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Multi-Stakeholder Models for Local Prevention: Technical Evaluation and Learnings from Kumanovo, North Macedonia

Last updated:

16/09/2024

Publication Date:

04/01/2022

Content Type:

Research

Issues:

Multi-Actor Frameworks

The Strong Cities Network supported the launch of Kumanovo’s Community Action Team (CAT), a local multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder entity, in September 2019. The CAT aims to strengthen community resilience to violent extremism (VE) in Kumanovo, North Macedonia, through enhanced multi-agency collaboration and programming at the municipal level. In September 2021, the Strong Cities contracted an external consultant to conduct an evaluation of its support to the Kumanovo CAT to capture achievements, challenges and lessons learned to date, and provide recommendations to relevant government and non-government stakeholders regarding possible future project strategies and approaches.

Primary data was collected through a representative community-wide survey, focus group discussions (FGDs) and key informant interviews (KIIs). The community survey mirrors an earlier baseline survey conducted in February 2020 – results of which can be found in the Strong Cities Community Resilience Study – and was designed to be statistically representative of Kumanovo’s population. Both the baseline and the endline survey gathered information on community resilience to VE, drawing on the Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism (BRAVE-14) scale and a set of bespoke survey questions developed by the Strong Cities Management Unit. Secondary data collection involved a review of project documentation and other external publications.

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