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Dear VPF Friends,
Welcome to the Violence Prevention Forum newsletter. On a bi-weekly basis we will be sharing job, funding and training opportunities, details for webinars relevant to violence and its prevention, and links to new research and guidelines. We hope you find this a useful resource.
Please note that VPF coordinator, Thato Machabaphala has left her role. Please direct VPF queries to vpf@issafrica.org.
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News: Commentary on the 2025 National Budget
The 2025 National Budget marks a significant shift towards prioritising children's welfare, with R10 billion allocated to early childhood development (ECD) programmes. This could be a pivotal moment for children in South Africa.
Ilifa Labantwana provides detailed analysis and insight on this new development and offers recommendations on how to proceed. Read it here.
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Launch of new course: Participatory approaches for childhood sexual violence research
The SVRI will be launching their new online course, Power of Participation, with the webinar. The course introduces participatory approaches to childhood sexual violence research while ensuring meaningful and ethical engagement of children and youth.
Course outcomes include:
- knowledge of the foundations, ideas, and core concepts that informed the development of participatory approaches to research;
- insights on how to incorporate children and youth into the planning and designing of research;
- additional tools to perform safe and ethical participatory research with children and youth;
- an understanding of how to maintain safety of participants and researchers during the research process; and
- participatory approaches to writing up research and strategies to navigate engaging children and youth in dissemination and advocacy.
Date: 11 April 2025
Time: 15:00 GMT +2
For more information and registration, click here. |
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Resource: Gun-related femicide in SA over 25 years – A call to action
Gun Free South Africa's first briefing of 2025 shows how femicide in the country is driven by gun violence. It presents the latest research and offers evidence-based solutions to prevent violence against women and femicide.
Read more here.
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News: 40 countries make the first joint statement on corporal punishment to the Human Rights Council.
On Wednesday 12 March 2025, during the 58th session of the Human Rights Council, 40 countries made a first-ever joint statement addressing children’s fundamental right to protection from all corporal punishment.The statement made during the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence Against Children notes the wide-ranging harmful impacts of corporal punishment of children, and its ongoing high prevalence and legality around the world, despite over 20 years of international commitments and human rights recommendations calling for action to end the practice. The statement encourages all remaining states to prohibit and eliminate all corporal punishment of children in all settings. The statement was led by the Governments of Costa Rica and Kenya and supported by 38 other States. For more infomation and to access the full statement, click here.
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South Africa's pledge from the Global Ministerial Conference.
The first-ever Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence against Children was held in Columbia in November 2024. Governments were expected to pledge their commitment to ending violence against children. Read South Africa's pledge here. |
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