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Do No Harm
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The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Environmental Peacebuilding
Policy and practice
Getting it Right
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
For 30 years, CDA has been spearheading research on conflict sensitivity and do no harm, community engagement and accountability, and putting local leadership into practice across the humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding nexus. Our current work on humanitarian risk, environmental peacebuilding, and responsible INGO transitions stands on the shoulders of decades of evidence-informed research. And there's so much more to come.
From Do No Harm to today: 30 years of practical learning for international action
Accountability to affected populations
The Listening Project
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Environmental Peacebuilding
Policy and practice
Getting it Right
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
The Do No Harm Project was formed in 1993 in order to help aid workers find ways to address human needs in conflict contexts without making the conflict worse. NGOs, experts, donors, and policymakers collaborated through the project to identify common patterns of interaction between aid and conflict. Do No Harm was originally developed for humanitarians working in contexts of conflict. Subsequent research on Do No Harm split into two branches: peacebuilding effectiveness and humanitarian response. As DNH was taken up, questions continued to surface around how we know we’re doing no harm and to who. This led to work on accountability to affected populations (and to partners) - international humanitarians working with individuals and local humanitarians.
Do No Harm
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
Community engagement and accountability
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Environmental Peacebuilding
Back
Policy and practice
Getting it Right
An effective feedback mechanism supports the collection, acknowledgement, analysis, and response to the feedback received. CDA has done extensive work on humanitarian feedback mechanisms, conducting case studies in Darfur, Pakistan, Haiti, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Nepal with partners like ALNAP, World Vision, and IFRC to document effective feedback practices at the operational level in active emergency settings. CDA’s research on understanding local perspectives on humanitarian effectiveness informed the development of UNOCHA’s 2015 report on humanitarian effectiveness and the recommendations for the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit. In 2017, CDA partnered with the International Rescue Committee to identify factors that enable feedback utilization in programmatic decision-making within humanitarian agencies.
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Accountability to Affected Populations
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
Community engagement and accountability
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Environmental Peacebuilding
Back
Policy and practice
Getting it Right
An effective feedback mechanism supports the collection, acknowledgement, analysis, and response to the feedback received. CDA has done extensive work on humanitarian feedback mechanisms, conducting case studies in Darfur, Pakistan, Haiti, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Nepal with partners like ALNAP, World Vision, and IFRC to document effective feedback practices at the operational level in active emergency settings. CDA’s research on understanding local perspectives on humanitarian effectiveness informed the development of UNOCHA’s 2015 report on humanitarian effectiveness and the recommendations for the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit. In 2017, CDA partnered with the International Rescue Committee to identify factors that enable feedback utilization in programmatic decision-making within humanitarian agencies.
Accountability to Affected Populations
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
Humanitarian Risk
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Environmental Peacebuilding
Back
Policy and practice
Getting it Right
Effective community engagement helps to ensure that humanitarian organizations are more accountable to the people they serve. The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has developed a robust set of resources that seek to support National Societies to strengthen their practices of engaging with local communities; yet a variety of barriers and challenges still exist in institutionalizing a consistent approach that ensures that community engagement is an integral part of all responses. CDA has partnered with IFRC Africa, IFRC Global, the Kenya Red Cross Society, and IFRC Asia-Pacific to support the operationalization of community engagement and accountability across all programs and operations.
Community Engagement and Accountability
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
Humanitarian Risk
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Back
Environmental Peacebuilding
Policy and practice
Effective community engagement helps to ensure that humanitarian organizations are more accountable to the people they serve. The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has developed a robust set of resources that seek to support National Societies to strengthen their practices of engaging with local communities; yet a variety of barriers and challenges still exist in institutionalizing a consistent approach that ensures that community engagement is an integral part of all responses. CDA has partnered with IFRC Africa, IFRC Global, the Kenya Red Cross Society, and IFRC Asia-Pacific to support the operationalization of community engagement and accountability across all programs and operations.
Community Engagement and Accountability
Getting it Right
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
Where to next?
Back
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Environmental Peacebuilding
Our deep work with the humanitarian sector drew the attention of practitioners working on humanitarian risk. Local organizations take on different risks than international organizations. In the push for localization, are we putting more harm on local organizations than what international organizations understand and assume? Are local organizations equipped for this? How is the nature of risk changing with the very complex dynamics of conflict, climate change, and global pandemics? InterAction came to CDA to understand how different categories of risk, identified by member organizations like IRC, DRC, and IFRC, interact with each other - to conduct systems research and analysis of drivers for and against strong risk management.
Humanitarian Risk
Policy and practice
Do No Harm
Getting it Right
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
Where to next?
