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Diploma In Ngo Management
University of Botswana · Gaborone & Francistown
About this programme
A distance-learning diploma in running a non-governmental organisation: raising funds and managing donor money, writing and analysing policy, community project work, gender awareness and capacity building. You study from home at your own pace, attending only short residential tutorial and assessment sessions. It leads to programme officer, project coordinator and fundraising roles in Botswana's NGOs and community development organisations.
Entry requirement
Entry requirement: at least 30 points.
Programme facts
| Qualification | Diploma |
| Institution | University of Botswana |
| Faculty / school | Faculty of Education |
| Duration | 3 years |
| Location | Gaborone |
| Minimum points | 30 |
| Accreditation | BQA Accredited |
| Funding / sponsorship | Government Sponsorship Available |
| Demand outlook | HRDC forecasts about 1,143 openings a year in BUSINESS & FINANCIAL SERVICES (2025). 14,760 graduates in this field were recorded unemployed at 2024Q1, which at that rate is about 12.9 years of hiring to absorb the people already waiting — ACRON’s calculation from two HRDC figures, not an HRDC finding, and it counts only the existing pool. Graduates per opening: 3.64. ISCED includes Law in this bucket; Table 31 has no Law field, so the graduate count is slightly overstated relative to the openings. These openings are a forecast of need, not posts that are currently being filled. In July 2026 the Directorate of Public Service Management told Parliament's Public Accounts Committee that government "currently do not have the financial capacity to create new vacancies", and that more than 8,000 students now graduate each year while the economy is no longer creating jobs at the same pace. Government policy reserves 80% of entry-level vacancies for new graduates and is achieving about 70%. (Directorate of Public Service Management, evidence to the 62nd sitting of the Public Accounts Committee, reported by Mmegi (July 2026).) This describes the whole field, not this programme alone, and it is not a government waiting list — Botswana publishes no such figure. Source: HRDC Priority Skills Report, March 2025, Table 31 p.41 and Appendix 3 pp.66-76; HRDC Tertiary Education Statistics Report 2024, Table 22. |
Careers this programme leads to
Business Analyst Administrative Officer Operations Officer Project Officer Management Trainee Client Relations Officer Business Development Officer Office Manager Programme Coordinator Operations Manager
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