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4 September 2025

Rethinking gender-based violence (GBV) Prevention for Sustainable Change: “It takes a village to tackle GBV”

By Janet Zhou

Ending gender-based violence (GBV) requires us to move beyond elitist tools and frameworks. It demands that we confront the very architecture of violence at its roots in families, communities, and societal structures. The Midrand Forum on GBV Prevention held between 19-21 August 2025, provided a critical moment for reimagining strategies in Southern Africa, challenging us to build bridges from the ground up rather than relying solely on policy blueprints. The theme, “Building Bridges: Strengthening Collaborative Efforts for GBV Prevention and Response in Southern Africa” resonated. This reflection goes beyond summarising the Forum. It distils insights into guiding principles and next steps for governments, civil society, and communities seeking to prevent GBV in sustainable and people-centred ways.

Understanding the Architecture of Violence

GBV does not emerge in a vacuum. It is deeply rooted in cultural, social, and economic systems, reinforced through family dynamics, community norms, and systemic inequalities.

  • Family can be the first site where harmful gender norms are instilled, reproduced or disrupted.
  • Communities often reinforce silence and stigma, making survivors carry the weight of violence without support.
  • Institutions from schools to justice systems can perpetuate inequality when they fail to address gender discrimination.

One key insight from the Midrand Forum was the need to engage men and boys as partners in prevention efforts, and to transform education systems into sites of resilience and change.

Care Economy and Structural Inequalities

Another theme brought within the Forum by the Trust was the care economy, which sustains households but leaves women disproportionately carrying unpaid and underpaid care responsibilities.

This burden leaves women economically dependent, undermines their autonomy, and heightens vulnerability to exploitation and violence. At the Forum, the presentation of The Trust’s scoping study on the Care Economy showed how valuing and redistributing care work is essential to addressing the structural roots of GBV.

Integrating care justice into GBV prevention requires:

  • Recognising unpaid care in economic and social policy.
  • Supporting redistribution of caregiving responsibilities across genders.
  • Building public investment into care systems as a prevention strategy.

 Why Elitist Tools Fall Short

Too often, GBV strategies rely on top-down and elitist frameworks that fail to resonate with survivors’ lived experiences. Policies can be disconnected, technocratic, or overly reliant on donor logic and state-led interventions.

The Forum exposed the gap between policy and practice, reminding us that prevention cannot be reduced to only blueprints, toolkits, or one-size-fits-all frameworks. True transformation happens when solutions emerge from the ground up.

 Going Back to Basics: Building Bridges from the Foundation Up

  1. Families as the First Line of Defense
    Healthy relationships, positive parenting, and open conversations in families create early resistance against harmful gender norms. Prevention must begin here.
  2. Community-Led Solutions
    The Forum showcased examples such as dialogue circles and community initiatives where communities themselves took ownership of prevention. These solutions are sustainable because they are embedded in context.
  3. Education as a Foundation for Change
    Schools and universities are critical sites for reshaping social norms. Integrating GBV awareness into curricula and establishing safe, inclusive spaces for young people emerged as a strong call from the Forum.

Bridging the Gap Between Policy and Practice
Policies must reflect lived realities. Translating them into action requires local leaders, educators, and activists to be central actors not passive implementers.

Technology as a Tool
As discussed on Day 3 of the Forum, technology has potential, but it cannot replace community-led prevention. Digital reporting tools or awareness apps must complement, not substitute, community action.

 Building Sustainable Bridges

  1. Collaborative Efforts
    GBV prevention requires coalitions of collaboration across governments, civil society, traditional leaders, and communities. The Forum’s theme of “Building Bridges” highlights the importance of connecting diverse stakeholders for collective power.
  2. Shifting Focus to Community-Centred Approaches
    Resources and accountability must be redirected to community actors who know the realities of their contexts. This is more so, important in the context where gender justice has generally been deprioritised as funding keeps shrinking.
  3. Next Steps for All of Us
  • It takes a village to end gender-based violence (GBV). Every member of our community, from individuals to institutions, has a crucial role in creating lasting change. As duty bearers at various levels, we all share responsibility for collective, sustainable action toward ending GBV. Here are the next steps we can all take as part of this village: Policymakers: Embed community voices into decision-making.
  • Civil society: Support community led and centred initiatives and create platforms for survivor leadership.
  • Communities: Confront harmful norms and nurture collective responsibility for prevention.

