Gender Action
Asante Gender Action was founded to develop positive gender identity and advocate for and work towards ending Gender-based violence (GBV).
Based in South Africa, Asante’s vision is for an Africa free from gender-based violence that is based on positive gender identity and gender equality.
We facilitate inclusive ways to reframe the way we understand gender, reimagine communities built on human dignity and positive gender identity, and reshape our practices and behaviour to end GBV.
GBV costs SA R42 billion annually
Women experience GBV
SA Men reported perpetrating GBV
One in 16 cases of GBV are officially reported
Every Thursday we wear black as part of the global ‘Thursdays in Black’ campaign towardsa world without rape and violence. On Thursdays people around
Where are the good guys? To turn the tide on gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa it is key that men and women work together.
In South Africa’s National Strategic Plan on GBVF signed into force by the President in May 2020, one of the six pillars focuses on prevention and the need to shift from toxic masculinity and all that enables and upholds it. To discredit and discard toxic masculinities means that we need to have alternatives to consider and test out.
Cookie Edwards is the Executive Director of the KZN Network on Violence against Women. Having worked in the field of women’s rights for more than 25 years, her spheres of expertise include domestic violence, sexual and reproductive health, link between HIV and gender-based violence and environmental design for women’s safety in communities.
VISION
An Africa free from gender-based violence founded on positive gender identity and equality.
MISSION
To reframe the way we understand gender, reimagine society built on human dignity and positive gender identity,
and reshape our practices and behaviour to end GBV.
STRATEGIC FOCUS AREAS
• Prevention: our programmes develop positive gender identity, and challenge and re-engineer masculinity.
• Action research: our work is about collaboration on developing evidence-based approaches to drive transformational initiatives.
• Empowerment: recognising all types of workplace, our focus on women’s economic empowerment is about women’s workplace resilience and prevention of GBV in the workplace.
