Problem statement:

As South Africans, we recognise that Gender based violence is the manifestation of a profound failure to recognise the inherent equality and dignity of women and children. The End Gender-Based Violence Project is committed to fighting for the equality and respect of all women and is committed to finding positive and sustainable ways to end gender-based violence in Cape Town.

Proposed solution:

As the Cape Town hub, we aim to tackle the issues of Gender based violence in Cape Town through focusing the activities of this project in the following ways:

·       Pledge: creating an online petition signed by men and women that pledge to end GBV

·       Protect: Take responsibility for the safety of women in Cape Town

·       Promote: creating awareness around how GBV victims in Cape Town can access help.

·       Protest: actively participate in protesting change in Cape Town

Target group:

The target group for this project are victims and survivors of Gender based violence as well as Cape Town citizens.

Hub activities involved in this project:

·       Creating an online petition for end GBV

·       Creating social media awareness around where GBV victims can access help

·       Partnering with local NGOs to provide dignity care packs for GBV victims

Short- and long-term goals for this project:

Our short-term goal is to connect and engage with the Cape Town community. To ensure that we are engaging and including men, women, the youth and the elderly in the conversation. To encourage all citizens of this city to be active advocates in the fight to end GBV. 

 

Our long-term goal is twofold: 

1. To protect survivors of gender-based violence, to ensure that they feel safe, heard and worthy. 

2. It is also to decrease the incidents and rate of domestic 

How we will measure impact for this project:

·       Number of engagements and participations with online petition

·       Number of dignity packs distributed to women through the project

·       Reach and online engagement with the social media campaign created to provide information about where GBV victims can access help

·       GBV statics in the Cape Town post and pre the project

·       Feedback from GBV victims who accessed help through our project

Collaborations:

·       The Social Make over

·       Cora Project

Impact achieved through the project so far:

·       255 people signed the petition

•       Social media campaign had estimated reach of 2 000 people

•       Partnered with local NGOs to ensure that women in need get access to dignity packs. 300 dignity packs distributed to women in need.