The programmes described below are offered to secondary schools in Namibia.

JA Company Programme
Target age group: secondary school and higher education
Geographical target: All regions in Namibia
Number of participants: approximately 5,000 per year
Frequency: continuous

Erundu Junior Traders
Description:
The company program operates like real business in the corporate world, as it offers learners the experience of real life company management. It provides participating learners an opportunity to start up their own mini companies, with real money, sell shares to gather start up capital. Junior Achievement offers learners a chance to know how different departments work in a JA Company works in the Finance Department, Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, Production and Administration.
The programme also offers learners skills in recording financial statements, issuing pay slips, administration records and how to draw up a business plan. Learners get a chance to learn how to do a market research, when and how to implement a marketing strategy.
During the 24 week period participants learn how to make money and in turn leads to them becoming self reliant when they face the real world after they have completed school.
The program also guides and prepares participants to survive in the global economy. Most Managing Directors and management team members of the program gain leadership qualities, communication, and decision-making skills in difficult circumstances.
The program also shows participants how to write an annual report and how to liquidate their companies after a financial period.

In Junior Achievement, we encourage honesty and work ethics, sincerity and a legal way of doing business; this cultivates good law-abiding citizens so most of our participants become these types of people. We also discourage corruption and in turn play a major role in the fight against corruption because most it starts at an early age.
Participants in the program are honoured at an annual award ceremony according to what they have achieved just the same way business people are honoured in the corporate world. The JA Company program is currently our “Hall Mark Program” where we have graduates from the program continuing their business after school and operate a profitable business sustaining them and their families.

Meerkat Job Shadowing
Target age group: upper-primary school and secondary school

Meerkat Job Shadowing Day Namibia BeveragesGeographical target: Windhoek
Number of participants: approximately 100 per event
Frequency: twice per year (February and September)
Description:
Would you rather tell learners about the workplace or show them? JA introduces learners to careers through one-day, on-site orientations or through more extensive internships. Either way, it’s an authentic work-world experience for the learners enhanced with classroom preparatory and follow-up activities. Job Shadowing takes learners into the workplace to learn about careers.

JA Economics for Success
Target age group: secondary school
Geographical target: Khomas
Number of participants: approximately 16 per event
Frequency: three times per year
Description:
Junior Achievement gratefully acknowledges the Allstate Foundation for its dedication to the development and implementation of JA Economics for Success. JA Economics for Success explores personal finance and learners’ education and career options based on their skills, interests, and values. JA Economics for Success is a series of six activities recommended for learners in grades six, seven, and eight.

Inspire Entrepreneurship in a Day!
Target age group: secondary school
Geographical target: Khomas
Number of participants: approximately 7,500 per event
Frequency: twice per year (March and September)
Description:
The programme reaches learners from grades 8-12 during class time. Its objective is to bring an Achiever into the classroom to inspire the learners to reach for greater heights in becoming entrepreneurs.

Inspire Entrepreneurship in a Day around Oshakati

Winter School
Target age group: secondary school
Geographical target: All regions in Namibia
Number of participants: approximately 50 per event
Frequency: once per year (April), JA Namibia aims to increase the frequency to twice per year
Description:
The event brings together representatives of Junior Achievement companies from all regions of the country. Students are able to interact, share ideas and to receive the necessary expertise in order for them to run their respective companies. They are exposed to a number of business professionals who give them a better understanding of the real business environment. Question and answer sessions allow the students to obtain valuable insight into the challenges they experience in their own companies.

Leadership Camp
Target age group: secondary school
Geographical target: All regions in Namibia
Number of participants: approximately 50 per event
Frequency: once per year (August/September)
Description:
JA Leadership Camp helps students build a foundation for making intelligent, lifelong, personal decisions through hands-on, realistic site-based experiences and in conference, trainer-led activities; pre- and post-on-site experience. A week of intensive leadership sharing and learning will take place where the best performers in our “Hallmark” program, the JA Company program come together to learn from each other and from outstanding leaders in the business community. The learners will participate in the field activities during the leadership training to enhance their analytical skills, team work and leadership abilities.

