National policy on safety, security and violence-free schools with its implementing guidelines
This comprehensive policy intends to ensure that school safety and security are at the top of the agenda for government at all levels.
This comprehensive policy intends to ensure that school safety and security are at the top of the agenda for government at all levels.
School-related gender-based violence remains a pervasive and persistent threat to the rights, ability to learn, safety, physical health and emotional wellbeing of learners across the globe.
The first section of this document outlines the background context.
Most countries do not know much about the outcomes or impact of activities related to gender based violence. Gender based violence undermines both social and economic development and the individual’s capacity for realising her or his rights and potentials under already strained conditions.
This model is designed to help SADC governments develop an integrated single comprehensive policy on violence against girls. It can be adapted to suit the local context