Reducing Vulnerability to Violent Extremism in Kenya through Social and Economic Interventions

Summary

This research report uses analysis of data from Mercy Corps’ Collective Resilience Against Extremism (CREATE) programme to help fill two key evidence gaps: 1) what matters for reducing vulnerability to VEO recruitment, and 2) what activities and approaches are most effective in increasing resilience among the highest-risk individuals. The CREATE programme operates in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, and seeks to demonstrate how to identify and engage with at-risk individuals and how interventions that provide holistic packages of personal guidance, knowledge, and access to opportunities can be an effective means of reducing their vulnerability to radicalisation and recruitment.

Keywords

resilience, violent extremism, economic and social interventions.

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