An Amplifier is any organisation, business, institution, individual or network inspired to connect, share and learn from others to strengthen their knowledge and capacity to effectively respond to GBVF in their communities. Simply put, an Amplifier could be a school, community-based organisation, government department, municipality, court, university, church, forum, an individual, a private company, etc, with a desire to address GBVF in a practical and impactful way.

What are the Objectives of the Amplifier Circle?

The Amplifier Circle aims to effectively respond to GBVF by:

Catalysing purposeful local partnerships and collaboration for effective implementation of the NSP on GBVF
Creating opportunities to scale 100-Day Challenges throughout South Africa
Enable knowledge sharing for internal growth and ability to effectively respond to GBVF
Promoting the whole-of-society approach to responding to GBVF

Do I need to qualify to be an Amplifier?

Any organisation, business, institution, individual or network that wants to be an amplifier, needs to commit to doing some extra work to support the movement to end GBVF in South Africa, these include:

Joining End GBVF Collective as a collaborator. This is South Africa’s biggest voluntary multi-sectoral structure coordinating the implementation of the National Strategic Plan on Gender-based Violence and Femicide (NSP on GBVF).
Completing an organisational health check survey on a quarterly basis. This tool helps you and your organisation to monitor your GBVF maturity journey by identifying gaps and areas needing attention to be able to effectively respond to GBVF and prioritise these for improvement.
Taking the Safeguarding GBVF 101 online learning module to ensure that you have a heightened awareness and sensitivity about the complexity of GBVF. In this way, you do no harm as you contribute towards ending GBVF in your space.
Using the “GBVF good practices” to inform your contributions to ending GBVF

We are currently building a dashboard to monitor key GBVF indicators in all 257 municipalities in South Africa. In future, amplifiers will be required to contribute data to this dashboard.

How do I become an Amplifier?

To be part of the Amplifier circle, simply click on this LINK, which will redirect you to our Amplifier Online Platform. On this platform, you (or the designated person in your organisation) will register the organisation and complete the End GBVF Health Check survey. Once the survey is filled out, you will receive a link to the Health Check, which you can then share with your employees and/or organisation members to complete. We encourage you to aim for at least 50% staff/member participation in the Health Check for more accurate results. You can use your login details to track progress on the health check uptake and view the report

What are some of the benefits of being an Amplifier?

Amplifier benefits include:

Access to Amplifier Online Platform with a variety of useful resources, including access to a database of practices emerging from the 100-Day Challenges.
Access to the GBVF 101 online training module whose aspiration is to “do no harm” as we engage and work within the GBVF space
Invitation to peer-learning webinars
Eligibility to become a 100-Day Challenge Convening organisation in 2026 and beyond

As we journey together, we will continue to identify more opportunities and benefits for Amplifiers.

Can anyone in an organisation register the organisation on the Amplifier Platform?

Ideally, an organisation should be registered by someone who is responsible for gender-ralated work. In a municipality, for instance, this could be a Gender Focal Person, HR Manager, etc). The GBVF Health Check is designed to highlight where there are gaps that might require leadership attention. The designated person will receive the aggregated results and share these with the leadership to ensure that corrective action is taken.

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What is the GBVF Health Check?

The GBVF Health Check is an online survey tool specifically developed to help organisations in South Africa assess how they are doing when it comes to GBVF related behaviours, policies, and practices within their respective organisations. Organisations can use the results of the survey to identify actions to improve their performance and their alignment with good practices in the field.

How often must an organisation complete the GBVF Health Check Survey?

Every quarter, the designated person in the organisation, e.g. the Gender Focal Person, will receive guidance to conduct the GBVF Health Check survey. This will help the organisation track progress on its self-improvement journey.

Who can see the results of my organisation’s GBVF Maturity Health Check survey?

The GBVF Health Check Survey is a totally anonymous survey that everyone in the organisation can take. The organisation’s results can be viewed by the responsible person who registered the organisation using the login credential created during registration. NO ONE ELSE will have access to your organisational individual or aggregated results.

What is the purpose of the GBVF 101 module?

The purpose of the GBVF 101 online module is to ensure that as we all participate in or support collective action to address GBVF in South Africa, we have a common understanding of the context, an awareness and sensitivity about the complexity of the topic, and a shared language we can use to communicate with each other in an efficient and clear way. We hope that the course will move us a step closer towards the aspiration of “causing no harm” as we engage in collective action in the sector.

How do I access the GBVF 101 Module?

You can access this module on this website: www.endinggbvf.org. This process starts by enrolling for the module. Once enrolled, you will have access to all the lessons on this module. .

What is the End GBVF Collective

The End GBVF Collective is the only multi-sectoral structure coordinating the implementation of the NSP on GBVF in South Africa. Since 2020, this structure has brought together stakeholders from government, civil society, labour, the private sector, research and academia, as well as development partners coming together and committing to an integrated National GBVF response. Membership in this structure is open to all stakeholders in the GBVF ecosystem. The Amplifier circle is a membership level within this collective.

