Registration for Court officials
to Organise an
End GBVF 100-Day Challenge in 2025
We are glad that you are interested in organising a 100-Day Challenge to accelerate progress towards ending gender-based violence and femicide in your community. This page provides background on the program, and it includes a first step in the registration process.
Overall context of the Programme
Purpose
Build capacity in municipalities, magistrate courts and TVET colleges to organise multi-stakeholder collective efforts that moves the needle on specific impact and outcome indicators related to the National Strategic Plan (NSP) to end Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF)
Time Frame
This is part of a multi-year effort to end gender-based violence and femicide in our country. Your participation will build on the successful 100-Day Challenges that have been organised since 2021. The programme will continue beyond 2025, and until the goal of ending GBVF in South Africa is achieved.
Partnership
The programme is part of the End GBVF Collective and coordinated and organised by the World of Impact and Eish Impact Africa in partnership with COGTA, SALGA, DOJ & CD, DHET and DWYPD.
In 2025, the programme will be supported by the Ford Foundation.
Measuring Impact
Each 100-Day Challenge will have its own impact measuring mechanism. In the aggregate, the impact of 100-Day Challenges and other GBVF-related collective efforts will be tracked through a national GBVF Dashboard. The Dashboard is part of the End GBVF Collective and coordinated by the NSP Pillar 6 team.
A word from End GBVF 100-Day Challenge participants
Chief Prosecutor for the Polokwane Cluster shares some insight into the impact of the End GBVF 100-Day Challenges in the courts, and how the experience has influence the way of working to improve the reporting, and management of GBVF cases in courts.
In 2023 and 2024, magistrate courts in Tzaneen, Giyane and Lenyene organised their own End GBVF 100-Day Challenges to reduce their backlogs in GBVF cases and improve their finalisation rates. Guiding these teams through this journey was Tsakani Maluleke-Sihlangu from Legal Aid. She shared some insight into the team’s efforts and the lasting impact since the end of the 100-Day Challenges.
The registration details below will answer the following questions.
How does the capacity-building programme work?
Who can apply?
How much will the programme cost?
What is the time commitment for the programmes?
When does the programme start?
At the end of the page, you will find the online application form and the MOA to be signed and uploaded once you received a confirmation mail.
How does the Capacity Building Programme work?
The capacity-building programme aims to activate the National Strategic Plan (NSP) at the local level: in courts, municipalities, TVETs,/Universities and associated community-based organisations. This is done through organising End GBVF 100-Day Challenges—collective efforts that help move the needle on specific impact and outcome indicators related to the NSP.
Applications or Interest
Anyone with some convening authority in a magistrate court can initiate the process. This could be, for example, someone in the Gender Forum who brings up their interest in Ending GBVF 100-Day Challenges to colleagues in leadership positions in the magistrate court. If there is interest in a proceeding, an official from the court in a leadership position registers, and the process can begin.
The senior leader will also select a Team Coach/Ambassador to join them on the learning journey. Click the link for more details and the role and attributes of an Ambassador/Team coach. LINK>>
Setting up the 100-Day Challenge
The journey will start with the initiating leader and Ambassador/team coach doing a short 2-day face-to-face orientation programme that will equip them with all they need to get an End GBVF 100-Day Challenge underway.
After the orientation, the leader consults with others in their local system and, together with them, decides on an area of focus for the 100-Day Challenge (typically one of the NSP impact indicators), assembles a team to work on this area of focus for 100 days.
Implementing the Challenge
The Ambassador/team coach supports the leader in setting up the challenge, followed by an online learning program enabling them to guide the team through their 100 days of action. The team will set a highly ambitious 100-day goal, and it will pursue this goal relentlessly over a period of 100 days.
Amplification and Institutionalisation
Once the 100 days are over, the Senior leaders and Ambassador/Team Coach guide the other leaders on ways to amplify, scale and institutionalise the impact that the team created.
Who can apply?
Individuals in the following positions would be the most appropriate participants to apply for the development programme.
