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2. 4 Staff Situation 
Since the start of Swedish support in 1982, SIDA has emphasized on the 
importance of zambianization of the staff. This process, however, is 
quite long.and difficult, particularly as the academic staff is 
concerned. Unfortunately, up to now, the department rely only on the 
expatriate academic staff. The number of professional surveyors in 
Zambia is still too small to provide the academic posts at the 
department. The academic staff development training sponsored by SIDA 
and NUFFIC concerns presently, three Zambian members of staff, who are 
studied the PhD and MSc programmes in the overseas academic 
institutions (University College London, KTH-Stockho 1 m, ITC-the 
Netherlands). Hopefully, the next Academic Staff Development Fellows 
will be recruited soon. Even though the importance of zambianization 
of the department is recognised, the number of SDF’s training has been 
inadequate. One of the main reasons for this, is that the surveying 
programme is relatively new at UNZA and the total number of graduates 
is stiil low (see tab.1). The requirement which has to be satisfied to 
get a post of the academic SDF at UNZA, is the B.Eng. degree with 
’merit’ or better. Unfortunately, only a few graduate students have 
obtained such degree. To obtain more and better surveying students, 
the department has recently initiated the promotion of the survey 
education at UNZA by placing an advertisement in the national 
newspaper, distribution of professional pamphlets, hosting the 
departmental Open Day. The technical staff development training, has 
concerned two technicians, who after obtaining the National Diploma in 
Zambia, and a few years experience in surveying and photograrametry, 
were completed the Higher National Diploma in London. The recruitment 
and training of the new technicians in cartography, remote sensing and 
surveying is expected. 
2.5 Research, Consultancy, Refresher Courses 
A number of different projects are carried out in the department, 
concerning digitizing of different types of maps, cadastral surveys, 
open pit survey, determination of dam deformations, boundary 
reconstruct ions and others. The pilot project for monitoring of the 
water and sewerage system at UNZA campus is also carried out by final 
year students, with the use of numerical stereoplotting method and 
with digitizing the orthophoto. The join research project is also 
planned within the UNZA/KTH Institutional Cooperation in Land 
Surveying. Each year a few different refresher courses in areas of 
computer assisted cartography, recent developments in surveying, 
photogrammetry and remote sensing are organised by department in 
conjunction with the Ministry of Lands & Natural Resources and also 
with Civil Engineering and Agriculture institutions. 
3. THE REGIONAL COOPERATION IN TRAINING OF PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS 
A number of various approaches have been done by the international 
organizations and institutions in different African countries, to 
integrate all efforts for establishing self sufficiency training of 
surveyors in Africa. The problem is quite complicate and not easy to 
solve. The shortage of manpower in different learning institutions is 
the main barrier. The proposals have been given by the Head of 
department of Surveying at the University of Zimbabwe, to discuss 
strategies and plan of action to enable the countries of the SADCC 
region attain self sufficiency, in such manpower from a regional 
perspective. The effort has been taken to arrange the meeting in