The Listening Project
Back
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Environmental Peacebuilding
Our deep work with the humanitarian sector drew the attention of practitioners working on humanitarian risk. Local organizations to take on different risks than international organizations. In the push for localization, are we putting more harm on local organizations than what international organizations understand and assume? Are local organizations equipped for this? How is the nature of risk changing with the very complex dynamics of conflict, climate change, and global pandemics? InterAction came to CDA to understand how different categories of risk, identified by member organizations like IRC, DRC, and IFRC, interact with each other - to conduct systems research and analysis of drivers for and against strong risk management.
Humanitarian Risk
Policy and practice
Getting it Right
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
Policy and practice
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Environmental Peacebuilding
Back
Policy and practice
Getting it Right
In the early 2000s, RPP offered practical answers to the sector's core questions about effectiveness in the peacebuilding field. At its heart, RPP is about questioning assumptions, coupling analysis to everyday work, and demanding that we work toward a concept of peace that is greater than the success of individual programs.
- What works in peace programming?
- What are the effective roles for “outsiders” in promoting peace?
- Should peace practitioners be accountable for their contributions to “Peace Writ Large”?
- How can peace programs be measured or evaluated?
- What are the appropriate criteria for judging effectiveness?
- Can systems thinking tools assist in better conflict analyses and the more effective use of analysis in program design?
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
Back
In the early 2000s, RPP offered practical answers to the sector's core questions about effectiveness in the peacebuilding field. At its heart, RPP is about questioning assumptions, coupling analysis to everyday work, and demanding that we work toward a concept of peace that is greater than the success of individual programs.
- What works in peace programming?
- What are the effective roles for “outsiders” in promoting peace?
- Should peace practitioners be accountable for their contributions to “Peace Writ Large”?
- How can peace programs be measured or evaluated?
- What are the appropriate criteria for judging effectiveness?
- Can systems thinking tools assist in better conflict analyses and the more effective use of analysis in program design?
Reflecting on Peace Practice
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
Policy and practice
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Environmental Peacebuilding
Policy and practice
Getting it Right
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
Environmental Peacebuilding
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Environmental Peacebuilding
Back
Demand for the Reflecting on Peace Practice lessons and framework grew rapidly, within both donor and policy circles and among practitioners hungry to work smarter and more effectively. In 2006, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) asked CDA's help developing their global approach to evaluations of conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities. By integrating RPP evidence and analysis into the OECD DAC's core ways of working, CDA influenced dozens of other public and private donors and the practice of hundreds of local organization and INGO grantees in every global region. In 2022, the OECD DAC released its States of Fragility framework, which draws on the impact of this work to guide effective action in fragile contexts. And as of the same year, CDA has teamed with the US Institute for Peace to leverage learning from these and other global efforts as we advise the US Global Fragility Act implementation.
Policy and practice
Getting it Right
Influencing Donor and Organizational Policy
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
Demand for the Reflecting on Peace Practice lessons and framework grew rapidly, within both donor and policy circles and among practitioners hungry to work smarter and more effectively. In 2006, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) asked CDA's help developing their global approach to evaluations of conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities. By integrating RPP evidence and analysis into the OECD DAC's core ways of working, CDA influenced dozens of other public and private donors and the practice of hundreds of local organization and INGO grantees in every global region. In 2022, the OECD DAC released its States of Fragility framework, which draws on the impact of this work to guide effective action in fragile contexts. And as of the same year, CDA has teamed with the US Institute for Peace to leverage learning from these and other global efforts as we advise the US Global Fragility Act implementation.
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
Environmental Peacebuilding
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Environmental Peacebuilding
Back
Influencing Donor and Organizational Policy
Policy and practice
Getting it Right
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
Where to next?
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Back
Environmental Peacebuilding
The environment-fragility-peace nexus presents a radically new operational environment for humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding interventions. It poses a new set of complex challenges in which social, political, economic, and environmental problems must be addressed systemically and simultaneously across various scales, incorporating local, national, regional, and global programs. Building on the RPP framework, CDA’s Environment-Fragility-Peace Nexus collaborative learning project is working with local actors to create RPP+ as a new systems-based analysis tool to examine context-specific environmental vulnerabilities and factors for/against peace and climate resilience.
Environment-Fragility-Peace Nexus
Do No Harm
Policy and practice
Getting it Right
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
Where to next?
