Partner Spotlight: CYVAT’s 30 Years of Community-Led Change in Zimbabwe
How the Advocacy Academy strengthened a grassroots organisation navigating funding challenges and climate impacts When the Christian Youth Volunteers Association Trust (CYVAT) joined ICAAD’s Frames: Human Rights for Impact course in late 2024, they weren’t...
New Toolkit Empowers Communities Against Extractives Industry Harm
Mining in Solomon Islands is expanding rapidly, often without free, prior, and informed consent from communities who bear the environmental and social risks. Photo by Alex DeCiccio, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International...
Part 1: The Challenge of Chaos
The Power of Structured Data: Transforming Advocacy Through Data Literacy In today’s world, advocacy organizations rely on the power of data to tell stories, drive change, and measure impact. Yet, many nonprofits struggle with the chaos of raw, unstructured data. This...
Systems Change Built on Trust, Time, and Partnership
At ICAAD, we believe systemic change grows through long-term, partner-led relationships. Our theory of change is grounded in relational systems transformation: listening first, co-building slowly, and moving at the pace of trust. This is what that looks like in...