🌍 Droughts. Floods. Displacement. When climate pressures destabilise communities, violent extremist groups move in - recruiting, fundraising, and exploiting the instability left behind. The @theGCTF Nairobi Toolkit on Addressing the Nexus Between Climate Change and Violent Extremism Conducive to Terrorism is officially out. 🤝 Co-led by Germany and Kenya and developed by GCERF as implementing partner, the toolkit gives governments and practitioners concrete recommendations to tackle both crises together. What's inside: • A framework mapping 5 pathways linking climate change and violent extremism • 25 actionable recommendations across prevention, security, development and climate sectors • Guidance for whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches in fragile, climate-affected settings • Case studies from the Sahel, Horn of Africa, Southeast Asia, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Europe 💐 Thank you to all workshop participants, partners, and to @AndreAR1025, Head of Performance and Impact at GCERF, for steering this important work. Explore the toolkit: gcerf.org/.../Climate-Change…... @AuswaertigesAmt @MahintanaFdn @AidGateOrg @DeemYemen @ICCG_TUNIS @WEP_Nigeria @stefanomanservi @GCERF_ED @PalazzoloKatya

The 26th GCTF #CoordinatingCommittee Meeting marks 15 years of achievement and impact. 🇪🇺@EU_EEAS 🇪🇬@MFAEgypt #GCTF26CC #Counterterrorism 👉Web article: thegctf.org/What-we-do/News/…

New GCTF #Toolkit – supported by @theGCERF under the mandate of #ClimateChangeAndVE Leads 🇩🇪@GermanyDiplo 🇰🇪@NCTC_Kenya – helps policymakers and practitioners address the nexus between peace, security, and climate change. 👉thegctf.org/What-we-do/News/…

Productive @theGCTF Coordinating Committee meeting today. Together with @Kemlu_RI I provided an update on the excellent work of the CVE Working Group, and discussed responses to emerging threats accelerating the spread of harmful ideologies #PCVE #counterterrrorism

FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION #PressRelease: Global Counterterrorism Forum marks 15th anniversary, launches new resource and Initiative #GCTF26CC #Counterterrorism 👉Press release: thegctf.org/What-we-do/News/…

.@theGCERF and #theGCTF continue to partner on key priorities including rehabilitation, reintegration, community resilience, and prevention capacities before vulnerabilities become more deeply entrenched. #GCTF26CC #Counterterrorism #GCTFInspiredInstitutions 👉thegctf.org/About-us/Inspire…

.@UN_OCT – representing the UN Global Counterterrorism Coordination Compact – continues to spearhead UN counterterrorism efforts anchored in the rule of law, human rights, and gender quality, cooperating with #theGCTF on shared priorities. #GCTF26CC #Counterterrorism 👉thegctf.org/Our-partners/Uni…

.@Hedayah_CVE participates with Members and partners of #theGCTF to share lessons learned and focus collective efforts to achieve sustainable impact in countering terrorism. #GCTF26CC #Counterterrorism #GCTFInspiredInstitutions 👉thegctf.org/About-us/Inspire…

In its mission to empower criminal justice practitioners in terrorism and transnational criminal cases, @iijmalta regularly leverages and contributes to GCTF resources in its research and analytical work on CT and PCVE. #GCTF26CC #Counterterrorism #GCTFInspiredInstitutions 👉thegctf.org/About-us/Inspire…

Announcing #theGCTF Initiative on Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Emergencies Caused by Acts of Terrorism, led by 🇲🇦@Marocdiplo_EN and 🇪🇸@SpainMFA. #CBRN #26CC #Counterterrorism 👉Learn more: thegctf.org/What-we-do/News/…

#theGCTF Members and partners discuss the Forum’s priorities, including terrorist exploitation of new and emerging technologies and the GCTF’s role in the global counterterrorism infrastructure. #GCTF26CC #Counterterrorism 👉thegctf.org/About-us/GCTF-Co…

#theGCTF Members and partners convene today for the 26th #CoordinatingCommittee Meeting. Host and Co-Chair 🇪🇺@EU_EEAS along with Co-Chair 🇪🇬@MFAEgypt provide opening remarks. #GCTF26CC #Counterterrorism

Leads 🇩🇪@GermanyDiplo 🇰🇪@NCTC_Kenya of the Initiative on Addressing the Nexus Between #ClimateChange and #ViolentExtremism conducive to terrorism, with implementing partner @theGCERF, launched a new toolkit on the margins of #GCTF26CC. 👉thegctf.org/What-we-do/News/…

It was a pleasure for IIJ Executive Secretary Naoufel Gaied to meet with Nuria Reigosa González @SpainMFA, on the margins of @theGCTF Coordinating Committee meeting in Brussels. Their discussion reaffirmed Spain’s renewed support for the IIJ, a shared commitment to prioritizing assistance for Africa and the Middle East, and the importance of placing victims of terrorism at the heart of international efforts to combat terrorism. The IIJ looks forward to continuing this strong partnership.

Emerging technologies can foster stronger justice systems. At #GCTF26CC, Co-Chairs 🇮🇹@ItalyMFA_int and 🇳🇬@nctconsa, together with @iijmalta, exchanged views on recent work and upcoming priorities, including the use of #AI in #counterterrorism cases. 👉thegctf.org/What-we-do/News/…

At our 24th Board Meeting, the world’s leading donors and partners on preventing violent extremism reaffirmed their collective commitment to prevention and sent a clear signal that it is a strategic investment to protect. Three things stood out: 📊Evidence must shape policy, not just report it. Our partners called on GCERF to bring its decade of field-level results into the heart of global policy processes - the GCTF reform, the UN CT Strategy review, and beyond. The evidence base GCERF has built is not just a monitoring tool. It is an asset. 🤝Prevention needs a broader coalition and a bolder voice. Our partners reiterated the need to stand up collectively in global forums — as governments that have seen prevention work — and to communicate the impact of GCERF-funded programmes on development, social cohesion and community resilience. 🔄The prevention agenda must evolve with the evolving challenges. The threats are changing faster than the responses, and the organisations willing to follow the evidence into new ground are the ones that will matter most in the decade ahead. What emerged from these two days in Geneva is clear: our partners are ready to fight harder for prevention, in more places, and with more urgency than ever before. 💐Thank you to all financial partners for your continued trust, investment, and commitment to communities on the front lines. @stefanomanservi @GCERF_ED @AusAmbCT @DanishMFA @eu_eeas @Ulkoministerio @francediplo_EN @GermanyDiplo @AA_stabilisiert @ItalyMFA @MFA_Lu @cooperation_lu @DutchMFA @MFATNZ @NorwayMFA @SweMFA @SwissMFA @FCDOGovUK @CenterCve @Daniel_Frank @Lejdi_Dervishi @GCERF_ED

📍in Hague 🇳🇱, the IIJ convened an Operational Dialogue on International Judicial Cooperation and Evidence Sharing in Counter-Terrorism Cases Involving Iraq, with the support of the 🇬🇧 @FCDOGovUK and in partnership with 🇮🇶’s National Centre for International Judicial Cooperation (NCIJC). Bringing together 40 senior criminal justice practitioners from Iraq and 11 jurisdictions across 🇪🇺, 🇨🇦 & 🇦🇺 alongside representatives from key international and regional actors, including @Eurojust, @Europol, & @INTERPOL_HQ. As Iraq's justice system faces growing operational demands following large-scale transfers of ISIS/Da'esh-linked detainees from northeast Syria, participants worked through the real challenges: getting foreign-gathered evidence to stand up in court, navigating mutual legal assistance requests and ensuring cross-border investigations do not stall.

GCERF at the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF)'s Eighth Partnership Dialogue! As one of the GCTF-Inspired Institutions, GCERF colleagues shared concrete progress across several of the Forum's priority areas including community resilience across Africa, disengagement and rehabilitation in prisons, climate change and violent extremism conducive to terrorism and prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration of former terrorists and their families in Central Asia. Thank you to the GCTF and its Co-Chairs - @MfaEgypt and @eu_eeas for convening such an important dialogue. @stefanomanservi @Hedayah_CVE @iijmalta

📍 Abidjan Recently, GCERF participated in the Regional Workshop on Terrorism Financing in West Africa organised by @theGCTF in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The workshop brought together prosecutors, investigators, financial intelligence units (CENTIFs), international partners, and private sector actors to exchange experiences and strengthen regional cooperation on countering terrorism financing across West Africa and the Sahel. During the workshop, Dr Youssouf Ouattara, GCERF’s National Advisor for Burkina Faso, presented an overview of the prevailing patterns and channels of terrorism financing specific to the Sahel region. Drawing from GCERF’s work in Burkina Faso and neighbouring countries, he shared the following key insights: 🌐 GCERF’s community-based prevention approach for strengthening community resilience and economic opportunities for youth, women, former combatants and other at-risk groups prevent individuals from indulging in terrorism financing activities. 💡 GCERF’s regional community practice framework allows community-based organisations to mutually learn good practices for reducing vulnerability to violent extremism and terrorism financing networks. We also appreciated the opportunity to connect with regional and international partners to explore future collaboration and knowledge-sharing opportunities in border areas affected by insecurity.