Business Ethics
Target age group: secondary school
Geographical target: Khomas
Number of participants: approximately 60 per event
Frequency: once per year
Description:
Scandals in the business world have eroded public confidence. JA Business Ethics is designed to foster ethical decision-making in learners as they prepare to enter the workforce. Learners learn to recognize, analyze, and apply basic terminology, theories, and concepts common to the study of ethics. They explore their own ethical values and philosophy, establish ethical priorities, recognize key ethical issues, and learn to evaluate their decision-making process.
Through hands-on classroom activities, JA Business Ethics fosters learners’ ethical decision-making as they prepare to enter the workforce and take part in the global marketplace. Learners will recognize and analyze theory, terminology, and concepts; apply skills; and evaluate ethical decision-making. Seven required, five supplemental, volunteer-led sessions.

Global Market Place
Target age group: secondary school
Geographical target: Khomas
Number of participants: approximately 15 per event
Frequency: continuous during one school year
Description:
JA Global Marketplace is designed to provide practical information about the key aspects of the global economy, what makes world trade work, and how trade affects learne daily lives. The learning objectives listed beside each activity state the skills and knowledge the learners will gain.

HP Global Business Challenge
Target age group: secondary school and higher education
Geographical target: Khomas, Oshikoto
Number of participants: two teams of 4 learners
Frequency: continuous during six months
Description:
The HP Global Business Challenge® (HPGBC) is based on JA Titan®, an online program that allows teams of high school and university students to act as chief executive officers of virtual manufacturing companies and compete to earn the highest performance index.
The teams are prompted to make decisions that affect the profitability and sustainability of their virtual company and attempt to outperform their competitors in profit, sales, and market share. They set prices, determine production levels, invest in capital, plan marketing and research, and development budgets.
"The HP Global Business Challenge is Junior Achievement's most intense competition, requiring superior knowledge and skill levels," said Sean C. Rush, president and chief executive officer, JA Worldwide. "These students are socially-minded technology innovators. Through this competition, we empower their entrepreneurship and work readiness."

TTBiz (Travel and Tourism Business Programme)
Target age group: secondary school and higher education
Geographical target: Khomas, Kavango
Number of participants: approximately 50 per year
Frequency: the programme runs for 6 weeks, but is frequently extended when participants start a business
Description:
TTBiz is the Travel & Tourism Business Program, developed for JA Worldwide® (JAI) under a grant from the American Express Foundation. TTBiz is designed to let learners learn about the travel & tourism industry and about starting and running a service business.
Learners first learn about the global Travel & Tourism industry and its economic impact, then they learn how to do market research in their own area, and finally, having determined where there is a market opportunity, they setup and run an actual service business. Their customers can be travel & tourism companies or tourists.
In the classroom, teaching about travel & tourism is a means for understanding not only one's own heritage, but also the culture and customs of others. Cross-cultural learning is reinforced by the course design, which requires learners to interact with and learn from tourists in their own country and from learners participating in the program in another country.
Using interviewing and survey techniques, learners learn how to communicate face-to-face and via the Internet with people from other cultures. They learn about cultural differences and develop active listening skills.

Aflatoun Environmental Dream
Target age group: primary school and secondary school
Geographical target: Khomas, Kunene
Number of participants: approximately 4,000 for the pilot project
Frequency: the project will run as a pilot in 2010 in four schools
Description:
This project will take place at 2 schools in the informal settlement of Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia and two schools in Opuwo in the northern Kunene Region. The project is a new cooperation between the Country Pilot Partnership, Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Global Environmental Facility, United Nations Development Program; JA Namibia and Aflatoun.
Objectives are:
- To create awareness at the participating schools and communities and introduce the new concept of Aflatoun Environmental Dream.
- To facilitate training for the Aflatoun coordinating teachers to coordinate the project at their schools.
- To provide environmental education to learners related to climate change, land degradation, desertification, biodiversity, water management and integrated sustainable land management.
- To establish and manage a school garden in each of the participating schools.
- To promote entrepreneurship by exploiting the school garden as a business.