Application to Organise
Ending 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 application 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.
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, TVET’s and other community based organisations. This is done through organising 100-Day Challenges – collective efforts that help move the needle on specific impact and outcome indicators related to the NSP.
Setting up the 100-Day Challenge
Anyone with some convening authority in a municipality, magistrate court, or TVET can initiate the process. This could be, for example, someone in the Gender Forum that brings up their interest in Ending GBVF 100-Day Challenges to colleagues in leadership positions in the municipality, magistrate court or TVET. If there is interest in proceeding, a senior leader from one of the above entities applies, signs an MOU, and the process can get underway.
Orientation Programme
The journey will start with the initiating leader joining a short orientation programme that will equip the leader with all they need to get an End GBVF 100-Day Challenge underway in their court, municipality,TVET or community.
Consult and Decide on
Area of Focus
The leader will consult with others in their local system, and together with them, he or she will decide 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, and selects someone in the system to support the team during the 100 days (this supporting individual will be trained as a 100-Day Challenge Ambassador).
Note: If the initiating leader gets curious about the role of Ambassador and is willing to dedicate significant time for a 100 days to support the team, he or she can step into the role of 100-Day Challenge Ambassador (instead of designating someone else to fill this role).
Implementing the Challenge
The Ambassador will start their journey by participating in an orientation session, followed by an online learning program that enables them to guide the team through their own 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 Ambassador will guide the initiating leader – and other leaders – on ways to amplify and institutionalise the impact that the team created.
Initiating Leaders
Development Programme
Once an MOU is signed, initiating leaders participate in a short orientation and guidance program on organising End GBVF 100-Day Challenges in their court, municipality, TVET or community. Participating leaders will also have access to individual coaching sessions on their leadership style, courtesy of the Ford Foundation’s global “weaving resilience” program.
Time commitment for the initiating leader:
- Face-to-face session with peers – 1 day
- 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)
Development Programme
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. Ambassadors will be offered the opportunity to convert the programme into an accredited qualification.
Time commitment of the Ambassador:
- 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.
How Can I Apply?
Individuals in the following positions would be most appropriate as initiating leaders. Though others with convening authority can also initiate the process. The MOA needs to be signed by someone who has the authority to commit the entity.
Municipalities
Portfolio lead officials iwth gender as a key responsibility or a Municipal Manager
TVETs
Principle | Deputy principle | Student Support Manager
Magistrate Courts
Area court managers | Sub-cluster heads | Chief or Senior Prosecutor.
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 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.
100-Day Implementation: The convening entity, the Municipalities, TVETs, Magistrate courts or Local house of Traditional leaders are expected to cover logistic workshop expenses and budget for the work plan developed by the 100-Day Team (Minimum of R25,000). Entities are encouraged to align their current GBVF intervention and event budgets (e.g. 16-Days of activism; Women’s month) to make provision to support the 100-Day Teams.
2025 Programme schedule
There will initially be three opportunities to start the 100-Day Challenge journey in 2025. Applications will work on a first come, first served basis.
Applications open on September 26. The closing date for application, for each of the three opportunities, are indicated below:
Applications close: 11 Dec 2024
Face-to-face session: 28 Jan 2025
Setting the stage: February
Implementing the 100-Day Challenge: Mar-Jun
Slots still available
Applications close: 15 Jan 2025
Face-to-face session: 25 Feb 2025
Setting the stage: March
Implementing the 100-Day Challenge: April-July
Slots still available
Applications close: 11 Feb 2025
Face-to-face session: 25 Mar 2025
Setting the stage: April
Implementing the 100-Day Challenge: May-Aug
Slots still available
Step 1 - Online Application - Senior Leader
Before completing the application form – download, review and sign the MOA. Once you submit the application you will receive a confirmation mail to upload the MOA and finalise your application.
Important Notice
Once you submit the application you will receive an email to confirm your application and upload the MOA. If you do not receive an email please check your “Junk email” folder or email us at info@theworldofimpact.org.
Your application will only be REGISTERED once you have clicked on the link in the email and uploaded the signed MOA.
For more information, contact the Programme Team
General enquiries: Info@theworldofimpact.org. or Sixolile Ngcobo – Localisation Navigator: Sixolile@theworldofimpact.org
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