Solidarity Fund Reports
16/04/2021
Solidarity Fund Behavioural Response Report | COVID Alert App Campaign
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to unite in limiting the spread of COVID-19. As part of our efforts, we supported the COVID Alert SA campaign to increase awareness and assist in driving COVID Alert SA downloads, and to educate citizens on the relevance of the app. The campaign targeted adults of all income brackets across rural, metro and urban communities.
For more details, please read through the summary of the report.
06/04/2021
Solidarity Fund Behavioural Response Report | Church in Action Campaign
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to unite in limiting the spread of COVID-19. As part of our efforts, we partnered with the South African Council of Churches in a campaign to produce and disseminate digital educational content to help curb the spread of the pandemic.
For more details, please read through the summary of the report.
16/03/2021
Solidarity Fund Behavioural Response Report | Spaza Shops Campaign
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to unite in limiting the spread of COVID-19. As part of our efforts, we partnered with Premier Foods in a campaign to raise awareness of COVID-19 among spaza shop customers across the country.
For more details, please read through the summary of the report.
08/03/2021
Solidarity Fund Behavioural Response Report | Gender-Based Violence (GBV 1) Response
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to unite in limiting the spread of COVID-19. As part of our efforts, we embarked on an initiative that was designed to be a rapid, targeted response to the increase in gender-based violence (GBV), a scourge that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 lockdown. This response was designed to provide support and aid to existing organisations with proven reach and the ability to have impact, but which were struggling to deal with the rise in cases of GBV.
For more details, please read through the summary of the report.
03/03/2021
Solidarity Fund Behavioural Response Report | LOUDHAILERS FOR COVID-19 MESSAGING
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to unite in limiting the spread of COVID-19. As part of our efforts, we distributed branded loudhailers to traditional leaders for the effective delivery of COVID-19 messaging. The campaign was implemented across all nine provinces. Not only did it serve to educate citizens on COVID-19 protocols, but it also helped to promote positive behaviour change within rural communities.
For more details, please read through the summary of the report.
10/02/2021
Solidarity Fund Behavioural Response Report | RADIO CAMPAIGN TO INCREASE AWARENESS OF COVID-19 MESSAGING
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to unite in limiting the spread of COVID-19. As part of our efforts, we launched the iSikhaba radio campaign. Drawing on the reach of 15 commercial radio stations, with a collective audience of up to 33 million listeners, the campaign provided educational COVID-19 messaging to citizens across South Africa.
For more details, please read through the summary of the report.
03/02/2021
Solidarity Fund Behavioural Response Report | CONTACT TRACING CAMPAIGN TO INCREASE AWARENESS OF THE COVID CONNECT APP
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to unite in limiting the spread of COVID-19. As part of our efforts, we partnered with SK52 to improve the uptake of the COVID Connect App.
For more details, please read through the summary of the report.
27/01/2021
Solidarity Fund Behavioural Response Report | PHEPA UFUNDE CAMPAIGN TARGETING SHOOLS AND EDUCATORS
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to unite in limiting the spread of COVID-19. As part of our efforts, we partnered with Zenex Foundation to provide support to schools and educators on COVID and schooling through various platforms (a dedicated website, a 10 part radio broadcast, social media and a webinar).
For more details, please read through this summary of the report on the Phepha Ufunde campaign targeting schools and educators.
20/01/2021
Solidarity Fund Behavioural Response Report |COVID-19 REGULATIONS CAMPAIGN TARGETING FUNERALS
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to unite in limiting the spread of COVID-19. As part of our efforts, we partnered with Right to Care to compile funeral protocols for the Eastern Cape, as this province was identified as a COVID-19 hotspot.
For more details, please read through this summary of the report on the COVID-19 regulations campaign targeting funerals.
18/11/2020
Solidarity Behavioural Response Report |Community Radio Programme
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to the COVID-19. As part of our efforts to mobilise South Africans, we partnered with Grounded Media to provide COVID-19 messaging to the citizens of South Africa through the vast community radio network that exist in various communities.
For more details, please take a moment and read through a summary of the Community Radio Programme
10/12/2020
Solidarity in Action - Six Months of the Solidarity Fund
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to COVID-19. Since its inception the Fund has seen unprecedented generosity, commitment and hard work on the part of all stakeholders to meet this mandate. The impact made by the Fund across all three pillars in the first 6 months of its existence is documented in this interim report.
