CDA Perspectives Blog
Promoting Accountability and Feedback Loops, Conflict Sensitivity, Peacebuilding Effectiveness, and Responsible BusinessView posts by category: accountability and feedback loops | conflict sensitivity | peacebuilding effectiveness | responsible business operations | corruption in fragile states series
The CDA Perspectives blog is maintained by CDA Collaborative Learning Projects (CDA). It is intended to share reflections, present information and provoke debate and conversation. On the blog, we share personal experiences of working towards improving impacts of interventions in contexts of conflict and fragility, and findings from collaborative learning projects. In most cases, we discuss issues related to CDA’s practice areas. In addition to our staff contributors, we invite colleagues and partners to share their experiences, and host blog post series.
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Participation in Decision-Making Would Truly be a Revolution
Share this article So how are we doing when it comes to participation of crisis-affected people in decision making processes that affect their lives? “Participation is a buzzword. If it doesn’t match the authentic philosophy of the...
Commentary to the Colombian case studies developed by CDA and Fundación Ideas para la Paz on the role of businesses in peacebuilding
Share this article These comments were published previously in Spanish in the Blog of the Colombian Academy of International Law (ACCOLDI). They were prepared in a context where dialogue between academics and civil society...
Getting to Locally Led Development: What We Can Do to Move the Needle
Share this article This post was originally written by USAID LEARN and posted here on the USAID Learning Lab blog, on August 6th, 2018, and is reposted with permission. To watch the presentation about “Time to Listen: Five...
Sept 5th: A Talk with Rob Ricigliano—A Systems Approach to Social Change
On September 5th at 6pm (EST), CDA's event featuring Rob Ricigliano will be livestreamed on Youtube. For those who are interested in joining the audience remotely, you should bookmark this page so that you can watch the event, which will "go live" on this...
Do humanitarian agencies really NEED to be accountable to communities?
Share this article This post was originally written for and posted here on the CDAC Network blog, on June 11, 2018, and is reposted with permission. By Sharon Reader, Community Engagement and Accountability Senior Advisor with IFRC...
“From Feedback to Action” Why so much talk and so little action?
Share this article Technological advances have compelled the humanitarian sector to become increasingly more digitally versed. Progressively, the use of mobile and digitally based tools provide humanitarian agencies with the...
INGOs as yeast, not the flour
Share this article In 2012, CDA’s book Time to Listen: Hearing People on the Receiving End of International Aid called for a paradigm shift in how international assistance is conceptualized, funded, implemented and evaluated. We...
The big shift that police and justice professionals need to make in fragile states
Share this article When operating in fragile states, donors and implementers working in the police, justice and corrections space need to incorporate a complexity lens if programs are to effectively respond to the realities of the...
Two Insights from an Experiment in Collective Corruption Resistance
Share this article With every experimental action, there needs to be feedback (informal and formal monitoring and evaluation), reflection and adaptation. Kuleta Haki, an experiment in collective corruption resistance in Democratic...
Third Party Monitoring in Volatile Environments – Do the Benefits Outweigh the Risks?
Share this article The use of third party monitoring as a risk management tool in volatile countries raises important quality, ethical, and technical issues. This post was originally written for and posted here on the World Bank...
What Worked: Fighting Corruption Through Collective Action
Share this article “The central contribution of the Network [for its members] is that members no longer feel alone in the fight against corruption during their individual actions of resistance.” - Kuleta Haki Transition Review,...
The Risky Business of De-Risking in Fragile and Conflict Affected States
Share this article The need for conflict sensitive policy for private sector development by Brian Ganson, Head, Africa Centre for Dispute Settlement Our two-year research project on the private sector as a peacebuilding actor allowed...