 To end GBV, we must dismantle the architecture of violence at its foundation families and communities while building bridges that connect every level of society. The challenge is urgent, but the pathway is clear: start at the roots, build from the ground up, and connect across the system.

The final question remains: What role will you play in building these bridges?

 

By info@southernafricatrust.org
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11 August 2025

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By info@southernafricatrust.org
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1 July 2025

Financing Care is Financing the Future

A Feminist Call from Southern Africa to Fourth Financing for Development Conference (FFD4) in Seville, Spain.

From the Economic Justice Desk of The Southern Africa Trust (The Trust)

As the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) convenes in Seville, Spain,  from June 30-July 3 2025, The Southern Africa Trust (The Trust) calls on governments, international financial institutions, donors, and private sector actors to take five bold actions:

  1. Re-centre care work in development planning and public financing frameworks.
  2. Raise and spend domestic resources in gender-just, care-oriented ways.
  3. Link debt relief to binding commitments for social spending, especially care.
  4. Embed care in climate and crisis financing instruments.
  5. Fund and scale feminist, community-led models of care.

These actions are not optional. They are preconditions for inclusive development, economic justice, and gender equality. The time for rhetoric is over. FFD4 must deliver concrete resources to the care economy which is the backbone of society.

The Political Economy of Care

As global leaders gather for FFD4, one truth is glaring: the chronic underinvestment in care work is undermining Africa’s development. Care is not a side issue it’s a political, economic, and moral crisis. Across the world, women perform three times more unpaid care and domestic work than men, yet this immense labour remains mostly invisible and undervalued in traditional measures like GDP. Because care work is overwhelmingly feminised and often racialised falling to low-income women in marginalised communities it is consistently devalued and deprioritized by policymakers. According to APEC (2022), if monetised, unpaid care could equal 9% of global GDP about $11 trillion. And yet, it remains a blind spot in fiscal frameworks, national budgets, debt negotiations, and stimulus plans.

Ignoring the care economy is a profound structural failure. Care is the social infrastructure that makes all other work possible. It sustains families, health systems, and human capital formation. When this foundation is neglected, development rests on shaky ground. The impacts are evident in Africa today: women’s labour force participation and productivity are constrained by unpaid care burdens, and gender inequalities are reinforced as girls and women sacrifice education and formal employment to fill care gaps. If FFD4 is to be remembered as a turning point, financing care must move from the footnotes to the frontlines of the development agenda.

What the Evidence Tells Us: Lived Realities of Care in Southern Africa

In 2025, the Southern Africa Trust conducted a Feminist Analysis of the Care Economy across five SADC countries (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa) combining feminist political economy research with community consultations, public finance reviews, and interviews with frontline care workers. The findings paint a visceral picture of how under-financing of care is letting down women and girls:

  • Colossal Unpaid Work Burdens: Rural women commonly spend 60% of their working hours on unpaid care tasks, with daily totals reaching 14–16 hours. This leaves them exhausted, time-poor, and unable to engage in paid work or civic life.
  • Girls Sacrificing Education for Care: Girls as young as 10 are dropping out of school to care for relatives, manage households, and plug the gaps in public support systems. Their right to education and childhood is compromised by assumptions that families meaning women and girls will simply “cope.”
  • Negligible Public Investment in Care: Most governments offer almost no public childcare, eldercare, or community-based care. National budgets treat care as a private matter, not a public good, leaving women to shoulder it alone.
  • Underpaid, Informal Care Workforce: Paid care roles like domestic work and community health are typically informal, low-wage, and lack protections. Over 90% of African women in low-income countries work in informal care roles without rights or security.
  • Crisis Intensifies Care Responsibilities: Droughts, pandemics, and austerity cutbacks worsen the burden. Women absorb the fallout walking further for water, nursing the ill, and managing food insecurity all without compensation or support.

