GCERF fails to validly measure rehabilitation of Returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters - Western Balkans

The Global Community Engagement Resilience Fund (GCERF) (gcerf.org) has been funding organizations in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania, and North Macedonia to deliver psychological services to Returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters to enable them to become first, rehabilitated, and then reintegrated into their communities. Unfortunately, GCERF has failed to provide any valid measures of rehabilitation for these foreign terrorist fighters despite making claims of achieving subsequent reintegration for these fighters as shown by the absence of any rehabilitation outcome indicators in their "Results from Round 1 and Round 2 Funding in the Western Balkans (2020-2025)" report.In this episode, Dr. Wand recommends that GCERF draw upon 4 valid measures of rehabilitation specific to Returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters, including the Violent Extremism Risk Assessment VERA and the TRAP-18 (Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol) psychometric tools.He also identifies flaws in statistical analysis such as aggregating outcome indicators across different projects within a country as well as aggregating outcome indicators across different countries that hinders GCERF's ability to use evaluation results to improve service delivery at the project level. He also notes the improper use of comparing averages of percent indicators rather than using medians that fails to recognize extreme percent values that can distort the overall percent indicator.For receiving a discount on the products recommended when visiting the Global South, use the following link: https://mydeals.page/1hjlDonate here: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZAQD8888DEDXLOr at buymeacoffee.com/davidwand to help the podcast.