CDA Perspectives Blog

Promoting Humanitarian Accountability, Peacebuilding Effectiveness, and Business and Human Rights

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The CDA Perspectives Blog is maintained by CDA colleagues, with guest authors welcome to write in their personal capacity, sharing reflections, presenting information and provoking conversation on themes relevant to CDA’s areas of focus. 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. 

 

Check out CDA’s other blog series: From Where I Stand, a virtual collaborative learning project prioritizing the lens of local leaders as experts in the global movement to shift power in aid policy and NGO practice. 

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Do No Harm at your Fingertips

Do No Harm at your Fingertips

Share this article The Germans have a word for it: Fingerspitzengefühl - fingertip feel. The seemingly intuitive understanding of a changing context that allows for rapid, good decision making in the face of uncertainty. When we use...

Lens and Filter

Lens and Filter

Share this article In our field of humanitarianism and development, we often use the concept of a lens to discuss various themes we have determined are important. We refer to a gender lens or a human rights lens or a conflict lens. A...

Do No Harm is Three Things

Do No Harm is Three Things

Share this article Do No Harm is three things. It is a principle. It is a project. It is a practice.The principle is thousands of years old. Simply, it states that if you are trying to do good, you should make sure you do not cause...

The Point of Listening

The Point of Listening

For someone embedded in the development sector and familiar with its mechanics, the most incomprehensible part of the Listening Program was that it started with no pre-determined agenda.