These realities reveal one truth: care is the invisible engine of development. And it is sputtering under unsustainable strain.

Why Financing Care Is a Development Imperative

It is time to move beyond seeing care as a private issue. Care is core economic infrastructure. Investing in robust care systems has wide development benefits:

  • Job Creation & Economic Growth: Care investments generate 2–3 times more jobs per dollar than infrastructure sectors and are greener. Globally, nearly 300 million jobs could be created by 2035 through care investments 78% of which would go to women.
  • Boosting Women’s Participation & Productivity: Lack of care services limits women’s ability to work. Universal childcare can raise women’s workforce participation by 10–15%. Pilot programs in Africa show higher retention and income for mothers when care services are available.
  • Combating Time Poverty & Improving Human Development: Reducing drudgery (like fetching water or cooking over wood fires) through clean energy, healthcare, and childcare investments gives women back critical time. This improves mental health, increases participation, and benefits whole communities.

Across crises, African women’s unpaid labour has propped up broken systems at incalculable personal and societal cost. The return on investing in care is massive. Financing care is smart economics it expands the labour force, grows GDP, and improves human well-being.

The Structural Roots of the Financing Failure

If care investment brings such gains, why is it neglected? The problem is structural, rooted in four interlocking financing failures:

  1. National Budgets Treat Care as Private: Public budgets overlook care as a societal responsibility. Even where constitutions commit to gender equality, care is underfunded while militaries and debt service get priority.
  2. Debt Burdens Crowd Out Social Spending: Countries like Zambia and Mozambique pay more on debt than healthcare or education. Austerity forces women to absorb the shortfall by providing unpaid care.
  3. Regressive Tax Systems Undermine Equity: Heavy Value Added Tax burdens fall on poor women, while corporate wealth is under-taxed. Budgets remain gender-blind, ignoring the care burden and widening inequality.
  4. Global Aid and Climate Finance Ignore Care: International aid focuses on hard infrastructure. Climate finance often overlooks women’s unpaid work, missing opportunities to fund water, cooking, and care infrastructure that directly reduce women’s workloads.

The result? Governments and donors systematically fail African women and girls by rendering their care work invisible.

Care is Political, Not Just Personal

The hours women spend daily caring for others are an unacknowledged economic subsidy. These hours make economies function and societies thrive. Yet for too long, this labour has been treated as elastic, infinite, and free. Every macroeconomic policy has a microeconomic face often that of a tired woman in a rural village or an overburdened girl in an informal settlement. If Africa is to prosper, it cannot do so on the backs of exhausted women and denied girls. We must invert the narrative: women should not be made more “resilient” our systems must be. As we reach the midpoint to 2030 and reflect on 30 years since the Beijing Women’s Conference, Southern Africa has a clear message: Financing care is financing the future. The unpaid labour of women has held up broken systems long enough. Now the systems must hold up women.

FFD4 can be the turning point. It’s time to act: to finance care, and in doing so, to finance a more just, equal, and thriving Africa.

By Janet Zhou
Climate Justice & Natural Resource ManagementNews
14 February 2025

“Who’s Earth Is It Anyway?”

Southern Africa Trust Sparks Dialogue on Afro-Ecofeminist Resource Governance at AMI2025

During the recently concluded Southern Africa Trust (SAT) idea lab at the Alternative Mining Indaba (AMI2025), panellists and participants debated Afro-ecofeminist approaches to environmental and natural resource governance. The AMI2025, which took place from 3-6 February 2025, brought together hundreds of economic justice, environmental and natural resource experts, activists and organisations, to deliberate on the critical question of energy transition in Africa. The AMI2025 explored the linkages between energy transition, democratic governance and intrinsic vulnerabilities, like poverty and marginalisation.

