An evidence review of violence prevention in South Africa

This policy brief identifies approaches and activities that could effectively reduce violence experienced by women and children.

26 OCT 2021  

This policy brief presents findings from an evidence review of interventions to prevent violence against women and against children, implemented in South Africa and documented between 1999 and 2021. It identifies and distils principles, approaches and activities that could effectively reduce violence experienced by women and children in South Africa.


About the authors

 

Matodzi M Amisi is a senior research consultant in the Justice and Violence Prevention Programme at the Institute for Security Studies.

 

Sara N Naicker is a research project manager at the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development at the University of the Witwatersrand.

 

Photo: Ashkan Forouzani/Unsplash

The ISS is grateful for support from the members of the ISS Partnership Forum: the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the European Union, the Open Society Foundations and the governments of Canada, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the USA.

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