The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) is a
nonprofit foundation
A foundation (also a charitable foundation) is a category of nonprofit organization or charitable trust that typically provides funding and support for other charitable organizations through grants, but may also engage directly in charitable act ...
based in
Geneva, Switzerland
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki ...
.
It is the first global effort to support local, community-level initiatives aimed at strengthening resilience against
violent extremist agendas.
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
described the organization as "The world’s first global counter-terrorism “bank”."
The foundation was announced by US Secretary of State
John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician and diplomat who currently serves as the first United States special presidential envoy for climate. A member of the Forbes family and the Democratic Party (Unite ...
and Turkish Foreign Minister
Ahmet Davutoglu
Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet.
Etymology
The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...
at the fourth
Global Counterterrorism Forum
The Global Counterterrorism Forum is an informal, apolitical, multilateral counter-terrorism (CT) platform that was launched officially in New York on 22 September 2011.
The GCTF's goal is to strengthen capabilities in order to develop a strategi ...
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.
Nineteen donors and the private sector have contributed more than USD 100 million for GCERF programming.
Partner countries
Countries receiving assistance are:
* Albania
* Bangladesh
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Burkina Faso
* Kenya
* Kosovo
* Mali
* Niger
* Nigeria
* North Macedonia
* Philippines
* Somalia
* Sri Lanka
* Tunisia
Donors
Donors are:
* Australia
* Canada
* Denmark
* France
* Germany
* Italy
* Japan
* Liechtenstein
* Morocco
* European Union
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* Norway
* Qatar
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* United Kingdom
* United States of America
References
{{Use dmy dates, date=January 2019
Organizations established in 2014
Organisations based in Geneva