Civic participation is involvement in individual or group activities to benefit:
- a community
- governance
- democratic processes.
Outcomes
This indicator supports an outcome of Resilience.
Ways to measure
Some ways to measure:
- online and offline civic engagement among young people
- online civic engagement scale
- offline civic engagement scale.
See the Countering Violent Extremism Evaluation Indicator Document [pages 30-45] for practical suggestions on ways to measure, such as:
- survey instruments
- example questions
- using administrative data.
Evaluations that use this indicator
- Evaluation of a Multi-Faceted, U.S. Community-Based, Muslim-Led CVE Program, Michael Williams, John Horgan, William Evans, US Department of Justice, 2016
- Evaluation of the COMPACT Program, Wise, P., Roberts S. Formosa, J. and Chan, A., Urbis, 2018
- More Than A Game Evaluation Report, McDonald, K., Grossman, M. and Johns, A., Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, Victoria University, 2012
- First Steps Towards Hearts and Minds? USAID's Countering Violent Extremism Policies in Africa Daniel P. Aldrich, 2014, Terrorism and Political Violence, 26:3, 523-546, DOI