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.

In times of emergency, finding reliable information online can be challenging. This tipsheet offers practical advice to help you identify trustworthy information and avoid misinformation.

Practical guidance on how information management associated with communication, engagement and accountability activities can support humanitarian action.

This framework helps decision-makers to identify and source required surge support to ensure appropriate capacity at country level to deliver CCE/AAP across humanitarian response.

Common advocacy statements in support of CDAC Network’s vision: that communities will have the information and resources they need to determine their own solutions and be central stakeholders in humanitarian and development decision-making.

This study sought to identify changes to the communication, community engagement and accountability (CCEA) landscape as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Five key trends were identified and recommendations offered for forward planning.

This guide offers entry points for inclusion of people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) in communication, community engagement and accountability activities.

Through its public events in 2021, CDAC Network explored digital communication and accountability – in particular, asking how technology could offer a tipping point in shifting the power in aid. This policy brief outlines our key takeaways.

Our Message Library offers clear, concise and simple messages on a range of topics as templates for you to adapt and use in the context you are working in. This document provides guidance on contextualising and using the messages.

CDAC Network’s Message Library is a reference to help quickly disseminate critical information to people affected by disasters. It offers clear, concise and simple messages on a range of topics as templates for you to adapt and use in your context.

Insights from the 2021 CDAC Public Forum: part two.

Insights from the 2021 CDAC Public Forum: part one.

In this background paper for the 2021 CDAC Public Forum, Kaurin argues that, ‘Localisation of technology can support humanitarian localisation in making communities resilient, instead of reliant on international aid and services that are disrupted by global crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.’

How do we make technology inclusive, fair and accessible? Read insights from the 2020 CDAC AGA and Public Forum, ‘Accountability in the age of the algorithm: championing pathways to inclusion in tech-driven futures’, where interdisciplinary experts wrestled with the dual problems of equity and efficacy.

From the 2020 CDAC AGA and Public Forum, ‘Accountability in the age of the algorithm: championing pathways to inclusion in tech-driven futures’, a fundamental challenge to the systems of inherent privilege on which today’s aid sector is built and how they intersect with new technology.

As the world grapples with successive waves of COVID-19, what lessons can we learn from other health emergencies and humanitarian crises to develop a more effective and accountable response to the pandemic?