28 February 2024
The CVE Working Group (CVE WG) Co-Chairs, Australia and Indonesia, took stock and celebrated the successes of delivered activities to establish more cross-functional partnerships for cohesive and integrated approaches to preventing and countering violent extremism conducive to terrorism (P/CVE) moving forward. Key achievements of the CVE WG over the last 2 years are the two GCTF Framework Documents endorsed at the Twenty-Second Coordinating Committee Meeting in New York in September 2023: The GCTF Recommendations for Funding and Enabling Community-Level P/CVE and the GCTF National-Local Cooperation (NLC) Toolkit.
The participants reflected on the great strides that have been made to bring together GCTF Members, partners, and civil society organizations, to report on and share the steps stakeholders have taken to prevent, counter, and address the conditions conducive to the spread of violent extremism conducive to terrorism.
In this Plenary meeting the priority issues undertaken under the five focus areas of the Work Plan 2022 – 2024 were reviewed, and special attention was given to operationalizing GCTF Framework Documents and previously developed initiatives and identifying opportunities for collaboration with other GCTF Working Groups, and global counterterrorism partners including the GCTF-Inspired Institutions and the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact.
The CVE Working Group Co-Chairs are keen to promote regional and global efforts to further implement the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and the United Nations counterterrorism framework more broadly, including possible collaboration with the UN.