Civil Society Empowerment Programme (CSEP) – Peer learning sessions

A new paper | January 2021

RAN hosted two digital sessions that aimed at facilitating peer to peer learning amongst the 20 CSEP projects, which all received EU funding to conduct P/CVE alternative or counter narrative campaigns. During these sessions, the projects were asked to demonstrate to their peers what they had learned and how they overcame challenges relating to their campaign activities.

Although the projects have a shared framework, there is significant degree of variation amongst them. Some focus on videos, others use online games or workshops or a combination of different tools and formats. The RAN facilitated this sharing of insights by creating a digital safe space which allowed for all participating projects to openly share good and less successful practices.

This paper captures the most common challenges faced by the projects and their lessons learned to help other civil society organisations benefit from the learnings of the CSEP projects when creating alternative or counter narrative campaigns.