church in Italy.
Otjovero Dam
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Otjivero_Hauptdamm_und_Nebendamm_Mai_2018.jpg" caption="Otjivero Dams aerial view 2018"] ::
West of Otjivero and Omitara the Otjivero Dams are situated. They comprise a main dam and a silt dam and store the water of the White Nossob River.
References
Notes
Literature
References
- [http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-new-approach-to-aid-how-a-basic-income-program-saved-a-namibian-village-a-642310.html How a Basic Income Program Saved a Namibian Village], "Der Spiegel", Oct 2009
- [https://www.namibian.com.na/2008/October/national/082EBDDAEF.html BIG a big success] {{webarchive. link. (2008-10-05 [[The Namibian]], 4 October 2008)
- [http://globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/211-development/48036-a-basic-income-program-in-otjivero.html A Basic Income Program in Otjivero]
- [http://www.namibian.com.na/news-articles/national/full-story/archive/2009/december/article/otjivero-residents-to-get-bridging-allowance-as-big-pilot-ends/ Otjivero residents to get bridging allowance as BIG pilot ends] {{webarchive. link. (2012-09-06)
- [http://allafrica.com/stories/201407170971.html Namibia: BIG Resumes At Otjivero]
- "Otjivero Dam". namibweb.com.
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