Description
CDA Collaborative Learning Projects improves the effectiveness and accountability of peacebuilding, development, and humanitarian action wherever communities experience conflict.
For 30 years, CDA has been a strong voice on local leadership, critically reflecting on aid effectiveness and accountability to affected populations. As an independent, catalytic partner of humanitarian, peacebuilding, and development practitioners, CDA facilitates collaborative learning processes that listen deeply and generate practical evidence, frameworks, and policy guidance for lasting change.
Our Events
Join Stopping as Success (SAS+) on 23 October for a virtual learning event all about communicating transitions from international to local ownership. REGISTER HERE Communication holds power. Communicating transparently builds trust and inspires others to...
Join Stopping as Success (SAS+) on OCTOBER 8 at 9am EST / 1pm GMT for a virtual learning event all about ensuring financial sustainability for the local entity during a transition from international to local...
Join Stopping as Success (SAS+) on 8 May for a virtual learning event all about mutual capacity strengthening. SAS+ defines mutual capacity strengthening as “a process of strengthening skills, knowledge, and network contacts in which...
Join us on 21 September at 10:00 ET // 15:00 WAT for ConnexUs Thursday Talk: How Can We Effectively Use Evidence in Peacebuilding Project Design? as we explore how evidence can effectively guide the design...
Our Resources
Transition Cycle Workbook
ResourcePractical Guidelines for Communicating Responsible Transitions
ResourceTheme: SAS+, Shifting Power
Region: Global
Practical Guidelines for Financial Sustainability for Transitions to Local Ownership
ResourceTheme: SAS+, Shifting Power
Region: Global
Mutual Capacity Strengthening Guidelines for Transitions to Local Ownership
ResourceTheme: SAS+, Shifting Power
Region: Global
Communications Learning Event (SAS+) – Session Recording
ResourceTheme: General, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, International Development, Peacebuilding, SAS+, Shifting Power
Region: Global
Financial Sustainability Learning Event (SAS+) – Session Recording
ResourceTheme: General, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, International Development, Peacebuilding, SAS+, Shifting Power
Region: Global
Mutual Capacity Strengthening Learning Event (SAS+) – Session Recording
ResourceTheme: Evaluation & Learning, General, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, International Development, Peacebuilding, SAS+, Shifting Power
Region: Global
What Constitutes Effective Use of Evidence to Inform Peacebuilding Project Design?
ResourceTheme: Conflict Sensitivity & Integration, Evaluation & Learning, General, Peace & Security, Peacebuilding, Program Design, Program Monitoring
Region: Global
How Can We Effectively Use Evidence in Peacebuilding Project Design? | ConnexUs Thursday Talk Recording
ResourceTheme: Evaluation & Learning, General, Peace & Security, Peacebuilding, Program Design, Program Monitoring
Region: Global
From Do No Harm to Today: Reflections on 25 years of impact
ResourceTheme: Conflict Sensitivity & Integration, Democracy & Governance, General, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, International Development, Peace & Security, Peacebuilding, Program Design, Program Monitoring, Reconciliation
Local Leadership: Is it now or never?
ResourceTheme: Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, International Development, Peacebuilding, Public Health
Region: Global
COVID-19: The Importance of Investing in Local Humanitarian Leadership
ResourceTheme: General, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, Public Health
Region: Global
No Angels, No Devils: A view on ‘localization’ from Cite Soleil
ResourceTheme: General, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Who is Local?
