Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund


The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund is a nonprofit foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland. It is the first global effort to support local, community-level initiatives aimed at strengthening resilience against violent extremist agendas.
The Guardian described the organization as "The world’s first global counter-terrorism “bank”."
The foundation was announced by US Secretary of State John Kerry and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at the fourth Global Counterterrorism Forum Ministerial in New York, on 27 September 2013. On 9 September 2014, the foundation was officially established. A Headquarters Agreement conferring to GCERF the status of an international organisation in
Switzerland was signed on 26 May 2015.
Twelve countries and the EU pledged over USD 25 million from both security and development sources.
As of 2016, approximately USD 15 million has been granted to projects in Bangladesh, Mali, and Nigeria. In 2016, projects in Kenya, Kosovo, and Myanmar were approved.

Beneficiary countries

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