The programme is known as the "Centre for Peace Action" and covers the following safety promotion activities:

For the age group

Children 0-14 years:

Youth 15-24 years:

Adults 25-64 years:

Elderly 65+ years:
Not yet developed - the population is predominantly a youthful one.

All ages:

• Three Neighbourhoods Safety Promotion programme for environmental upgrading (e.g. electrification, sanitation, formalisation of housing).
  

At the following environments:

Home:

Traffic:

Occupational:

School:

Sports/leisure:
Not yet developed

Violence prevention:

• Community police forum and training programmes;
• Womens leadership development programme;
• Shelter facility for domestic violence victims;
• Lobbying local government for environmental upgrade;
• Counselling services for at risk families and individuals;
• Small business development to reduce unemployment.
  

Suicide prevention:
Psychological counselling services at three sites (suicide accounts for less than eight percent of all violence in the target population).

Programs aiming at "high risk-groups":

Surveillance of Injuries

Serial surveillance of injuries:
Sampling-based household survey for serial surveillance in Eldorado Park
Numbers per year: about 8 400/100 00 population (sampled 400)
Population base: about 90 000 (sampled 4 729)
Started year: 1996

Non-natural deaths:
Mortuary-based system in development for greater Johannesburg
Numbers per year: about 6 000
Population base: about 5 million
Started year: Anticipated start-up end of August 1998

Rape:
All rapes reported at medico-legal clinics in greater Johannesburg
Numbers per year: about 600
Population base: about 5 million
Started year: 1996

Publications: (Scientific)
Butchart, A., Kruger, J., Lekoba, R & Lesebe, M. The Three Neighbourhoods Safety Promotion Programme. In press, UNISA Psychologia.
Butchart, A., Kruger, J., & Nell, V. Violence and injury in a Johannesburg Township: A Neighbourhood Profile. Indicator South Africa Crime and Conflict, 9 (Winter 1997), 11-15.
Butchart, A. Violence prevention in Gauteng. Acta Criminologica, 9 (2), 5-14.
Butchart, A., Kruger, J., Lekoba, R. & Smith, D. (1996). Evaluating injury prevention outcome in a developing country context: Lessons from a community-based violence prevention programme. Urbanisation and Health Newsletter, 29 (June), 28-42.
Butchart, A., Motingoe, N. & Mabogoane, M. Risk factors for domestic violence against women: Some preliminary data. Trauma Review, 4 (2), 8-9. Reprinted in Nursing News, 20 (11), 9-10.
Seedat, M., Butchart, A., & Nell, V. (1995). The containment and prevention of violence: The Health Psychology Unit approach. Unisa Psychologia, 22 (2), 39-45.
Mgoduso, T., Butchart, A., & Terre Blanche, M. (1992). Rooting a community based intervention: The Eldorado Park Violence Prevention Programme one year later. Urbanisation and Health Newsletter, 13, 33-36.
Seedat, M., Terre Blanche, M., Butchart, A., & Nell, V. (1992). Violence prevention through community development: The Centre for Peace Action model. Critical Health, 41, 59-64.
Butchart, A., Nell, V., Yach, D., Johnson, K., & Radebe, B. (1991). The epidemiology of non-fatal trauma due to external causes in Johannesburg-Soweto. I. Methodology and materials. South African Medical Journal, 78, 466-471.
Butchart, A., Nell, V., Yach, D., Brown, D.S.O., Anderson, A., Radebe, B., & Johnson, K. (1991). The epidemiology of non-fatal trauma due to external causes. II. Incidence and determinants. South African Medical Journal, 78, 472-479.
Butchart,A. & Seedat,M. (1990). Within and without: Images of community and implications for South African Psychology. Social Science and Medicine, 31, 1093-1102.
Nell,V. & Butchart,A. (1989). Studying violence in a South African city. Critical Health, 28, 44-49.

Produced information material, pamphlets:

Study visits:
Rio de Janeiro, Campinas & Sao Paulo, Brazil (1996); USA, Puerto Rico, 1996

Participation in Safe Community conferences:
Norway; Australia; Dallas; South Africa; Holland

Hosting Safe Community Conferences:
October 1997, Sixth International Conference

Hosting "Travelling Seminars":
October 1997

More:

Staff: 25 staff

Number:
25 full-time; sessional/part time consultants for intern supervision and epidemiological research are recruited on ad hoc basis

Professions:
Teachers; small business developers; psychologists; social workers; peace monitors.
Partnerships with Universities and research councils provide access to epidemiologists and statisticians.

Permanent: 3 (employed by University of South Africa)

Temporary: 22
The programme is largely dependent on foreign donor funding, and so most staff cannot be contracted more than a two-year period at a time.

Organization:
The programme operates as an NGO in very close partnership with the University of South Africa's Health Psychology Unit. It serves as a broker between community residents; agencies working in and for the community, and local and provincial government. It provides injury prevention information downwards and upwards, and assists in the building of intersectoral coalitions for safety through environmental modification; education; enforcement, and the engineering of safer products.

Specific intersectoral leadership group:
Centre for Peace Action Board of Trustees; Three Neighbourhoods Safety Promotion Team; Health Psychology Unit Scientific Advisory Committee.

General public health/health promoting group:
Interaction with the "healthy cities" programmes in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

International commitments:
As a WHO Collaborating Centre for Injury and Violence Prevention, the Health Psychology Unit has committed the programme to developing safety promotion capacity within the southern African region, and as a designated "Safe Community" the Centre for Peace Action shares this commitment to making Africa safer for everyone.

For further information contact:

Mohamed Seedat, Director or
Alex Butchart, Deputy Director
Centre for Peace Action
PO Box 293,
1812 Eldorado Park, Johannesburg
South Africa

Phone: +27-11-342-3840
Fax: +27-11-945-3956
SEEDAMA@unisa.ac.za