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People

Population	1.88 mln
Population growth	1%
Life expectancy	51 years
Net migration	20,000

Economy

GDP	$12.31 bln
- per capita	$6,544
- growth rate	5%
FDI, net inflows	$-0.03 bln

Infrastructure

Cellphone users	61%
Internet users	5%

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2nd International Communication Studies Conference

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Sunday, July 8, 2012 - 9:00am - Friday, July 13, 2012 - 5:00pmThe aim of the 2nd International Communication Studies Conference is to deliberate on the advances in academic, business, and professional communication in the global community. Organized by the Communication Studies Skills Unit, Centre for Academic Development, University of Botswana, the conference will be in two parts: 1) a pre-conference workshop and 2) the communication conference.Pre-conference workshop will run from July 8 - more...

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D C on May 09, 2012

Policy and programmig resource guide for child protection systems strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Protecting children against abuse, violence, neglect and exploitation is an obligation shared by many different actors, involving different elements of government as well as a broad array of civil society agencies and communities. This Resource Guide is intended to provide practical tools and resources for two related groups of stakeholder users: (a) country level policy and decision makers who are in a position to oversee or contribute to system building efforts (including those technical more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 14, 2012

Accountability for Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival

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In this publication, Countdown to 2015 provides profiles for the countries where more than 95% of all maternal and child deaths occur. The profiles highlight how well each country is doing in increasing coverage of high-impact interventions that can save the lives of millions of women and children.

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Sonia Hossain on May 07, 2012

Libraries Powering Development

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Public and community libraries are sustainable local institutions that can stimulate grassroots development. The 21st century library is no longer just about books or solely a place for kids. Libraries around the world can and have become powerful partners to help deliver services that enable communities to achieve the MDGs. As this report will illustrate, at a time of constrained budgets, libraries offer a proven, existing and sustainable venue that delivers results.

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Sonia Hossain on April 09, 2012

The conundrum of conservation agriculture and livelihoods in Southern Africa

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Low crop productivity, food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition; inadequate farming knowledge and skills, implements and inputs are characteristic of smallholder agriculture in Southern Africa. Many researchers argue that conservation agriculture can guarantee higher crop productivity, food security, improved livelihoods and environmental protection, better than the unsustainable traditional systems of slash and burn practices. In this paper, the authors present the results of a meta-analysis more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 11, 2012

The struggle to belong

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Urban planning policies and models based on the modernist thinking are geared towards creating cities and towns constituted entirely of formal sector activities. This paper summarizes the main findings of two studies the author conducted within street vendors in Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana. Informed by the modernist and postmodernist theoretical positions the first study adopted a mixed-methods approach to investigate urban planning aspects of street vending in the city. The second more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 11, 2012

Africa: The Socio-Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS

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This paper explores the development impacts of HIV/AIDS on African societies as well as their likely future ramifications. The paper concludes with a brief outline of the anticipated contribution of the Commission on HIV/ AIDS and governance in Africa (CHGA), to the continents’ struggle to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic.

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Sonia Hossain on March 06, 2012

Lessons from the Children and AIDS Regional Initiative

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The Children and AIDS Regional Initiative (CARI) represented is a five-year programme (2006-2011) to improve the well being of orphans and children affected and made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS in terms of a large array of issues including health, education and child protection. This documentation explores child- and HIV-sensitive social protection implemented under the umbrella of CARI in five of nine selected countries within the Eastern and Southern Africa region. First, the authors discuss more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 14, 2012

Africa Competitiveness Report 2011

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The Report comes out at a time when Africa’s recovery from the global economic crisis has been faster than in other parts of the world. The Report focuses on harnessing Africa’s underutilized resources. These comprise skills; female entrepreneurship, and natural and cultural resources.The Report also contains in-depth assessments of the state of competitiveness, the impact of foreign direct investment on the continent, and the trade performance of the region. It also outlines the potential more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 24, 2011

Regional Consultative Processes on Migration (RCPs)

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On 25–26 October 2011, the Government of Botswana, in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), hosted the Third Global Meeting of Chairs and Secretariats of Regional Consultative Processes on Migration (RCPs) in Gaborone, Botswana. The meeting which took place under the broad theme of “Enhancing cooperation on migration through dialogue and capacity-building”. The main objective of the meeting was to identify common challenges and opportunities that RCPs face and more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 27, 2012

Policy and Programming Resource Guide For Child Protection Systems

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Protecting children against abuse, violence, neglect and exploitation is an obligation shared by many different actors. A number of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are now actively promoting systems strengthening as a means to achieve more effective and efficient child protection responses. The Policy and Programming Resource Guide for Child Protection Systems Strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa has been developed to provide policy makers and programmers alike with a menu of tools and resources more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 28, 2012

The ‘AIDS AND MDGs’ Approach

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The term ‘AIDS and MDGs’ is gaining currency as an approach that leverages these links – effectively addressing both short- and long-term challenges and impacts of the HIV epidemic while contributing to the achievement of the wider MDG agenda. This paper outlines three important pillars of an AIDS and MDGs approach:1. Understanding how AIDS and the other MDGs impact on one another;2. Documenting and exchanging lessons learned across AIDS and other MDGs; and3. Creating cross-MDG synergy and more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 01, 2012

Growth and Macroeconomic Convergence In Southern Africa

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This paper investigates convergence in real per capita GDP and macroeconomic policy and stability indicators within the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Convergence of economic growth and per capita incomes among nations has been a central theme in neoclassical growth theory and vast economic literature related to it for decades. Thus, traditionally, the analysis of convergence involved an analysis of whether poor countries are set on a convergence path, i.e. whether their real more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 18, 2011

JOB : Request for EOI - Firm for the Recruitment of Staff for CCARDESA

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REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST TO HIRE THE SERVICES OF A FIRM FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF STAFF OF THE CENTRE FOR COORDINATION OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA (CCARDESA) Reference: 2012/CCARDESA/6/ CCARDESA REPRESENTED BY THE FORUM FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa on behalf of the Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa (CCARDESA) has applied a grant from the Swiss Agency more...

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Prasanth Prabhakaran on November 19, 2011

Regional Integration in Africa

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This paper examines the history of regional integration in Africa, what has motivated it, the different initiatives that African governments have pursued, the nature of the integration process, and the current challenges. Regional integration is seen as a rational response to the difficulties faced by a continent with many small national markets and landlocked countries. As a result, African governments have concluded a very large number of regional integration arrangements, several of which more...

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Sonia Hossain on November 30, 2011

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