Co-ownership and Collaboration: Insights into the Measurement of Impact and Change from Evidence-Based Community and State Violence Prevention Partnerships

Support families and young people

Ensure programmes and services are available

Create opportunities for recreation and skills development for youth

Address alcohol and substance abuse

Develop positive awareness programmes and access to treatment and support

Integrate safe schools into the community and ensure their support by the community

Put in place an effective and trusted criminal justice system

Improve the quality of services and infrastructure

Increase employment

Promote safety and prosperity for all.

Improve municipal services and facilities

Support an integrated youth safety and development programme

Create a programme addressing facilitators of crime, particularly alcohol and drugs

Promote job creation

Promote a more effective and efficient criminal justice system.

Improve access to services

Strengthen youth and family initiatives

Improve access to social grants

Support community development

Build partnerships

Reduce alcohol- and drug-related crime

A fence has been erected around the sports field and grass has been planted.

Half of the main road in Nompumelelo has been tarred.

A CCTV camera has been installed to monitor the area around the taxi rank.

Access to water and sanitation for residents of the informal settlement has been improved.

The South African Police Service (SAPS) visits schools regularly.

The National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Reintegration of Offenders’ (NICRO’s) Safety Ambassadors programme has been implemented, and a NICRO social worker was appointed to the Nompumelelo area.

An after-school care programme has been established at both schools and food gardens have been planted.

A code of conduct regulating closing times for taverns has been agreed upon by the tavern owners, and SAPS is enforcing the code.

Visible policing has been improved with the establishment of sector policing.