CDAC Network’s work in Lebanon, Sudan and Myanmar in 2025 shows a consistent pattern: when trusted information breaks down, humanitarian outcomes deteriorate. This policy brief identifies four major trends in the information environment in crises and makes recommendations for humanitarian systems to support information integrity in the same way they ensure access to food, water and shelter.

In 2025, CDAC launched a new initiative in collaboration with Valent to use AI to identify inauthentic networks and monitor manipulation of online narratives in Sudan’s war. This report examines the project’s co-design ambitions, reviews the integration of AI into humanitarian response, measures the project’s operational impact on Sudanese and international partners, and draws together key lessons from the pilot.

Inauthentic networks use coordinated fake social media accounts, bots and mass engagement tactics to manipulate and amplify narratives at scale. This tipsheet explains how humanitarians can identify coordinated inauthentic network behaviour, assess the risks and respond.

AI governs who gets aid, yet the humanitarian sector has no shared framework to govern AI. SAFE AI’s inaugural briefing establishes why the governance gap is structural, why global frameworks don't translate to humanitarian realities, and what independent assurance must look like.

This CDAC Network snapshot is a November update on the current state of the information environment in Myanmar, post April 2025 earthquake. It reveals how information gaps left by years of conflict, an opaque aid system and suppressed local media, is creating fertile ground for harmful information spreading fear and violence. An under-resourced local media struggles to bridge these gaps amid dwindling financial support.

This Framing Paper outlines the critical conversations informing the CDAC’s Public Forum on 10 December 2025 in Bonn, in partnership with DW Akademie and Fondation Hirondelle. The paper lays out the current state of information and why it is at a crisis point, and makes a bold Call to Action on what we can do about it.

CDAC Network’s tipsheet for joining online sessions safely is a guide designed to help ensure participants' safety when taking part in online training sessions or meetings, especially in environments with security risks or surveillance.

CDAC Network’s Digital Security and Hygine Tipsheet outlines the key digital security and best practice tips designed specifically for mutual aid groups and local actors working in the humanitarian sector. Download the tipsheet below, or follow the instructions below.

Sudan’s information war: How weaponised online narratives shape the humanitarian crisis and response examines how misinformation and disinformation have become weapons of war in Sudan's humanitarian crisis, directly obstructing aid delivery and fueling violence. While humanitarian organisations recognise these threats, their responses remain fragmented and reactive.

This CDAC Network snapshot outlines the current state of the information environment in Myanmar, post April 2025 earthquake. It reveals how information gaps left by years of conflict, an opaque aid system and suppressed local media, is creating fertile ground for harmful information spreading fear and violence. An under-resourced local media struggles to bridge these gaps amid dwindling financial support.

In Lebanon's humanitarian system, rumours spread faster than official information, driving communities to act on unverified messages about aid cuts, registration changes, and returns. This CDAC Network report examines how harmful information circulates through informal networks—WhatsApp groups, religious leaders, former NGO staff—that fill gaps left by inaccessible official channels.

This how-to note from the SAFE AI Project provides practical guidance for co-designing AI solutions with crisis-affected communities – bridging the divide between humanitarian and technological co-design practices. It aims to improve the delivery of responsible and ethical AI solutions in humanitarian contexts.

This case study from the SAFE AI Project examines real-world challenges in implementing participatory AI through a groundbreaking pilot in Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Settlement.

This factsheet from the FCDO-funded SAFE AI Project provides practical guidance for humanitarians working with AI to understand two different approaches to participation in AI development.

This report examines Sudan's evolving conflict dynamics and their impact on humanitarian action and civil society operations after three years of war. It presents broad recommendations and possible responses based on ongoing transformations, including the proposal of new initiatives and directions to safeguard and support civil society and humanitarian work.

Notes from the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) roundtable and soft launch of the FCDO-funded SAFE AI project.

The local lifelines project aims to improve the humanitarian information ecosystem by supporting an enabling environment for greater localised humanitarian action in Sudan.

In February 2025 and December 2024, CDAC Network convened two roundtables on Sudan to share recommendations with ERR, mutual aid groups, diaspora representatives, UN, donors, INGOs and conflict researchers.

This policy brief outlines the role of common feedback mechanisms in Papua New Guinea and recommends ways to strengthen approaches to two-way communication with communities in disaster response activities in-country.

This guide provides a framework for disseminating lifeline messages to people affected by crises in Papua New Guinea via trusted and accessible communications channels. It also includes key messages and channels for sharing them.