Botswana
Botswana
Country summary:
| Association Members | Dr Athaliah Molokomme Keabonye Ntsabane |
| Board Member | |
| Staff Members | Mboy Maswabi – Programme Assistant
Chigedze Chinyembi – Director, Botswana and SADC Liaison Office |
| When registered | 2009 |
| Address | Unit 203 Plot 64516 Second floor, Showground Close, Fairground, Gaborone Botswana |
| Email and phone | wppbotswana@genderlinks.org.za
botsIntern@genderlinks.org.za |
| Alliance focal network | Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (BOGONGO) |
| Government COEs | 32 Visit the Botswana Centres of Excellence page |
| Media COEs | 7 |
| Key partners | Botswana Association of Local Authorities, Gender Affairs Department, BOCONGO, UNFPA, UB Media Studies, Press Council Botswana, Friedrich Ebert Stifftung, American Embassy, SADC Gender Unit, SADCNGO and Ministry of Local Government and rural development |
Read more about GL work in Botswana in the attached country report.
Botswana Strategy plan 2016 – 2020
Botswana: Sober findings in gender and elections report
Gaborone – February 17, 2025: A comprehensive assessment of Botswana’s October 2024 general elections has uncovered a continued decline in women’s representation in positions of leadership in the two tiers […]
GL Vacancy: Project Assistant LGBTIQ Fund
Gender Links, (GL) a dynamic Southern African NGO based in Johannesburg, promoting gender equality and justice, seeks the services of an experienced, skilled, highly motivated and committed Project Assistant for […]
Call for applications – Media Outlets, 5 Mar
Media Parity Capacity Building Programme –Promoting gender equality in the media Download the Portuguese version Call for applications – Media Outlets Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia Are you a media outlet based […]
Chamada de candidaturas – Meios de mídia, 5 Mar
Programa de reforço das capacidades para aparidade nos meios de comunicação social Promover a igualdade entre homens e mulheres nos meios de comunicação social Convite à apresentação de candidaturas – […]
Bots: Women ministers bring special skills
Gaborone, 18 November: All four women from the ruling party in Botswana have been appointed to cabinet, and the fifth to deputy speaker, in a move described as deliberate by […]
November 6, 2024
Themes:
Elections
| Gender equality
Programs:
Gender & Governance
| Women in Politics
Bots: Woman deputy speaker, but fewer women MPs
Gaborone, November 7, 2024: As Botswana’s historic first change of government in almost six decades wraps-up, the National Assembly has elected Helen Pushie Manyeneng the Deputy Speaker of the 13th […]
Botswana: Bleak outlook for women in 30 Oct elections
Gaborone, 25 October: With less than a week to the 2024 general elections, the prospects for an increase of women’s political participation in Botswana is not encouraging. Of the 264 […]
Bots: Women – the missing voice as elections begin
Gaborone – October 30, 2024: As Botswana goes to the polls today, preliminary results from Gender Links (GL) Media Monitoring show that women constitute less than three percent of news […]
GL mourns the passing of Mme Chigedze Chinyepi
Johannesburg, 26 May: Gender Links (GL) learned with deep shock and sadness of the passing away of its Botswana Office and SADC Liaison Director Chigedze Chinyepi on 26 May 2024. […]
May 27, 2024
Themes:
Gender based violence
| Gender equality
| Governance
Programs:
Gender & Governance
| Gender Justice
| SADC Gender Protocol & Alliance
GL hosts Women’s Political Participation academy
Gender Links is hosting a week long Women’s Political Participation (WPP) Academy in Maun, Botswana from 8-12 May. The academy aims at enhancing the inclusion and effective participation of women […]
May 8, 2023
Themes:
Politics
| SADC Protocol on Gender and Development
Programs:
Advocacy - 50/50 Campaign
| Gender & Governance
| Women in Politics
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