Changu Siwawa

Changu currently serves as an Outreach Coordinator for the Kagisano Society Women’s Shelter in Botswana. She is responsible for implementing strategies to build capacity within communities to correctly identify, understand, and address gender based violence (GBV) and has been instrumental in forming ward gender committees. Changu excels at proposal writing and monitoring and evaluating field program results. She has a master’s degree in International Development Management from the University of Bradford in northern England. She has a keen interest in involving men in addressing gender inequalities and sees them as agents of change towards ending GBV. To that end, she sees her involvement in the Washington Fellowship program as an opportunity to strengthen programming for men, particularly in sports mentorship and plans to form male action groups upon returning to Botswana.