ABSTRACT
Despite surveys to measure the magnitude of femicide, civil action to garner public recognition and, government commitment to respond effectively to femicide, South Africa lacked a comprehensive strategy to inform femicide prevention. This chapter outlines the process South Africa followed to develop a femicide-specific prevention strategy and argues for an evidence and practice informed approach in a context where femicide prevention is limited. Femicide is the most extreme form of Gender-Based Violence globally. Global studies have shown about a third of women are killed by an intimate partner. It emerged during key stakeholder consultations that an agreed country-level definition of femicide was a critical first step in the strategy development. This was developed by a multi-disciplinary working group of legal, social, and judicial experts through a series of workshops, and accounted for global and local contexts and experiences.
