Botswana is a nation in Southern Africa with a population of more than 2.6 million people (World Bank, 2022).
COL’s work in Botswana is primarily focussed in the areas of higher education, open schooling, lifelong learning for farmers, and gender equality and women’s empowerment through skills development. As a small state, it is part of the Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) network and COL’s regional centre, the Southern African Development Community – Centre for Distance Education (SADC-CDE) hosted at Botswana Open University (BOU). Learners from Botswana are also benefitting from COL’s free online courses and other openly available resources.