Angelika Rettberg, Ben Miller The business and conflict studies literature has focused predominantly on larger companies. Less is known about small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which face...
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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
Abstract This case study investigates the relationships between contemporary climate-related environmental vulnerabilities, including wildfires, water resources, and environmental toxicity, and the...
Climate Change and Conflict in Ghana
AUGUST 2023 | CHEMONICS INTERNATIONAL AND CDA COLLABORATIVE LEARNING PROJECTS About this Brief This report explores growing concerns surrounding climate change and conflict in Ghana. However, if...
Resilience and Social Cohesion in Fiji’s Climate-Affected Informal Settlements
This case study investigates climate-related environmental vulnerabilities and their interaction with conflict dynamics in three informal urban settlements, Qauia, Maravu, and Nanuku, in Suva, Fiji...
Responding Amid Uncertainty and Managing Risk in Humanitarian Settings - Summary Findings Report (June 2022)
Lindsay Hamsik, Ruth Rhoads Allen, Sharon Reader, Sabina Robillard, Sarah Cechvala, Hasangani Edema Over the past two years, CDA has partnered with InterAction to identify and understand risk...
Responding Amid Uncertainty and Managing Risk in Humanitarian Settings: A Learning Guide for NGOs (June 2022)
By Lindsay Hamsik, Ruth Rhoads Allen, Sharon Reader, Sabina Robillard, Sarah Cechvala and Hasangani Edema Introduction This Learning Guide is an outcome of the Risk III – From Evidence to Action...
Responding Amid Uncertainty and Managing Risk in Humanitarian Settings: Resources for NGOs (June 2022)
By Lindsay Hamsik, Ruth Rhoads Allen, Sharon Reader, Sabina Robillard, Sarah Cechvala and Hasangani Edema Overview Responding Amid Uncertainty and Managing Risk in Humanitarian Settings – Resources...
Conflict Sensitivity in Land Governance: The Do No Harm Framework and Other Tools for Practitioners of Land Activities, March 2022
Project Overview Conflict Sensitivity in Land Governance recognizes the evolving understanding of the relationship between land and conflict in complex contexts, including the dynamic impact of...
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As global complex crises abound, how can the US ensure its responses are sensitive to conflict?
The number and severity of crises over the last decade was stretching the aid sector well before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. Violent conflict is the primary driver of humanitarian needs, with...
Localization – ‘Us vs Them’
By Hasangani Edema ‘Localization’ further establishes the notion of us vs. them I am one of a growing number of people in the humanitarian world who have had the experience of being both national...
Business and Peace: Exploring the peacebuilding potential of medium, small and micro enterprises
Exploring the peacebuilding potential of MSMEs On the occasion of the publication of the joint CDA / International Alert / FriEnt Dossier “Business and Peace: It takes Two to Tango” FriEnt invited...
Business and Peace: It takes two to tango
The new publication "Business and Peace. It takes two to tango" gets to the bottom of opportunities and risks of the private sector's commitment to peacebuilding. Jobs, jobs, jobs – according to the...
Conflict Sensitivity & Public Health Emergencies: Practical Programming Adaptation During COVID-19 and Beyond
Conflict Sensitivity & Public Health Emergencies is a response to practitioner requests for guidance in addressing public health emergencies and conflict dynamics simultaneously. It has long been...
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Closing the Gap: A Strategy to Strengthen Community Engagement and Accountability in Africa, 2020-2023
Written by Sarah Cechvala, CDA Managing Director, Sabina Robillard, CDA Associate, and Sharon Reader, Senior Advisor Community Engagement and Accountability IFRC Africa Region EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...
Strengthening institutional capability to adopt conflict-sensitive approaches: Five lessons from the Conflict Sensitivity Resource Facility in South Sudan, 2016–2018 (September 30, 2019)
There is growing recognition of the interaction between aid and the drivers of conflict. In South Sudan, the scale and nature of this international assistance make it inevitable that aid will affect...
Framework for Collective Impact in Peacebuilding: Revised Version
Peter Woodrow I. INTRODUCTION Why Collective Impact? This framework aims to achieve a clear goal: greater impact from collective efforts toward peace. That is, even if peace practitioners improve the...
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Collective Impact in Peacebuilding: Lessons from Networking Efforts in Multiple Locations
Section I: Introduction CDA Collaborative Learning Projects (CDA) has been working with peace practitioners actively since the late 1990s. During that time, CDA conducted two sets of case studies...
Peacebuilding Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation: A Training Package for Participants and Trainers at Intermediate to Advanced Levels
Anita Ernstorfer and Kiely Barnard-Webster Suggested Citation: Ernstorfer, Anita and Kiely Barnard-Webster. Peacebuilding Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation: A training package for participants and...
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Hope for Building a Collective Peace Movement: Lessons Learned from Developing Collective Impact Networks in Nigeria and Sri Lanka
The Framework for Collective Impact in Peacebuilding, first published in 2017 was field-tested in partnership with Search for Common Ground in Jos, Nigeria, and Colombo, Sri Lanka. CDA provided...
Peacebuilding Networks and Alliances in Kenya: A Retrospective Look at Collective Peacebuilding Effectiveness
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Kenya has a vibrant peacebuilding sector and strong civil society and other organizations that are committed to conflict prevention and conflict transformation. At the time of...