Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy
Reform at a glance
- What changes
- Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy
- Responsible actor (recorded)
- Department of Police
- Recorded status
- Under review — editorial assessment.
- Milestone described by this status
- Status scope has not yet been independently documented; it may cover only part of this reform.
- Next documented milestone
- Next milestone not yet documented
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Description
South Africa has one of the highest rates of gender-based violence globally, with femicide rates five times the global average. The National Strategic Plan on GBVF (2020-2030) established targets including expanded Thuthuzela Care Centres, dedicated FCS units, and the National Register for Sex Offenders. The committee has examined implementation progress, noting police station-level compliance gaps with the Domestic Violence Act. The June 2025 hearings focused on systemic failures in victim support and the low conviction rates for sexual offences.
Assessment
Responsible: Department of Police
Stakeholder Landscape
Who backs this reform, who needs convincing, and which interests or red lines shape political feasibility.
Backers
25
3 stakeholders
Negotiation weight
9
1 conditional actor
Opposition weight
0
0 opposing actors
Coalition Read
AI-drafted stances · 0 reviewed
Anchor: Presidency / Operation Vulindlela. Highest-leverage swing actor: National Treasury.
Political Tractability
No reviewed signals · 0% of mapped influence has been reviewed.
Anti-crime and anti-extortion measures are central to the investment climate agenda — re: Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy
Interest: Cross-cutting structural reform coordination across energy, logistics, water, digital infrastructure, and visa reform. Operation Vulindlela, establish…
Concern: Implementation bottlenecks within line departments; regulatory capture of NERSA and ICASA; SOE institutional inertia; ensuring quick wins translate in…
Engagement path: Already fully engaged. Seeks line department buy-in, NEDLAC social compact legitimacy, and international DFI financing alignment on key reform milesto…
Business crime, extortion, and logistics theft are top concerns for private sector investment — re: Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy
Interest: Cross-sector structural reform across energy security, logistics efficiency, regulatory certainty, labour market flexibility, and digital infrastructu…
Concern: Slow implementation pace relative to policy announcements; inconsistency between reform rhetoric and regulatory decisions (e.g. NERSA tariff approvals…
Engagement path: Already actively engaged. Seeks implementation accountability mechanisms with published milestones, predictable regulatory timelines, and NEDLAC outco…
Organised crime and extortion directly threaten business operations and infrastructure projects — re: Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy
Interest: CEO-level advocacy for structural reform across energy, logistics, digital infrastructure, and investment climate. Runs the CEO Initiative on Inclusiv…
Concern: Reform announcements without implementation accountability; regulatory decisions that contradict stated reform intentions (NERSA tariff rulings incons…
Engagement path: Already fully engaged. Needs credible implementation accountability from government, reform consistency across regulatory bodies, and NEDLAC outcomes…
Supports in principle but concerned about fiscal cost of SAPS expansion — re: Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy
Interest: Fiscal consolidation with public debt stabilising below 75% of GDP; structural reforms that improve revenue without expanding contingent liabilities;…
Concern: Unfunded mandates in energy transition (JETP co-financing); Eskom's R400bn+ debt and how restructuring socialises costs; reform proposals that create…
Engagement path: Reforms must be fiscally neutral or revenue-positive over the MTEF window; SOE restructuring must demonstrably reduce contingent liabilities; credible…
Evidence & Research
Research corpus →- Advisory on the Implementation of the Integrated Crime and Violence Prevention Strategy_November 2024
NPC · Jan 2024
The paper discusses implementation of the Integrated Crime and Violence Prevention Strategy with specific focus on crime prevention and safety for women and children, directly addressing the systemic governance and accountability frameworks relevant to the policy idea's focus on GBVF prevention and…
- How to prevent violence in South Africa
ISS · Jul 2025
The paper directly addresses violence prevention in South Africa, analysing evidence-based interventions and returns on investment in violence prevention—the core mechanism and justification for the gender-based violence prevention strategy.
- Report on Defining and costing a comprehensive package of services for gender based violence
DPME
The paper's title directly addresses defining and costing a comprehensive package of services for gender-based violence, which bears on the policy idea's core subject of GBVF prevention and response strategy implementation, including the expansion and resourcing of support services like Thuthuzela…
- Debate about SA’s falling murder levels masks a deeper crisis
ISS
The paper directly addresses family violence prevention as a mechanism for reducing murders in South Africa, which is substantively relevant to the policy idea's focus on gender-based violence prevention and response strategy.
Links proposed by lexical matching and screened by a calibrated research judge. Follow the paper for the full argument and its caveats.
Policy documents
No linked official-document evidence yet. Coverage is incomplete.
Parliamentary record
No linked parliamentary evidence yet. Coverage is incomplete.
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Wilse-Samson, L. (n.d.). Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy. SA Policy Space. https://sa-policy-space.vercel.app/ideas/gender-based-violence-prevention-and-response-strategy Live page. Data version: 2026-10-12.957700a9; data as of: 2026-10-12.
Status History
tracked since Mar 2026- Recorded as Under review when status tracking began — held since at least Mar 2026.Mar 2026
Data as of 2026-10-12 · latest PMG meeting 2026-10-09