3. The National Strategic Plan on GBVF

GBVF 101

The National Strategic Plan on GBVF

Objective

Understand the national response to this problem.
Be able to position the work you and your organisation are doing in the context of the national strategic plan to end GBVF

The roadmap to the NSP on GBVF

The Vision of the NSP on GBVF

A South Africa free from gender-based violence directed at women, children and LGBTQIA+ persons.

The purpose of the NSP

The purpose is to provides a multi-sectoral, coherent strategic policy and programming framework to ensure 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.

Guiding principles

Multi-sectoral: To harness the roles, responsibilities & resources of all stakeholders.

Active & Meaningful Participation: Of communities, civil society & those affected by GBVF in the design & implementation #Whole SocietyApproach.

Human Rights & Survivor Centred: Approach to the provision of services that reaches all, without the risk of financial hardship.

Inclusive: Intergenerational, youth-friendly approach embracing Diversity, & Intersectionality.

Spirit of the NSP

The NSP is founded on women constitutionally entrenched right to be free from all forms of violence, also emphasised by the 24 demands delivered by the #TheTotalShutdown movement, the Declaration emerging from the 2018 Presidential Summit on GBVF.

The NSP acknowledges the equality of all genders and aims to free our society from the clutches of violence, homophobia, chauvinism and misogyny. Inclusiveness, embracing diversity and intersectionality, recognising the importance of centring women’s experience most marginalised by poverty, race, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and nationality.

The NSP symbolises collective accountability and responsibility, promoting an all-inclusive society approach.