Purpose

The Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Fund is a Crown fund set up to support community, civil society and non-government organisations to deliver initiatives that counter and build resilience to violent extremism and radicalisation.

The Fund recognises that civil society organisations and communities can have the most positive impact in delivery of community-based initiatives, particularly at a local level.

We want to increase and enhance awareness and understanding of radicalisation and violent extremism to empower individuals, whānau, communities and civil society to take actions that keep all of us safer.

What are the Fund's priorities?

Community and civil society organisations may apply for funding for initiatives that support and sustain national prevention and disengagement efforts in 3 areas.

1.Equip teachers, carers, parents and other relevant stakeholders with the knowledge and tools to safeguard young, marginalised or otherwise vulnerable individuals and groups from radicalisation to extreme violence.

Funded activities may include (but are not limited to) improving:

• recognition of warning signs, extremist narratives and other safeguarding concerns
• awareness of and intention to use reporting processes for hate incidents and crimes, terrorist and extremist content, and radicalisation concerns
• ability and intention to have difficult conversations about extremism and radicalisation.

2.Deliver positive online interventions that lower the risk of radicalisation to extreme violence.

Funded activities may include (but are not limited to) those that:

• improve individuals' ability to recognise and critically engage with information, particularly mis/disinformation, conspiracy theories and other harmful content (i.e. media and digital literacy)
• empower communities to conduct bystander interventions to disrupt online hate and harassment, and support victims
• conduct direct online engagements with vulnerable individuals to prevent further radicalisation and facilitate disengagement.

Any proposals at this level within a preventing and countering violent extremism framework must be able to demonstrate how the initiative directly contributes as a primary and/or secondary level prevention intervention, to preventing and countering violent extremism in Aotearoa New Zealand.

3.Strengthen general disengagement capabilities

Providing support to disengage individuals from radicalisation to violence is a specialist area. Those who lead and deliver this work – whether inside or outside government – need expertise and to be appropriately trained, qualified and supported. We want to increase and enhance awareness and understanding of radicalisation and violent extremism so that community providers who are providing violence or crisis prevention in adjacent sectors and/or are interested in community-led deradicalisation can learn how to work effectively in this area to deliver support and interventions with individuals on the path to radicalisation.

We are seeking proposals from organisations who can develop and deliver content (either in person or online learning modules) on radicalisation and violent extremism to upskill selected community social service providers and frontline practitioners (e.g. who may include NZ Police, Oranga Tamariki staff). Training content may include (but is not limited to) improving:

• awareness of extremist ideologies and narratives
• understanding of radicalisation pathways and warning signs
• knowledge of deradicalisation, disengagement, rehabilitation and reintegration (DDRR) approaches
• access to readily available evidence-based content, frameworks, tools and other resources for case management and risk assessment.

Providers interested in applying for funding under this priority must be able to:

• have access to existing (evidence-based) training content that can be used and adapted for a New Zealand context
• demonstrate ability to develop and deliver training programmes (provide evaluation or letters of support from working in a similar field)
• show how the training package could be scalable to different audiences and larger numbers, as well as being sustainable beyond the grant period.

What can be funded

Grants will be considered at approximately $50,000-80,000. Please discuss directly with advisors (pcve@dpmc.govt.nz) if you are submitting a budget higher than $150,000. Grants will be awarded based on strength of alignment with criteria and significant community outcomes. Applicants are encouraged to be creative and innovative in their ideas for applications.

Applications seeking support for projects funded through earlier funding rounds will be expected to show progress and achievements from that funding.

What cannot be funded

The Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Fund is not designed to support:

• research projects (however a portion could be used for evaluation purposes)
• projects that promote social cohesion or that counter racism or family violence.

Funding cannot be provided for:

• ongoing costs, such as subscriptions
• paying for items already purchased
• purchasing cash assets
• purchasing vehicles
• alcohol, cigarettes, tobacco, or vaping products
• gambling
• activities intended for pecuniary gain

When you can apply

Grant applications can be submitted from Wednesday, 24 July 2024 and up until Wednesday, 28 August 2024.

Each application will be considered on its own merit.

Who makes the funding decisions

Funding decisions are made by the Department of Internal Affairs based on recommendations from an interagency panel including representatives from the:

• NZ Police
• Security Intelligence Service
• Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
• Ministry of Social Development
• Department of Internal Affairs
• Department of Corrections
• Oranga Tamariki
• Ministry of Education.

What you need to apply

You will need a budget. Proposals and outcomes should be realistic and achievable within the budget and grant period.

You can also provide any other document you need to support your funding request.

You should also consider how you will evaluate your initiative.

Financial information

Your organisation will need to provide financial statements.

For more information on what your organisation may need to provide, follow the link below:

Financial statements

Reporting

Once your grant has been spent, you will need to complete an otinga kōrero (final results report) showing how you spent the grant.

More information on what is needed to report on a grant can be found here:

Results reports - Otinga Kōrero

Apply now

You can apply to the Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Fund using our online grants management system:

Logging into the grants management system