Briefing Paper 573 – The Six Pillars of the National Strategic Plan on Gender Based Violence and Femicide by Lois Law

The National Strategic Plan (NSP) on Gender Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) provides a strategic roadmap that sets out specific plans for a multi-sectoral approach to end GBVF and highlights key accountability issues. The first Presidential Summit on GBVF was held in 2018, in response to the 24 demands submitted by the #TheTotalShutdown Intersectional Womxn’s Movement to President Cyril Ramaphosa, following 27 nationwide marches comprising the largest co-ordinated protest by women to ever happen in South Africa.3

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