Grants and Contributions

This project aims to strengthen women's leadership among state and justice institutions across coastal Kenya in preventing or countering violent extremism (P/CVE). It seeks to achieve this through activities that foster institutional and cultural shifts that promote women's inclusion and create an enabling environment for women's leadership in P/CVE. The project aims to strengthen collaboration between women in security and justice roles and local communities. It does so through community security dialogues and specialized P/CVE training for security and justice actors. The project also seeks to provide leadership training and a mentorship program for women in security and justice institutions. These activities aim to build trust, encourage cooperative security measures, and integrate women's perspectives into broader P/CVE strategies.

This project aims to support a safer, more cohesive, and peaceful online and offline environment in Ethiopia. This project targets a cohort of stakeholders who hold influence and credibility online and offline. The stakeholder groups include online information providers, individuals managing private digital groups, civil society actors, Ethiopian diaspora, the government of Ethiopia and social media companies. The project primarily benefits Ethiopian civilians. Project activities include: (1) training and coaching for Ethiopian stakeholders to address misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech in online and offline spaces; (2) facilitating peer learning and networking to improve coordination among stakeholders; and (3) funding campaigns and initiatives designed by stakeholders to promote safer online and offline spaces.

Building on the achievements and stakeholder relationships of Phase I to institutionalize the peace education curriculum across the Tunisian primary education system, Search for Common Ground is aiming to support the Ministry of Education (MoE) in the roll-out of the peace education curriculum to all Tunisian primary schools, training inspectors and teachers, as well as the development of additional accompanying materials to the curriculum, thereby enhancing the MoE’s efforts to reform the Tunisian education system, while building the capacity of teachers and MoE staff to integrate peace, gender, and human rights considerations into teaching and educational activities.Search will also continue to support local civil society organizations and Peace Clubs in youth centers to further build their capacity to instill civic values, while increasing their sustainability and a stronger connection to the Ministry of Education component.

This project aims to consolidate social cohesion in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger by addressing conflict triggers, including online information monitoring. It also aims to promote credible, factual and constructive information. The project focuses on a regional approach by supporting national early warning systems that allow a collaborative risk management approach. This regional approach adopts greater flexibility to redeploy activities to other areas when required.

Project activities include: (1) creating a digital threat monitoring training program for civil society actors; (2) producing and disseminating positive and inclusive message on social medias in response to violent digital threats and disinformation; and (3) organizing local, national and regional forums to facilitate the coordinated, positive and inclusive management of digital threats with civil society, local authorities, law enforcement, and security forces.

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This 18 month project was developed by Search for Common Ground. The project seeks to provide immediate responses to reduce community violence and protect civilians, while helping to reinforce social cohesion and address the root causes of conflicts.

This project aims to reinforce community resilience against disinformation in Mali’s northern and central regions to improve conflict prevention and the security situation. Specifically, the project aims to strengthen multi-stakeholder coordination and collaboration for communicating messages and information that are verified, impartial and conflict-sensitive. These actions will improve the early-warning systems and foster dialogue to prevent violent conflicts in Bamako and in Mali’s northern and central regions (Gao, Mopti, Ségou). The project will also build capacity for youth, women and local authorities in conflict transformation, leadership, positive and conflict-sensitive communication, rumour management and advocacy for peace and stability in Mali.

The project’s activities include: (1) providing training on social communication, leadership and disinformation; (2) organizing forums for community expression and peace initiatives; (3) leading awareness campaigns without social media and the radio; (4) providing training for media professionals; (5) organizing workshops on early-warning mechanisms.

This project aims to respond to the unrest and the escalation of violence caused by disinformation leading up to and following the 2020 Myanmar general election. The proposed initiative will engage with media in Myanmar, increasing their awareness of effective information and rumour management systems to mitigate election violence and misinformation. It will also build community resilience against violence and misinformation in diverse communities by enhancing the skills, knowledge and capacities of youth, civil society, women and media in the four states Rakhine, Shan, Kachin and Kayah.

This project proposes supplementing the response to Ebola through stabilization and peacebuilding efforts. The project aims to help contain the spread of Ebola, and reduce the community's violent resistance and mistrust of the Ebola response in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The project also aims to build trust between communities and non-medical state actors, such as elements of the police, loyalist members of the DRC armed forces, administrative officials and media leaders who play a key role in response activities. Interventions such as community dialogues and participatory theatre work to bring together key stakeholders, including women and youth, and reduce the security dilemma in favour of local government, thereby enhancing existing stabilization interventions. These activities take place in Butembo and Beni, North Kivu, where most of the Ebola crisis has spread and where community engagement can strategically support the Ebola response.

This project seeks to engage women in local and national peace processes through increasing the capacity of women and men mediators; building bridges between grassroots women peacebuilders and established women’s groups that are already engaged in national Track I and II of the peace processes; and transforming norms around gender roles. Project activities include: (1) providing training to mediators; (2) organizing inclusive community dialogues; (3) establishing conflict resolution committees; (4) establishing a mentorship program for young women; and (5) conducting a communications campaign. This holistic approach aims to ensure the meaningful participation of a diversity of Yemeni women in peacebuilding and the amplification of their voices into the national peace process.

Other transfer payments to non-profit institutions and other organizations