The idea lab organised by The Trust, was titled “Reclaiming Earth, Restoring Balance and Care in the Extractives Sector: Afro-ecofeminist Approaches to Mining Sector Transformation”, and sought to highlight intersectional approaches to advancing a just and sustainable extractives sector in Southern Africa. The idea lab bridged grassroots experiences with policy and legislative processes, while centering Afro-ecofeminist approaches that demonstrated the interconnectedness of struggles rooted in colonial histories, including environmental degradation, gender inequality and systemic exploitation.

The participants analysed the current context in which mining takes place, and agreed that balance, care and humanity are sorely lacking in the industry, and that the pursuit of profit often trumps the needs of people, leaving them negatively impacted and increasingly vulnerable.

As put by Tsitsi Mashandudze, an Afro-ecofeminist from the Shine Campaign, “communities in extractive mining are trapped in a cycle of depravation and environmental harm”.

Justice and equality are in short supply and natural resource governance processes fail to centre the communities most affected by extractive activities, leaving legacies of poor social lives, injuries and debilitating disease. Vama Jele of the Southern African Miners Association explained that parliamentary processes for legislative change are very slow, and even where there are statutory obligations, mines  are not adhering to them. Isheanesu Chirisa of Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA), referring to their documentary that was shown during the Idea Lab, c illustrated how women are disproportionately impacted by mining activities, leading to increased vulnerability, poverty and sexual violence. In proffering solutions, Jaqueline Rukanda of Natural Justice underscored the need for litigation, legal empowerment and simplification of existing legislation. Farai Maguwu of Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) called for the need to connect historical conversations of land ownership, and establish a collective voice through community protocols, informed by participatory research. Anushka Bogdanov of Risk Insights demonstrated how to utilise existing data to push for accountability.

In answering the old age question of who’s earth it is, Uzna Malunga from ALTERNACTIVA reminded participants that it is us who actually belong to the earth, and that it is those who try to own mother earth and exploit her for profit, that caused harm and damage, not just to her, but also to her people. She stated that there are indigenous practices that enabled people to live in harmony with nature and with the land. However, many of these have been disrupted by mining activities which often leave communities separated from indigenous food and medicines, and the land damaged. Nsama Musonda of Care for Nature Zambia, illustrated how indigenous knowledge buttressed by symbiotic relationships with the earth demonstrate care and sustainability, and how that has been overrun by modern practices premised on profit. The discussions concluded that community stewardship is essential to sustainable environmental and natural resource governance.

Beyond the AMI, The Trust intends to contribute to broader movement-building efforts around climate justice and natural resource governance in Southern Africa.

“When it comes down to it, it is women, youth, and marginalised people who bear the brunt of the intensifying climate crisis and weak natural resource governance,” says Janet Mudzviti-Zhou, the Economic Justice lead at The Trust.

With increasing demand for strategic minerals and other extractible resources, there are heightened risks of excessive and unmanaged natural resource extraction in a context of weak regulatory institutions and systems. This reality necessitates urgent attention to transformative approaches that centre community voices and experiences.

The Southern Africa Trust has been at the forefront of natural resource governance initiatives in the region. Through various programmes and partnerships, The Trust has successfully implemented community-centred approaches to resource governance, supported policy advocacy initiatives, and facilitated multi-stakeholder dialogues on extractive sector reforms.

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 Spokespeople are available for interview. Please contact the Advocacy and Communications Officer to arrange.

