Consultations with relevant actors and analysis of electoral dynamics carried out in previous years clearly underscore that episodes of political violence are symptoms of a widespread crisis of mistrust between communities, populations, and authorities.

This crisis is characterised by human rights violations, weak community-based early warning and rapid response mechanisms, low civic engagement especially among young people, and the insufficient implementation of the mandate of some institutions responsible for overseeing electoral processes and preventing violence.

Through the development of Collaboration Frameworks, the PREVEL project focuses on strengthening conflict prevention mechanisms, community-based initiatives, and state institutions by various state and non-state actors in affected areas. The project thus contributes to providing a detailed and localised analysis of dynamics leading to political violence, focusing on anticipatory and preventive action with the help of the SCORE Index and the Political and Electoral Context Stability Barometer (BaSE-CI) reports. A key focus of the project lies in sustainably preventing divisions between supporters of different political leaders, thus managing community tensions before, during and after electoral periods.