Talk:Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund

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''Re: COI Editing. I am writing for my organization's article on Wikipedia and the original text has been drastically cut down. Here is the draft that I want to be developed. (note: This is not yet final, and there will still be additions left). Let me know your thoughts and suggestions on the article so it will be accepted as an official Wikipedia article:''Ace dcruz (talk) 10:13, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * You need to declare the COI clearly on your userpage. You also need to disclose your affiliation with this article using . Lastly, you need to request editing using . See Talk:Intesa Sanpaolo for a good example.
 * You've been told on your talkpage about the decline. The reviewer left you a comment. —Hexafluoride Ping me if you need help, or post on my talk 11:01, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, Hexafluoride. Where will I insert this in the article? The thing is I am a part of the organization, I am not paid solely for creating this article. Can you comment a bit on how the article stands now? Can I just cite our own organization's annual report for the data or do we need references that were not produced by my organization? Ace dcruz (talk) 13:40, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi! You should put the paid contributor template on this talk page, as it says in the template documentation. Even if you are editing just as part of your job, and you have other duties, you should use this template - because for the portion of your day you work on this article, you are being paid for that activity. Also, obviously, you have financial incentive to be positive about the organization.
 * As for the article, right now it looks a little bare - maybe the two lists could be made to have two columns, or have a little more information about the programs in each country, and how much each donor country gave. The sources look OK, but citing the annual report is not usually preferred. If you can find a third party who has verified the information, we would prefer that. It may also be preferable to take the information out, if you cannot find a source to corroborate.
 * I hope that helps! Please use the template in the future, instead of the  template, to request help from myself or . This helps to reduce noise for our helper system, and should still get you a fast response. --MarkTraceur (talk) 14:50, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) is a nonprofit foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland. It is the first global effort to support local, community-level initiatives aimed at strengthening resilience against violent extremist agendas.

The Guardian described the organization as "The world’s first global counter-terrorism “bank”."

The foundation was announced by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at the fourth Global Counterterrorism Forum Ministerial in New York, on September 27, 2013. On September 9, 2014, the foundation was officially established. A Headquarters Agreement conferring to GCERF the status of an international organisation in Switzerland was signed on 26 May 2015.

Twelve countries and the EU pledged over USD 25 million from both security and development sources.

As of 2016, approximately USD 15 million has been granted to projects in Bangladesh, Mali, and Nigeria. In 2016, projects in Kenya, Kosovo, and Myanmar were approved.

Beneficiary Countries


 * 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
 * 🇰🇪 Kenya
 * Kosovo
 * 🇲🇱 Mali
 * 🇲🇲 Myanmar
 * 🇳🇬 Nigeria

Donors


 * 🇦🇺 Australia
 * 🇨🇦 Canada
 * 🇫🇷 France
 * 🇯🇵 Japan
 * 🇲🇦 Morocco
 * 🇪🇺 European Union
 * 🇳🇱 Netherlands
 * 🇳🇿 New Zealand
 * 🇳🇴 Norway
 * 🇶🇦 Qatar
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * 🇺🇸 USA

Activities
GCERF's approach places emphasis on the potential of local communities to respond to violent extremism. GCERF funding is directed toward communities at risk of radicalisation to violent extremist agendas. GCERF empowers local actors to launch initiatives that provide innovative, lasting, constructive, and positive alternatives to what violent extremist groups claim to offer to vulnerable communities. GCERF currently has two streams of funding:

The Core Funding Mechanism (CFM) relies on eligible countries that have been Board approved to form a multi-stakeholder Country Support Mechanism that consults nationally on PVE priorities, and solicits interest from local community organisations for funding. Grant agreements will be signed in 2016 for a period of three years, covering the following types of initiatives:


 * prevent violent extremism (PVE) awareness raising and training on basic PVE concepts and techniques to prevent/resolve conflict and radicalisation to violent extremist agendas (sensitisation workshops, counter-narrative campaigns);
 * economic empowerment (vocational trainings, income generating activities, job placement);
 * interfaith dialogue (interfaith exchanges and collaboration in preventing violent extremism);
 * education (literacy training and integration of children in the school system);
 * arts, culture and sport (debate, essay competitions, arts and sport activities that bring together different cultural, ethnic, religious groups);
 * psychosocial and/or legal support (professional therapy and legal services);
 * PVE research (development of local PVE experts network).

The Accelerated Funding Mechanism (AFM) has been designed as a rapid response mechanism. The launching of the AFM is conditioned by a minimum level of contributions received and earmarked to this specific mechanism. Ace dcruz (talk) 14:01, 26 October 2016 (UTC)