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Local Organising Committee

The conference will be planned and organised by three committees:

the scientific committee consisting of scientists from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Southern and Northern America with international reputations in their respective fields of research; and
the local organising committee,
with the assistance of an African Research Advisory Panel.

Local Organising Committee, University of Zambia ( UNZA )
Dept of Psychology, School of Humanities & Social Sciences Prof Robert Serpell (Committee Chair) - Some of you met him and/or his colleagues, Sidney Mwaba, Jackie Jere-Folotiya, and Bestern Kaani, at the Wuerzburg conference	Dr Anitha Menon (PCO Liaiso)
Ms Jacqueline Jere-Folotiya (Secretary) Mr Francis Sichimba (AWAITING PHOTO) Ms Tamara Chansa-Kabali (AWAITING PHOTO) Mr Haatembo Mooya (AWAITING PHOTO)	Ms Gertrude Kasuba Mwape
Dept of Educational Psychology, Sociology & Special Education, School of Education
Ms Florence Chamvu	Dr Sophie Kasonde-Ng?andu
Ms Beatrice Matafwali	Mr Bestern Kaani (Treasurer)
Haatembo Mooya	Tamara
Francis Sichimba
DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS & CHILD HEALTH - SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Prof Mary Shilalukey-Ngoma	Dr Somwe wa Somwe

The proposal submitted by the UNZA Local Organizing Committee (L.O.C.) in 2007 was adopted in February 2008 by the Executive Committee of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD). The proposal included the following:

In order to make the congress truly representative of the diversity of the African continent, and to ensure adequate representation of the priority scientific concerns and professional activities of behavioral science in the various nations of Africa, a regional consortium of about 8-10 leading developmental scientists has been formed to act as an advisory panel for the scientific committee. It includes representativesfrom the following six institutions, which have hosted the African regional workshops of the Society since 1992:

University of Yaounde, Cameroon (1992, 2003)

University of Zambia (1996)

University of Namibia (1998)

Makerere University, Uganda (2000)

University of Witwatersrand, South Africa (2006),