KZN Conference Debriefing on the National Summit on GBVF 2
On the eve of 16 Days of Activism on 9 December 2022, KZNVAW and WWSOSA organised the KwaZulu-Natal Post-Summit Debriefing Conference in Durban which was attended by 200 people working within the GBVF sector. The KZN Conference had two aims: 1. To assess both the Provincial and Presidential Summit resolutions and agree on key priority areas for KZN for each of the six pillars of the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (NSP on GBVF) 2. To develop initial steps for the stakeholders and role players in KZN to take forward in the first half of 2023 to move from talk to action.
Presidential Summit on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide 2 - Resolutions
We, the one thousand five hundred delegates attending the Presidential Summit on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) 2, who are the survivors of gender-based violence, the government of South Africa and the South African society represented by people from all walks of life, without any distinction in terms of race, colour, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, HIV status, language, ethnic or social origin, geographical location, political or other opinions, religion, conscience, belief, culture, birth, and nationality.
The National Strategic
Plan is a government and civil society’s multi-sectoral strategic framework to
realise a South Africa free from gender-based violence and femicide. It
recognises all violence against women (across age, location, disability, sexual
orientation, sexual and gender identity, nationality and other diversities) as
well as violence against children. The NSP is premised on the equality
of all gender groupings including the LGBTQI+ community - and
affirms that accessing
services is human rights-based
Roadmaps for Each 6 Pillars
The Summit programme has been designed to ensure a balance between reporting back and accounting for what has taken place since the 2018 Summit, and to allow for broad engagement and dialogue between participants to ensure clear and workable resolutions for implementation on accountability, acceleration, and amplification in the coming years.
Building on the status of GBVF in South Africa as an ocial national crisis, day one includes a session to make regional and international linkages with our national agenda.
Accountability is a key theme of this Summit and, as such, two accountability panels facilitated by well-respected journalists will take place, providing a platform for questions developed in consultation with stakeholders from various sectors to be answered by panellists representing key implementation departments and structures.
The KZN Network and the AIDS Legal Network (ALN) have developed a training manual on Gender Violence and HIV and AIDS. The manual aims to provide an invaluable resource and practical tool to build capacity and raise awareness on the links between gender, gender violence and HIV and AIDS. The manual is written with trainers in the NGO, CBO and FBO environment in mind and can be applied in diverse training settings.
The Final Report on the “the First African Regional Consultation on Violence against Women” with the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on Violence against Women and the Special Rapporteur of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights on Rights of Women which took place on 25 – 26 September 2004. The Regional Consultation was jointly organised by Geneva Institute for Human Rights (GIHR), African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET) and Babiker Badri Scientific Association for Women Studies (BBSAWS).
Enhancing Urban Safety and Security: Global Report on Human Settlements 2007 addresses three major threats to the safety and security of cities, which are: urban crime and violence; insecurity of tenure and forced evictions; and natural and human-made disasters. It analyses worldwide conditions and trends with respect to these threats and pays particular attention to their under- lying causes and impacts, as well as to the good policies and best practices that have been adopted at the city, national and international levels. The report adopts a human security perspective, the concern of which is with the safety and security of people, rather than states, and highlights concerns that can be addressed through appropriate urban policy, planning, design and governance.
This publication looks at how PLWH and other HIV network organisations have strengthened their organisational capacity, which challenges they faced, and what lessons can be learned. the key question is whether network organisations have a capacity greater than the sum of their parts.
well-functioning networks may show this to be true but there is certainly no guarantee. this publication will demonstrate that more successful networks have active members who learn from each other and display a feeling of ownership of and commitment to the network. adaptive capacity is an important feature of network organisations. the overall capacity of networks very much depends on a range of organisational capacities which will be discussed in detail.
For my research project, I set out to investigate the relationship between gender-based violence (GBV) and cripplingly low levels of police legitimacy in South Africa, a country which has been known by many as "the rape capital of the world" for over a decade. Communities suffer as a result of underreporting while the government fails to maintain accurate data on the GBV crisis at hand. This inhibits effective policymaking on provincial and national levels and negatively impacts the allocation of funding for NGOs. I hypothesized that the lack of perceived police legitimacy among a population might be a major factor in negative reporting behaviors from the community. Essentially, women are deterred from reporting cases of abuse due to negative feelings toward the police and the concern that they will be subject to ‘secondary victimization’, a term used to describe blaming or insensitive behaviors of service providers when a survivor seeks help. - Lena Shadow, The University of Notre Dame