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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What We Learned About Blogging in a Year
Share this article If you are looking for an alternative way to share your program findings, definitely consider blogging. Within a year we succeeded in fostering a space for conversation between actors working in the field of...
A Helpful Response to Unhelpful Research; And a call for ideas
Share this article In January, Mark Pyman wrote a blog on this site on the unhelpful nature of anti-corruption research. Now Mark shares the key points from the many thoughtful and thought provoking responses it elicited. Inspired by...
The Case for Systems in Corruption Analysis
Share this article In this blog post we share a new video we created to reach those who are too busy to question the effectiveness of their current approaches, too invested in conventional methodology, or work in organizations that...
Approaching Corruption through the Lens of Masculinities
Share this article Héctor Portillo and Sebastián Molanon propose three ways in which the expectations, pressures, and privileges of "being a man" may shed light on male attitudes towards corruption. Although corruption is not by any...
Are Social Norms an Important Missing Link in Anti-corruption Programming?
Share this article In this post Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church and Russell Hathaway begin their deep dive into the world of social norms and its potential applicability to anti-corruption programming. They invite you to help further...
Why is Our Anti-corruption Program Working?
Share this article L’évaluation mi-parcours est disponible en version française. Veuillez trouver cette publication, « La justice sans corruption, c’est possible – j’y suis engagé » sur le site web de CDA Collaborative Learning...
Framing Corruption: Do Our Frames Limit Our Effectiveness?
Share this article Diana Chigas, JD, argues that the way we are framing the problem of corruption in fragile states is limiting our vision and leading us to ignore the key drivers to corruption. In particular, Diana discusses what...
“We’ve Opened Pandora’s Box!” Responding to Unsolicited Feedback
Share this article - In this post, Sarah Cechvala, an expert on aid accountability and feedback loops as well as responsible business practice at CDA, addresses the practical challenges related to analyzing, responding to, and...
The Financial Journeys of Refugees: Charting a Research Agenda – Is Corruption a Relevant Framework?
Share this article In this post, Roxanne Krystalli and Kim Wilson, who collectively specialize in financial inclusion, gender and violence, and research methods in vulnerable settings, discuss some of the emerging questions that...
The Idea of Business and Peace: “Assuming the Can Opener”
Share this article In this post, Ben Miller, an expert on corporate social impacts in fragile and conflict-affected states, argues that current discussions of private sector peacebuilding overlook almost entirely the practical...
When Cows Facilitate Court, the Culture of Gifting and Corruption in Modern Courts
Share this article In this post, Juliet Harty Hatanga, who has ten years of experience working with the Courts of Judicature of Uganda, discusses two cases in which the social norms of corruption and the culture of gifting challenged...
Do Anti-Corruption Agencies Really Matter? Some Lessons on State Legitimacy from Indonesia
Share this article In this post, researcher Sergio Gemperle questions the role of anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) in increasing state legitimacy. He argues that state legitimacy can suffer from ACA success, as well as from...