From 20-21 May 2025, UNODC conducted a workshop on femicide reviews in Durban, South Africa. The aim of the workshop was to explore how to establish and institutionalize Femicide Reviews in SA while adopting international norms and standards for quality, relevance and effectiveness. Participants discussed ways to ensure inclusivity through multi-stakeholder approaches and the adoption of coproduction strategies in undertaking the reviews. The workshop played a significant role in contributing to a better understanding of the nature of intimate and non-intimate partner femicide, violence and abuse and helped raise awareness in the wider community of how to help victims. Participants discussed the need for creating a comprehensive database through effective data management strategies about victims and perpetrators of Femicide in SA.
This approach would be followed by an undertaking of comprehensive social analysis and synthesis of emerging review findings, and using existing research evidence towards strengthening service delivery, support systems and responsiveness of criminal justice. Participants came with strategies in conducting femicide reviews effectively, such as identifying the lessons within and between agencies, from national and local levels, including trends, risk factors, and patterns from the collective cases reviewed. This will allow multi-stakeholders involved in the femicide reviews to provide recommendations on how to improve service responses and the way that agencies from different sectors can work together to end GBVF.

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