Foster safe and enabling environments.

Strategy

Reduce social and economic harms related to substance abuse. Develop targeted solutions that prevent gender-based violence and femicide. Improve health and nutrition outcomes for children. Support municipalities to improve the delivery of basic services. Enable improved waste management.

Action

› Implement substance abuse prevention programmes, with a particular focus on adolescents and young adults.

› Improve access to treatment and counselling services.

› Support advocacy and/or programmatic initiatives that improve law enforcement and limit alcohol trading times.

› Implement prevention programmes that shift harmful gender norms and reduce risk factors linked to power and poverty.

› Work collaboratively with stakeholders to implement a package of interventions that prevent gender-based violence.

› Implement interventions that reduce nutritional stunting.

› Improve access to quality health-care services.

› Implement interventions that reduce the prevalence of foetal alcohol syndrome.

› Improve access to basic services in communities, working collaboratively and in support of the municipalities and government.

› Support municipalities to access and optimally leverage existing government initiatives such as Municipal Infrastructure Grants and the upcoming roll-out of the National Infrastructure Plan.

› Test and invest in initiatives that systematically reduce litter, illegal dumping and improve waste-management practices.

› Work with municipalities to improve the implementation of land-use management plans and support them to keep up with the rate of urbanisation.

› Empower communities with the information and language they need to interrogate land-use management decisions in the IDP processes.

Mobilise funding for work in Lesedi and Letsatsi.

› Attract strategically aligned funders to the Lesedi and Letsatsi areas.

› Mobilise private-sector and other funding in support of necessary infrastructure investments.

› Facilitate a process that convenes relevant stakeholders around a vision for change in ECD and/or youth development.

Outcome

› The number of adolescents and young adults with changed narratives and behaviours around alcohol increases.

› The number of people accessing treatment and counselling services increases demonstrably.

› The availability of alcohol and drugs reduces.

› There is a demonstrable shift in harmful gendered perceptions.

› The social and economic vulnerability of women and young girls reduces.

› There are age-appropriate programmes for children that enable them to unlearn/learn new narratives while using engaging pedagogy like sports and play.

› The prevalence of nutritional stunting among 0–5-year olds reduces demonstrably.

› Foetal alcohol syndrome reduces demonstrably.

› Access to water, hygiene and sanitation improves.

› There are more clean communities with visibly reduced litter and better waste-management practices/models.

› There is productive use of community halls and new spaces for adolescents and young people to benefit from development programmes.

› Philanthropic, business and public funds are secured to support the programmes and the broader strategy.

› At least two co-impact funding initiatives are launched and managed.

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