Lorato Moalusi

SHORT RESUME – LORATO MOALUSI
Lorato Moalusi is a Social Worker with over 20 years’ experience in direct Social Work practice with individuals and families experiencing a variety of problems; working at community level – organizing communities, analyzing needs of the community and developing interventions in response to those needs; extensive clinical Social Work practice in hospital settings, working with chronic and terminal patients (with cancer, diabetes, HIV and AIDS, High Blood Pressure) and their families; working with survivors of Gender Based Violence since 2005; organizational leadership.
Lorato is currently reading a Masters in Development Practice. She holds a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Botswana, a Diploma in Quality Auditing of Health services/programs from the Norwegian Board of Health as well as training in Monitoring and Evaluation of Nutrition, Health and Population Programmes, done with MEASURE Evaluation (USA) and Makerere University in Uganda; She also has done training in Understanding and Responding to Gender Based Violence in Development Contexts as well as training in Gender Responsive Economic Policy Management.
She is a founding member of the organisation she currently leads, the Kagisano Society Women’s Shelter, a Non-Governmental Organisation that provides counseling to men, women, children and their families; emergency and temporary shelter to women and their children; legal services; community outreach and education. She is also a founding member of Letsema, an empowerment group focusing on capacity building for women in politics.
She is currently serving as a Substantive member of the Country Coordinating Mechanism of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria representing the Human Rights and Gender Thematic Group of the Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (BOCONGO). She has served as the Sector Coordinator for Gender and Development Sector of the Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (BOCONGO). During her tenure as the Coordinator, Lorato led the advocacy for the enactment of the Domestic Violence Act (2008). She was also a Civil Society representative during the time of the formulation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development and Gender Responsive Economic Management with the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning

In recognition of her leadership skills, the United States Embassy to Botswana sent Lorato on a Leadership Development one month programme in the US which focused on NGO Management. She was one of the six African women selected for the Expert Consultative Meeting: Africa, that was working on the report for the Due Diligence Project (on Violence against Women), held in South Africa. In November 2016 she participated in another expert meeting “Creating a violence free culture: Due Diligence and Effective Engagement with Community Leaders to End Violence and Discrimination against Women” held in Florence, Italy

Key competencies/skills
• Transformational leadership: Her organisation was contracted to implement the Community Systems Strengthening Module of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria since 2016 to date. The purpose is to create capacity of thirty-seven Civil Society Organisations in twelve health districts in Botswana for them to be able to deliver health services effectively.
• Lobbying and advocacy as well as
• Public speaking and training.
• Motivational speaking and person-centred skills geared towards character building of individuals and groups