Application Deadline: Sunday, 31 January 2021, 5:00 p.m.
The UNAOC Youth Solidarity Fund (YSF) supports youth-led organizations that foster peaceful and inclusive societies by providing seed funding to outstanding projects promoting intercultural and interfaith dialogue. It awards grants of up to USD 25,000 for the implementation of selected projects that demonstrate innovative and effective approaches to intercultural and/or interfaith dialogue and advance the mission of UNAOC. YSF only supports projects that are entirely developed and managed by youth and for the benefit of youth. The age definition used by UNAOC to characterize youth is an individual between the ages of 18 and 35.
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December 16, 2020 FEAR, intercultural clashes, conflict and destruction some of the issues that violent extremism fosters and aggravates, and in the Province of Maguindanao, this is no different.
For UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moons Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism, he encouraged member states to consider developing a national plan of action to prevent violent extremism, further setting national priorities for addressing the local drivers of violent extremism.
This then paved the way for the Department of the Interior and Local Government to launch a nationwide campaign and created the Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Program Management Office last June, 2018.