Draft of the South African National Gender Based Violence and Femicide Strategic Plan

The National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) sets out to provide a cohesive strategic framework to guide the national response to the GBVF crisis that South Africa finds itself in. Impetus for this plan arises from the bold demands by women across the country who marched on 1 August 2018, under the banner of #TheTotalShutdown and the subsequent call by women from all walks of life who attended the Presidential Summit on 1-2 November 2018.

The purpose is to provide a multi-sectoral, coherent strategic policy and programming framework to strengthen a coordinated national response to the crisis of gender-based violence and femicide by the government of South Africa and the country as a whole.

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