GCTF Initiative 2022 - 2023

The Gender and Identity Factors Platform (GIFP)

GCTF Consultations Initiative, led by Canada and the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), consisted of two consultations that contributed to the UNOCT Gender and Identity Factors Platform for Countering Violent Extremism and Counterterrorism (GIFP). The platform aims to raise awareness about the value of integrating the analysis of the impact of gender and other identity factors in response to violent extremism and terrorism, as well as provide practical tools and resources to support and develop more effective and sustainable preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) and counterterrorism (CT) policies and capacity building programs including the Women, Peace, and Security agenda, into domestic and international P/CVE and CT efforts.

The consultations:

  • Strengthened the close and mutually reinforcing GCTF – Counter-Terrorism Compact partnership.
  • Supported UNOCT in furthering the development of the GIFP through the GCTF consultations.
  • Enhanced the usability, identified gaps, and raised awareness of the GIFP, as well as solicited future activities and outputs for the Platform from potential users.
  • Provided an opportunity to identify further context specific knowledge products and other human-rights based resources on gender and CT and P/CVE to form part of the GIFP resource library.
  • Sought the views of GCTF Members and partners on ongoing or previously carried out capacity building activities on gender and CT to draw on lessons learned and best practices to inform the development of a UNOCT gender training for national CT centers.

Funding and Enabling Community-Level P/CVE: Challenges, Recommendations and Emerging Good Practices

The CVE Working Group, co-chaired by Australia and Indonesia, developed the GCTF Recommendations for Funding and Enabling Community-Level P/CVE, which identify good practices and mechanisms to enable local-level capacity for P/CVE, including in finance and compliance, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting. The document aims to serve as a guidance note to aid stakeholders planning to fund, develop and implement community-level P/CVE initiative and capacity-building programs.

The Recommendations draw on collated and diverse experiences related to funding and enabling community-level P/CVE, which were discussed in a series of six workshops (11 sessions) with a broad range of stakeholders from government, international organizations, civil society organizations, and the private sector.

The development of the Recommendations was supported by the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF), a GCTF Inspired Institution, as the implementing partner of this multi-year Initiative launched in 2021, and complements the GCTF National-Local Cooperation (NLC) Toolkit.

Initiative on the Practical Use of the GCTF Memorandum on Good Practices on National-Local Cooperation in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism

The CVE Working Group, co-chaired by Australia and Indonesia, developed a National-Local Cooperation (NLC) Toolkit and Implementation Checklist, which provides practical guidance and advice to support the operationalization of the GCTF Memorandum on Good Practices on National-Local Cooperation in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism. The Toolkit was presented at the Twenty-second GCTF Coordinating Committee Meeting in September 2023.

The NLC Toolkit and its Implementation Checklist aims to provide policy makers and practitioners with practical guidance and examples of good practice for enhancing national-local cooperation (NLC) for preventing and countering violent extremism conducive to terrorism (P/CVE). It is the product of a comprehensive consultation process involving hundreds of individuals, including national and local policy makers, civil society representatives, academics, multilateral and international organizations, as well as experts and practitioners in a range of practices related to P/CVE. It was supplemented through an extensive desktop survey of research and good practices in NLC for P/CVE that included relevant national and local strategies, action plans, legislation, academic publications, program reports, and toolkits. It is intended to support a “whole of society”, multidisciplinary approach to P/CVE that respects the “Do No Harm” principle.

The development of the Toolkit was supported by Strong Cities Network as the implementing partner of this multi-year Initiative launched in 2021, and complements the GCTF Recommendations for Funding and Enabling Community-Level P/CVE.