Building Evaluation Capacity to Improve Extremism Prevention: Best Practices for Developing Toolkits

Summary

There is growing consensus that P/CVE should build on evidence from past experiences, with high-quality evaluations central to this approach. However, a lack of evaluation expertise among P/CVE stakeholders hampers efforts to build a solid evidence foundation. While evaluation toolkits are increasingly available, little is known about what makes them effective. Based on analysis of available toolkits and interviews with developers and funders, this study presents best practices across the toolkit life cycle: user-centric design, accessibility, testing, outreach, and impact assessment. Recommendations for developers include involving target audiences from the start, testing drafts, and allocating resources for updates. Recommendations for funders include assessing capacity needs, embedding toolkits into broader support systems, and ensuring toolkit use can be monitored to build an evidence base on effective evaluation capacity-building.

Keywords

evaluation capacity, extremism prevention, M&E, GPPi