Before we become completely consumed by this New Year, here’s a snapshot of NSMSA’s 2025 highlights – it was a year marked by both urgency and impact in the fight against gender‑based violence and femicide (GBVF). In this edition, we reflect on our continued advocacy for shelters that serve as critical gender-based violence (GBV) disruptors, at a time when GBVF...Continue reading
Turning the Tide: Guidelines For Caring And Effective Shelters For Survivors of GBV is an invaluabletool for the organisational development of GBV shelters by their Boards of Management, managersand staff members, both in South Africa and globally. NISAA Shelter Model Handbook – CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
The Fourth Indaba, convened on 16th – 17th October 2024 by the National Shelter Movement inpartnership with the National Department of Social Development and the Heinrich Boell Foundation(HBF, built onto the three previous Indabas, by beginning to assert the articulation of progressivesheltering as a framework that could provide a vision for strengthened sheltering in South Africa. Inalignment with previous Indabas,...Continue reading
It is with great pride, gratitude and sadness that I present the Annual Report of the National ShelterMovement of South Africa (NSMSA) for 2023/2024. There is the saying that a sign of good work is workingoneself out of a job. However, although GREAT work is being done it does not seem like we are makingsubstantial gains in combating violence against...Continue reading
NSMSA Indaba Report 2023 – CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD NSMSA Annual Report 2023/24 – CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
Click here to download Book There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of womenThe purpose of this resource book Letting Our Power Glow is to enable and afford shelter residents theopportunity to grow emotionally and psychologically while simultaneously living in an environment safefrom intimate partner violence so that the shelter residents are able to plan and...Continue reading
Click the link below to download the National Shelter Movement ANNUAL REPORT 2020/2021. Click here to download annual report, 5.8mb
Published in November 2020 by the National Shelter Movement of South Africa, as the first of three publications in a series on women’s experiences in shelters. Download Composite Report Publication below; Click here to download publication, 5.7mb
This report presents the experiences of 101 women who were former residents of 31 shelters affiliated to the National Shelter Movement of South Africa (NSMSA). Download Composite Report Publication below; Click here to download publication, 8mb
Published in November 2020 by the National Shelter Movement of South Africa, as the third of three publications in a series on women’s experiences in shelters. Download Book 3 Publication below; Click here to download publication, 7.4mb