From Botswana Notes and Records

My Life in Botswana, and Observation of the Society from 1971 to 2005

Derek Hudson*

I obtained a PhD in Statistics from Imperial College, London, in 1963. After working at CERN in Geneva and at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the United States for some years, it gradually became apparent that my wife and my four elderly parents in South Africa were becoming frail and in need of

assistance. I applied to the United Nations for any statistical job in Botswana, Lesotho or Swaziland.

By extraordinary coincidence, the newly arrived expert British statistician in Gaborone found that his son was severely allergic to Kalahari dust. He suddenly had to give up the post of Botswana’s government statistician and hurriedly returned to England. This created a totally unexpected vacancy in Gaborone. I was extremely lucky to be appointed to this vacancy. I took up the post of Government

Statistician at the Central Statistics Offi ce (CSO) in Gaborone in February 1971.

Read more here http://journals.ub.bw/index.php/bnr/article/view/686/343

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND LIBRARIANS?

Who is qualified to carry out knowledge management?Are librarians eligible for this project?

Follow the discussion here https://www.linkedin.com/grp/post/2544907-6047663024083333123

Vacancy at Botswana College of Agriculture

VACANCY CIRCULAR NO:2015:08:47 (LIB)
LIBRARY OFFICER-FOUR POSTS
REQUIREMENTS: candidates must posses a minimum of a Diploma in Library and Information studies or equivalent.Practical experience on application of ICT in Library and information services environment will be an added advantage
DUTIES: the successful candidate will be required to assist in the provision of service,carrying out administrative in the core areas of information technology,technical services or reader services and undertake such other related duties as may be assigned by the supervisor
SALARY: BCA scale:B4 (P103 516.00- (P165 864.00)
ADDRESS: The Manager,College Services
Botswana College of Agriculture
private bag 0027
Gaborone
closing date:11 September 2015
only shortlisted candidates will be responded to

Another Research Talk

I would like to remind you that there are research talks happening at Maun Lodge this evening. One of our students, Sianga, will be presenting his work, and there will be talks on wild dog habitat use and vulture populations. Details are on the attached flyer.

I hope to see many of you there!

All the best

Emily

Listing the Okavango Delta as a World Heritage Site

MEDIA ADVISORY: PANEL DISCUSSION - OKAVANGO DELTA WORLD HERITAGE SITE

The University of Botswana Okavango Research Institute (ORI) as one of the key stakeholders in the processes and programmes for listing of the Okavango Delta as a World Heritage Site, will hold a panel discussion on Implications of Listing the Okavango Delta as a World Heritage Site at Maun Lodge on 20th August, 2015 at 1800hrs. This is part of initiatives for the celebrations of this listing.

There will also be unveiling of Okavango Delta World Heritage Site listing plaque at Boro on 20th August, 2015. Transportation to the site will be available at Department of Wildlife and National Parks Offices at 1400HRS.

Therefore the media is invited for this panel discussion and your usual cooperation will be highly appreciated.

Source: BWgovernment Facebook page

Research talk

The next session of research talks will be held on the 24th August, at Maun Lodge. The details of the topics and speakers are on the flyer, but please get in touch if you have any questions or comments.

Hope to see you there!
Emily

Research paper

Here is the overview of the paper by Prof Oluwatoyin Dare Kolawole and Dimpho Pheto Segwabe titled ''A tale of two groups of Community Trusts: why they succeeded and failed''.

Overview: Community based natural resource management (CBNRM) is a strategy devised to promote biodiversity conservation and rural livelihoods. Community Trusts (CTs) thus serve as the tool for achieving CBNRM objectives of natural resources conservation and poverty alleviation. The paper makes a comparative analysis of two groups of community trusts (CTs) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana; those that were effective in rural development (RD) project implementation and those that were ineffective. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used in selecting the study population. While two effective and two ineffective CTs were purposely sampled, all available committee/Board of Trustees (BoT) members of each of the 4 Trusts were interviewed through questionnaire survey. One hundred and twenty community members (aged 18 years and above) were interviewed using interview schedules. Qualitative data were obtained through focus group discussions and key informant interview.