The GCTF Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Working Group organised a virtual consultation through an online survey and a series of webinars under its Initiative on National-Local Cooperation in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism. The objective of this Initiative is to develop a Good Practices document to assist countries in enhancing national-local cooperation (NLC) across preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) issues. When finalized, these Good Practices can be used to contribute to the development and implementation of national action plans, sub-national action plans, and capacity-building programs at the national and/or sub-national levels.

SAINT JULIAN'S - Malta - Criminal Justice and Rule of Law (CJ-ROL) Working Group Co-Chairs, Nigeria and Switzerland, hosted the Second Expert Meeting within the Initiative on Criminal Justice Responses to the Linkages between Terrorism, Transnational Organized Crimes and International Crimes that focused on the Criminal Justice Responses to the Linkages between Terrorism, the Financing of Terrorism, Illicit Trafficking in Goods and Maritime Crimes.

SAINT JULIAN'S - Malta - Working Group Co-Chairs, Nigeria and Switzerland, held their Plenary Meeting in Malta on 11 February 2020.

LOME - Togo - Co-Chairs of the Capacity-building in the West Africa Region Working Group, Germany and Algeria, with the support of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), held the Third Plenary Meeting of the Working Group under their new Co-Chair mandate. 

NEW YORK - United States - Initiative Co-Leads, the United Nations and the United States of America hosted the Launch Event in New York, United States of America on 22 January 2020.