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Call for Entries: Innovation Competition on Youth-led GBVF Prevention in Urban Spaces
Are you a young person running a project or intervention that contributes to gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) prevention and enhancing community safety? We’re looking for you!
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Municipal Case Studies
The Safety Case Studies project, a collection of 18 studies, will facilitate dissemination and discussion of recent safety practice by local government and its partners to offer an opportunity to reflect on useful learning on evidence informed interventions at local level.
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Area-Based Violence Prevention Intervention
Area-Based Violence Prevention Interventions (ABVPI) offer an integrated, evidence-based, spatially targeted approach which aims to reduce violent occurrences as well as their underlying root causes.
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Dimensions of Safety in Precinct Management and Development Guide
The Dimensions of Safety in Precinct Management and Development Guide aims to provide practical insights into how doing things a little differently can lead to urban safety at a precinct level. The guide is designed to support the integration of dimensions of safety into precinct management and development.
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The National Inclusive and Safer Schools Partnership
The Department of Basic Education has developed a strategy to guide & support multi-stakeholder partnerships, for the creation of inclusive and safer South African schools. DBE in partnership with the national & international partners, facilitates the implementation of the NISSP Strategy and its 6 intervention areas.
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Catch Up on Latest Articles

Call for Entries: Innovation Competition on Youth-led GBVF Prevention in Urban Spaces
15 Sep 2023 | by Tlholohelo Mokgere
Call for Entries: Innovation Competition on Youth-led GBVF Prevention in Urban Spaces
Gaming tool promotes co-designing safer communities
06 Sep 2023 | by Linda Dlamini | GIZ
Gaming tool promotes co-designing safer communities
On Common Ground: a Personal Perspective on Public Space
01 Sep 2023
On Common Ground: a Personal Perspective on Public Space

Discover Prevention Projects

National Youth Resilience Initiative
GIZ South Africa | National (all SA)

The National Youth Resilience Initiative (NYRI) was conceptualized in 2020 to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with the aim of…

Kind Heart Bench Project
| Western Cape

The aim of the project is to focus on the issues that our pupils deal with on a daily basis,…

SPRINT: Up-scaling Area-Based Violence Prevention Interventions
GIZ South Africa, Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU NPC), Isandla Institute | National (all SA)

The Safer Places: Resilient Institutions and Neighbourhoods Together (SPRINT) Project was conceptualised as an opportunity to grow capacity in and…


Meet the Community

Welcome to the newly registered safety practitioners and organisations. Find out how you can join.