 About Southern Africa Trust

 At the Southern Africa Trust, we work to strengthen the voice and agency of impoverished and marginalised people in policy processes to reduce poverty and inequality in southern Africa. Established in 2005, the Trust engages extensively with civil society at both national and regional levels to ensure the voices of the poor are heard and influence policies aimed at ending poverty. Through strategic advocacy, partnerships, and policy dialogues, the Trust is dedicated to fostering inclusive and equitable development across the region, where all people live empowered and fulfilled lives

As the Trust celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2025, we continue on our mission to amplify the voice and influence of impoverished and excluded people in Southern Africa by supporting them to access their full rights.

 

By info@southernafricatrust.org
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31 January 2025

Southern Africa Trust Brings Critical Perspective on Mining Transformation to AMI 2025

By Alice D. Kanengoni and Janet Zhou

As global demands for strategic minerals continue to rise, Southern Africa faces unprecedented pressure on its natural resources. The impacts of intensifying extraction, coupled with weak governance systems, fall disproportionately on women, youth, and marginalized communities across the region. It is against this backdrop that Southern Africa Trust (The Trust) announces her participation in the Alternative Mining Indaba (AMI) 2025, where she will host a vital side event that challenges traditional approaches to resource governance. This year’s AMI is being held under the theme “Energy transition for who? The critical question of our times! And is being convened in Cape Town, South Africa from 3- 6 February 2025 parallel to the Mining Indaba.

The urgency of this conversation cannot be overstated. Across Southern Africa, communities grapple with the consequences of extractive practices that prioritize profit over people and ecosystems. The securitization of mining operations often masks corruption and environmental harm while excluding affected communities from decision-making processes. This reality demands a transformative approach that centres community voices and experiences in the governance of natural resources.

The Trust’s side event at AMI, “Reclaiming Earth, Restoring Balance and Care in the Extractives Sector: Afro-ecofeminist Approaches to Mining Sector Transformation,” brings a critical perspective to the 2025 AMI. We view the Alternative Mining Indaba as an ideal platform for this dialogue, historically functioning as a crucial gathering point for communities, civil society, and stakeholders seeking to rewrite the narratives around natural resource governance.

The timing of this intervention is particularly significant. As 2025 marks the African Union’s Year on Reparations, the mining sector faces increasing pressure to address historical injustices and their ongoing impacts. The Trust’s event strategically connects these broader conversations about justice and reparations to practical questions of mining sector transformation, creating a unique opportunity for meaningful dialogue and action.

Central to the event is the introduction of Afro-ecofeminist approaches as a framework for reimagining mining sector governance. This perspective uniquely addresses the interconnected challenges of environmental degradation, gender inequality, and systemic exploitation rooted in colonial histories. By bringing together voices from grassroots movements, policy spheres, and industry experts, the event creates space for dialogue that moves beyond traditional corporate social responsibility to envision truly transformative approaches to resource governance.

Distinguished speakers at the event will explore how balance, care, and humanity can be integrated into natural resource extraction, examining ways to challenge exploitative practices and advance justice in the sector. The discussions will delve into the crucial role of community stewardship in sustainable resource management, while demonstrating practical applications of Afro-ecofeminist approaches to mining governance.

The event’s structure has been carefully designed to facilitate not just discussion, but action. Through interactive sessions and working groups, participants will contribute to developing concrete strategies for sector transformation. This approach reflects the Trust’s commitment to moving beyond dialogue to practical solutions that can be implemented at community, national, and regional levels.

For over a decade, The Trust has worked at the intersection of community rights and natural resource governance. This side event at AMI 2025 represents a crucial step in advancing a more just and sustainable approach to mining in Southern Africa. By bringing together diverse stakeholders and centring marginalized voices, The Trust aims to contribute to a broader movement for mining sector transformation that benefits all stakeholders while protecting environmental and community interests.

Those interested in participating in this transformative dialogue are encouraged to follow our hashtags #AMI2025, #OurEarth, #ReclaimEarth and #Afroecofeminism throughout the AMI period and beyond. Our website, www.southernafricatrust.org, will also be continuously updated with related information awareness resources.

