August 20, 2026
Article 4 of the EU AI Act makes AI literacy an organisational responsibility. Learn what this means for organisations using ChatGPT and other AI tool... Continue Reading
August 12, 2026
How the Centre for Transnational Development and Collaboration created a distinctive model for research, strategy, learning, organisational transforma... Continue Reading
August 4, 2026
Political risk management helps organisations prepare for conflict, geopolitical instability, regulatory change, economic disruption, and shifting rel... Continue Reading
June 29, 2026
The recent reporting on safeguarding failures in humanitarian programmes in eastern Chad has prompted important conversations about organisational acc... Continue Reading
June 24, 2026
Organisations are often spoken about as structures: policies, departments, strategies, reporting lines, budgets, and systems. Continue Reading
June 18, 2026
When safeguarding failures become public, organisations often respond in familiar ways. Continue Reading
June 11, 2026
Reports that more than £28bn of UK taxpayers’ money may have reached terrorists, hostile states, organised crime networks and other hostile actors thr... Continue Reading
June 4, 2026
Organisations are increasingly turning to AI to draft policies, summarise complaints, analyse workplace culture, and support internal decision-making. Continue Reading
May 13, 2026
When cases of sexual violence against children become public, societies often move quickly towards shock, naming, exposure, and demands for punishment... Continue Reading
April 21, 2026
Why Organisations Struggle to Move Forward After Conflict — And What Actually Helps Continue Reading
April 21, 2026
Why Organisations Struggle Without Clear Frameworks — Even When They Have Strategy Continue Reading
April 21, 2026
Why Organisations Cannot Improve What They Do Not Clearly Understand Continue Reading
April 21, 2026
Why Research Often Fails to Reflect Reality — And What Organisations Can Do Differently Continue Reading
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April 20, 2026
Why Diversity and Inclusion Efforts Often Fail — And What Organisations Miss Continue Reading
April 20, 2026
Why Most Workplace Learning Does Not Work — And What To Do Instead Continue Reading
April 14, 2026
Education is often framed as a neutral good something that equips individuals with knowledge, skills, and opportunities. The dominant assumption is th... Continue Reading
April 6, 2026
Across contexts, what we see repeatedly is not disengagement from politics, but a growing sense of exhaustion with how politics is currently organised... Continue Reading
April 1, 2026
In moments of crisis, organisations often ask the same question: how do we respond? The answers tend to be familiar. Activate safeguarding protocol... Continue Reading
March 25, 2026
Across organisations working in unstable or conflict-affected contexts, one assumption persists: that care can be maintained through policies, goodwil... Continue Reading
March 17, 2026
Accountability is often treated as a compliance requirement—something to be reported, audited, or demonstrated after the fact. Yet, in reality, organi... Continue Reading
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March 11, 2026
Bias is often framed as a personal defect—an individual failure of judgement that can be corrected through awareness, training, or better intentions.... Continue Reading
February 23, 2026
Artificial intelligence is often framed as either a threat to human distinctiveness or as a neutral productivity tool. Rarely is it discussed as somet... Continue Reading
February 16, 2026
We are living through a moment in which technological acceleration is being narrated as inevitability. Continue Reading
February 9, 2026
For many people, the most disorienting part of the Jeffrey Epstein story is not the fact of abuse alone, but its apparent durability: the sense that h... Continue Reading
January 26, 2026
AI does not only affect how we write. It changes how we handle data, how we interpret evidence, and how easily our work can travel into decision-makin... Continue Reading
January 19, 2026
AI tools are now woven into everyday research practice. They can draft text, summarise articles, generate interview questions, propose analytic catego... Continue Reading
January 12, 2026
The UK Department for Education’s recent policy paper on generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education represents an important and timely inter... Continue Reading
January 4, 2026
Much of the advice on career transition in the age of AI is relentlessly individualised. The focus, we are told, should be on personal reinvention: ma... Continue Reading
December 29, 2025
The prevailing story of artificial intelligence in the workplace is, at first glance, deceptively simple: as jobs change, people must reskill or risk... Continue Reading
December 13, 2025
Over the last four blogs in this series, we have examined how AI is reshaping the educational landscape: the abundance of online offers, the disappear... Continue Reading
December 12, 2025
Before the rise of AI, the primary concern for learners was whether a course was relevant, rigorous, or well-designed. Continue Reading
December 11, 2025
Accreditation has long been used as a marker of legitimacy in education. Universities, training centres, and institutes rely on accrediting bodies to... Continue Reading
December 10, 2025
One of the most significant shifts in the learning ecosystem today is not simply the rise of AI-generated content, but the disappearance of identifiab... Continue Reading
December 9, 2025
Over the past decade, the global learning landscape has transformed. From universities and think tanks to independent educators and consultancies, edu... Continue Reading
December 1, 2025
Across safeguarding and protection systems, a recurring assumption persists: that better outcomes require more data. More forms, more reporting channe... Continue Reading
November 25, 2025
Across CTDC’s consultancy practice in the development, humanitarian, and human rights sectors, we review dozens of tenders and contracts every year. M... Continue Reading
November 18, 2025
A CTDC reflection on affect, confidentiality, power, and the hidden harms organisations overlook Continue Reading
November 10, 2025
For years, international organisations have pledged to make their safeguarding systems “culturally sensitive.” Continue Reading
November 3, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how organisations operate, from recruitment and project management to research and reporting. It can now... Continue Reading
October 27, 2025
Putting feminist MEAL into practice begins with intentional design. Every stage of monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning can be re-imag... Continue Reading
October 21, 2025
At the Centre for Transnational Development and Collaboration (CTDC), we see Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) not as a bure... Continue Reading
October 13, 2025
Rethinking Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning through a Feminist Lens Continue Reading
October 6, 2025
Global safeguarding frameworks are often described as victim-centred, but in practice they frequently reproduce the same hierarchies they aim to disma... Continue Reading
September 29, 2025
Leadership does not only set strategies; it shapes the cultural fabric of organisations. When leadership fails, the consequences extend beyond ineffic... Continue Reading
September 22, 2025
When we think of leadership, we often focus on strategy, vision, and structures. Yet, what truly binds an organisation together is not only its polici... Continue Reading
September 16, 2025
“Localisation” has become a buzzword in development, human rights, and humanitarian fields. It promises to shift resources, power, and leadership to l... Continue Reading
September 1, 2025
When organisations lose their memory, they lose more than files. They lose context, relationships, and the ability to adapt with integrity. This post... Continue Reading
August 26, 2025
Today’s organisations are operating in contexts defined by uncertainty, complexity, and rapid change. Whether in the corporate sector, civil society,... Continue Reading
August 19, 2025
In today’s organisations, managers are not just responsible for achieving targets; they are also key to building safe, empowering, and respectful work... Continue Reading
If your organisation is navigating complexity, change, growth, or uncertainty, CTDC can help you understand your context, clarify priorities, and design approaches that strengthen capability over time.