In September Marius Ventus informed the PASCAL Board that the Africa Centre has appointed a number of PASCAL Associates in South Africa.

The motivation for this is that a stronger credibility will lead to a greater network in Africa because each South African Associate brings a whole “Africa” network with him or her.

Today, we highlight three of the New Associates and link you to their profiles:

Fiona Farquharson, South African Impact Specialist, Mzansi Libraries On-Line project, National Library of South Africa

Fiona Farquharson specialises in research, policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation and has worked in a number of fields, including skills development/ vocational education and training; higher education; Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs); Local Economic Development (LED) and most recently, public library development.

For more information about Fiona go to http://pascalobservatory.org/users/fiona-farquharson

Professor Elana Swanepoel, Research mentor/lecturer, Faculty of Management, Department of Transport and Supply Chain Management, University of Johannesburg.

Elana has specialised in designing, developing and supervising research in a range of disciplines, from local economic development, small enterprise development to supply chain management, transport and project management.

For more information go to http://pascalobservatory.org/users/elana-swanepoel

Wessel Venter is the Lead Consultant at LED Consult. Wessel has been involved as the Strategic Manager of an Enterprise Development Centre; a Grameen Type Micro Finance Institution; and a Housing Finance Institution, and is currently working as a Consultant in Local Economic-, Enterprise- and Chamber development.

For more information go to http://pascalobservatory.org/users/wessel-venter

Welcome to the PASCAL Community. We look forward to hearing more about your work and hope to meet up at our 14 International Conference to be held in South Africa - 17-19 October 2017.