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There Is a Need for a Comprehensive Toolkit to Help Community-Based CVE Programs Evaluate the Impact of Their Activities

• Community-based CVE programs represent a critical tool in the fight against all forms of extremism, but little is known about their effectiveness. This limits the degree to which programs and funders can make informed decisions about program improvements and whether to sustain, scale up, or discontinue program activities.

The RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism Incorporates the Latest Research and Feedback from CVE Program Managers

• The toolkit's development included a review of the CVE program evaluation literature, which offers guidance and measures for a range of program types, program goals, and target audiences.
• The toolkit is informed by research on existing CVE programs and their activities and target audiences. The toolkit's content, including checklists, worksheets, and templates, also address evaluation challenges reported by CVE program managers in a series of interviews.
• It is important that the toolkit remain user-friendly while guiding program staff through the evaluation process. Pilot testing the toolkit with CVE program managers helped ensure that users would be comfortable using the tools and that the instructions were clear and applicable to their evaluations.