What is the End GBVF Movement

The End GBVF Movement emanated from the organically emerging “End GBVF Collective Collective” of activists and organisations that took it upon themselves to translate the NSP on GBVF into action to prevent and end GBVF. Using the 100-Day Challenges model hosted by courts, municipalities and TVET colleges, this movement supported over 140 100-Day Challenges in South Africa. It is anticipated that in 2025, this number will grow to 200.

How can I support the End GBVF Movement

There are many ways you can support this movement, these include:

Registering your organisation to participate in the GBVF Maturity Challenge, ensuring that 50% of employees/members take the GBVF Health Check survey
Supporting and cheering-up existing 100-Day Challenge teams in your local area
Sharing the 100-Day Challenges stories within your networks
Talking about 100-Day Challenge work to leaders in your circles of influence and ignite their curiosity and interest
Supporting the recruitment of Ambassadors for the 2025 cycle

What are 100-Day Challenges?

Each 100-Day Challenge is a structured journey of learning and discovery that aims to achieve a concrete impact in a specific area of focus within 100 days, and that is designed to inspire intense collaboration, rapid innovation and disciplined implementation. It is a unique way to organise and manage collective efforts involving multiple organisations in a way that leads to faster and more enduring impact.

Teams start this journey by setting unreasonable 100-Day Goals and developing innovative plans to achieve these. To set the stage for the journey, leaders shape and present a challenge to the team and create a “safe space” for the team to experiment and learn. A further Sustaining Phase, involving System Leaders and 100-Day Challenge team members, ensures the gains are sustained after the 100-Days.

What are the three unusual behaviours inspired by the 100-Day Challenges?

The 100-Day Challenges are designed to:

Strengthen intense collaboration between multi-sectoral stakeholders
Stimulate frequent innovation - finding new ways of working
Stimulate disciplined and rapid implementation

What impact can be expected from 100-Day Challenges?

The net impact of 100-Day Challenges includes:

Dramatic increases in performance which are inspired by an unreasonably ambitious 100-Day Goal
Insights about patterns in the systems that enable or limit performance. These insights begin to result in shifts in the systems, which leaders embed and amplify in post-100-Day actions.
Transformative experiences for the team members and leaders involved, which include deeper connections with each other, a stronger sense of agency and confidence in leading change, and appreciation for the power of working in a purposeful, autonomous, and agile team.

What is a Convening Organisation in the 100-Day Challenges?

A convening organisation is a local-based organisation, network, business, etc., that will host the 100-Day Challenges in their community or local system. This could be a school, civil society organisation, church, court, municipality, etc. Their role involves:

Selecting Ambassadors who will be trained by the World of Impact
Tracking the progress of the 100-Day Challenge team and providing data on the progress made
Facilitating dialogue with relevant stakeholders
Continually organising collective action in the local system.

Convening organisations need to set aside a small budget to host the 100-Day Challenge workshops and support the team’s action plan. We are working hard to secure funding for the convening partners who are not in a position to make funds available for the workshops and the team’s plans.

Who are the Convening Partners during the 2023 and 2024 cycles of 100-Day Challenges?

The convening partners for the 2023 and 2024 cycles of 100-Day Challenges are the Courts, Municipalities and Training and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges. The idea is to embed capacity within these institutions so that the work can continue beyond the 100 days. Once we have built enough capacity within the convening partners, we will then be able to open up for other stakeholders to convene the 100-Day Challenges. It is important to note that all other stakeholders can play an active role in the programme as team members, and through this process, they experience the journey of organising and managing collective efforts involving multiple organisations in a way that leads to faster and more enduring impact.

What is the role of civil society in the 100-Day Challenges?

Civil society organisations play a significant role as implementing partners in the 100-Day Challenges. All 100-Day Challenges are implemented by multi-sectoral teams made up of frontline staff within the ecosystem of the targeted area of impact. This is where civil society organisations play a significant role, given their proximity to the communities that they serve.

Who are 100-Day Challenges Ambassadors?

The 100-Day Challenges Ambassadors are local facilitators selected by the Convening organisation to support the learning process. Ambassadors are trained online by the World of Impact. As part of the practical application of the learning, Ambassadors design and support the 100-Day Challenges focused on creating an impact on indicators in the NSP on GBVF. Ambassadors play an “enabler” role which involves:

Guiding the process
Facilitating teams discussions and events
Supporting and coaching the team and mentors.

What is the criteria for identifying 100-Day Challenges Ambassadors?

Ambassadors must be based in the community where the 100-Day Challenge is hosted. It is advisable to have youngish individuals who exhibit signs of being future leaders and are tech-savvy.

We have identified the following attributes of a good Ambassador:

Is passionate about ending GBVF and active in local forums and GBVF initiatives
Able to build trust with local leaders and teams and remain open to all sides of an issues
Excited to learn and practise new ways of doing and working, and can carve out the time needed to facilitate the 100-Day Challenge
Can stand in the background and help others to find their own solutions
Enjoy assignments that challenge current mindsets and established practices
Experienced in having worked on the frontline and in the GBVF ecosystems at some point
Conscious of the impact of inequality to the community with a range of stakeholders from high-level officials, services providers, funders and persons with lived experience