GCTF Initiatives 2024 - 2025

GCTF Initiative on Education for the Prevention and Countering of Violent Extremism Conducive to Terrorism

The Abu Dhabi Memorandum for Good Practices on Education and Countering Violent Extremism (Abu Dhabi Memorandum), endorsed in September 2014 at the Fifth GCTF Ministerial Meeting sets out an array of non-binding good practices on how education can be used as an effective way by policymakers, teachers and educators, community-based and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and families and parents to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE) conducive to terrorism. As a follow up, the Abu Dhabi Plan of Action for Education and Countering Violent Extremism (the Action Plan) provides an illustrative list of non-binding recommendations for the practical use of the good practices outlined in the Abu Dhabi Memorandum.

Co-led by the European Union and Morocco, the Initiative on Education for the Prevention and Countering of Violent Extremism Conducive to Terrorism (P/CVE) was launched in 2023 and sought to build on and operationalize the Abu Dhabi Memorandum and the Action Plan through the creation of several key resources:

• Research Brief
• Training Manual on Education for the Prevention and Countering of Violent Extremism Conducive to Terrorism
• Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Toolkit on Education for the Prevention and Countering of Violent Extremism Conducive to Terrorism
• Addendum to the Abu Dhabi Memorandum for Good Practices on Education and Countering Violent Extremism

Several activities were conducted between 2023-2025 within the Initiative framework with the following objectives:

• Documenting and exploring lessons learned and successes based on or relevant to the use of the good practices set out in the Abu Dhabi Memorandum;
• Proposing practical solutions to assist educators in building learners' resilience to violent extremism and facilitating rehabilitation and reintegration processes, as well as mitigating the drivers of the phenomena through tailored Training of Trainers programs devised and delivered by Hedayah;
• Developing and recommending non-binding and high-level indicators to support efforts to monitor and evaluate programming or policies in line with or responding to the Abu Dhabi Memorandum.