A 100-Day Challenge brings together the people closest to a problem to set over-ambitious, time-bound goals and test new ideas and new ways of working together to achieve rapid results and lasting change.
The 100 days creates urgency, and that urgency, coupled with the overambitious goal, drives innovation. The model is used worldwide to shift complex systems. In South Africa, The World of Impact runs its programs across sectors where local action and sustained impact are most needed.
A survivor in Drakenstein could know that help existed somewhere and still not know where the referral pathway started. The people most likely to notice early signs, ECD teachers who see children every day, had no training in what to do about it. Men were largely absent from the conversation. And a mother seeking counselling had nowhere to put her children while she did it.
A survivor who reports and receives no counselling is a survivor left to carry it alone. In Msukaligwa Municipality, the Department of Social Development was reaching three victims/survivors a month through counselling. The services existed. The Victim Empowerment Programme facilities and shelters were there. What was missing was the flow of people into them, which depends entirely on whether anyone in the community knows the services exist and how to reach them.
Gert Sibande TVET College runs across five campuses in communities that do not share the same problem. What stops a student reporting in Evander is not what drives new HIV infections in Perdekop. A single college-wide GBVF programme would have been designed for none of them. The college let each campus name its own problem instead.
Every day, in an office or a team somewhere, a good plan gets stuck. Strategies set the direction, but the change lags where it is needed most: on the ground. The 100-Day Challenge closes that gap. It brings the people closest to a problem into one room, sets one ambitious goal, and gives them 100 days to deliver a real result.
Ten programmes, 100 days for tangible impact. Select a sector to find out how the 100-Day Challenge model can move the needle.
Delivering survivor impact across courts, municipalities and campuses. This is where the National Strategic Plan on GBVF is actually felt by survivors.
Turning the most urgent gaps between what municipalities plan and what communities experience into a 100-day commitment with a verified result. This is where Back-to-Basics becomes real – from revenue recovery and housing rights to roads, waste, and beyond.
Local teams are driving practical environmental solutions by restoring ecosystems, improving water access, and turning waste into opportunity. From conservation and reforestation to water security and circular economy initiatives, these Challenges deliver rapid, measurable results that bring national environmental goals to life.
Local teams are creating stronger, more resilient communities by tackling unemployment, improving education, expanding food security, and advancing a just energy transition. Through rapid, collaborative action, these Challenges deliver practical solutions that create jobs, strengthen skills, improve access to nutritious food, and build sustainable local economies.
A court team, with the presiding officer, prosecutor, clerk, court manager, interpreter and investigator at one table, takes on one ambitious local goal and clears the delay in 100 days, with no new law, no new court and no new budget.
Accelerate the implementation of business and turnaround strategies, Operational improvement, asset optimisation and new technology roll-out.
Apply now to organise a 100-Day Challenge in your sector and locality. Space is limited for 2027.
The short introduction gives a good overview of the 100-Day Challenge approach and methodology
Watch the video in which the Chief Prosecutor for the Polokwane Cluster, Octavia, shares how the experience has influenced her way of working. You can also watch the full video on the impact created by the teams. Click here >>.
Mia Gous, the Managing Director of Newmont in Australia, shares her experience with 100-Day Challenges (used to be called Rapid Results) and what it meant for her personal leadership journey and career development.
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Jot down thoughts on these questions – to the extent they are relevant to your experience at the session:
They did some work before you received the Challenge Note. This included:
Mentors will participate in all or part of the Lift-Off Workshop, mostly at the start to provide context and answer questions, and at the end to give you and your teammates feedback about the goal and plan you develop.
During the 100 days following the Lift-Off Workshop, here’s what the Mentors will do: