CDA Perspectives Blog
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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.
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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...
Why the International Community’s Efforts to Reform Police and Justice in the Central African Republic Might be Making the Situation Worse
Share this article In this post Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church shares evidence to support why if we want citizen security and criminal justice to be a reality in the future in the Central African Republic, now is the time to integrate...
Pity the Man Who Stands Alone
Share this article In this post Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church shares findings on how: (1) Acts of jealousy and revenge fuel the manipulation of the criminal justice system in the Central African Republic, and (2) how favoritism is a...
How the Séléka/anti-Balaka crisis has been gas on the fire of corruption the Central African Republic
Share this article In this post Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church shares findings from our new research examining corruption in the criminal justice sector in the Central African Republic (CAR). The systems analysis and findings discussed...
Reflections on Using Most Significant Change in An Anti-Corruption Program
Share this article In this post, Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church and Sandra Sjogren reflect on their experience using Most Significant Change (MSC) in monitoring an anti-corruption program. We discuss the fit to our context, question why...