About Southern Africa Trust (The Trust)

Established in 2005, the Southern Africa Trust (The Trust) is a regional non-profit organization dedicated to eradicating poverty and inequality across sixteen Southern African countries. Serving as both a regranting and implementing entity, we collaborate closely with civil society organizations to foster partnerships that promote pro-poor policies and practices. Our mission is to amplify the voices and agency of marginalized populations, with a specific focus on women, LGBTQIA+ communities, and youth. We address key areas such as economic justice, climate justice, and gender equality. Central to our work are feminist and intersectional approaches, ensuring that gender considerations are embedded in all our initiatives.

The Trust has established herself as a leading voice in natural resource governance, implementing community-centred approaches and facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogues that drive positive change in the extractive sector. Through her sustained engagement with communities and policymakers, The Trust continues to advance inclusive and sustainable approaches to resource governance across the region.

By info@southernafricatrust.org
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Gender JusticeNews
19 December 2024

Highlights: Addressing Gender-based Violence at Tertiary Institutions in Southern Africa

The Southern Africa Trust (The Trust), in partnership with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in South Africa and the Ford Foundation, recently hosted a multi-country dialogue on addressing Gender-Based Violence (GBV) at tertiary institutions across Southern Africa. The event, held on International Human Rights Day, brought together 21 student activists from Botswana, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The day opened with a moving performance by Abafazi be Ngoma, a powerful all-women marimba band who tell stories of their lives through drums, song and dance. The showpiece set the tone for meaningful discussions that followed. Those discussions included the unpacking of the Trust’s commissioned literature review of GBV in tertiary institutions across Southern Africa, a panel discussion and interactive thematic discussions focusing on prevention-centred approaches and decolonized methods, institutional accountability mechanisms and cross-border collaboration strategies for students in tertiary institutions. In her welcoming remarks, H.E. Joanne Doornewaard, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Netherlands to South Africa emphasized the magnitude and complexity of especially SGBV in tertiary institutions and called for responses that centre financial empowerment of all young women: leaving no one behind. The Ambassador encouraged women to speak out and make their voices count in bringing about change.  The Trust CEO, Alice D Kanengoni reminded the gathering that tertiary institutions are strategic sites that shape and influence norms, ways of thinking, ways of doing and ways of being in the society. She opined that tertiary education for women and girls often translates into career pathways, economic opportunities, self-actualization among other critical transformations – and decried how GBV hinders all these.

Key outcomes included:

  • Launch of a southern Africa tertiary institutions network against GBV, marking a significant step towards building solidarity and regional collaboration among student activists from the countries represented.
  • Clear motivation for a standardised monitoring and evaluation system to track the impact of cross-border GBV prevention efforts.
  • The potential partnerships with tertiary students across their diversities to address GBV in tertiary institutions.

The event engaged students in a photo exhibition, titled “Break Even”, by visual artist Nelisiwe Nkosi, which explores experiences of recovering from rape and sexual trauma. This was a triumphant story about overcoming GBV and healing for those who have struggled with the traumas of GBV.

This dialogue wasn’t just a discussion – it was the beginning of a coordinated regional movement to create safer tertiary institutions across Southern Africa.

Together, we’re stronger in the fight against GBV.

#Orangetheworld

By info@southernafricatrust.org
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Call for nominationsNews
25 November 2024

30 years after Beijing, it’s time to end violence against women and girls

For the next sixteen (16) days from today, activists and organisations around the world draw attention to an injustice  holding societies back — violence against women. Together with our partners, the Southern Africa Trust is taking part in this campaign by making the call to end all forms of violence and abuse against women.

In particular, we are turning the spotlight on the world of care work, exposing the vulnerabilities and dangers faced by workers in the care economy, majority of whom are women. Our partner in South Africa, Izwi Domestic Workers Alliance (IDWA), will spotlight  the unique challenges of domestic workers to harassment, bullying and violence at work.

In Malawi, the Malawi Human Rights Resource Centre (MHRRC), will raise awareness on labour relations within the care work industry by highlighting how workplace injustices disproportionately affect women within “informal” and “semi-formal” business sectors.

