Challenge: A humanitarian organisation needed a safeguarding system that could maintain shared standards while responding to different legal, regional, and operational contexts.
CTDC Response: CTDC reviewed its policies, governance, complaints mechanisms, and operational procedures, then designed an integrated framework with context-specific response mechanisms, implementation guidance, training resources, and a MEAL framework.
Impact: The organisation established a living safeguarding system that remains in use, supports more context-sensitive complaint handling, and can evolve through structured monitoring, feedback, and learning.
Connected Capability Areas: Strategy, Systems & Governance · Research & Institutional Insight · Learning & Professional Development
Challenge: An international NGO needed a regional strategy that reflected organisational priorities alongside the realities of country teams, partners, and communities across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
CTDC Response: CTDC designed and facilitated a multilingual strategy process combining research, internal workshops, country and partner consultations, thematic analysis, and participant evaluation.
Impact: The process clarified strategic priorities, strengthened regional ownership, and identified where localisation, accountability, risk, and organisational principles needed to be translated more clearly into implementation.
Connected Capability Areas: Strategy, Systems & Governance · Research & Institutional Insight · Organisational Transformation
Challenge: A global mine action organisation needed leadership development that could strengthen inclusion, accountability, and organisational culture across different country contexts.
CTDC Response: CTDC developed a complete sector-specific curriculum, facilitator guidance, practical tools, training materials, and an M&E framework. The programme was piloted in Iraq and Libya before wider rollout.
Impact: The programme became the organisation’s global leadership training. Participants described it as practical, contextually relevant, personally meaningful, and transformative in how they understood leadership, power, communication, and organisational culture.
Connected Capability Areas: Learning & Professional Development · Organisational Transformation · Strategy, Systems & Governance
Challenge: A global health organisation needed its accountability, safeguarding, duty of care, and preparedness systems to operate coherently across humanitarian and fragile settings.
CTDC Response: CTDC developed accountability and organisational preparedness frameworks and reviewed connected safeguarding and duty of care policies against international standards, sector guidance, operating jurisdictions, and organisational commitments.
Impact: The organisation established a more coherent institutional architecture connecting accountability, protection, risk management, preparedness, and duty of care across its programmes, personnel, partners, and affected populations.
Connected Capability Areas: Strategy, Systems & Governance · Research & Institutional Insight · Organisational Transformation
Challenge: An international organisation considering regional expansion needed evidence about where support was most needed, which actors were emerging, and where funding and partnership could have the greatest value.
CTDC Response: CTDC conducted a regional study across six core MENA contexts, combining political, economic, social, technological, legal, environmental, and relational analysis with interviews, consultations, media analysis, and organisational mapping.
Impact: The research directly informed a multi-year regional programme that continues to operate and has supported more than 30 organisations.
Connected Capability Areas: Research & Institutional Insight · Strategy, Systems & Governance · Organisational Transformation
Challenge: A digital cultural media platform faced a public accountability crisis involving safeguarding, governance, institutional responsibility, and contested public narratives.
CTDC Response: CTDC conducted an independent assessment examining organisational systems, leadership, response mechanisms, partnerships, media ethics, relational dynamics, and collective responsibility through an intersectional feminist accountability lens.
Impact: The organisation paused, restructured, adopted recommendations, responded publicly, and continued operating. The assessment also influenced wider sector conversations about safeguarding, accountability, and responsible institutional response.
Connected Capability Areas: Organisational Transformation · Strategy, Systems & Governance · Research & Institutional Insight
Challenge: A global advocacy network needed a governance model capable of balancing member authority, board oversight, secretariat delivery, advisory participation, and accountability across multiple organisations and jurisdictions.
CTDC Response: CTDC treated governance as an institutional design challenge, developing and evaluating alternative models before guiding the board towards a structure tailored to the network’s purpose and complexity.
Impact: The network established a clearer governance architecture defining authority, participation, oversight, operational responsibilities, and a practical pathway for implementation.
Connected Capability Areas: Responsible Innovation · Strategy, Systems & Governance · Organisational Transformation
Challenge: A partner organisation wanted to make feminist monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning accessible to emerging organisations and practitioners in Arabic and English.
CTDC Response: CTDC led the course’s instructional design, bilingual content development, localisation, interactive learning activities, technical tools, quality assurance, and learner-engagement strategy.
Impact: The open-source course transformed a complex organisational function into an accessible, self-paced learning experience, supported by a communications campaign and live engagement with CTDC instructors.
Connected Capability Areas: Learning & Professional Development · Responsible Innovation · Research & Institutional Insight
Challenge: An international environmental development organisation wanted its partnerships to reflect its commitments to justice, sustainability, and more equitable global relationships.
CTDC Response: CTDC provided strategic research and analysis examining how power operates through funding, resources, knowledge, language, relationships, and institutional decision-making.
Impact: The work generated organisation-wide learning, informed the client’s research on ethical and equitable partnerships, and contributed to the analytical foundation of its wider manifesto for a thriving world.
Connected Capability Areas: Research & Institutional Insight · Strategy, Systems & Governance · Organisational Transformation
Challenge: Local and national organisations working across MENA needed sustained support to strengthen their systems, leadership, relationships, and resilience in complex political and funding environments.
CTDC Response: Over eight years, CTDC combined mentorship, training, coaching, dialogue, and responsive problem-solving across governance, safeguarding, accountability, care, leadership, preparedness, MEAL, and organisational sustainability.
Impact: Partners strengthened their systems, relationships, leadership confidence, and capacity to navigate organisational pressure and change. Evaluation documented sustained improvements, including stronger capacity to secure longer-term funding.
Connected Capability Areas: Learning & Professional Development · Organisational Transformation · Strategy, Systems & Governance
Challenge: An international organisation found that investments in capacity building were being weakened when staff departures resulted in the loss of knowledge, relationships, decisions, and organisational experience.
CTDC Response: CTDC developed a practical institutional memory programme covering knowledge mapping, documentation, onboarding, offboarding, transfer processes, and the responsible use of AI for organisational learning and continuity.
Impact: Partner organisations gained practical strategies for reducing knowledge loss and preserving capacity beyond individual staff members, while approaching AI as a governed organisational tool rather than a generic technology solution.
Connected Capability Areas: Responsible Innovation · Learning & Professional Development · Organisational Transformation
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.