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Introductory Guide to Peer Review for Community Research Partners and Early-Career Researchers |
This guide offers an overview of what peer review is, what it isn’t, and what it can be, with practical examples and concrete guidance for navigating the process. |
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Frameworks for Collective Care |
Learn CTI’s approach to care and frameworks for collective care, and access reflections on how to tap into your own collectives’ care systems. |
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Facilitating Cross-Movement Dialogues About Lived Experience Expertise |
This guide for facilitators and convenors of cross-movement collaborations that centre lived experience expertise (or survivor leadership) is designed to help facilitators resists hierarchical dynamics, fostering solidarity even when sharing lived experience expertise. |
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Cross-Movement Facilitation Planning Worksheet |
This worksheet allows organisations and facilitators guiding cross-movement dialogues about lived experience to develop a plan for mitigating power dynamics and fostering wellbeing and belonging for all dialogue participants. |
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Positionality Worksheet for Facilitators and Organisations |
This worksheet helps facilitators of cross-movement dialogues centring lived experience (and the organisations who host) to consider how their position shapes the degree to which participants feel a sense of belonging. |
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MS-PEC Guidance Notes and Implementation Tools for Ethical Research involving Survivors |
This series of tools by the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre offers guidance for research institutions, ethics boards, people with lived experience, and others who engage in research involving people with lived experience of human trafficking. |
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Reframing Narratives: Anti-trafficking from the ground up (Issue 2 – Lived Experience Engagement) |
CTI’s co-founders contributed to two articles in this special issue of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women’s member publication on lived experience engagement. |
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Survivor Engagement TTA Reflections: Learning, Unlearning, and Calling In |
Learning and evaluation reflections from the Office for Victims of Crime (USA) Survivor Engagement TTA project offering lived experience technical assistance to human trafficking service providers. |
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Podcast: Unbound the Pod: Stop Saving the World, Start Where You Are |
CTI’s founder Sophie Otiende shares about CTI’s work to support grassroots organising beyond the NGO world of big institutions, white saviourism, and international grants, to a world where our actions can actually make a change. Audio, 28 minutes. |
audio | media | activism audio care community community-based cross-movement cross-movement-organising grassroots meaningful-engagement movement organising podcast | audio | |
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UNODC Global Forum for Human Trafficking Survivors Report on meaningful engagement and lived experience leadership |
The Voices of Resilience: Global Forum for Human Trafficking Survivors (UNODC, Vienna, June 2025) was a historic gathering of survivors, governments, and organizations. It promoted trauma-informed, survivor-led solutions to human trafficking, emphasizing dignity and protection. This report synthesizes key insights and survivor contributions from the pre-conference needs assessments, pre-conference submissions by participants, and conference discussions. It was developed for the UNODC by Collective Threads Initiative. |
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Addressing the Intersection of Misogyny, Targeted Hate, and Violent Extremism: A Practical Toolkit |
This toolkit has been developed to support anyone whose work interacts with technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), targeted hate, and violent extremism — which are not separate issues but require a cross-movement approach. |
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Podcast: Who owns the Story? Decolonise how? |
This podcast episode features Kenyan teacher, activist and advocate for survivors of human trafficking, Sophie Otiende, and Kelsie Kilawna Marchand, a Syilx journalist from Canada discussing community, consent, what to do differently – and just what is a “coyote” move? |
audio | media | audio community-based decolonisation ethical-storytelling organising podcast storytelling | audio | |
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What is your WHY? worksheet – for people with lived experience to clarify goals and strengthen their advocacy impact |
An activity to help people with lived experience understand WHY they want to engage in advocacy and activism, and what that means for the kinds of things they want to do. |
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UNDP FAST Engaging People with Lived Experience: A Brief for Investors |
This brief from the UN Development Program Finance Against Slavery project provides financial institutions with tailored insights, accessible resources and practical guidance on why, how and when to engage people with lived experience of human rights abuses across the investment cycle. |
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Media: Why Can’t Anti-Trafficking Be More Radical? |
CTI’s Co-Founders Chris Ash and Sophie Otiende wrote this article for Beyond Trafficking and Slavery’s … |
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Research Publication: “Judged, Misrepresented and Misunderstood”: Human Trafficking Survivors’ Engagement with Journalists |
What have trafficking survivors’ experiences sharing their stories with journalists been like? What can journalists learn from this? This peer-reviewed paper provides findings and recommendations. |
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Video: 2026 Belonging Forum Lightning Talk – Sophie Otiende |
What is the role of belonging in efforts to meaningfully include survivors and other people with lived experience? CTI’s founder Sophie Otiende shares her insights in this lightning talk at the 2026 Belonging Forum. |
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Podcast: Change Happens in Relationship |
In this interview for the What Grows? podcast, Sophie unpacks what it means to teach from lived experience, why she doesn’t believe in scaling organizations, and how real change happens in relationship rather than through debates. |
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Video: A Love Letter to Survivors: Sophie Otiende’s Keynote on Ending Child Domestic Work |
At the 1st East African Convening on the State of Child Domestic Work, CTI’s founder, Sophie Otiende spoke powerfully to redefining care, solidarity, and justice for survivors. |
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History of the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox for lived experience leadership |
This history of CTI’s Meaningful Engagement Toolbox provides insight into its development by survivor / movement leaders and global adaptation in different spaces. |
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Meaningful Engagement Handbook for lived experience expertise and survivor leadership |
This handbook outlines CTI’s overall approach to meaningful engagement. |
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CDC Introduction to Evaluation |
Helpful guide by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control on the fundamentals of program evaluation. |
