WHAT IS THE NATIONAL STRATEGIC PLAN FOR GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND FEMICIDE? Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) in South Africa makes our country one of the most unsafe places in the world for womxn and children to live. This epidemic is a whole society problem that can only be dealt with through collaborative action between all sectors of society: government, civil society, business, the faith sector and communities. The National Strategic Plan on GBVF (NSP on GBVF) is a social policy document that provides a strategic roadmap for a multi-sectoral approach and sets out specific plans on how to journey together to end GBVF. There was extensive consultation around developing the NSP on GBVF which came about after #TheTotalShutdown Intersectional Womxn’s Movement, led 27 marches across South Africa and neighbouring countries on 1 August 2018 and handed over 24 demands to President Ramaphosa. This mass action by womxn from all sectors of society culminated in the first ever Gender Summit on the African continent on 1 & 2 November 2018. GBVF was officially declared a national crisis at the end of March 2019 when the Summit Declaration was published. This was the beginning of the journey toward the National Strategic Plan on GBVF that was signed into effect at the end April 2020. In the absence of a fully legislated GBV Council as envisaged in the NSP on GBVF, a multi-sectoral implementation collaborative, now known as End GBVF Collective, was established to drive the process.
End GBVF Collective is a national volunteer platform that brings together knowledge, skills and resources to build a Gender Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) free society by implementing the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide. It is a mutual collaboration between government, civil society, academia and other institutions, development partners, the private sector and individuals dedicated to the prevention of GBVF in South Africa.
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