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Getting “Do No Harm” to Stick: Successes, Failures, and Varied Approaches (2019)
This summary of lessons draws from several decades of CDA Collaborative Learning Projects’ efforts to diffuse the Do No Harm (DNH) Framework as widely as possible and to support its application and integration by humanitarian and development actors. This brief paper recounts...
The Shari’ah in Somalia: The Expanding Access to Justice Program in Somalia (March 2020)
Over the past two decades, justice sector development has undergone an enormous transformation. The community of practice has broadly accepted that most ‘top-down’ approaches to reform have been unsuccessful at improving institutional functionality or access to justice for marginalized or vulnerable populations....
Freedom in the World 2020: A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy
Democracy and pluralism are under assault. Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world. At the same time, many freely elected leaders are dramatically narrowing their concerns...
Key Lessons: How to Engage Mining Companies to Transform Conflicts Related to their Operations
Over the past eight years, Search for Common Ground (Search) has been working with the mining sector to establish sustainable business practices, in Tanzania, Guinea and Madagascar. As such, Search has collaborated with Acacia Mining (owned by Barrick Gold) in Tanzania since...
External Evaluation: Search for Common Ground Tanzania’s Sustainable Business Practices (2019)
In Tanzania, Search for Common Ground (Search) has been operational since 2011, working to promote gender equality and good governance, encourage greater objectivity in the media and overcome differences that divide Tanzanians, including those who live around extractive industries, improving relationships between...
An Introduction to Religious Pluralism in Sri Lanka (2020)
Sri Lanka's diverse social fabric is made up of different ethnic, religious, linguistic, and cultural groups. There is a very clear distinction between different ethnic groups; Buddhism is the religion practiced by a majority of the country’s Sinhala population, a larger portion of...
Final evaluation: building resilient communities in Fiji project (2019)
This report presents the independent evaluation of the USAID funded Building Resilient Communities in Fiji (BRCF) project. The evaluation was conducted between September-October 2019 by a three-member evaluation team. The purpose of this evaluation was to identify to what degree the intended...
Migrants caught in crises: contexts, responses, and innovation
The situations of people who have moved from their countries of origin only to find themselves caught in a crisis that threatens their security and ability to thrive are of growing concern to the international community. While crises affect both nationals and...
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