The Sustainable Development Advisory Council held its first ever retreat in March 2017. The retreat provided an opportunity for the Council to identify and prioritise its intervention areas and methodologies during 2017/18.

In view of the ongoing high level discussions on the banning of plastic bags and increasing public awareness campaigns on the matter, the SDAC engaged with Plastic Packaging cc on 24^th March 2017.

The engagement involved a tour of the recycling plant and operations of Plastic Packaging cc in Okahandja and an exchange on the problem of plastic and how it can be best resolved in Namibia.

The members of the Sustainable Development Advisory Council met with Hon. Pohamba Shifeta on the 23^rd February 2017 in line with its function to advise the Minister on environmental issues related to sustainable development.

The Sustainable Development Advisory Council represented Namibia in the first meeting of the Open SDG Club, which was held from 21-23^rd November 2016 in Berlin Germany.

The Executive Secretary of the German Sustainable Development Advisory Council, Prof. Dr. Guenther Bachmann, visited Namibia from 29^th June until 8^th July 2016. The visit took place as a follow up to the visit of the SD Advisory Council members to Germany in June 2015 and aimed to update each other on developments and to strengthen further partnership and collaboration.

The Sustainable Development Advisory Council took part in a workshop to launch the domestication of the Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union Agenda 2063 at the Parliament Buildings on 8^th June 2016.