The Zambia Alliance of Women (ZAW) will draw attention to and encourage action against gender-based violence (GBV) by promoting a culture of zero tolerance towards violence against women in Zambia.

In Zimbabwe, a consortium of four organisations led by the Economic Justice for Women Project (EJWP) will spotlight GBV in the education sector, particularly within rural education institutions. In addition, the consortium will also advocate for the safety and empowerment of female students in tertiary institutions across Zimbabwe. The other organisations part of this consortium are the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), the Female Students Network Trust (FSNT) and the Southern Africa Parliamentary Trust (SAPST).

Speaking ahead of the launch of the campaign, Southern Africa Trust CEO, Alice D. Kanengoni said: “Gender inequality and gender-based violence remain prevalent across southern Africa. As a result of gender discrimination and lower socio-economic status, women have fewer options and resources at their disposal to avoid or escape abusive situations and to seek justice. There is a need for action by all stakeholders in this region to effectively develop and implement clear actions to prevent, combat, and end its occurrence.”

The campaign will run until 10 December and will culminate in a regional dialogue in Johannesburg, South Africa. The campaign is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in South Africa and the Ford Foundation.

About the Southern Africa Trust

Established in 2005, the Southern Africa Trust (The Trust) is a non-profit regional organization dedicated to eradicating poverty and inequality across sixteen countries in Southern Africa. Acting as both a regranting and implementing entity, we collaborate closely with civil society organizations to forge partnerships that shift power towards pro-poor policies and practices.

By info@southernafricatrust.org
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Gender JusticeNews
25 November 2023

Press Release – Launch of report on Gender-Based Violence

Today marks the start of the annual 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence (GBV). The theme for this year is “UNITE to End Violence against Women.” To join the global campaign, the Southern Africa Trust has launched the “Status of Gender Based Violence in Selected Southern Africa Countries” Report. Read in detail…

By Moyna Mwenye
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Climate Justice & Natural Resource ManagementNews
26 October 2023

Dialogue – Empowering African Youth for the fight against impacts of Climate Change

The Southern Africa Trust in partnership with the Climate Justice Just Transition Donor Collaborative (CJ-JT) and Southern Africa Youth Forum (SAYOF) is hosting a webinar to explore how we can support a unified Africa youth voice at COP28.

Please click here to read profiles of the speakers.

Register here!

By info@southernafricatrust.org
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5 September 2022

Announcing the new Chief Executive Officer

The Southern Africa Trust’s Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that it has appointed Ms Alice D. Kwaramba – Kanengoni as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective 2nd September 2022. The appointment follows an extensive search and selection process with candidates from across the Africa region. Ms Kwaramba- Kanengoni is an enterprising, self-driven and highly motivated Senior Executive, a SADC citizen who is driven to contribute meaningfully towards social justice on the African continent, and globally with solid years of work experience.

She joins the Trust following 18 years with the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), where she held a variety of executive management, programme and project leadership roles with most recent, Senior Manager: Strategy, Accountability and Learning. Lauded across organizations for her impeccable leadership on gender equality strategy and programme design, programme management, grant-making and impact assessment. She holds the distinction of successfully leading the design and implementation of strategic programs for betterment of marginalized groups, especially women in Africa. Designed and successfully delivered short, medium & long-term strategies, programs and projects on gender equality, social justice and human rights in the global South.

“The Board of Trustees are delighted to introduce Ms Kwaramba – Kanengoni to our key stakeholders and partners, we believe she is a great fit for the Trust with the combination of education qualifications, skills and experience to grow the Trust into an even greater, more successful and impactful organisation”, said the Board Chairperson.  

Please join the Board of Trustees in welcoming Ms Alice D. Kwaramba – Kanengoni to the Trust.

Sincerely

Sazini Mojapelo
Chairperson 

By info@southernafricatrust.org