National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence & Femicide (NSP-GBVF) 2020–2030 — South Africa

Following South Africa's first Presidential Summit on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide in 2018, an Interim Steering Committee developed the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (NSP-GBVF), launched by the Presidency in 2020 to run through 2030. The plan is structured around six pillars spanning prevention, strengthening the criminal-justice response, and providing support, care and healing for survivors, coordinated across national and provincial government, civil society, and the private sector.

Implementation has been backed by significant public funding — approximately R21 billion allocated over the medium term across the plan's six pillars, including budget lines for the economic empowerment of women. In 2025, South Africa's Commission for Gender Equality, a constitutionally mandated oversight body, conducted the plan's formal mid-term review.

That review is candid about a mixed record: the NSP has galvanised collaboration across government, civil society and business, but its impact on reducing actual rates of gender-based violence and femicide 'remains limited.' Only 27% of surveyed communities reported active GBVF awareness programmes, and the review points to persistent funding shortfalls, uneven local implementation capacity, and weaker reach in rural and marginalised areas as key obstacles to translating a well-funded national framework into measurable reductions in violence.

Read the full analysis: https://cge.org.za/2025-marks-the-mid-term-review-of-the-nsp-on-gbvf/