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CDA Collaborative Learning Projects

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255 Main St. Floor 8
Cambridge
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United States
Website:
http://www.cdacollaborative.org
Constituency type:
Academic

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects (CDA) is an international non-profit organization headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. CDA improves the effectiveness of peacebuilding, development, humanitarian organizations and corporations working in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. Through its unique collaborative learning approach, CDA combines rigorous analysis and evidence-based methodologies to produce useful tools and guidance for practitioners and policymakers alike. In strengthening the work of its partners, CDA contributes to positive, systematic, and lasting change for people and communities, while also influencing policy and practice across the sectors in which it works..

CDA’s work is driven by the same two fundamental beliefs it was founded on twenty-five years ago:
– The perspectives and abilities of people affected by conflict are essential to constructive engagements in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
– Context matters: Effectiveness depends on a deep understanding of and adaptation to the range of complex local dynamics of communities engaged with social change.

Providing evidence-based approaches to today’s complex challenges is what CDA does best: it creates opportunities to identify good practices, reflects on learning from fragile and conflict contexts, documents the evidence, and develops practical tools. One of CDA’s collaborative learning projects, Stopping as Success: planning for success from start to exit, for instance, examines successful and responsible transitions of international NGOs in support of locally-led development and peacebuilding.

Resources

Case study
01 Mar 2023

Resilience and social cohesion in Fiji's climate-affected informal settlements: an Environment-Fragility-Peace Nexus project case study

Dr. Siad Darwish, PhD
CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, Conciliation Resources, the Pacific Center for Peacebuilding
Tools/guidelines
15 Oct 2020

Conflict Sensitivity & Public Health Emergencies: Practical Programming Adaptation During COVID-19 and Beyond

Robillard, S. , Owusu-Mante, S. , Northfield, B. & Rhoads Allen, R.
CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
Article
March 2019

Making humanitarian response more flexible and adaptable: Exploring new models and approaches

Obrecht, A. (Guest editor)
All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI), ALNAP, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, Center for Disaster Preparedness Foundation
Report / Study
25 Jun 2018

Mainstreaming of Accountability to Communities: An Operational Case Study

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
Report / Study
29 Jan 2018

Feedback to Action: Strategies to Improve the Use of Feedback in Programmatic Decision-Making

Bennett, S., Cechvala, S. & Harris, A.
International Rescue Committee (IRC), University College London (UCL), CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
Programme/project review
01 Dec 2017

Rapport Final Revue Transitionnelle du Programme Kuleta Haki

Le Goff, A., Bitong, L. & Morvan, H.
CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
Tools/guidelines
01 Oct 2017

Framework for Collective Impact in Peacebuilding

Woodrow, P.
CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
Report / Study
01 Sep 2017

Beneficiary Feedback: How We Hinder and Enable Good Practice

Jean, I.
CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
Report / Study
01 Jan 2017

Conflict sensitivity: Meta-trends analysis

Goddard, N. and Annaraj, D.
CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, World Vision International
Tools/guidelines
01 Oct 2015

From Principle to PracticeA User’s Guide to Do No Harm

Wallace, M.
CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
Tools/guidelines
01 May 2014

Evaluating Impacts of Peacebuilding Interventions

Chigas, D., Church, M. and Corlazzoli, V.
CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
Report / Study
01 Jan 2014

Alternative Approaches to Evaluating Peacebuilding Initiatives

Jean, I. and Ernstorfer, A.
CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
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