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Member Organizations
Botswana Federation of Trade
Union
Cooperation for Research,
Development and Education (CORDE)
Emang Basadi Women's Association
Manual Workers Union
Nurses Association of Botswana
Society of Women against AIDS
in Botswana
Lentswe La Basadi Ba Botswana
Women's Finance House Botswana
Botswana Young Women's
Christian Association
Women Against Rape (WAR)
Worldview Botswana
Kagisano Society Women's Shelter Project
Women and Law in Southern
Africa Research and Educational Trust (WLSA)
Botswana Christian Council
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Botswana Federation of Trade Union
Contact information:
Mailing address
Box 440
Gaborone, Botswana
Tel/Fax: (267) 352534
E-mail: bot.ftu@info.bw |
BFTU Women's Council
Mission Statement:
To empower women on issues that affect them in and outside the
workplace.
Vision:
To educate women on labour movement issues and their rights at
the workplace.
To educate women on issues affecting women
at the workplace and outside the workplace.
To educate women on gender issues both at
work and outside the workplace.
We would like to see women holding higher
positions at work and in the executive board of the BFTU.
Areas of concentration:
Women's
Poverty and Economic Empowerment
Women's
Education and Training
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Cooperation for Research, Development and Education
(CORDE)
Mailing address:
Box 1895
Gaborone, Botswana
Tel: (267) 323865
Fax: (267) 323971
E-mail: eds@it.bw
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CORDE is a membership
organization, which was established in 1986. Its' mission is to
build the organization management capacity of members through
the provision of training and business advisory services.
Objectives:
- To provide support and training to
enterprises so that they become profitable.
- To build the institutional capacity of
CORDE in order to service its members effectively.
- To provide management and technical
skill training to member enterprises.
- To provide advisory services in
management and organizational development to member
enterprises.
- To facilitate access to financial and
other resources for member enterprises.
- To advocate the interest of CORDE
member enterprises.
Areas of Concentration:
Women's
Poverty and Economic Empowerment
Women's
Education and Training
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Emang
Basadi Women's Association (EB)
Emang Basadi Women's Association
Private Bag 00470
Tel/Fax: (267) 309335
Gaborone, Botswana
E-mail: ebasadi@global.bw
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Background:
Although Emang Basadi was registered as an Association in
1986, it was actually started a little earlier in 1982. It was
established by a group of Batswana who were reacting against the
1982, amendment of the Citizenship Act to be discriminatory
against women. The Third World Conference on women which was
held in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985 also influenced the formalization
of Emang Basadi. The objectives of Emang Basadi are still the
same today as they were when it was first established. What has
changed is really the strategies towards attaining these
objectives.
Objectives:
- To identify, through
consultation and research, the problems related to women in
Botswana,
- To increase awareness among
women and the public in general about the specific problems
faced by women in all sectors of the Botswana society,
- To develop action-orientated
strategies and mobilize women to take steps that will help to
change the social, political, economic and legal position of
women in Botswana,
- To highlight and give concrete
recognition to the important role that women play in
national development,
- To work towards greater
equality and the removal of all cultural and legal barriers
which hinder the advancement of women.
Although initiated by few women, EB has over
the years expanded both in membership and in the number of activities
it implements in a bid to realize its objectives.
Currently, its projects include, the political education
project, resource and documentation centre, organizational development and women's economic empowerment project based in
Mahalapye. A newly formed project, Legal Aid and Counselling
Centre, has been launched in Gaborone. EB also implements other
programmes and holds activities in partnership with other organizations. For example,
EB belongs to the Network on Violence Against Women.
Areas of Concentration: Women's
Poverty and Economic Empowerment
Women's
Power Sharing and Decision Making
Women's
Rights and Violence Against Women
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National Amalgamated
Local, Central Government and Parastatial Manual Workers Union
(NALCGPMWU)
Contact information:
Contact: Mrs. Elsinah Botsalano
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 374
Gaborone, Botswana
Tel: (267) 352790
Fax:(267) 357790
Physical Address:
Plot No. 4946/7
Jawara Road
Extension 15
Village, Botswana
E-mail: nalcgpwu@info.bw |
The Vision of the National
Amalgamated Local, Central Government and Parastatal Manual
Workers Union is to: Create conducive democratic working and
living environments, attain secure, sustainable and decently
paying jobs for its current membership and succeeding
generations of the working peoples of Botswana.
Function of Organization:
1. To secure the complete organization of all workers employed
by the Manual Workers Union and the Industrial Class Workers in Botswana and to promote the industrial, social and
intellectual interests of the members.
2. To obtain and maintain for its members just proper rates of
pay or remuneration, security of employment and reasonable hours
and conditions of work and to provide assistance accordingly.
3. To regulate relations between employer and employees and promote
the spirit of solidarity and personhood among members.
4. To pursue the spirit of co-operation among members and other
economic ventures.
5. To provide financial assistance to members in times of
need, hospitalization for lengthy periods without pay and
towards funeral expenses for deceased members.
6. Establish funds by means of membership fees, monthly
contribution levies and by borrowing on such security and terms
as may be arranged by the Exe. Committee.
