Five things you can commission.
Our services can be commissioned separately or combined as part of a longer process.
Research & Assessment
Understand what is happening before deciding what to do.
Organisational reviews, safeguarding and accountability assessments, evaluations, and multi-country studies.
Frameworks, Policy & Governance
Turn a decision or commitment into a system people can follow.
Policies, frameworks, governance models, procedures, and the tools that make them workable.
Learning Design & Delivery
Build the knowledge and capability people need in practice.
Curricula, courses, training, trainer preparation, and educational platforms in English and Arabic.
Facilitation & Conflict Work
Move difficult or complex conversations towards clarity and action.
Strategy sessions, consultations, mediation, organisational repair - and ongoing retained support.
Advisory & Accompaniment
Support the work as it moves into practice.
Advisers alongside your leaders and teams over an agreed period.
Most organisations get one part of this.
Organisations often commission each stage separately, from different providers who do not work together. Each piece may be strong, but the overall process fails because the pieces do not connect.
Research, system design, learning, facilitation and implementation are often treated as separate tasks. In practice, they depend on one another. A policy must reflect what is actually happening. Learning must prepare people to use the systems around them. Implementation must respond to what changes once the work begins.
CTDC can support the whole process: investigating the situation, designing the response, equipping people to use it, facilitating the conversations it requires, and staying alongside implementation.
You can commission the full sequence or only the part you need.
How the stages connect
What each of the four stages can achieve on its own, and what becomes possible when they are designed as one connected process.
| Commissioned | 01 The diagnosis | 02 The system | 03 The people | 04 The implementation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research alone answers what is happening | Covers the diagnosis | Does not cover the system | Does not cover the people | Does not cover the implementation |
| System design alone answers what should change | Does not cover the diagnosis | Covers the system | Does not cover the people | Does not cover the implementation |
| Learning alone answers who has to run it | Does not cover the diagnosis | Does not cover the system | Covers the people | Does not cover the implementation |
| CTDC can support the whole process | ||||
Twelve areas of work.
Our services can be applied across twelve connected areas of work, separately or in combination.
- Safeguarding & Protection
- Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Accountability
- Organisational Culture, Leadership & Conflict
- Strategy & Organisational Development
- Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning
- Diversity, Inclusion & Gender Justice
- Localisation, Decolonisation & Power
- Human Rights, Humanitarian Response & Civic Space
- Responsible Innovation, AI & Technology
- ESG & Sustainability
- Preparedness & Duty of Care
Work in practice.
A safeguarding system across four continents.
An international humanitarian organisation needed one safeguarding system that could work across different legal and operational contexts. CTDC assessed its policies, reporting routes and governance, then designed an integrated framework with context-specific procedures, training and monitoring. The system remains in use.
Research & Assessment · Frameworks, Policy & Governance · Learning · Advisory
Six countries mapped, one regional programme developed.
CTDC mapped civil society across six MENA countries, examining the political, economic, social and organisational conditions shaping its work. The findings informed a multi-year regional programme that has since supported more than 30 organisations.
Research & Assessment
A governance model for a complex transnational network.
A global advocacy network needed a governance structure that balanced member authority, board oversight, secretariat responsibilities and different legal arrangements. CTDC developed several possible models, supported the board to assess the trade-offs, and turned the selected model into a practical governance guide.
Frameworks, Policy & Governance · Facilitation & Conflict Work
Professional courses built from the casework.
CTDC Academy translates CTDC’s research, methodologies and practice-based expertise into accessible, structured courses in English and Arabic. Our courses connect theory, ethics and practice, strengthening judgement, confidence and decision-making in real professional contexts.
CTDC is a member of The CPD Certification Service, and selected Academy courses are CPD certified.
Working in your language
English and Arabic at any scale. French and Spanish for smaller assignments, delivered by associates who work natively in those languages. We will always tell you where our capacity ends.
More on how we workEight kinds of organisation, one way of working.
The work is the same whoever commissions it: find out what is happening, design what answers it, and stay while it goes into use.
Academic collaborations include the London School of Economics, SOAS, UCL, Birkbeck, the University of Edinburgh, the Open University, University of Turin, the American University of Beirut, Coventry University, and University of Groningen.
Tell us what you’re dealing with.
You do not need to know which service you need. Tell us about the issue, decision or change facing your organisation. We will listen, ask questions and tell you honestly whether, and how, CTDC can help.
An initial conversation is free and carries no obligation. If we are not the right fit, we will say so and help you think about who is.