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Lived Experience Engagement Planner for lived experience expertise and survivor leadership |
A tool to help you determine needed supports to foster meaningful engagement across the levels of the spectrum in a project, team, or department. |
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CTI Glossary of movement, organising, and systems language |
A living glossary of words used in our toolbox that lives on our website. |
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AKN Ethical Storytelling Toolkit |
Antislavery Knowledge Network’s guide to ethical survivor storytelling highlighting ethics and arts-based narrative approaches. |
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Modern Slavery Lived Experience Engagement and Empowerment |
Document developed by the Australian Attorney-General’s Department on meaningful engagement. Adapted from CTI’s Meaningful Engagement Framework. |
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Staff Semi Structured Interview Guide – Meaningful Engagement Toolbox Assessment |
One of the instruments for use with CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation in the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox. |
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Staff Comprehensive Survey – Meaningful Engagement Toolbox Assessment |
One of the instruments for use with CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation in the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox. |
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Staff Abbreviated Survey – Meaningful Engagement Toolbox Assessment |
One of the instruments for use with CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation in the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox. |
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Quick Start Guide |
Concrete first steps organisations can take towards better meaningful enagement of survivors and lived experience expertise. |
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Power Analysis Workbook for fostering meaningful engagement of lived experience expertise and survivor leadership |
A meaningful engagement workbook to guide reflections on power dynamics present in a project, program, or activity so that mitigation strategies can be developed. |
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Participant Survey – Meaningful Engagement Toolbox Assessment |
One of the instruments for use with CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation in the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox. |
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Movements and Sectors – differences in who they are and what they do |
Organisations and systems are not themselves the movements they represent. This question-and-answer formatted document explains some of the key differences between movements and the sectors that support their work. |
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Lived Experience Leadership Analysis for understanding different models of lived experience or survivor leadership |
What do we really mean when we ask if something is “lived experience-led” or “survivor-led”? This worksheet helps evaluate and understand the right questions to ask when organisations or initiatives indicate that they are “lived experience-led” or “survivor-led.” |
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HROps Survey – Meaningful Engagement Toolbox Assessment |
One of the instruments for use with CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation in the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox. |
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Full Comprehensive Survey – Meaningful Engagement Toolbox Assessment |
One of the instruments for use with CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation in the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox. |
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Full Abbreviated Survey – Meaningful Engagement Toolbox Assessment |
One of the instruments for use with CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation in the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox. |
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Foundations Self Assessment – Meaningful Engagement Toolbox Assessment |
This Meaningful Engagement Toolbox assessment helps identify strengths and weaknesses; develop targeted strategies for growth; anticipate potential obstacles; and plan for effective resource allocation. |
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Barriers and Opportunities – meaningful engagement of lived experience expertise and survivor leadership |
Recommendations for preventing and addressing common barriers to meaningful engagement of lived experience expertise and survivor leadership. |
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Analysis Tools – Meaningful Engagement Toolbox Assessment |
Tools and instructions for analysing the results of CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation from the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox. |
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A Note On Evaluation |
How does CTI understand evaluation? This high-level overview outlines our approach. |
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Toolbox FAQs |
What’s in CTI’s Meaningful Engagement Toolbox for lived experience expertise and survivor leadership, and how can it be used? Find answers to your frequently asked questions here! |
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Guidelines for policy makers on engaging with victims and survivors of child sexual exploitation and sexual abuse |
Document prepared by the Council of Europe to provide guidance on meaningful engagement, adapted from CTI’s Meaningful Engagement framework. |
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Template for collecting feedback from service users |
Template that can be adapted for assessing broad service needs in a region based on feedback from adult service users. “Please, note that in order to avoid uncomfortable situations for the user, the interviewer or the organization requesting the feedback should not be the organization providing the supporting services.” |
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Tool for the assessment of the potential for implementation of good practices |
This tool helps determine whether or not a particular survivor engagement practice could be adapted for implementation in a different context and how to anticipate and prepare for any challenges or necessary modifications for your context. |
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Media: How US funding built a brittle economy in anti-trafficking |
CTI’s Co-Founders Sophie Otiende and Chris Ash were joined by their colleague Allen Kiconco to discuss challenges with the anti-trafficking sector, it’s funding streams, and what needs to change about anti-trafficking and modern slavery services to better meet survivors’ needs. |
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Guidance for Reviewing Manuscripts for Peer-Reviewed Publication |
This guidance — a guide and a review checklist — was developed by the Editorial Board of Pediatrics to assist reviewers in crafting a thoughtful and impactful review that improves the quality of the final paper. |
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Lived Experience Advisory Board Job Description Worksheet |
Want to avoid tokenisation when developing a lived experience advisory board? Identify the skills and experience needed to craft a clear job description using this worksheet. |
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