The Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has launched the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund's (GCERF) Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE) project in 15 districts across the North East, Upper East, and Upper West regions.
The project, which will be implemented in border districts, aims to strengthen the resilience of communities against violent extremism.
Dubbed 'Bridging the Gap: Promoting Socio-Economic Inclusion, Social Cohesion, and Peacebuilding for Vulnerable Communities,' the initiative seeks to empower vulnerable communities by fostering socio-economic inclusion, enhancing social cohesion, and building resistance to extremist influences.
Speaking to journalists in Tamale at the launch of the project on Monday, Peter Annor Mensah, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at CDD-Ghana, explained that violent extremist groups operating in Ghana's neighboring countries can exploit inter-group conflicts and unresolved grievances in border communities to spread their ideologies. "We are looking at the vulnerabilities of communities to violent extremism.
