Contextualised and community-centered approaches are critical in ensuring sustainability and inclusivity in PVE interventions.  
  • UNDP promotes meaningful participation, active engagement and empowerment of women, girls and youths so that programming addresses their specific needs, while challenging harmful masculinities and addressing youth vulnerability. 
  • By empowering grassroots civil society organisations and prioritising support to women-led organisations to address unequal gender norms, and engaging youths due to their vulnerability to violent extremism, this involves them in the design, implementation, and monitoring of PVE policies and interventions. This ensures inclusivity in the design, delivery and advocacy for PVE programming.
  • In Central Asia alone, UNDP formed a total of 27 PVE Advisory Groups to enable government, civil society, and local actors to work together in identifying and addressing the drivers of violent extremism at the local level. To ensure women’s participation for gender-sensitive approaches, these groups comprise of at least 50% female representatives.

27

PVE Advisory Groups

formed in Central Asia alone for inclusive programming

50%

minimum female representation

for gender-sensitive approaches

  • UNDP also fostered innovative solutions to address the interconnected Humanitarian, Development and Peace (HDP) challenges, by ensuring evidence-based and innovative programming 
  • Partnering with the private sector, including social media and data analytics organisations and public CSOs also provides the technical expertise and reach that enhances PVE programming. 
  • In Southeast Asia alone, partnering with social media companies and content creators with a collective following of at least 25 million allowed anti-hate speech content to be disseminated to a larger audience. 

  • The formation of Advisory Groups capacitates representatives to stand for community interests, conduct dialogues and exchanges, and design development solutions to be implemented jointly by local governments, non-governmental and private sectors, and local communities, including youth and women-led organisations.