For more details on our efforts, please take a moment and read through our report.
09/11/2020
Solidarity Fund Humanitarian Response The Food Relief Programme Addendum
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilize South Africans to drive a united response to Covid-19 through behavioral change initiatives. The Food Relief Programme was targeted at reaching the vulnerable households experiencing severe food insecurity during the lockdown period. Within the Food Relief Programme, the Fund entered into partnership with the SACC to provide food relief in the form of food vouchers to 23,500 Households.
Take a moment and read through this addendum covering our food voucher programme for the 23,500 Households.
30/11/2020
Solidarity Behavioural Response Report | Research Omnibus on COVID-19
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to the COVID-19. As part of our efforts to mobilise South Africans, we partnered with a research company (Ask Afrika) to understand the behaviour of people towards COVID-19. For more details, please take a moment and read through a summary of the Research Omnibus on COVID-19.
09/10/2020
Solidarity Behavioral Response Report |Red Cross Children’s Hospital (Rx Radio) Campaign
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to the COVID-19. As part of our efforts to mobilise South Africans, we partnered with the Red Cross' Rx station to tell the story of the virus from a child's perspective. Rx is the first radio station in the world run by children and is broadcast from within a hospital. For more details, please take a moment and read through a summary of the Rx Campaign that was run by children for children.
02/10/2020
Solidarity Fund Health Response Report | Testing Efforts Interim Report
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to COVID-19. A key objective of the Fund’s healthcare mandate is the ‘Detect’ effort to support national efforts to augment the safety and efficacy of our medical response by supplying testing kits and through scaling up testing capacity.
For more details on our efforts, please take a moment and read through our interim report on the upscaling of testing capacity and supply of testing kits.
02/10/2020
Solidarity Fund Health Response Report | National Ventilator Production (Locally Manufactured ventilators) Interim Report
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to COVID-19. A key objective of the Fund’s healthcare mandate is the ‘Care’ effort to support national efforts to augment the safety and efficacy of our medical response by ensuring a supply of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) ventilators.
For more details on our efforts, please take a moment and read through our interim report on the production of the locally manufactured ventilators.
01/10/2020
Solidarity Fund Humanitarian Response | The Food Voucher Relief Programme Interim Report
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to Covid-19. We want to thank you for all of your contributions, helping us help others. Our food voucher relief programme aims to reach 135,000 beneficiaries who will each receive once-off food vouchers to the value of R700. We continue to work with our partners to bring dignity to those who are in need and are impacted by this pandemic. For more details on our efforts, please take a moment and read through our Food Voucher Relief Programme Interim Report.
16/09/2020
The Creation and the Impact of the Citizens in Solidarity Campaign
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to the COVID-19. For more details on our efforts on mobilising South Africans, please take a moment and read through a summary of the Citizens in Solidarity Campaign.
The Campaign had two aspects namely the conceptualization and the impact of the campaign. The conceptualization part maps out how the campaign unfolded and managed to build the solidarity brand within 17 days. The Implementation part maps out how the campaign has managed to reach at least 28 million South Africans through various platforms to date, the bulk of which come from radio and TV campaigns.
15/09/2020
Solidarity Fund Health Response Report | PPE for frontline Community Care Workers
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to the COVID-19. A key objective of the Fund’s healthcare mandate is the ‘Care’ effort to support national efforts to augment the safety and efficacy of our medical response by ensuring a supply of personal protective equipment (PPE).
For more details on our efforts, please take a moment and read through our report on PPE for the frontline Community Care Workers.
13/07/2020
Solidarity Fund Health Response Report | PPE for the Public Health System
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to the COVID-19. A key objective of the Fund’s healthcare mandate is the ‘Care’ effort to support national efforts to augment the safety and efficacy of our medical response by ensuring a supply of personal protective equipment (PPE).
For more details on our efforts, please take a moment and read through our report.
05/06/2020
Solidarity Fund food relief programme summary report
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to Covid-19. We want to thank you for all of your contributions, helping us help others. Our food relief efforts have reached in excess of 280 000 households and we continue to work with our partners to bring dignity to those who are in need and are impacted by this pandemic. For more details on our efforts, please take a moment and read through our Food Relief Programme Summary Report.
