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.

Inclusive approaches to humanitarian action are gaining ground and growing in number. Here’s what this looks like in practice.

A summary of findings from the joint Fiji–Vanuatu knowledge and learning event.

Opportunities and challenges of leveraging human-centred design for more effective humanitarian innovation.

Operationalising localisation and the ‘Participation Revolution’: communications preparedness and accountability for disaster response in Fiji.

Operationalising localisation and the ‘Participation Revolution’: communications preparedness and accountability for disaster response in Vanuatu

The Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme (DEPP) Innovation Labs was a two-year programme that fostered innovations that address key problems faced by disaster-prone communities.

Report from the CDAC Network Annual Global Forum in 2018. Participants acknowledged the communication environment is now one where hierarchical ‘business as usual’ approaches are demonstrably less effective and on the wrong side of history.

The ‘12 essentials for system change’ came out of a global forum held in May 2017 by CDAC Network and the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response, on ‘The authenticity challenge to the Participation Revolution’.

Background discussion papers for the 2017 CDAC Public Forum: (1) Participation and community engagement: the challenge to make it authentic; and (2) Seeing the woods and the trees: the quiet rise of community philanthropy.