Our partners
Anthropos works through a formal network of community organisations, government institutions, and funders united by a shared commitment to San-led indigenous rights reform in Botswana.
An enabling role
Anthropos’s role throughout the programme is enabling rather than implementing. We work at the interface between Government and San communities — providing the technical capacity, facilitation, and partnership management that neither party can currently supply alone.
Our partnerships fall into three interlocking tiers: the community organisations whose leadership gives the reform its legitimacy; the government institutions whose political commitment makes it possible; and the funders whose resources and expertise make it real.
The national San representative body.
The Botswana Khwedom Council is the principal San-owned national representative organisation, selected by San leaders at the inaugural National San Dialogue in March 2026 to serve as the national voice for San communities in the reform process. Anthropos works in formal partnership with Khwedom Council under an MOU signed in early 2026, supporting the Council’s restructuring into a fully national and representative body — one capable of ensuring that community consultation, and free, prior and informed consent, are embedded at every stage of reform.
The Government of Botswana.
Anthropos operates under a formal Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Botswana, signed in October 2025 at the direction of President Duma Boko and represented by the Minister of Justice, Nelson Ramaotwana. Our work spans five ministries through the Inter-Ministerial Basarwa Committee — established by the President in February 2025 to drive the indigenous rights reform agenda — providing technical capacity, research coordination, and the donor and institutional relationships that the Government needs but cannot, given Botswana’s current fiscal constraints, supply from its own resources.
Funding the foundational work.
Every pound invested in this facilitative phase is structured to unlock implementation finance at multiples of its value. Our current funders support the foundational work — community consultations, data and evidence, legal frameworks, and CKGR restitution — that creates the conditions for large-scale bilateral, multilateral, and conservation finance to flow from 2027 onwards. Anthropos’s investment in the first two years is designed specifically to produce the legal architecture, community governance structures, and evidence base that bilateral agencies, multilateral bodies, and conservation finance mechanisms require before committing at scale. We are actively building that pipeline.
Implementation partners.
Anthropos’s role is enabling, not implementing. In a number of workstream areas — education, water and sanitation, community-based natural resources management, and healthcare — the specialist technical capacity required sits with established NGOs working at the interface of indigenous rights and service delivery. We are actively building this network of implementation partners. If your organisation works in any of these areas and shares our commitment to indigenous-led reform, we would welcome a conversation.
Partner logos will appear here as partnerships are formalised.