Centre for Transnational Development & Collaboration
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Educational Services
We design and deliver interdisciplinary, context-specific educational solutions, ranging from tailored trainings and curriculum development to digital learning tools, facilitator guides, and strategic instructional design.
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We design and lead tailored facilitation processes, conflict diagnostics, strategic retreats, and long-term organisational healing programmes that support reflection, accountability, alignment, and systemic transformation.
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We develop customised frameworks for strategy, governance, MEAL, safeguarding, accountability, and compliance that align organisational systems with values, enhance accountability, and sustain transformative impact.
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We deliver tailored audits, trainings, policies, and response systems that embed inclusive, accountable, and safeguarding practices across organisational cultures, operations, and governance, across sectors and contexts.
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We conduct participatory organisational, strategic, and accountability assessments using mixed methods to uncover structural challenges, generate actionable insights, and support learning, alignment, and systemic transformation.
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We design and deliver context-driven, interdisciplinary research and knowledge services, offering ethical methodologies, structural analysis, and accessible outputs rooted in feminist, decolonial, and participatory approaches.
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Preserving Institutional Memory: A Strategy for Continuity and Adaptation
When organisations lose their memory, they lose more than files. They lose context, relationships, and the ability to adapt with integrity. This post outlines what institutional memory is, why it’s political (not neutral), and how to protect it; ethically and practically.
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Culture at the Core: Why Organisational Alignment Matters
When we think of leadership, we often focus on strategy, vision, and structures. Yet, what truly binds an organisation together is not only its policies or plans; it is its culture.
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Localisation: From Rhetoric to Practice
“Localisation” has become a buzzword in development, human rights, and humanitarian fields. It promises to shift resources, power, and leadership to local actors, making aid more just and sustainable.
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Thuraya Hijazi
Transformative PathwaysIn our journey as a feminist organisation working in complex and challenging contexts, we went through phases where we were completely alone — with no funding, no support, and with extremely limited resources. In those moments, we had only a few by o... Read More
Dr Aziza Khalidi
Collective for Research and Training on Development-ActionWorking with CTDC on a research project on localisation within an advocacy programme promoting women’s economic rights demonstrated the capacity of my CTDC colleagues to adopt an approach that blends rigorous academic inquiry with hard core activism.... Read More
The Team
Women’s International League for Peace and FreedomWorking with CTDC over the past eight years has been nothing short of transformative. Their intersectional feminist politics are not just theoretical, they inform every aspect of how they collaborate, facilitate, and co-create. Whether through their ... Read More
Yaaser Al zaiat
DocStreamWorking with CTDC has been one of DocStream’s most rewarding editorial partnership. A true blend of professional rigor and intellectual curiosity. Few match CTDC’s respect for true language and original research, paired with such a warm and thoughtfu... Read More
Hana Hamood Abbas
Public Aid OrganisationCTDC has been a powerful learning space—one that taught me the value of collective thinking and speaking ideas into being.My journey with the Centre began in 2017, when I attended my first session facilitated by Dr. Nof Nasser-Eddin and Dr. Nour Abu-... Read More
Christy Fujio
Synergy for JusticeAs the principals of CTDC, Nour and Nof bring an incredible combination of dynamic thinking, fresh perspectives, academic rigour, and flexibility. Their ability to dive into difficult topics, analyse the data, and describe key findings in clear and c... Read More
Dima Moussa
The Syrian Women’s Political MovementIn the early founding stages of the Syrian Women’s Political Movement (SWPM) and the development of internal governance, so that it distinguishes itself from other Syrian bodies as a political and feminist movement, we worked with CTDC’s Dr. Nour Abu... Read More
The Team
Women Now for DevelopmentWe have partnered with CTDC since 2023, they provided a consultancy focused on strengthening the governance and internal structure of Families for Freedom movement. Before this collaboration, we had actively searched for governance expertise that com... Read More
Professor Mariangela Palladino
MADAR Network PlusWe were fortunate to be able to engage CTDC for a number of training sessions on research ethics and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) within the context of international research. The sessions were delivered to a cross-sector, international team acros... Read More
Fos Feminista
International Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights & JusticeAs an Alliance of over 250 organisations and allies worldwide advancing SRHRJ for women, girls and gender diverse people through healthcare and advocacy, working with CTDC to understand better how our partners define a humanitarian setting and what t... Read More
Kvinna till Kvinna MENA Team
Kvinna till Kvinna FoundationAs Kvinna till Kvinna in MENA, we have truly loved working with CTDC. They are professional, deeply knowledgeable about the MENA context, and bring a rare and valuable feminist perspective to their work—something few can do in the region. They excel ... Read More
Tracy C. Kajumba
International Institute for Environment and DevelopmentCTDC supported us to do power analysis in institutional partnerships as part of our two-year research on Ethical and Equitable Partnerships. Nour and Nof (co-directors of CTDC) provided professional and technical guidance and teased out the manifest... Read More
Oula Ramadan
BadaelBadael’s collaboration with CTDC dates back to 2019, and over the years, our partnership has taken many forms. What consistently stands out is CTDC’s unique ability to bring difficult, often uncomfortable questions to the table, questions that challe... Read More
Dr Deema Kaedbey
The Knowledge WorkshopGrateful to have CTDC providing support for feminist organisations on organisational strengthening. Nof and Nour's approach combines strong feminist values with practicality coming from long years of experience, and this is exactly what we needed whe... Read More
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