This guide supports the gender-sensitive and gender-responsive implementation of National Action Plans for preventing violent extremism (PCVE). It emphasizes that gender-sensitive approaches go beyond focusing solely on women’s issues and instead consider the needs, capacities, and perspectives of women and men, including female and male youth, in the design and implementation of PVE initiatives.
The guide highlights the importance of ensuring equal participation in all PVE-related efforts and underscores the need to understand and analyze the different roles that women, men, and young people play within violent extremism, as well as the contributions they can make to prevention. It provides practitioners with considerations for integrating gender analysis into PCVE planning and programming.