Our 2026–2029 programme is organised around four interlocking tracks. Each is designed to leverage implementation finance at multiples of its value once the legal and governance architecture is in place.
Building the Khwedom Council's capacity and the Khoena Programme as the standing platform through which San views inform national policy.
Closing the seven-fold gap between official and community estimates of the San population — from 18,000 to 120,000 — with a rigorous, community-led evidence base.
A structured, time-bound roadmap to restore the Central Kalahari Game Reserve as a living San landscape, combining rights, restoration and sustainable livelihoods.
Drafting, testing and embedding the legal and institutional architecture needed to make restitution durable across government, courts, and customary systems.
The four-year Botswana programme is the gateway to Anthropos's enduring institutional work. Alongside the 2026–2029 reform priorities, two core programmes — Lands and Livelihoods, and CBO Support — define the organisation's long-term commitment to San rights and development across the region.
See core programmesSecuring land as the long-term asset base for San communities, and converting that asset base into community-owned wealth through equity-backed economic models.
Building a strong, well-governed network of San community-based organisations with the capacity to hold rights, manage assets, and advocate for their communities.
President Duma Boko sets out an unequivocal commitment to CKGR land restitution, while a coalition of international partners convened in Geneva pledges support for implementation.
Read the updateFifty San leaders from across Botswana gathered in Ghanzi for two days of closed deliberations on how communities want to engage with government during the ongoing reform process.
Read the dispatchAt the direction of President Duma Boko, Anthropos and the Minister of Justice signed an MOU under which Anthropos will provide technical, strategic and financial support to the indigenous rights reform programme.
Read the announcementWe work with a small circle of funders, technical partners, and institutions who share a long-term commitment to San-led reform. If that sounds like you, we would welcome a conversation.
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