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Effective humanitarian feedback mechanisms: Methodology summary for a joint ALNAP and CDA action research

Why are effective feedback mechanisms important in humanitarian settings? For one thing, they can help close the gaps between accountability rhetoric and practice. Currently, however, there is a need for evidence on what works, and doesn't in different contexts.

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Time to Listen: Hearing People on the Receiving End of International Aid

Description

Time to Listen represents the cumulative evidence of five years gathering evidence from people living in societies that are recipients of international aid.

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World + 3 others
Famine, Legitimacy, and Do No Harm

Famines put extreme pressure on the legitimacy of formal and informal authorities. Food is more than just a commodity. It is life itself. Scarcity at the level of a famine is a serious breach of the social contract between people and authority. The breach can be sufficiently severe that it cannot be healed and the authority is often driven from power within a relatively short time span.

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Feedback Mechanisms In International Assistance Organizations

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects (CDA) would like to share a new and enlightening report on “Feedback Mechanisms in International Assistance Organizations.” This report was motivated by the desire heard over and over from people in aid recipient societies to provide feedback—and to hear from aid agencies—about their efforts.

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The Listening Project and Development Effectiveness

The Listening Project is a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the experiences and insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient end of international assistance efforts (humanitarian assistance, development cooperation, peace-building activities, human rights work, environmental conservation, etc.). CDA has organized over 20 collaborative Listening Exercises in various contexts and geographical regions to hear local people’s perspectives on international aid efforts.

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Listening project: Field visit report - Mali

Background on the Listening Project

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects (CDA), with a number of colleagues in international and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), donors and other humanitarian and development agencies, has established the Listening Project to undertake a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the ideas and insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient side of international assistance efforts. The Listening Project seeks the reflections of experienced and thoughtful people who occupy a range of positions within recipient societies

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Listening project: Field visit report - Afghanistan

Background on the Listening Project

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, with a number of colleagues in international and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), donors and other humanitarian and development agencies, has established the Listening Project to undertake a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the ideas and insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient side of international assistance efforts. The Listening Project seeks the reflections of experienced and thoughtful people who occupy a range of positions within recipient societies

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Listening Project: Field visit report Myanmar/Burma

Background on the Listening Project

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects (CDA), with a number of colleagues in international and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), donors and other humanitarian and development agencies, has established the Listening Project to undertake a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the ideas and insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient side of international assistance efforts. The Listening Project seeks the reflections of experienced and thoughtful people who occupy a range of positions within recipient societies

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Lessons learned from Past Experience for International Agencies in Haiti

External aid can facilitate or hinder long-term peace and development. In light of the massive on-going relief effort in Haiti, it is critical to minimize harmful impacts and maximize positive impacts. Aid can worsen polarization and violence, often inadvertently, or can have positive effects on conflict and social cohesion. Although Haiti has not experienced a civil war or a war with neighbors, nevertheless, it must be considered as an active conflict zone, in which the level of violence has been high for decades. We highlight here a number of lessons
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Consultation Report: Understanding Cumulative Impacts

Introduction

In 2007, the Reflecting on Peace Practice project (RPP) undertook an effort to explore systematically how cumulative impacts in peace practice occur. The evidence gathered by RPP and summarized in Confronting War pointed to many factors that have prevented programs from "adding up" to have an impact on the overall conflict situation. Yet, while RPP gained the key insights in that phase that the effectiveness of peace initiatives depended in large part on their strategic links to the driving factors of conflict and their "linkages" to efforts

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A Distinction with a Difference: Conflict Sensitivity and Peacebuilding

Are peacebuilding and conflict sensitivity the same thing? Different but related? Completely separate? Increasingly, practitioners and policy makers give different-and often opposing-answers to these simple questions. Part of the difficulty arises from the "migration" of the terms, as both have shifted their meanings over time, each coming to embrace more and more conceptual territory. Also, the various actors involved have shifted their roles. Development and humanitarian agencies have expanded from their traditional roles and increasingly attempt to
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Listening project: Field visit report - Kosovo

Background on the Listening Project

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects (CDA), with a number of colleagues in international NGOs and donors, has started the Listening Project to undertake a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the ideas and insights of people who have been on the recipient side of international assistance. Those who work across borders in humanitarian relief, development assistance, governance, human rights, peacebuilding and other efforts are learning a great deal by listening to the analyses and judgments of local people as they reflect on the immediate effects

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Listening project: Field visit report - Thailand

Background on the Listening Project

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, with a number of colleagues in international NGOs, donors and other humanitarian and development agencies, has started the Listening Project to undertake a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the ideas and insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient side of international assistance. The Listening Project seeks the reflections of experienced and thoughtful people who occupy a range of positions within recipient societies to assess the impact of aid efforts by international actors.

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Listening project: Field visit report - Zimbabwe

Background on the Listening Project

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, with a number of colleagues in international NGOs, donors and other humanitarian and development agencies, has started the Listening Project to undertake a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the ideas and insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient side of international assistance. The Listening Project seeks the reflections of experienced and thoughtful people who occupy a range of positions within recipient societies to assess the impact of aid efforts by international actors.

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Listening project: Field visit report - Angola

Background on the Listening Project

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, with a number of colleagues in international NGOs, donors and other humanitarian and development agencies, initiated the Listening Project to undertake a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the ideas and insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient side of international assistance. The Listening Project seeks the reflections of experienced and thoughtful people who occupy a range of positions within recipient societies to assess the impact of aid efforts by international actors.

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Listening project: Field visit report - Bolivia

Background on the Listening Project

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, with a number of colleagues in international NGOs, donors and other humanitarian and development agencies, has started the Listening Project to undertake a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the ideas and insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient side of international assistance. The Listening Project seeks the insights of experienced and thoughtful people who occupy a range of positions within recipient societies

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Listening Project: Field visit report Ethiopia

Background on the Listening Project

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, with a number of colleagues in international NGOs, donors and other humanitarian and development agencies, has started the Listening Project to undertake a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the ideas and insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient side of international assistance. The Listening Project seeks the insights of experienced and thoughtful people who occupy a range of positions within recipient societies

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Listening project: Field visit report - Bosnia and Herzegovina

Background on the Listening Project

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, with a number of colleagues in international NGOs, donors and other  humanitarian and development agencies, has started the Listening Project to undertake a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the ideas and insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient side of international assistance. The Listening Project seeks the insights of experienced and thoughtful people who occupy a range of positions within recipient societies

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Listening project: Exploratory visit report - USA

Background on the Listening Project

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, with a number of colleagues in international NGOs, donors and other humanitarian and development agencies, has started the Listening Project to undertake a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the ideas and insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient side of international assistance. The Listening Project seeks the insights of experienced and thoughtful people who occupy a range of positions within recipient societies

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Listening project: Field visit report - Indonesia

Introduction/Background

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects (CDA), with a number of colleagues in international NGOs and other international humanitarian and development agencies, has started a new project to undertake a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the ideas and insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient side of international assistance. The Listening Project, as this effort is called, seeks the insights of experienced and thoughtful people who occupy a range of positions within recipient societies. These individuals are well-placed to assess