State, private sector launch gender-based violence fund
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a second pandemic gender-based violence (GBV) and the government has now stepped up its response to this crisis.
The Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Response Fund, which was launched on Thursday, calls on the private sector to support the implementation of the National Strategic Plan on GBV and Femicide.
The plan is to run over 10 years and involves multiple sectors including civil society, religious organisations, the private sector, academic institutions and the government.
Irene Charnley, president of the International Women’s Forum South Africa, said the fund is a vehicle for private sector contributions. The purpose of the fund is to provide finances and the financial infrastructure required to implement the GBV plan. The fund would also facilitate operational and strategic cohesion between donors and the government and provide technica
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implementation of the National Strategic Plan on GBVF.
The fund will be led by the International Women s Forum South Africa and will be chaired by Wits University Chancellor Judy Dlamini.
One of the fund s partners is
Academy Award-winning actor and philanthropist Forest Whitaker.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured the private sector that the government will continue to play its part as the sector pledged millions of rands in donations to the Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Response Fund.
The fund was virtually launched by the president and various stakeholders on Thursday and was aimed at financing and supporting the implementation of the National Strategic Plan (NSP) on GBVF, and the wider GBVF response in the country.
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Cyril Ramaphosa will on Thursday launch a private sector-led, multi-sectoral Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) Response Fund in a summit aimed at curbing gender-based violence.
The launch is expected to include civil society organisations and will support the implementation of the National Strategic Plan, and the wider GBVF response in the country.
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“The creation of the Private Sector GBVF Response Fund 1 is a fulfilment of a resolution of the Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Declaration which followed the 2018 GBVF Summit. The Summit brought together government, civil society and other role players in an effort to find lasting interventions to end GBVF,” the Presidency said.