PASCAL welcomes Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana, as the newest addition to PASCAL International Exchanges with a stimulus paper written by Dr Chadzemula Molebatsi from the University of Botswana. Gaborone becomes the fourth African city in the PIE exchanges joining Dar es Salaam, Kampala, and Dakar. It is expected that a further stimulus paper for Addis Ababa will be added shortly.

Gaborone shares the challenges resulting from rapid urban growth of the other African cities in PIE, with Gaborone one of the fastest growing cities in the world. A point of particular interest in the Gaborone paper is the action taken by the University of Botswana in giving effect to its community engagement objectives.

Read the intial Gaborone Stimulus Paper on the PIE project site here.

Botswana hosted the most recent PASCAL conference with a book that includes papers from the conference, along with other articles, expected to be released shortly.