Women In Agriculture & Rural Livelihoods
PATHWAY
Women, Coffee and Climate
Modern Day Slavery
P/CVE Project
Migrating out of Poverty - Ethiopia
ELLA Project
Call for Youth Researcher
Call for Youth Researcher (ICRW)
5S Ethiopia
TERMS OF REFERENCE — END-TERM EVALUATION
ToR-(CMS) — END-TERM-EVALUATION
Calls
COYOQA
Decolonizing Knowledge Systems
CBHI Project
Inclusive Mechanisms Targeting Youth for Countering Violent Extremism in the IGAD Region
The creation of an inclusive mechanism to mainstream youth and youth issues into interventions in Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) poses substantive conceptual, methodological and policy challenges. For the most part, young men and women make up the majority of actors- and “foot soldiers”- that embrace and actively engage in acts of violent extremism (VE). As the threat posed by VE deepens in Africa, especially, inter-governmental state and non-state institutions are investing time and resources to contemplate and implement innovative and collaborative solutions. However, there is still a plethora of gaps in the conceptual understanding of youth engagements in VE and in the current approaches put in place by state and non-state actors to CVE.
A longitudinal design and mixed method is deployed in this study, with emphasis on scholarly and action-oriented policy outputs. Placing premium on gender-disaggregated data, the study emphasizes in-depth contextual analysis of the structural factors that underpin youth exclusion, injustice vis-à-vis violence, extremism and radicalization. Three organizations: OSSREA (academia), PeaceNet(CSOs) and IGAD (Inter-governmental) are collaborating to bringing critical synergies and comparative advantages to the successful implementation of the project. The network will jointly engage in the co-production of new knowledge and interventions on multi-stakeholders engagement with youth in CVE. The overall aim is to generate new and richer body of knowledge and perspectives to inform evidence based policy interventions on CVE in two member states of the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD); (Kenya and Uganda), and across Africa.
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Research Methods Training
Research Methods Training was conducted in Mombasa from 10th April 2016 to 15th April 2016. The training capitalized on understanding how the intelligence skills can be deployed in order to ask the right questions and get right answers while collecting data. The second part of the training was to bring an academic who has knowledge about CVE methodology, which transcends beyond the conventional social science research methods. The objective of the training was to refine the CVE methodology and research tools, analysis and enhance the proper understanding of reporting. The research uptake strategy, monitoring and evaluation and the theory of change was revisited to check the connectivity with the entire research and empirical outfit that is to be expected.
The training concluded to adopt a bottom-up approach that should aim at targeting 90% youth, 30% policy makers and 30% households. The tools to be used include the questionnaires, interview guide and FGDs. It was also revised that the units of analysis should focus on interviews to be conducted in Kenya covering Nairobi, Mombasa county and Garissa county. Part of the research approach will include study visits to other cohorts from University of Dar-eslaam who have chosen to visit Isiolo and Uasin Gishu. The unit of analysis in Uganda targeted Gulu and Kitgum cluster, Mayuge cluster and Kampala.