About this episode

Kgomotso, a social worker from Botswana living in Germany, discusses her work and interests in social protection and policy reforms.

In this episode I speak with Kgomotso, a social worker from Botswana currently residing in Germany, with qualifications in both Social Work and African Studies. She has experience working as a project support officer focused on orphans and vulnerable children-related policies and programmes, working to strengthen social protection systems and improve service provision by social workers in Botswana, and has interests in social policy reforms, informal social protection and inclusive development. Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode: Thandika Mkandawire’s Google Scholar page - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ecPI09EAAAAJ&hl=en Jimi Adesina’s Google Scholar page - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZJPKVjYAAAAJ&hl=en Dolly Ntseane’s Research Gate page - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dolly-Ntseane Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni’s Google Scholar page - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=K_TTLasAAAAJ&hl=en Frantz Fanon’s Brittanica biography - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frantz-Fanon This episode's transcript can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D5IvZqszYZcdo2CJmfbmPRRsOwgxwuav4HV4pthDUoI/edit?usp=sharing…

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