Khalid Koser
Executive Director, Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund
Khalid Koser

It is crucial to promote gender parity in efforts to prevent violent extremism. It is only through inclusion – by empowering, engaging, and integrating in their communities people of all genders and backgrounds – that we can hope to defeat the absolutist, exclusive, and lethal scourge of violent extremism.

I support the IGC Panel Parity Pledge.

I support the IGC gender-based violence pledge.

Personal Commitments

Increase the number of women-led organisations that GCERF funds
Ensure all grants signed in 2023 use GCERF gender and inclusivity guidance in programme development