ResourceTheme: General, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Asia
Power and accountability: Lessons from Nepal about the value of community ownership and devolution of power
ResourceTheme: Democracy & Governance, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming
Region: Asia
Equity and locally led development in times of COVID-19
ResourceTheme: General, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, International Development, Peacebuilding, Public Health
Region: Global
Meeting Complexity with Creativity: 5 themes in unpacking “local” in aid
ResourceTheme: Conflict Sensitivity & Integration, General, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Global
The quality of a leader: How photography helped me see peers everywhere
ResourceTheme: General, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Global
“There are no boundaries… there are synergies”: The role of responsible transitions in decolonizing development
ResourceTheme: General, International Development, Peacebuilding, SAS+, Shifting Power
Region: Global
Climate Change and Conflict in Ghana
ResourceTheme: Climate Change & Conflict, Conflict Sensitivity & Integration, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Africa
Liberation starts at home
ResourceTheme: Evaluation & Learning, General, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, International Development, Peacebuilding, Program Design, Program Monitoring
Region: Global
From a rectangle to a circle: It’s time to turn the turn tables on aid
ResourceTheme: General, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, International Development, Peacebuilding
Localism as Radical Ethics: What Syrians have taught us about the critical localization of aid
ResourceTheme: Democracy & Governance, International Development, Peace & Security, Peacebuilding, Women, Peace & Security
Region: Middle East & North Africa
Elevating local knowledge for sustainable impact
ResourceTheme: Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, Public Health
Region: Africa
A network of global action starts locally: Scouting in response to a global pandemic
ResourceTheme: Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, Public Health
Region: Africa
Can better programme adaptation, defined by strong community participation and engagement, strengthen our contribution to local ownership?
ResourceTheme: Evaluation & Learning, International Development, Program Design, Program Monitoring, Public Health
Region: Africa
Exploring the gender lens on Localization: Working on GBV issues in northern Nigeria
ResourceTheme: Human Rights, Public Health, Women, Peace & Security, Youth, Peace & Security
Region: Africa
Can we put the rhetoric into action?
ResourceTheme: Conflict Sensitivity & Integration, General, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Global
Localisation four years after the Grand Bargain: what is still missing?
ResourcePartnerships in humanitarian action
ResourceTheme: General, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming
Region: Global
Stopping As Success Newsletter – August 2023
ResourceTheme: General, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Global
Necessary complexity in the Anthropocene: new approaches in socio-ecological systems thinking, Do No Harm, and fragility integration
ResourceTheme: Climate Change & Conflict, Conflict Sensitivity & Integration, Peace & Security, Peacebuilding
Region: Global
What we’ve heard
ResourceTheme: General, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Global
From where we stand
ResourceTheme: General, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Global
Can Storytelling Fuel Community-led Development?
ResourceTheme: Evaluation & Learning, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Global, North America
“What if?” Questions with answers for a paradigm shift in the aid system
ResourceTheme: General, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Global
If you want to support, vacate the space
ResourceThe Global Standard: Going Global, Acting Local
ResourceTheme: General, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Global
Why Do I Make the Case for Equitable Partnerships with Local Actors?
ResourceTheme: General, Humanitarian & Emergency Response Programming, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Global
Sharing the keys to the localization house
ResourceTheme: General, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Global
Responsible Transitions to Local Ownership: Reflections from the 3D Program for Girls and Women
ResourceTheme: Democracy & Governance, International Development, Peacebuilding, Women, Peace & Security
Region: Asia
Localization – ‘Us vs Them’
ResourceTheme: General, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Global
Character Development: The role of aid in building character for civic engagement and national development
ResourceTheme: Democracy & Governance, International Development
Region: Africa
Indigenous Rights and Effective Climate Resilience: A Case Study of the Federally “Terminated” Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe and Effective Management of Climate Vulnerabilities in Northern California, USA
ResourceTheme: Climate Change & Conflict, Peace & Security, Peacebuilding
Region: North America
Donors can do better
ResourceHOW LOCAL IS ‘LOCAL’? A Bottom-Up Perspective of Localization From Narok
ResourceTheme: Conflict Sensitivity & Integration, Democracy & Governance, International Development, Peace & Security, Peacebuilding, Peacebuilding & Urbanization
Region: Africa
All-of-government all-of-society; a view of localization from Narok
ResourceTheme: Conflict Sensitivity & Integration, Democracy & Governance, International Development, Peace & Security, Peacebuilding
Region: Africa
Shifting the Power with Power Footprints
ResourceTheme: General, International Development, Peacebuilding
Region: Global
Is The Aid Sector Tèt Anba?
ResourceTheme: General, International Development
Region: Global, Latin America and the Caribbean