CDA Perspectives Blog
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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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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...
Towards a Corruption-Sensitive Conflict Analysis
Share this article In this blog post, Michelle Garred, conflict sensitivity practitioner for 15 years, challenges herself to rethink her hesitancy to approaching corruption as a driver of conflict, and looks back on a conflict...
Do No Harm: Meta-Trends
Share this article World Vision Shares Internal Learning Process on their Conflict Sensitivity Programming In this blog post, World Vision's Associate Director for Peacebuilding Programming, Dilshan Annaraj, and Associate...
Corruption : résister à tout prix ?
Share this article Resisting corruption is not easy, not even when supported by a collective effort. The Kuleta Haki Network, now numbering more than 100 individuals, has made progress but not without sacrifice. Florence Liégeois...
The Biggest Paradigm Error in Tackling Corruption, Not Dealing with Organized Crime
Share this article International organizations, donors and policy analysts have, over the past few years, recognized how organized criminal networks impede and undermine development and democracy. When offering potential remedies,...
First: Prevent the Misallocation of Funds. Then: Strengthen the Rule of Law
Share this article I have argued elsewhere that corruption causes two distinct types of harm. It has a primary impact – the effect of a particular corrupt transaction in terms of misallocating public goods or misspending public...
Embedding Social Norms for Effective Anti-Corruption Interventions
Share this article In this post Ben Cislaghi draws our attention to two points that might contribute to our thinking about norms and corruption. The first is that social norms are not an on/off switch: their strength varies as the...