Workshop participants
HOORC livelihoods specialist Dr Barbara Ngwenya, Dr M. Leteane, a virologist, of the University of Botswana's Dept. of Biological Sciences and Dr K. Marobela, a cell biologist working with the Centre for Scientific Research, Indigenous Knowledge and Innovation (CESRIKI) at UB, ran a workshop for traditional healers, Sharing Our Knowledge -- Using our Natural Resources for...
Jatropha from the Protabase
Plant Resources of Tropical Africa (PROTA), an international not-for-profit foundation is synthesizing dispersed information about the approximately 7,000 useful plants of tropical Africa and providing wide access to the information through its web site and publications. Target groups for PROTA information are decision-makers in government, private sector, research,...
The Khwe of the Okavango Panhandle : the use of veld plants for food and medicine, is the third in a series of booklets of San peoples' oral testimonies produced by the Kuru Family of Organizations. The booklet, compiled by the Letloa Trust, provides full page descriptions and colour photographs of plants found around the Okavango River, and their uses by the Khwe people. You can order the book...
The BIOKAVANGO Project is seeking a consultant or a team of consultants to develop participatory adaptive management approaches for veldt products harvesting/utilization in the Tubu/NG 25 Pilot Site. For tender documents and submissions contact The Secretary, Tender Committee, University of Botswana, Private Bag 0022, Gaborone, Botswana. Tel. (00267) 355-2086. Fax (00267) 390 1523. Bid...
From the Botswana Government Gazette, Vol. XLV, no. 82, 21 December 2007
Tender: Republic of Botswana: Ministry of Works and Transport. Preparation of the environmental and social management framework (ESMF) and resettlement policy framework (RPF) for output and performance based long term road contracts (OPRC)
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From the Botswana Government Gazette, Vol. XLV, no. 83, 28 December 2007...
HOORC researcher Joseph Mbaiwa is back in Maun from Texas A&M University where he is a PhD candidate. He will be working in the Okavango Delta for the next six months on his research project, Tourism Development, Rural Livelihoods and Conservation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. The study will analyse changes in livelihoods and in the use of three specific species – lions, the Hyphaene...
Photo courtesy of Rachel Demotts
Today at HOORC, Research Fellow Dr Rachel Demotts presented her study of craftswomen from the Caprivi region of Namibia, Gendered Nature? Women’s Participation in Conservancies. Dr Demotts' study revealed that basketmaking and other crafts, mainly the province of women in Caprivi, provide significant benefits beyond the purely economic, increasing access to...
Tender announcements and documents may also be found on the Government of Botswana web site.
The entire issue of the Government Gazette may be read in HOORC’s Library.
From the Botswana Government Gazette, Vol. XLIV, no. 86, 24 November 2006
Tender: Republic of Botswana: Requirement analysis and supervision for the development and implementation of Botswana road management system (BRMS) in...