7. To carry out workers education programmes for members and to
maintain the democratic principles of trade
unionism.
Area of Concentration:
Women's
Poverty and Economic Empowerment
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Nurses Association of Botswana
(NAB)
Contact Information:
Mailing Address:
The Executive Secretary
P.O. Box 126
Gaborone, Botswana
Tel/Fax: (267) 353840
Physical Address:
Plot 2684
Phiri Cresent
Extension 9, Gaborone
E-mail: nab@global.bw
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The Nurses Association of
Botswana (NAB), in its pursuit for delivery of quality driven
nursing services to its customers, endeavors to advance and
maintain professional growth and integrity of its members.
The aims of the association are to provide
the best possible care to the people of Botswana, to advance the
nursing profession and to promote the welfare of nurses by
pursuing a number of objectives set out by the
association.
NAB has implemented various projects and
has undertaken numerous activities both for nurses and the
community.
The NAB has a membership open to nurses
who are on the Register of the nursing and Midwifery Council of
Botswana. They also have membership for students studying in the
field.
For more information please contact the
Nurses Association of Botswana.
Area of Concentration: Women and
Health
Women's
Education and Training
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Society of Women
And AIDS in Botswana (SWAABO)
| Contact information:
Mailing address
Private Bag 0042
Gaborone, Botswana
Tel: (267) 3555031
Fax: (267) 585100
E-mail: phaladze@mopipi.ub.bw |
The Society for Women and AIDS
Botswana was formed in June 1995. It aims at assisting women
through assertiveness and safer sex negotiation skills, to
prevent HIV infection and attain socio-economic empowerment,
which will improve their quality of life.
Objectives:
- To sensitize, educate,
mobilize and raise the level of awareness of all women in
Botswana especially in rural areas, in matters concerning
HIV/AIDS related problems.
- To undertake AIDS prevention
and control activities that are acceptable to all women in
Botswana based on socio-cultural background.
- To examine, formulate and
support AIDS control programmes for women in Botswana
especially in the rural areas.
- To collaborate with national
and international organizations in AIDS prevention and
control.
Area of concentration:
Women and
Health
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Lentswe La Basadi Ba Botswana
(LLBB)
| Contact information:
Mailing address
Box 1755
Gaborone, Botswana
Tel: (267) 325743
Fax: (267) 325743
E-mail: zoe@it.bw |
LLBB was formed in 1999. The
organization's main objective is to get women from all social
backgrounds both rural and urban to write and change cultural
norms, history and values that impact negatively on women. Its
mission is to encourage women to advance their socio-economic
and political status, enhance gender equality and pursue human rights
through writing. LLBB has published a book of stories by women
in June 2001.
Objectives
- Develop progressive, writing
and learning material that will help to shape and influence
society through educational books.
- Produce material that will
contribute to the fight against HIV/AIDS.
- Record life skills initiatives
by women e.g. entrepreneurship, art work.
- Through writing, re-visit
cultural norms, values and history that impact negatively on
women and society.
Area of concentration:
Women's
Education and Training
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Women's Finance House
Contact information:
Mailing address
Box 124
Gaborone, Botswana
Tel: (267) 356500
Fax: (267) 304176
E-mail: wfhb@botsnet.bw
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Women's Finance House Botswana
was established in 1989. It's mission is to develop efficient,
cost effective and sustainable micro finance institution,
which, provides banking services to poor women in Botswana. It's overall
goal is to assist poor women entrepreneurs and in
particular those who are not able to access the credit services
of local financial institutions.
Objectives:
- To develop innovate systems by
adapting suitable best practice methods to the needs of the
poor women in Botswana.
- To transform the lives and
businesses of low-income women entrepreneurs into viable
business that makes significant contributions to the
national economy.
- To serve as a bridge that will
enable women to become confident, empowered, and active
agents of economic change and development.
- To build capacity of members
to equip them with skills to effectively manage the credit
program.
Area of Concentration:
Women's
Poverty and Economic Empowerment
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Botswana Young Women's
Christian Association
Contact information:
Mailing address
Box 359
Gaborone, Botswana
Tel: (267) 353681
Fax: (267) 357783
E-mail: bywca@mega.bw
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The YWCA is an association of
women and youth of diverse backgrounds, experiences,
nationalities, political affiliation and religion. Men can only
join as associate members.
The organization was established in 1962. The headquarters of
Botswana YWCA is in Gaborone, since its inception the YWCA
Council has established more that 90 clubs.
It's mission is to empower women and youth to work towards their
physical, mental and spiritual development, provide a forum to
share skills and experience that will enable them to fight
against poverty, ignorance and disease.
Objectives:
- To develop programmes and
coordinate the work of YWCA throughout Botswana.
- To address socio-economic and
cultural problems of women and youth in particular and the
general society.
- To create awareness and
opportunities for women and youth in order for them to
participate in issues that affect them.
Areas of Concentration:
Women's
Poverty and Economic Empowerment
Women's
Education and Training
Women's
Rights and Violence Against Women
The
Girl Child
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Women Against Rape (WAR)
| Women Against Rape is located
on the northern side of Botswana in the Ngamiland district in
Maun. It is 200 metres from the Maun airport when going south
and occupies the old Kagiso mortuary building.
