GCERF

🌍412,000 people directly at risk of radicalisation. 22 countries. 70 active programmes.

Returnees rebuilding their lives. Youth choosing opportunity over violence. Communities resolving conflicts through dialogue.

That's community-led prevention in 2025.

The evidence is clear that it works. The question is whether its scale will ever match the scale of the threat.

💐We are grateful to @EU_FPI for its support in making this report possible. To our donors, partners, civil society organisations, and the communities on the frontlines - thank you for your support and commitment.

👉Rooted in Communities — GCERF's Annual Report 2025 → gcerf.org/annualreport20……

@stefanomanservi @GCERF_ED @AusAmbCT @DanishMFA @EU_Commission @EU_FPI @Ulkoministerio @francediplo_EN @GermanyDiplo @AA_stabilisiert @ItalyMFA @MFA_Lu @cooperation_lu @DutchMFA @MFATNZ @NorwayMFA @SweMFA @SwissMFA @FCDOGovUK @CenterCve
@Daniel_Frank @Lejdi_Dervishi

🌍 Meet the 2026 Carol Bellamy Leadership Awardees

👉 Next stop: Middle East and North Africa!

The Carol Bellamy Leadership Award (CBLA) honours the legacy of Carol Bellamy, former Chair of GCERF’s Governing Board, by supporting women leaders and women-led organisations working to prevent violent extremism.

Each award provides USD 2,000 for locally driven initiatives, with awardees identified and mentored by Torchbearers, local GCERF partner organisations.

🎉Thanks to @AuswaertigesAmt and Carol Bellamy herself, the award now reaches 24 countries in 2026!

Meet the awardees from Middle East and North Africa:
🔹 Iraq | Awardee: Afarah Ghalib | Torchbearer: Human Line Foundation (HLF)
🔹 Syria | Awardee: Mabader Foundation, led by Sahahira Ibo | Torchbearer: Salam for Hope Foundation
🔹 Yemen | Awardee: Afraa Hariri | Torchbearer: @ResonateYemen
🔹 Tunisia | Awardee: Sondess Sbai | Torchbearer: @ICCG_TUNIS

👇 Join us in celebrating these inspiring women and the organisations empowering their journeys.

More regions coming soon!

❓How should support for children returnees evolve as they grow into adolescence?

💡We explored this question during the latest meeting of the Global Action Platform Working Group on Rehabilitation and Reintegration (R&R), bringing together 40 participants for an important exchange on children's mental health, parental trauma, and the role of family-based support.

The meeting was co-chaired by Diadora Cërmjani, Clinical Psychologist and Project Manager at the Institute of Psychology, @Rektorati, Kosovo.

We were honoured to welcome three speakers who brought valuable perspectives and experiences from their respective contexts:

🔹Jeyana Ahmed, Program Manager, Salam for Hope Foundation, Syria
🔹Prof. Dr. Aliriza Arënliu, Full Professor of Psychology, Founder and Director of the Instituti i Psikologjisë, @Rektorati, Kosovo
🔹Iftikhor Karimov, Project Coordinator, Refugees, Children and Vulnerable Citizens (RCVC), Tajikistan

💐 A heartfelt thank you to our co-chair, speakers, and participants for contributing to this important discussion on children's mental health and the role of family support in fostering community resilience.

🌍 Meet the 2026 Carol Bellamy Leadership Awardees

Next stop: #CentralAsia!

The Carol Bellamy Leadership Award (#CBLA) honours the legacy of Carol Bellamy, former Chair of GCERF’s Governing Board, by supporting women leaders and women-led organisations working to prevent violent extremism.

Each award provides USD 2,000 for locally driven initiatives, with awardees identified and mentored by Torchbearers, local GCERF partner organisations.

Thanks to @AuswaertigesAmt and Carol Bellamy herself, the award now reaches 24 countries in 2026!

Meet the awardees from Central Asia:
🔹#Kyrgyzstan | Awardee: Kelechek led by Ursalieva Sabira | Torchbearer: @ToleranceF8208 (FTI)
🔹#Uzbekistan | Awardee: Nihol, led by Shirin Rashidova Afzalovna | Torchbearer: NGO Barqaror Hayot

Join us in celebrating these inspiring women and the organisations empowering their journeys. More regions coming soon! 👇

💬 “Everyone in this room holds a piece of the answer. But no one holds the whole answer.”

This week in Accra, around 80 participants from #government, #security institutions, #communities, #civil society, artisanal #miners, #financial actors and industry came together for our Regional Community of Practice (#RCOP), “The Resilience Revolution in West Africa.”

The message was clear: resilience cannot be built by one institution or sector alone. It takes partnership, community #ownership and coordinated #action.

Learn more here ➡️ bit.ly/4zZYeDn