The End GBVF 100-Day Challenges with a national programme that brings together all sectors in society and a multitude of stakeholders to participate in ambitious challenges to address gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) in communities. The overarching purpose of the programme is to localize the National Strategic Plan (NSP) on GBVF and to mobilise frontline teams to rapidly implement a GBV prevention or response strategy. The goal is to achieve a significant system shift in a community within 100 Days.

The End GBVF 100-Day Challenges has become one of South Africa’s largest impact-driven efforts to address GBVF.

Three years into this effort, more than two hundred End GBVF 100-Day Challenges have been completed, and more than two hundred additional 100-Day Challenges will be completed by the end of 2025. Each of these has had a remarkable impact in its local context: More domestic violence cases have been finalised faster in magistrates and regional courts. Survivors are coming forward and breaking the silence in educational institutions—more survivors are receiving care and support in schools and communities through diligent prevention efforts organised at the municipal level.

Nowhere was progress more evident in the past three years than in the Limpopo justice system. This started with a few 100-Day Challenges that mushroomed into many more, many of these organically grown and not included in the official count of 100-Day Challenges that were formally organised with Ford Foundation support. On average in 2024, in Limpopo regional and magistrate courts, the domestic violence case backlog was reduced by 86%, the sexual offence case backlog by 47%, and the maintenance case backlog by 50%.

SUSCO leads the entire communication division of the programme from PR, social media management, newsletter campaigns, website content, strategy development.

The programme has received consistent media coverage with strong relationships built with the Citizen, SABC, Cape Times and many community radio stations. In addition to this, the work has been mentioned by various government officials including the Office of the President and the Minister of the Department of Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities.