Our Partners
Founded in 2006, Sonke is a womxn’s rights organisation committed to feminist principles, using a rights-based and gender-transformative approach to achieve human rights and gender justice. Sonke was founded on the belief that violence against womxn, and children is among the most pervasive and devastating human rights violations, one that deeply undermines South Africa’s democratic progress.
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Abortion Support is a South African non-profit founded in 2016. We are a team of experienced activists, researchers, and healthcare providers, dedicated to expanding access to safe, evidence-based abortion care. We provide accurate and compassionate information and care based on South African and WHO clinical guidelines, international best practices, and scientific research.
Accountability International is an African-led civil society organisation that works to improve accountability to the most marginalised. From our head office in South Africa, we conduct research and advocacy that allows us to do our work as a watchdog and hold various leaders accountable.
MB Teen lifestyle is a youth development consultancy on a mission to empower adolescents and young people to navigate today's challenges, equipping them with the tools they need to become resilient and thrive in the face of social ills.
The Soul City Institute is guided by the South African Constitution, with a focus on parts such as Section 27 that outline that everyone has the right to have access to healthcare services, including reproductive healthcare. We work tirelessly to make these and other rights such as the right to freedom, dignity and equality a reality for all, particularly for those who find themselves on the margins of oppression. SCI operates according to the principles and values of human rights, using an intersectional approach to ensure that nobody is left behind in the goal of eradicating poverty and ensuring equity for all.
With offices in Midrand (South Africa), Lusaka (Zambia), and Lilongwe (Malawi), Ipas Southern Africa Region works with governments, partner organizations and local stakeholders to increase access to high-quality sexual and reproductive health care and to reduce injuries and deaths from unsafe abortion. Ipas is expanding abortion access by training abortion providers, supporting health facilities, and helping ensure abortion with pills is an available option. Ipas also educates communities on the importance of abortion rights and builds grassroots movements for law reform through a wide range of activities including workshops, educational dramas and radio programs.
Tiko is a non-profit leveraging technology to transform sexual and reproductive health for underserved girls in urban and peri-urban Africa facing the ‘triple threat’ of unintended pregnancy, HIV and sexual and gender-based violence. Tiko uses a tech-enabled model to connect otherwise fragmented stakeholders on the ground, such as private and public medical service providers, community-based organisations (CBOs) and pharmacies, so that girls have access to high-quality health and wellbeing services and products, at no cost to them.
SECTION27 is a human rights organisation that seeks to achieve substantive equality and social justice in South Africa. Guided by the principles and values in the Constitution, SECTION27 uses law, advocacy, legal literacy, research and community mobilisation to advance socio-economic rights, in particular the right to access health care services and the right to basic education as guaranteed in section 27 and section 29 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa respectively.​
The Safe Zones @ Wits programme strives to erase prejudice, while providing a support system for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual, queer and other sexual orientations and gender identities (LGBTIAQ+) community at Wits University. Through education, advocacy and awareness-raising, the programme contributes to a campus climate that is safe and accepting for all members of the University community.
AMAZE Africa is a collaboration between Advocates for Youth, Answer, YTH, Marie Stopes South Africa, and Ibis Reproductive Health. We’ve come together to create an engaging, accurate, age-appropriate online sex education resource for youth. We want to help young adolescents, ages 10-14, develop healthy attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors they need to navigate the critical transition between childhood and older adolescence. We’re doing this by making creative, edgy YouTube videos about health and sex-ed topics that matter to youth.
We are the SRJC! SRJC stands for Sexual Reproductive Justice Coalition! In February 2016 we set out to encourage members to join our coalition, because what is a movement without the people? So, we went ahead and released a statement on our politics, ethics and vision and asked interested people working within the Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights (SRHR) space to sign-on.
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Where To Care leverages existing human resources and low- and no-cost technologies to bridge the growing gap between patients and information about access to comprehensive health care – including essential resources for comprehensive family planning (FP), sexual and reproductive health (SRH), and gender-based violence (GBV)—including those that are Youth Friendly (YF) and that offer linkage to ART and adherence support.
Marie Stopes South Africa is non-profit provider of sexual and reproductive healthcare services. We are part of the 38-country strong Marie Stopes International Global Partnership, allowing us access to the latest innovations and expertise in the field of sexual and reproductive health.
We seek to impact the quality of life in South Africa by decreasing maternal and infant mortality, averting unsafe, illegal abortions, decreasing the number of unwanted pregnancies through contraceptive uptake, reducing the impact of HIV, STIs and cervical cancer and expanding our services whenever and wherever possible.
In South Africa, we operate 7 centres across 4 provinces and are a Section 21 non-profit organization recognised for the quality of our clinical services and our non-judgemental, client-friendly approach. The fees we charge for our services are cross subsidised across our network, meaning centres can offer prices that best suit the communities they serve. Any surplus we generate is reinvested back into our core work, allowing us to grow our reach and range of services.
Our team is passionately pro-choice. At Marie Stopes South Africa, pro-choice refers not only to reproductive freedom and the right to a safe abortion but also the choice of when and with whom to have sex, regardless of sexual orientation.
Robes of Hope (ROH) is a youth-led organization that was established in 2021 in the sub-district of Moses Kotane in the North West province. Our primary areas of focus are sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) particularly; HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence (GBV), gender and sexuality. Our activities include activation of youth friendly dialogues and support group at the Lesetlheng clinic, where the priority has been to focus on learner’s day to day experience and challenges related to GBV, and broader sexual and reproductive health (SRH), including their rights and responsibilities.
We frequently hold dialogues and debates in our community, and visit at least one school a month. We have been very fortunate to be part of several events facilitated by mmoho thus far, with the latest one being the march against illegal abortion in the Rustenburg CBD. We have also been part of other events hosted by other organizations such as Networking HIV and AIDS Community of South Africa (NACOSA).
Given our scope of grass-root work within our community with relationships with several other communities and schools, we see ourselves being a great medium to further achieve the mandate of the mmoho campaign and see ourselves contributing greatly to the expanded roll-out, including research opportunities despite being based in a remote location. Our team is very flexible, hands-on as well as very dedicated in everything that we do and we look forward to further collaborating with the campaign.
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Amaqhawe seeks to empower communities with information to build their capacity and empower themselves, their friends and families to eliminate unemployment, poverty, inequalities, gender-based violence and incidents of new HIV/AIDS infections. To achieve this, we create an enabling platform for adolescents, young women, girls, LGBTQI+, youth and community based-organizations with capacity building, leadership skills working towards changing the countries social ills such as youth unemployment, poverty, inequality, gender base violence and incidents of new HIV/AIDS infections.
CHoiCe Trust was established in 1997 to promote and provide health services to farm workers in Mopani District, Limpopo Province. The organisation soon expanded to support the health needs of rural community members through the provision of health trainings and mentoring to community caregivers. From this basis in home-based care, CHoiCe Trust grew in its mission to provide more holistically for the health needs of the beneficiaries; this included introducing a programme focused on the rights and vulnerabilities of children, the needs of farm workers, the training and mentorship requirements of community-based organisations and community care workers, the health concerns of patients and their family members, and promotion of HIV prevention, care and support.
Enabled Enlightenment is an organization that was established in a bid to educate, inform, and sensitize people on all issues of disability. This is done through various initiatives and strategies where the organization allows for individuals to learn, unlearn, and relearn. Emphasis is made on formulating awareness campaigns that create new ways for forging better relations when interacting with persons with disabilities. Beginning with expanding the public's vocabulary and continuous educational initiatives, Enabled Enlightenment seeks to leave no stone unturned in the plight to assist any person with a disability to have a voice and a place in society.
Global Health Strategies (GHS) has extensive experience working on SRHR issues in South Africa and globally. Since 2017, GHS has been working in the SRHR space through the Safe Abortions For Everyone (SAFE) project to increase access to safe abortion services for women and girls by advocating for a rights-based reproductive health policies and changing provider attitudes towards abortion.
Glow Movement is a non-partisan, youth-led non-profit organization that works to create the necessary change and improve the lives of girls and women in South Africa, to empower and enhance their self-esteem and to build assertiveness and skills to negotiate safe and responsible sexual practices. These include safe sexual practices as well as transform gender roles and relations between men and women and reduce Gender-based Violence. The emphasis is to protect and equip them with sufficient information and resources they will need to lead tomorrow.
The National Department of Health as an entity of the national government has the mandate to oversee basic healthcare provision in South Africa. Our aim is to improve the health status of the population through the prevention of illnesses and the promotion of healthy lifestyles. More importantly, we endeavor to consistently improve our healthcare delivery system by focusing on access, equity, efficiency, quality and sustainability.
The National Department of Health remains committed to providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive services through an equitable and rights-based approach. To ensure our comprehensive sexual and reproductive services respond better to all individuals, the National Department of Health in 2019 introduced new policy and guidelines with the purpose of standardizing and expanding service delivery and reaffirming all citizens’ right to comprehensive reproductive health care, as per the constitution. It is our hope that through this expression of the government’s commitment to the health and wellbeing of all individuals, that the National Department of Health ultimately contributes to the development of all who live in South Africa with regards to their reproductive autonomy.