The second symposium on the prevention of gender-based violence (GBV) convened by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) in partnership with Africa Legal Aid (AFLA) was held in Pretoria, South Africa, in August 2024. This engagement…
Pretoria, South Africa – The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), Africa Legal Aid (AFLA), the Embassy of Netherlands in South Africa, the Embassy of Ireland in South Africa, the Embassy of Switzerland in South Africa, the…
This policy brief highlights the findings from the scorecard on the localisation of the NSP-GBVF, emphasising the areas of priority for all state and community-based actors as they continue to implement to objectives of the policy. This brief is intended…
Recognising the need to track the progress of the implementation of the NSP-GBVF and to document community centred approaches to addressing GBVF. CSVR developed a scorecard to assess the localisation of the NSP-GBVF. The scorecard also mapped community awareness of…
Facing up to the embedded social norms and prejudices, linked to practices that stretch across the continent's histories and giving rise to sexual and gender-based violence, is a necessary step in building societies where women and girls are able to…
Our communities are the site of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and femicide. When these cases occur, it is communities that reel from such incidents and victims and perpetrators are often members of the community, with ties and roots in…
