The first podcast episode of the series ‘The Road Less Traveled’ features Dumiso Gatsha who works at the nexus of human rights and sustainable development. Coming from auditing, Dumi pivoted to activism and graduated from the LLM/MPhil in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA) from the University of Pretoria. They started their own NGO in Botswana, Success Capital, as a result of recognising that there are significant gaps around youth agency, autonomy representation, voice and visibility. Dumi explains how they work on eliminating the barriers between grassroots experiences and global policymaking, what are the challenges and the rewards in running your own NGO or campaign and which skills make a difference in occupying those governance spaces for people with lived experience. Enjoy this extremely rich and lively discussion in which our guest feels as comfortable quoting Nelson Mandela and Maya Angelo as referring to Madonna and Oprah Winfrey.

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“What did the council decide on item 42?” — answered with the speaker and the moment.

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