CDA Collaborative Learning Projects

CDA is a non-profit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA). We are committed to improving the effectiveness of national and international actors who provide humanitarian assistance, engage in peace practice, and are involved in supporting sustainable development. CDA's mission is to facilitate collaborative learning promoting effective and accountable international engagements. Our vision is a world in which communities and nations demonstrate resilience, drive their own development, and resolve conflicts without resorting to armed violence. CDA is a unique organization that is grounded in field experience, rather than based on a theory or model. We develop processes through which organizations learn with each other more than they might learn from their experience alone. CDA produces lessons, tools and approaches oriented towards practical application which are broadly relevant across many contexts, and we enable active international actors to learn from past experience and improve work, so that impacts are increasingly positive for the people in the societies where they work. In January 2015, CDA established new organizational structures to enable us to better pursue our mission of facilitating collaborative learning on critical issues and to strategically promote the effective application of that learning with a variety of partners through advisory and support services. Click here to read more about our new structure, initiatives and services.