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LAPs seek to build a multisectoral approach to strengthening community resilience and addressing the root causes of violent extremism, polarisation and hate. For the purposes of this toolkit, the term ‘cities’ refers to all sub-national local government structures such as counties, states, provinces or municipalities.  \nThe SCN supports mayors, governors, policymakers and practitioners to apply their contextualised understanding of local environments in developing LAPs, enhancing national-local co-operation and implementing evidenced and co-ordinated grassroots-led prevention and resilience projects through a robust, trained local infrastructure. This toolkit builds upon the SCN’s experience in delivering locally led programmes and supporting action plan development in Kenya, Jordan, Lebanon and North Macedonia as well as international best practice from the SCN’s network of over 145 cities. Case studies are primarily drawn from SCN-funded projects in Kenya and supported by additional case studies from SCN programming globally. This toolkit was validated through extensive co-ordination with regional partners, including a workshop of 20 Kenyan stakeholders in November 2020.  \nThe Government of Kenya’s National Strategy to Counter Violent Extremism (NSCVE), published in 2016, paved the way for concrete national-local co-operation on security matters within Kenya. Over the past four years, a robust architecture of locally driven and nationally led strategy and programming has developed. This policy journey has not always been smooth, and implementation remains uneven, as this toolkit outlines. However, despite ongoing challenges, the Kenyan county action plan (CAP) model serves as an emerging practice for the East Africa region and ties into wider international efforts on LAPs. The importance of national and regional action plans was underlined by the adoption of the United Nations Plan ofAction to Prevent Violent Extremism which recommends an‘all-of-government’ multidisciplinary approach to action planning. This toolkit also borrows from the guidance set out by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) on action planning and other regional bodies such as the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) and the European Union (EU).  \nThis work is licensed under the CC-BY 4.0 International license ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)[/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/))  \nInstitute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is a company limited by guarantee, registered office address PO Box 75769, London, SW1P 9ER. ISD is registered in England with company registration number 06581421 and registered charity number 1141069.  \nAcknowledgements  \nIn the same way it takes a village to raise a child–or an LAP– it takes an entire team to produce a toolkit. Thankyou to our colleagues at Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) foryour guidance, input and reviewing – Daniel Hooton, Tim Hulse, Moustafa Ayad, Simeon Dukic, Besim Dogani and Veton Latifi.  \nWe would be remiss if we didn’t thank our colleagues from partner organisations who helped review the work and feed in their own experiences, ensuring this toolkit is based on real-world examples and lessons learned– Luqman Ahmed, Agnes Mwambila, Winnie Hachi, Bonventure Chengeck, Florence Osoo, Jonathan Rotino, Joseph Omondi, Walter Mwania and Shirley Otube.  \nFinally, we would like to thank all our government and civil society partners for their contributions to developing and implementing LAPs. Your passion, technical expertise and nonstop commitment to building community resilience is what makes this work possible. Without you, this toolkit would not exist.  \nThank you to the National Counter Terrorism Cen","cbCaivtDeVif7vpp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivtDeVif7vpp","pdf",1978033,62,"English","# About this toolkit\n## Purpose and scope\n## How the toolkit supports action planning\n## Policy and guidance foundations\n## Licensing and acknowledgements\n## About the authors","[{\"question\":\"Who is the toolkit designed for and what is it used to develop?\",\"answer\":\"The toolkit is designed for local governments and civil society organisations in East Africa. 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