Magistrate Courts
Leader
Regional Court Presidents | Chief Magistrates | Area court managers | Heads of sub-administration regions | Head of Courts | NPA -Chief or Senior Prosecutors.
Ambassador/Team coach
Any court officer with the attributes of a team coach could be a magistrate, court manager, or prosecutor, for example.
The skills and experience that participants will gain in the programme will enable them to organise and support other collective action efforts in their systems. These skills include adaptive leadership, strategic thinking, empowering teams, coaching, digital literacy, building resilience, agile project management, networking and relationship building. The programme is facilitated by the World of Impact, a movement and capacity building company, and Eish Impact Africa, a non profit organisation that focuses on system change.
How much will the Programme cost?
These programmes for initiating leaders and Ambassadors/Team coaches will be fully funded by the Ford Foundation in 2025, so the cost of the capacity-building programmes in 2025 is zero. All expenses for the face-to-face programme and online guides are covered except for travelling to and from the venue. Programme participants also need to sign a declaration of commitment. For sector specefic or regional training, the convening partners are requested to support the venue and catering cost
100-Day Implementation: The Magistrate courts are expected to cover logistic workshop expenses and budget for the work plan developed by the 100-Day Team (Minimum of R25,000). Entities, supported by the National Departments, are encouraged to align their current GBVF intervention and event budgets (e.g. 16 days of activism; Women’s Month) to make provisions to support the 100-Day Teams.
What is the time commitment for the Development Programmes?
Senior Leaders
Development Programme
Once an MOU is signed, the official in a senior leadership position participate in a short orientation and guidance program on organising End GBVF 100-Day Challenges in their entity.
Time commitment:
- Face-to-face session with peers – 1 day (Staying for day 2 for the Ambassador training is optional)
- Online programme guide – total of 5 hours, spread over a 2-3 week period.
- Guiding the Ambassador and the Team – average 1 hour per week, for 100-Days
Process Facilitators (Ambassadors/Coach)
Development Programme
Get selected by leaders
Ambassadors get a step-by-step online guide on supporting End GBVF 100-Day Challenge teams, along with office hour calls with experienced 100-Day Challenge Ambassadors. Each Ambassador is expected to support at least two 100-Day Challenge teams.
Time commitment:
- Face-to-face programme – 2 days
- Workshops and support over the 100-Day period:
- Learning via the online guide – 2 hours per week.
- Facilitating Workshops with the Teams: 3 days total, over the 100 -day period.
- Supporting the teams outside of Workshops: average 1.5 hours per week.
When does the programme start?
There will initially be four opportunities to start the 100-Day Challenge journey in 2025. Applications will work on a first-come, first-served basis. Applications will close when all the slots in a group are filled or two weeks before the start of the development programme.
Group
JOHANNESBURG
Leaders development programme starts with onboarding 11 Feb 2025
- Face-to-face orientation: 25 & 26 Feb 2025
- Setting the stage: March
- 100-Day implementation: April-July.
Application closed
Group
FREE STATE
Leaders development programme starts with onboarding 4 Mar 2025
- Face-to-face orientation: 18 & 19 Mar 2025
- Setting the stage: April
- 100-Day implementation: May-Aug
Slots still available
Group
JOHANNESBURG
Leaders development programme starts with onboarding 11 Mar 2025
- Face-to-face orientation: 24 & 25 Mar 2025
- Setting the stage: April
- 100-Day implementation: May-Aug
Slots still available
Group
JOHANNESBURG
Leaders development programme starts with onboarding 8 Apr 2025
- Face-to-face orientation: 22 & 23 April 2025
- Setting the stage: May
- 100-Day implementation: Jun-Sept
Slots still available
Provincial groups
Due to interest in the programme, we are currently planning a province-specific face-to-face orientation in certain provinces.
More details on these to follow.
Registration
Important Notice
We will confirm your spot in the training group 4-6 weeks before the face-to-face training.
For more information, contact the Programme Team
General enquiries: Info@theworldofimpact.org. or Sixolile Ngcobo – Localisation Navigator: Sixolile@theworldofimpact.org
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