Tackling Toxic Masculinity
The NSP GBVF Implementation Collaborative is piloting the application of “100-Day Challenge projects” as a way to fast-track the implementation of the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (NSP GBVF) at the local level.
100-Day Challenges are carefully designed projects that inspire frontline teams and leaders to collaborate, innovate and execute in more intense and accelerated ways.
On 7 March 2022 starting from 9:00 am at City of Tshwane Temba Urban Chambers, a team of NSP Collaborative Ambassadors will be facilitating a workshop to kick off this process. The workshop will aim to help District Leaders from various sectors including government and civil society decide on a specific focus area for the initial 100-Day Challenge in the District. The general focus will be on tackling toxic masculinity. This is a big and nebulous topic, so the leaders will need to decide on ways to sharpen the focus and on general guidance to the team that will work on these issues for 100 days.
Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) was officially declared a national crisis in 2019 following the first-ever GBVF Summit on the African continent in 2018. The National Strategic Plan on GBVF was developed in consultation with all stakeholders and published at the beginning of 2020. Ever since, the largest single volunteer network in South Africa, the NSP GBVF Multi-sectoral Implementation Collaborative, has been working tirelessly to build the necessary capacity to bring this plan to action.
Over the past two years, there have been great strides from an overarching legislative perspective and decision-makers are beginning to gain a deeper understanding of the structural drivers that allow this problem to continue. Nonetheless, we still have a long way to go.
Seven teams will be working in seven districts to localise the implementation of the NSP GBVF over the next seven months. The work currently in progress will set the stage for 100-Day Challenges to kick off at the beginning of April 2022. Follow us on social media to stay updated about our progress.
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