Contact person: Coordinator, Chibuya
Ntsimanyana
Tel: (267) 660865/660058
E-mail: war@info.bw |
Women Against Rape (WAR) was
established in Maun in the early 1990s in response to the
escalating incidences of rape and sexual abuse in Botswana and
particularly in the Maun Area.
What WAR Does:
- Provides support, assistance and
counselling to survivors of sexual assault.
- Provides legal support for women and
children survivors of abuse.
- Promotes institutional change to
protect women and children against sexual abuse.
- Campaigns for changes in the law that
enables survivors to report the crime and obtain legal
justice for their assailant.
Area of Concentration:
Women's
Rights and Violence Against Women
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Worldview Botswana
Contact information:
Mailing address
Private Bag 366
Gaborone, Botswana
Tel: (267) 584110
Fax: (267) 584112
E-mail: view.bots@info.bw
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Worldview was registered as a
national trust in 1993. It is affiliated to Worldview
International Foundation. Worldview's focus is working with
other organizations to improve the effectiveness of development
projects through, communication and evaluation. It aims to
employ media strategies to provide knowledge and skills to
disadvantaged Batswana so as to promote participation in
development.
Objectives
- To improve development through
training and use of appropriate communication methods to
support and improve development programmes;
- To support development
activities across all sectors through media;
- To work with local communities
to identify their development needs and strengthen their
skill and capacity to undertake activities to meet their
needs.
- Educate and facilitate
participatory community development to strengthen democratic
process by using modern and traditional media.
- To develop closer links
between communication specialists and experienced academics
dealing with development and communication for sustainable
development.
- To establish performance and
impact indicators to monitor and evaluate the implementation
of the various activities and improved on-going and future
programmes.
- To establish an effective
communication network among NGOs and other development
institutions.
Area of concentration:
Women's
Education and Training
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Kagisano Society Women's
Shelter
Contact Info:
Mailing address:
Private Bag X046
Gaborone, Botswana
Tel/Fax: (267) 307658
E-mail: kwsp@info.bw |
The Women's shelter project
is under the umbrella of the Kagisano Society. The Kagisano
Society was formed in 1979 to assist refugees from different
parts of Africa. In recognition of the magnitude of domestic
violence, the Kagisano Society initiated the women's shelter
project, which was established in 1998. It's main aim is to
assist women and their children who are survivors of domestic
violence by providing them with temporary shelter, support and
rehabilitation 24 hours a day.
Objectives:
- To provide a temporary
shelter for women and their children who are survivors of
domestic violence.
- To offer women in residence
and their children counselling and support services
towards a better life.
- To offer counselling and
support services to non-residents of the shelter affected
by domestic violence.
- To raise public awareness
about the unacceptability and illegality of violence
against women.
- To network with NGO's, Government and other organizations of civil society
currently tackling the issue of domestic violence.
Area of concentration:
Women's
Rights and Violence Against Women
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Women and Law
in Southern Africa Research and
Education Trust (WLSA)
| Contact information:
Mailing address
Private Bag UB00708
Gaborone, Botswana
Tel: (267) 323346
Fax: (267) 323346
E-mail: wlsa@info.bw |
WLSA provides action oriented
research on the legal status of women in seven countries of
Southern Africa: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique,
Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
The development objective of WLSA is to
improve the legal status of women in Southern Africa. This is
done through the following activities:
- Developing the research skills
of women's law researchers in the network countries;
- Conducting research on gender
issues in Southern Africa, particularly those related to
legal rights;
- Providing information on
gender and the law and influencing policy and law reform in
each country;
- Networking and exchange
information between seven countries;
- Conducting training and
planning seminars on research and producing materials in the
seven countries;
- Exploring and developing new
methodologies and new perspectives for the study of gender
and the law in the seven
countries;
- Cooperating and liaising with
other organizations in each country, in the region, and
internationally which are interested in issues relevant to
women and law.
Areas of Concentration:
Women's
Education and Training
Women's
Rights and Violence Against Women
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Botswana Christian Council
(BCC)
| Contact information:
Mailing address
Tel: (267) 350842
Fax: (267) 312525
E-mail: bots.christ@info.bw
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BCC was established in 1966 to take over the
operations of small inter church relief programmes which was
then called the Northern Bechuanaland Church Council. The council
was founded by four churches namely Anglican, London Missionary
Society (UCCSA), the Methodist and United Free Church of
Scotland. These churches were later joined by the Dutch Reformed
Church, the Church of God in Christ, the United Apostolic Healing, the Roman Catholic, the African Methodist Episcopal and
the African Missionary Society. Other organizations which form
part of the council are the Botswana Bible Society and the
Association of Medical Mission for Botswana (AMMB).
Objectives:
- To bring churches together and
involve them actively in development projects e.g.; literacy
programmes, income generating projects to alleviate poverty
within communities and welfare work.
- Work with women, the disabled,
youth/street children,
- Be involved in issues if human
rights.
- Respond to emergency
situations
Areas of concentration:
Women's
Education and Training
Women's
Rights and Violence Against Women
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