Practical Learning for International Action

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects

CDA engages complex questions that unlock positive, systemic change wherever communities experience fragility and conflict. Sitting at the intersection of applied research, global policy, and local practice, we partner with humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding practitioners to develop practical resources and policy guidance for lasting change.

CDA's current projects and partnerships stand on the shoulders of our foundational research and 30 years of collaborative learning.

Do No Harm Reflecting on Peace Practice

Flagship Collaborative Learning Projects

Stopping As Success: Transitioning to locally led development

Environment-Fragility-Peace Nexus

Dealing with the Past Program/ Beirut Blast Response/ Restart organization/ Mar Mikhael, Beirut

Humanitarian Risk: From evidence to action

In peacebuilding and development partnerships, what enables responsible INGO transitions that make way for increased local leadership and ownership?

In contexts facing the dual threats of climate hazards and conflict, how can aid actors and peacebuilders address environmental change and conflict together?

What risk management policies and practices help – or hinder – teams and organizations to deliver humanitarian aid to people in need?

What Transformation Takes: Evidence of Responsible INGO Transitions to Locally Led Development Around the World

What Transformation Takes takes readers on a journey to examine diverse processes of responsible transitions from international non-governmental organizations to locally led entities.

Climate Change and Conflict in Ghana

This report explores growing concerns surrounding climate change and conflict in Ghana. However, if sufficiently supported, Ghana exhibits resiliency factors that may be critical to the country’s long-term stability.

Responding Amid Uncertainty and Managing Risk in Humanitarian Settings – Summary Findings Report

CDA and InterAction partnered to identify and understand risk management “traps” that limit organizations’ abilities to meet humanitarian needs and adapt to complex contexts, as well as the strategic changes that can break them.

Across the humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding nexus, how we work is just as important as what we do.

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