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CESPAM aims at: Providing quality training in public administration and management Promoting & disseminating best-practice in the region Improving organisational performance primarily in the public sector Improving the skills of practising administrators and managers Increasing the number of trained personnel in the region Ensuring a continuing supply of highly trained graduates in public administration and [...]

Public Sector Performance Management and Best Practice  November 2-8 2003, Gaborone, Botswana. The proposed executive training programme for public management will provide, to a certain extent, the blueprint and the formula for public sector reform. It will enable senior officials to benchmark best practices in the design, development, implementation and delivery of enhanced government programmes [...]

  The Belgium government through its embassy offers a limited number of scholarships tenable at the University of Botswana from August 2003. The scholarships will be in the Masters degree in Public Administration. Masters Degree in Public Administration Applicants must satisfy the following entry requirements for the Masters degree in Public Administration (MPA) at the [...]

Providing quality training in public administration and management Promoting & disseminating best-practice in the region Improving organisational performance primarily in the public sector Improving the skills of practising administrators and managers Increasing the number of trained personnel in the region Ensuring a continuing supply of highly trained graduates in public administration and management Contributing toward [...]

Applying Geographic Information Systems to SADC Development  14 – 17 February 2006, Cape Town, South Africa CESPAM is organising this activity within its ongoing Executive Training Programme. The seminar will treat the subject of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its application to development particularly in the SADC region including the agriculture, environment, water management and [...]

Public-Private Partnerships: Negotiating Relationships, Implementing Agreements and Managing Risk 6 – 9 December 2005, Arusha International Conference Centre, Arusha, Tanzania CESPAM has partnered with the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management (CAPAM, and in association with the Government of Tanzania, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) is offering this seminar that [...]

Vendors/consulting companies who often publish brief cases of work done by them, results of surveys carried out and description of their products/technologies and services. Accenture http://www.accenture.com The website of Accenture, a management and technology services organisation. The e-government page leads to Accenture’s Global government group. The group provides services to governments – in countries where [...]

E-Government In the last couple of decades organisations have tended to ride over several management movements like management by objectives, zero-based budgeting, decentralization, right sizing; reinventing government to bring in incremental change but almost all of these movements have failed to deliver on their full promise. Would E-Government turn out to be yet another buzzword [...]

Human Resource Development Human Resource Development (HRD) is the integrated use of training, organisation as well as career development efforts to improve individual, group, and organisational effectiveness. HRD helps: In developing key competencies which help individuals in organisations to perform current and future jobs, through planned learning activities; Initiate and manage change in groups within [...]

CESPAM, located at the University of Botswana, was established in June 2000 as the SADC Centre of learning, training and research in public sector administration and management. It was conceived as part of a long-term strategy to meet the demand for higher education and training for senior/middle managers and other officials from the SADC region [...]