This animation is part 1 of a 3 part series that unpacks the importance of Violence Prevention Initiatives – or VPI – when promoting safety and resilience in South Africa. The animation (4:50 minutes) can be used to raise awareness and facilitate dialogue. The animation describes the context of violence in South Africa and how the COVID-19 pandemic has strained already fragile systems and exacerbated risk factors to violence and crime. It introduces the socio-ecological model as a useful tool to analyse risk and protective factors, and explains how violence prevention interventions can be used to build collective resilience and stem many of the risk factors that underpin violence.
This animation is part 2 of a 3 part series of animations that unpacks the importance of Violence Prevention Interventions (VPI) when promoting safety and resilience in South Africa. The animation (4:44 minutes) can be used to raise awareness and facilitate dialogue. The animation highlights South African policy guidelines for and introduces the area-based approach in VPI. The animation highlights how safety and violence prevention can be realised in the built environment and through environmental design. Central to the approach is a partnership between multiple stakeholders, with communities playing a leading role in community safety and crime prevention efforts.
This is part 3 of a 3 part series of animations that unpacks the importance of Violence Prevention Interventions (VPI) when promoting safety and resilience in South Africa. The animation (4:33 minutes) can be used to raise awareness and facilitate dialogue. The animation focuses on some of the key ingredients of successful and sustainable area-based violence prevention interventions, which include assigning roles and responsibilities and incorporate the activation, maintenance and management of interventions in the planning and implementation process. Ultimately, the ingredients help to create sustainable violence prevention interventions that encourage learning, sense of pride and ownership, whilst creating safer neighbourhoods.
