CDA Perspectives
The CDA Perspectives Blog is maintained by CDA colleagues, with guest authors welcome to share reflections, present information, and invite 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 key practice areas. In addition to our staff contributors, we invite colleagues and partners to share their experiences and host blog series.
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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.
Using the Participatory Monitoring Approach, Most Significant Change, for an Anti-Corruption Program
Share this article In this post, Sandra Sjögren and Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church discuss why they chose to use the Most Significant Change approach in monitoring an anti-corruption program in the DRC, the monitoring process, and in...
How Might Gender Roles Affect Whether You Engage, or Hold Back from, Corruption?
Share this article In this post Kiely Barnard-Webster explains two key takeaways for practitioners from our recent field visit to the DRC: (1) If an anti-corruption program threatens a gender group’s privileged status, this must be...
Thematic Easy Access List of Corruption in Fragile States Series Posts
Share this article Is corruption a relevant framework for understanding the financial journey of refugees? What about social norms? And why is asking for the right framework a relevant question? Those are only a few of the many...
Blue Ribbon Feedback: Closing the feedback loop, opening up development
Share this article In this post, guest author Laura Hughston discusses lessons learned from implementing the feedback gathering tool she designed for Plan International UK. She shares the voices of the people who used the tool, and...
How Corruption Impedes Reconstruction in Iraq after ISIS
Share this article In this post Matthew Schweitzer shares from his recent trip into eastern Mosul's liberated territories. While he was there to assess relations between civil society organizations and security actors, he encountered...
Recognizing the Potential “Destructive” Power of Social Norms
Share this article In this post Cheyanne and Russell share an early finding from their research into social norms in anti-corruption programming. Evidence shows that efforts to combat a harmful practice by depicting it as widespread...
Failing the Duck Test: Labeling companies as peace actors
Share this article Sarah Cechvala argues that regardless of whether “peacebuilding actor” is an apt label for private sector companies, efforts to involve companies in a peacebuilding agenda will be far more effective if they account...
Is Female Discrimination in the Justice Sector Corruption?
Share this article We wish to improve the gender representation within the anti-corruption theory of change in the program we support in DRC; starting with action-research. In this post, Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church shares the latest...
What Anti-corruption Practitioners Should Read About Social Norms
Share this article The literature on social norms and corruption needs to improve, and definitions need to be clarified, to enable practitioners to integrate the literature into programming. Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church and Russell...
How do Businesses Strategize Peace? Emerging Issues from Colombia
Share this article While the importance of the private sector for war-to-peace transitions is clear, little has been said about the specific strategies adopted by companies in transition periods. How do companies prepare for peace?...
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...
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...
