Strengthening Community resilience against extremism (SCORE) mid-term performance evaluation : final report
2019EnglishEvaluated task order title: Strengthening Community Resilience against Extremism (SCORE) | Project title: Democracy, human rights and governance - learning, evaluation and research (DRG-LER) | COR: Andrew Greer Conflict preventionCODE: 618; Kenya East Africa Regional Dev Office South Of Sahara
Metadata
- Contract/Code
- AID-OAA-M-13-00011 | GS-10F-0294V
- Institution
- 11933 - Social Impact, Inc. 40194 USAID. Bur. for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance. Center of Excellence on Human Rights Governance
- Keywords
- Associations | Communities | Governance | Leadership training | Participants | Rivers | Women | Youth JA35 Top/Education/Training/Leadership training (282.0) | Top/Management/Organizations/Associations (227.0) | Top/Population and demography/Population groups/Youth (209.0)
- ID
- PA00TRDD
- File size
- 1473 KB
- Source
- Open PDF
This evaluation assessed the effectiveness of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)?s Strengthening Community Resilience against Extremism (SCORE) program, which seeks to build the capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) and communities to counter violent extremism (CVE) and mitigate conflict. It is implemented by Act! from October 2014-September 2019. The evaluation team (ET) completed a desk review and in country data collection including key informant interviews (KIIs), focus group discussions (FGDs), and a mini survey. The evaluation concluded that SCORE approaches were correlated with observed changes in targeted communities (e.g., greater public awareness about CVE and conflict, decreased violent extremism (VE) recruitment, increased trust/tolerance between stakeholders, strengthened structures for responding to VE/conflict, etc.), though approaches varied in their success based on the operating context and how they were implemented by each sub grantee. Several SCORE activities have the potential for scaling or replication based on cost-effectiveness, though some would benefit from improvements or more research before a scaling decision is made. SCORE partially achieved its outcome of quickly intervening to mitigate incidents of VE and conflict through the Rapid Response Mechanism (RRF) mechanis - the mechanism achieved mitigation, though not as quickly as designed. SCORE?s capacitybuilding approach has been effective at increasing the capacity of sub-grantees, though additional capacity building in one or more areas is still required for the majority of sub-grantees. A few SCORE established and strengthened structures show evidence of beginning to be adopted or institutionalized by sub-grantees, national and county government entities, and communities, though future sustainability is not guaranteed beyond the short-term.