Enduring institutional commitment

Core Programmes

Two long-term programmes that define Anthropos's enduring commitment to San rights, lands, and institutional development — extending well beyond the four-year Botswana reform window.

Foundation

Built on the Botswana programme

Since 2023, with support from a Ford Foundation grant, Anthropos has been building a regional secretariat to provide legal, financial, strategic, technical and administrative support to San CBOs, and working with communities, partners and governments to expand land rights and opportunities for indigenous communities.

The Botswana Indigenous Rights Programme is closely aligned with these ambitions and serves as the foundation for these two core programmes. The four-year reform window — the Inter-Ministerial Committee process, the National Indigenous Peoples Policy, the National Land Audit, the CKGR restoration — is the gateway to this work, not the destination.

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Two dedicated programmes

Explore each programme in full

Lands, environment and livelihoods on one side; the community institutions that hold and manage them on the other. Each now has its own dedicated programme page.

Core Programme 1

LEAP — Land, Environment and People

Land tenure · Equity · Sustainable livelihoods

Securing land as the long-term asset base for San communities, and converting that asset base into community wealth through equity-backed, conservation-anchored economic models.

Core Programme 2

CBO Support

Community organisations · Institutional development

Building a strong, well-governed network of San community-based organisations with the institutional capacity to hold rights, manage assets, and hold governments to account.

Neither programme succeeds without the other. LEAP secures the rights and develops the value-generation architecture; CBO Support develops the institutional capacity to hold and manage both. Land restituted but held by an institution that cannot govern it produces a dormant asset.
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Supporting long-term institutional work for San communities.

We work with a small circle of funders, technical partners and institutions who share a long-term commitment to San rights and development.

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