The SAFE AI project tackles a critical challenge: ensuring AI benefits humanitarian action without harming vulnerable populations. A partnership between CDAC Network, The Alan Turing Institute, and Humanitarian AI Advisory, we're developing the first practical framework for responsible AI for humanitarians. Funded by UK FCDO, our work focuses on creating clear governance guidelines, building tools to verify AI trustworthiness, ensuring affected communities have a meaningful voice, and working directly with humanitarian organisations to ensure real-world applicability.

Our Community of Practice on AI is a platform for advancing innovation in humanitarian aid while ensuring the needs of crisis-affected communities remain at the forefront.

Members share insights, learn collectively and collaborate to build consensus on AI's role in enhancing aid and empowering local action.

We're committed to using AI safely and responsibly, ensuring its design and governance are guided by the voices and needs of those most impacted by crises.

Our Community of Practice on harmful information is a collaborative space for addressing misinformation, disinformation and hate speech in humanitarian settings.

Members work to safeguard information integrity in crises by developing tools and best practices for verifying content, promoting reliable information-sharing and strengthening media and digital literacy.

Together we aim to bolster community resilience and ensure safer information ecosystems in humanitarian contexts.

The Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme (DEPP), co-led by CDAC Network and Start Network and funded by UK Aid, focused on locally led innovation in crisis-vulnerable communities.

DEPP innovation labs employed user-centred design approaches to develop local solutions to challenges like drought, flooding and conflict.

The labs involved affected people at all stages, supporting more than 90 groups with business development and social entrepreneurship training. Many DEPP initiatives continue to thrive.