A BRITISH FILM SET IN BOTSWANA

A UNITED KINGDOM

The Canberra premiere of the inspirational true story and Opening Night film of the BFI London Film Festival, A UNITED KINGDOM, starring David Oyelowo (Selma) and Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl).

This film is about Seretse Khama’s marriage to Englishwoman Ruth Williams which led to his exile from
Bechuanaland (now Botswana).

PALACE ELECTRIC CINEMA, NEW ACTON, CANBERRA
Tuesday 25 October
6.15pm Opening Night pre-film reception including drinks, British fare and live music.
7.15pm A UNITED KINGDOM

Palace Movie Club $35
General Admission $40
Buy Tickets: http://britishfilmfestival.com.au/events/canberra

Political and development challenges in Southern Africa

From the Australian Institute of International Affairs ACT Branch

A panel discussion with

Jacqueline Zwambila and Matthew Raymond will held on

Thursday 27 October 2016, 6:00pm
Refreshments served from 5:30pm

AIIA Conference Centre – Stephen House
32 Thesiger Court
Deakin ACT 2600

This panel discussion will address political and development challenges facing Southern Africa. Former Zimbabwe Ambassador to Australia, Jacqueline Zwambila, will give her perspective on developments in the political realm as she reflects on the changing face of the political landscape from the protest cycles in Zimbabwe to other political developments in the region. Zambia-based educator and development practitioner Matthew Raymond will speak on development difficulties and successes in Zambia, with an emphasis on education, and why achieving development goals seems to be so slow, at times even unattainable, in southern Africa
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This is an AIIA ACT Branch event.

To register, please do so through the following link:
http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/events/political-and-development-challenges-in-southern-africa/

 

A decision-focused approach to sustainable development in Africa

Crawford School of Public Policy | Resources, Environment and Development Group

Date & time

Monday 10 October 2016
10.00am–11.00am

Venue

Lennox Room, Level 1, JG Crawford Building 132, Lennox Crossing, ANU

Speaker

  Dr Keith Shepherd, World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya.
Keith Shepherd is a Principal Scientist at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Nairobi and leads the Centre’s Science Domain on Land Health Decisions. . Keith has 40 years’ experience in agricultural research and development in Africa and Asia.
‘Decision-makers should be selecting interventions that optimise outcomes across the whole set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This requires economic models that project long-term costs, benefits and risks of intervention options. There is also a need to assess trade-offs and returns to investment and this requires expressing the relative value of different aims in monetary terms.’

Contacts

Vivienne Seedsman
6125 3912

FOR MORE DETAILS SEE

https://crawford.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/8465/decision-focused-approach-sustainable-development-africa

 

 

 

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