CESPAM’s mandate is to educate leaders in the SADC public sector in best practice in public administration and management to empower them to lead and manage their respective organizations efficiently and effectively.

CESPAM aims at:

The university of Botswana library is amongst the best resourced libraries in Africa offering a pool of reputable and authoritative resources for learning and research. The main library is located in Gaborone, and it has two branches; Centre for Continuing Education (North) in Francistown and Okavango Research Institute in Maun. It also has several centres around the country; Princess Marina Referral, Mahalapye Primary, Sbrana Psychiatric and Letsholathebe hospitals, to support Faculty of Medicine.

The Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) is a multi-disciplinary and inter-faculty outreach arm of the University of Botswana. The CCE offers credit and non-credit programmes, within the framework of lifelong learning. It does this through part-time evening classes, distance education programmes, professional development and training programmes, public education/outreach and other extension activities.