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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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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

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Municipal Case Studies: Children & Youth
28 Sep 2023 | GIZ South Africa
Municipal Case Studies: Children & Youth
Youth in Governance Skill Share Session
27 Sep– 27 Sep 2023 | South African Cities Network
Online Meeting
The massacre that didn’t change policing
Webinar: Decriminalisation of petty offences in Africa

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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…

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Innovation Competition on Youth-led GBVF Prevention in Urban Spaces -
South African Cities Network | 01 Sep 2023
Building Vibrant and Resilient Neighbourhoods: Galeshewe Active Box -
GIZ South Africa
KwaDukuza Urban Regeneration -
GIZ South Africa
A Story of Adaptive Urban Development: Njoli Square -
GIZ South Africa

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Miss Baby Seriteng
M.B Mokoena Attorneys
Riesqah Kasper
NGO
Mr Ludwe Mageleni
Government
Mr Mbuso Zulu
Delmas Academy Of Excellence
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