Trauma-Informed Approaches to Development

The Trauma-Informed Approaches to Development Toolkit is designed to support practitioners in seamlessly integrating trauma-informed approaches into the project stages of assessment, activity design implementation, monitoring, evaluation and learning, and staff care and engagement.
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Trauma-Informed Approaches in Development Summit

As part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence, Chemonics International was thrilled to host this exciting event, which took place in person at our Washington D.C. offices on December 7, 2023.
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Colombia’s Carbon Stewards: The Misak in the Páramos

This video is part of our docuseries on Communities and Carbon in Colombia and highlights the experience of the Indigenous Misak community in Colombia's high Andes ecosystems (páramos).
Video

Catherine Maldonado

Senior Advisor, the Agriculture and Food Security Practice

Catherine (Kate) Maldonado is the Senior Advisor for the Agriculture and Food Security Practice. With 20 years of experience in international programs, Kate has designed and implemented agriculture, resilience, nutrition, and food security programs in Africa,…

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Best Practices for Centering Indigenous Peoples in Development Projects

Engaging Indigenous Peoples is essential to driving forward locally led development, ensuring international development projects respond to and align with Indigenous Peoples’ self-determined goals and needs, and deepening projects’ impact and sustainability.
Blog Post

Incorporating a Trauma-Informed Approach in Primary Education Programming in Northwest Syria

Constant exposure to traumatic or distressing events can impact an entire community, as well as an individual’s psychological, emotional, cognitive, spiritual, and social wellbeing. This can be exacerbated when survivors are excluded from the decision-making processes…

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