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March ,1989 for all Heads of Surveying Depart ments of institutions of 
higher learning in SADCC and Directors of Governmental Survey and 
Mapping Departments in SADCC Region. Because of different reasons, of 
which the main was the financial problem, only a few invited 
participants were able to come. Another approach has been taken by 
the Survey Department of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources 
in Zambia, to arrange the Regional Technical Meeting for Directors of 
Survey and Mapping Departments in Botswana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe 
and Zambia. The three days meeting with the most of the invited 
participants, was held in Lusaka in February, 1990. One of the 
session, hosted by the Department of Surveying at the University of 
Zambia, was on the regional training. The main discussion of this 
session concerned the regional cooperation, in post graduate and 
B.Eng. programmes, and also, in the technical long and short term 
training. A regional technical meeting on training, was recommended 
to take place in end of 1990, in one of the patricipated countries, 
before the next General Regional Technical Meeting wchich will be 
held in February, 1991. According to the recent arrangements, this 
meeting will be probably held in Malawi, in November, 1990. 
Department of Surveying at the University of Zambia, has sent the 
offer to the regional countries, where the surveying programme is 
not available, with the proposal of two scholarships, sponsored by 
SIDA, for two students each year, who will join the B.Eng, programme 
in the Land Surveying at UNZA. 
4. CONCLUSION 
Development of African countries requires a great number of well 
trained surveyors, in all areas of surveying and mapping, namely; 
cadastral, hydrographic and engineering surveying, geodetic surveying, 
photogrammetry, remote sensing, cartography and land information 
management. Surveyors have to be trained in the higher and technical 
institutions. Therefore, the cooperation and consolidation of all 
possible sources and efforts is absolutely neccessary. 
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(1) Erik von Bahr, Evaluation of two SIDA - Supported Training 
Programmes at the Univesity of Zambia, SIDA, Stockholm, December, 1987 
(2) Larsson G.,Gustaffson J.E., Schylberg L., Institutional 
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