The Listening Project
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Back
Environmental Peacebuilding
The environment-fragility-peace nexus presents a radically new operational environment for humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding interventions. It poses a new set of complex challenges in which social, political, economic, and environmental problems must be addressed systemically and simultaneously across various scales, incorporating local, national, regional, and global programs. Building on the RPP framework, CDA’s Environment-Fragility-Peace Nexus collaborative learning project is working with local actors to create RPP+ as a new systems-based analysis tool to examine context-specific environmental vulnerabilities and factors for/against peace and climate resilience.
Environment-Fragility-Peace Nexus
Policy and practice
Getting it Right
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
The Listening Project
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Stopping as Success
Stopping as Success
Back
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Environmental Peacebuilding
CDA’s foundational listening methodology came out of a broad, systematic effort to listen to the voices of people who live in countries where international assistance has been given. Between 2005 and 2009, more than 125 international and local aid organizations joined the Listening Project in 20 aid-recipient countries to talk with nearly 6,000 people about their experiences with, and judgments of, international assistance. Time to Listen represents the cumulative evidence of the Listening Project, and a deep recognition that proximate actors are doing incredibly impactful work that is under-recognized and under-celebrated.
Policy and practice
The Listening Project
Getting it Right
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Accountability to affected populations
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
Shifting Power
Back
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Environmental Peacebuilding
The goal of Stopping As Success: Locally Led Transitions in Development (SAS+) is to equip organizations with good practice to transition responsibly to make way for local leadership in the development sector. Since 2017, SAS+ has been listening to organizations involved in responsible transition processes to learn what has worked well and why to apply those lessons to active transition processes. Since 2021, we have applied our suite of case studies, tools/resources, and broader lessons to assist existing partnerships in transition and to generate new learning to enable future responsible transitions to local leadership.
Policy and practice
Stopping as Success (SAS and SAS+)
Getting it Right
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
As part of the Local, Faith, and Transformative Partnerships Hub at USAID, the Stopping as Success program helped inform the agency's overall localization agenda. SAS+ is specifically listed as one of three illustrative learning activities in USAID's 2022-2026 Learning Agenda under Question 8: How can USAID more equitably engage local knowledge, assets, and practices and align programming with local priorities and metrics for success? During the final phase of the project, SAS+ is working to ensure the lessons learned on responsible transitions are embedded into USAID policy and organizational structures, and are widely available to any organization embarking on a leadership transformation.
Influencing Donor and Organizational Policy
Where to next?
The Listening Project
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Back
Environmental Peacebuilding
Do No Harm
Policy and practice
Getting it Right
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
Getting it Right
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Environmental Peacebuilding
CDA’s Corporate Engagement Program (CEP) was established in 2000 to promote the development of positive, constructive relationships between companies and the local communities where corporate operations take place, with particular attention to conflict contexts. The program worked with individual companies, multilateral institutions, industry associations, and civil society to advance best practices in the areas of corporate social responsibility and conflict sensitive approaches to community engagement and social investment. While CEP’s focus was on extractive industries, the tools, frameworks, and guidance from the program are immediately applicable to companies from a broad range of industries that operate in complex environments and conflict zones around the world.
Corporate Engagement
Policy and practice
Back
Getting it Right
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
UrbanSMEs
The Listening Project
Stopping as Success
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
The lessons derived from the Corporate Engagement Program are presented in Getting It Right: Making Corporate-Community Relations Work. Many of the field assessments captured the experiences of companies in challenging operating environments like Nigeria, Colombia, Sudan, and Myanmar. After the book’s publication, CEP continued to implement and test its lessons through field visits and consultations in relation to extractive company locations around the world. Getting it Right presents a framework for company managers to analyze the consequences of their decisions for communities, as well as practical management options for improving corporate impacts.
Environmental Peacebuilding
Getting it Right
Back
Policy and practice
Getting it Right
Reflecting on Peace Practice
Corporate Engagement
Humanitarian Risk
Community Engagement & Accountability
Shifting Power
Accountability to Affected Populations
Do No Harm
The Listening Project
Where to next?
Stopping as Success
In much of the world, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the primary providers of employment and livelihoods. This is particularly true for large cities in LMICs – places that host an increasing share of the world’s population. Many of these same cities are also affected by significant violence and insecurity. In partnership with the University of Oslo, Universidad de los Andes, University of Stellenbosch, and Peace Research Institute Oslo, CDA is exploring the ways in which violence affects SMEs and how SMEs affect violence. The project compares these dynamics in seven cities struggling with different forms of violence: Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia; San Salvador, El Salvador; Caracas, Venezuela; Beirut, Lebanon; Kampala, Uganda; and Cape Town, South Africa.
Small and medium-sized enterprises in fragile urban contexts
SMEs in fragile urban contexts
Back
Environmental Peacebuilding
Do No Harm