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Training and Tools
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CDAC 2021 Online Public Forum Programme
Sep 2021Download the current latest programme for the 2021 CDAC online public forum
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How-To Guide on Collective Communication and Community Engagement in humanitarian action - Arabic version
Aug 2021Collective Communication and Community Engagement in humanitarian action: How to Guide for leaders and responders (in Arabic) brings together decades of best practice in supporting communities and affected populations fully participating in the humanitarian assistance they receive.
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Fiji Media, Language and Telecommunications Landscape Guide
May 2021The development of this comprehensive Media, Language and Telecommunications Landscape Guide (MLTG) is to support and guide the work of the Fiji government and the Communication and Community Engagement (CCE) Working Group under the Fiji Communications Cluster - as well as others working in the country.
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CDAC tools and resources - a comprehensive overview
Jan 2021Over the past ten years, the CDAC Network has commissioned a number of tools and resources, developed a systematic training programme and has hosted numerous discussions around communication and community engagement. This document summarises the key publications.
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Collaborating locally and globally on a national CCEA platform in Burkina Faso – a case study (in English and French)
Jan 2021In 2020 CDAC began operations to support the inception and integration of a common services approach to Accountability to Affected People (AAP), communication and engagement with communities to enable enhanced accountability, community acceptance, trust building and a more effective response in Burkina Faso. Here's how it went.
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Imagining a World Beyond White Privilege & Is Technology Broken?
Dec 2020At the end of October 2020, we were joined by many hundreds of humanitarians, communication and tech enthusiasts, futurists, policymakers and donors as we radically re-imagined digital humanitarian policy. Here's what we discussed!
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Improving The Response To Covid-19: Lessons From The Humanitarian Sector Around Communication, Community Engagement And Participation
Nov 2020This paper outlines some of the learning gained in the humanitarian aid sector in accountability around two-way communication, community engagement, and the participation of vulnerable people, and how this can be applied to support this current response.
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Framework for Assessing Success of National CCE Platforms (in English and French)
Oct 2020This Framework for Assessing Success of National CCE Platforms is designed to clearly lay out the different elements that combine to build a complete platform. Each element in the framework includes measures that can be used to assess whether the part is complete and performing as expected.
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Fiji and Vanuatu national CCE platform case studies
Oct 2020Case studies on the national Communication and Community Engagement (CCE) platforms in Fiji and Vanuatu.
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Vanuatu: Responding To Disaster
Sep 2020Tropical Cyclone Harold, which made landfall in Vanuatu on 6 April 2020 was the first time the Vanuatu CCE Sub-Cluster was activated in an emergency, and its preparedness work put to the test. This photo essay outlines what happened.
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CDAC tools and resources - a comprehensive overview
Sep 2020The definitive list of all of CDAC's tolls and resources, free to use for all!
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Guidance: Information management functions of an inter-agency AAP/CCE working group
Jul 2020This guidance document aims to articulate the role of an Information Management Officer in supporting a CCE working group (WG), and to enable a common understanding of the information management functions and needs.
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CONCEPT NOTE: Accountability in the Age of the Algorithm: Championing Pathways to Inclusion in Tech Driven Futures
Mar 2020The CDAC global public forum will be hosted by the ICRC in Geneva between 27-28 October 2020. Find out more about the this forum by reading the Concept Note.
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Learning Report Fiji & Vanuatu
Mar 2020joint Fiji and Vanuatu learning event held over 5 - 6 March 2020 in Suva, Fiji looked at key achievements to date, the benefits of the project, the challenges, and the opportunities and needs going forward.
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Situational Analysis of Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability in Burkina Faso
Feb 2020Between December 2019 and January 2020, the CDAC Network – in partnership with Ground Truth Solutions and with funding from the H2H Network undertook a scoping mission to the country to assess the status, current strengths and needs related to response-wide Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability. Here's what we found...
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Common Services for Communication and Community Engagement, National and Sub-National Platforms: A status update, February 2020
Feb 2020This document outlines the context, leads, donors and challenges and opportunities of 23 national and regional platforms in 22 countries that are currently operating.
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CDAC Brochure: who we are
Dec 2019CDAC Network is the global alliance of more than 30 of the world’s biggest humanitarian and media development organisations committed to putting the power in humanitarian action back in the hands of communities. This brochure tells you what we do and why.
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CDAC Facilitator’s Guide for Technical Training
Sep 2019The core document of CDAC’s Technical Training is the Facilitator’s Guide – a document that leads facilitators, agencies and staff through an all-inclusive journey in Communication and Community Engagement best practice.
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Community and Organisational Perceptions Feedback: Cyclone Idai Response, Mozambique
Aug 2019In this perceptions survey, CDAC partners Equip Mozambique spoke to communities that had been affected by the Cyclone and received to ascertain the perceived levels of community engagement from organisations that responded.
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Support models for local humanitarian innovation
Jul 2019Inclusive approaches to humanitarian action are gaining ground and growing in number, but what does this look like in practice? Working with four groundbreaking innovation labs in Bangladesh, Kenya, Jordan and Philippines, we've been exploring ways of getting behind local initiatives to reduce disaster risks. Have a read!
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Communicating safeguarding clearly is critical
Jul 2019Safeguarding should me made clear for everyone and actionable information should be on hand to ensure the right foundations are in place to support good practice. Information needs to be clear and properly communicated not only to those working in the sector but also to people accessing aid with opportunities to co-create reporting mechanisms with ...
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Support models for local humanitarian innovation
Jul 2019This paper is based on a review of relevant literature on labs, non-lab alternatives and grassroots innovation, along with 20 semi-structured interviews with global DEPP Labs staff, DEPP lab managers, innovators involved in the four DEPP labs and senior innovation staff from other organisations that are also implementing labs or alternative ...
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Community-centred design and humanitarian innovation
Jul 2019This paper is based on semi-structured interviews with three innovation managers, four lab managers, ten innovators and four volunteers involved in the DEPP Labs programme.
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Business models for innovators working in crisis response and resilience building
Jul 2019This practical guide is packed full of useful for information to push for a better quality of participation in humanitarian innovation and to support localised, longer-term outcomes.
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Anti-corruption and PSEA posters in Sena (Mozambique)
Jun 2019The CDAC Network developed and tested with partners in Mozambique anti-corruption posters, and posters raising the awareness of sexual exploitation and abuse in Portuguese and in three key local languages: Sena, Ndau and Chwabo. Download the posters in Sena here.
About the CDAC Network
The CDAC Network is a growing platform of more than 30 humanitarian, media development, social innovation, technology, and telecommunication organisations, dedicated to saving lives and making aid more effective through communication, information exchange and community engagement.
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