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Tech camp participants were highly satisfied with most aspects of training

• People who attended the tech camps felt that they learned useful skills, had high levels of support, and were in an open and collaborative environment.
• Participants came away from the tech camps feeling that they had improved abilities to use social media to support CVE campaigns. In addition, they felt that they had improved their public speaking skills.

PPF fellows felt the program was highly rewarding and went on to create a variety of projects

• Both PPF fellows and program implementers felt that the program was successful. Fellows felt that they were making a difference in their communities, and program implementers felt that the program allowed the fellows to learn through putting ideas into practice.
• Most PPF fellows went on to start community-based programs that focused on teaching community members about the conflict on Mindanao and how communities could work to promote peace in their localities.
• Projects varied in their use of social media and face-to-face communication (workshops and information sessions). When PPF fellows did use social media in their projects, they almost always used Facebook as their primary platform.

The Philippines continues to experience the travails of militant violence, much of which is focused on the southern island of Mindanao and its neighboring Sulu archipelago. Equal Access International (EAI) trained local civil society members on Mindanao to design and implement locally based countering violent extremism (CVE) campaigns. This training was provided through two five-day tech camps. EAI then selected 11 activists from the tech camps to participate in a six-month Peace Promotion Fellowship (PPF) program. This program offered mentorship and funding for these activists to implement their own community-based micro-CVE campaigns.

To evaluate the process of implementing this program, RAND researchers conducted in-depth interviews with the 11 PPF fellows and the EAI staffers charged with running the program. During these interviews, researchers also asked the PPF fellows about their experience during the tech camps. This report contains a series of recommendations that are based on the information gained from these interviews to improve future tech camp and PPF programming.

The authors of this report include research from a study of EAI CVE radio programming on Mindanao.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Tech Camp Assessment

• Chapter Three

  Peace Promotion Fellowship Assessment

• Chapter Four

  Conclusion

• Appendix A

  Interview Instruments

• Appendix B

  Tech Camp Assessment Instrument Results

• Appendix C

  Summary of Peace Promotion Fellowship Projects

• Appendix D

  Results of a Study of Countering Violent Extremism–Themed Radio Programming in Mindanao