Change Africa

27/05/2026

C-Suite was proud to join the UNICEF Private Sector Forum for Child Rights as part of our growing commitment to championing child-centered leadership, dignity and opportunity in Botswana. 🇧🇼

At the heart of this is Bana Ba P**a; a bold shift in how we view children and young people in development. We believe children should no longer be seen merely as passive consumers of care, knowledge and protection, but as active producers within the economy when intentionally nurtured, professionalised and commercially capacitated from an early stage.

This thinking strongly informs both the Children’s C-Suite Legacy Blueprint and the Young Mothers Development Centre, which seek to build ecosystems where children and young people are empowered not only to dream, but to create, innovate, lead and participate meaningfully in Botswana’s future economy.

The future belongs to nations that learn to invest in the productive imagination, talent and agency of their children early enough. Bana Ba P**a is about building exactly that future. For more information on Bana Ba P**a, reach out to [email protected]

27/05/2026

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27/04/2026

Another milestone. 🤝

Change Africa has formalised a Memorandum of Understanding with the Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (BUAN) — anchoring academic expertise, student development, and applied research directly into the Tshwaragano Young Mothers Development Centre and the Smart Village Initiative (French Embassy in Botswana).

This partnership means BUAN's faculty, students, and research capacity become part of how Tshwaragano works, from agronomic training and horticulture to cooperative governance and community development.

Science meets soil. Institution meets initiative.

Tshwaragano is not just growing. It is being built to last. 🌱

22/04/2026

This afternoon, C-Suite convened a landmark stakeholder engagement at the IOM Migration Health Assessment Centre (HAC), not just another meeting, but a decisive step toward establishing Botswana’s first integrated Family Resilience Centre.

What is emerging is bold by design.

Rooted in the TSHWARAGANO vision, this is not a centre that operates in silos or delivers fragmented services. It will be a fully integrated platform bringing together maternal (especially for young mothers) and early life care, digital empowerment, financial inclusion, diagnostics, nutrition, protection, and rural outreach, all within one coordinated ecosystem .

The room brought together government leadership, migration health experts, and strategic partners, but more importantly, it aligned a shared conviction: that the future of Botswana’s development must be built around the resilience of its families.

This is about more than service delivery. It is about redesigning how systems work, from reactive support to proactive, lifelong empowerment.

From a single hub in Gaborone to mobile outreach across rural communities, the model is clear: meet people where they are, and build systems that move with them.

IOM Botswana

16/04/2026

Shaping the rooms where Botswana’s future is being discussed.

Yesterday, Change Africa was honoured to contribute to a high-level roundtable hosted by the Residence of France in Gaborone, held on the occasion of the official visit of a French Senate delegation to Botswana.

Moderated by our Founding Director, Mr Kaene Disepo, the conversation brought together business leaders, diplomats, private sector actors and development stakeholders to engage on issues that sit at the heart of Botswana’s future: economic diversification, innovative agriculture, and youth employment.

At Change Africa, we believe influence must translate into substance. It is not enough to speak about opportunity; we must help shape the platforms, partnerships and practical pathways that turn potential into scalable outcomes, especially for young people.

We are proud to see Change Africa represented in spaces of high-level dialogue and strategic engagement, helping drive the conversations that matter for inclusive growth, sustainable development, and the future of Botswana.

French Embassy in Botswana Valerie Baraban

15/04/2026

Yesterday’s debate on the National Youth Policy 2026–2036 and today’s roundtable on Economic Diversification, Innovative Agriculture & Youth Employment Opportunities feel deeply connected.

One thing is becoming clearer: Botswana can no longer afford to speak about youth in abstract, sentimental terms while delaying the structural changes required to make their participation real.

If yesterday was about policy, then today must be about practical architecture.

How do YOUth build an economy for everyone to thrive?

How do we make diversification tangible beyond speeches?

How do we turn innovative agriculture into dignified, bankable, future-facing work?

How do we ensure youth employment is treated not as a side issue, but as a national PRESIDENTIAL economic priority?

I am honoured to moderate today’s discussion at the Residence of the Ambassador of France to Botswana on the occasion of the visit of the French Senate delegation to Botswana.

At this stage, the question is no longer whether Botswana’s young people have potential. That debate is tired. The real question is whether our systems, partnerships, and leadership models are bold enough to convert that potential into productivity, ownership, and opportunity at scale.

Policy must speak to the room. And the room must answer with action.

20/03/2026

The room is being assembled.

On Thursday, 16 April 2026, C-Suite Botswana convenes an exclusive closed-door breakfast session on one of the most consequential questions facing Botswana's executive community right now:
Who gets funded and who doesn't?

With over P158 billion in pension fund assets and a regulatory mandate to deploy 50% domestically by 2027, the capital is coming. The question is whether your organisation is structured to receive it.

19/03/2026

Our Founding Director, Mr. Kaene Disepo had the rare privilege of joining the High Commissioner of Canada to Botswana to appreciate the nation’s greatest economic value.