Book/Printed Material Development and pilot test of the RAND program evaluation toolkit for countering violent extremism

Title

• Development and pilot test of the RAND program evaluation toolkit for countering violent extremism

Summary

• "Countering violent extremism (CVE) requires addressing the conditions and reducing the underlying factors that give rise to radicalization and recruitment. Evaluations are critical for assessing the impact of community-based CVE programs and informing decisions about how to allocate often-scarce resources. Choosing the most rigorous evaluation approach a program can sustain will provide its staff and funders with the most accurate view possible of whether the program is achieving its goals or whether efforts should be continued, scaled up, or discontinued. The RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism was designed to help CVE program staff overcome common challenges to evaluating and planning improvements to their programs. This report summarizes the complementary methods used to develop the toolkit: a review of the evaluation literature on CVE programs; the development of a taxonomy of general types of CVE programs, their activities, and their target audiences; and interviews with CVE program managers to identify data collection practices and challenges to evaluation. This was followed by a pilot test of the draft toolkit with a subset of CVE program managers. Feedback from this pilot test informed revisions to the toolkit to ensure that it would serve as a helpful resource for CVE programs in evaluating their activities, informing resource allocations and program improvements, and ultimately reducing the risk of violent extremism in their communities."--Publisher's description.

Names

• Beaghley, Sina, author
• Helmus, Todd C. author
• Matthews, Miriam (Behavioral scientist), author
• Ramchand, Rajeev, author
• Stebbins, David, author
• Kadlec, Amanda, author
• Brown, Michael A., author
• Rand Corporation, publisher
• Rand Corporation. National Security Research Division, issuing body
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), issuing body
• International Security and Defense Policy Center, issuing body
• United States. Department of Homeland Security, sponsor

Created / Published

• Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2017]
• ©2017

Contents

• Introduction and Overview -- Development of the CVE Program Evaluation Toolkit -- Pilot Testing the Toolkit -- Conclusion

Headings

• -  Terrorism--Prevention--Handbooks, manuals, etc
• -  Terrorism--Prevention--Methodology--Evaluation
• -  Community policing
• -  Domestic terrorism--Prevention--Methodology

Notes

• -  "Prepared for the Department of Homeland Security"--Title page.
• -  Companion summary document to: RAND program evaluation toolkit for countering violent extremism (TL-243-DHS).
• -  Also available on the Internet as a PDF file.
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-38).
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource (xi, 38 pages) : illustrations.

Call Number/Physical Location

• HV6431

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2024738992

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2024738992

Rights Advisory

• This is non-restricted, fully open content that may be accessed on and off of the Library of Congress campus, with no restrictions, by an unlimited number of users

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2024738992

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