The Founder’s Dilemma
The founder’s dilemma emerges when a growing business remains dependent on its founder. Learn how organisations can scale, delegate and build systems without losing quality, culture or founder knowledge.
Insights
Writing from our practice: what we are learning, what is changing, and the questions organisations are navigating.
Two kinds: the blog, for analysis of what is changing now, and our publications - research reports, policy briefs and toolkits written with the organisations and movements we work alongside.
Blog
Latest writing.
Analysis and reflection on safeguarding, governance, accountability and AI in organisational life.
AI Literacy Is Now an Organisational Responsibility: What Article 4 of the EU AI Act Means in Practice
Article 4 of the EU AI Act makes AI literacy an organisational responsibility. Learn what this means for organisations using ChatGPT and other AI tools in everyday professional work.
CTDC | The First Organisation Established to Bridge Academia and Practice
How the Centre for Transnational Development and Collaboration created a distinctive model for research, strategy, learning, organisational transformation and responsible innovation
Publications
Research, briefs and toolkits.
Free to download in full.
Localisation Efforts in the Development, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Fields: A Case Study of Lebanon
This research, led by CTDC in collaboration with the Lebanese partners of the FemPawer regional programme, examines how localisation is understood and practiced across development, human rights, and humanitarian fields in Lebanon.
PDF, 7.6 MB
Navigating a Changing and Shrinking Civic Space: Toolkit
Developed by the Centre for Transnational Development and Collaboration (CTDC) in partnership with the FemPawer Consortium, this toolkit offers an intersectional feminist guide for navigating and resisting shrinking civic space in Arabic-speaking countries.
PDF, 2.1 MB
Peace Building Initiatives and Alternative Forms of Women’s Political Participation in Syria
This research, produced by CTDC in partnership with Release Me and ARI, captures the voices of 196 Syrian women across various regions to explore their roles in peacebuilding and political participation. Using an intersectional feminist lens, the study foregrounds grassroots activism and alternative forms of political engagement beyond formal negotiations.
PDF, 730 KB
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