 Our work spans across three broad and overlapping work streams:
People with lived experience of issues are best positioned to lead work to address the issues, and CTI has studied what works in movement organising and organisational leadership by impacted communities.
The work of care is ceremony—an act of revolutionary trust. Without care that is rooted in community and relationships, movements falter, activists burn out, and the heaviness of the work is ever-present. We believe these impacts are preventable, and we are creating healing spaces for collective dreaming and relational healing.
CTI believes that equitable cross-movement partnerships are more than just an adaptive strategy for movement funding that shifts with political winds – they are the foundation of sustainable anti-oppression and anti-violence movements.
Want to learn with us? Please see our Training and Consultations page to learn more.
The Meaningful Engagement Toolbox includes a handbook that outlines our framework for understanding meaningful engagement across the spectrum as well as a series of tools designed to support organisations and agencies in its implementation.
Whether it’s guiding governments’ responses to exploitation, supporting lived experience experts in their work, or shaping organisational practice, The Meaningful Engagement Handbook is inspiring a new way of thinking about “lived experience leadership.”
Through the Meaningful Engagement Organisational Coach Training, delivered by our local partners, over 60 professionals with lived experience of the issues they work in have been trained on the fundamentals of technical assistance and organisational meaningful engagement practices. Many of these professionals are now shaping the practices of governments and NGOs worldwide and are leaders in their fields.
The collective wisdom of our coaches, activists, leaders, and other partners is essential in our co-creation, and over a year of listening sessions, visioning workshops, and feedback loops with impacted communities shaped our second edition.
CTI continues research into best practices in meaningful engagement, and has published for academic, practitioner, policy, and public audiences.
Explore The Meaningful Engagement Toolbox and find resources to support your work.
CTI’s Care and Healing Justice Fellowship births spaces where activists gather not for salvation but for remembering: remembering that healing in community is our birthright, that our wounds carry wisdom, that our ancestors planted medicine in our very bones.Â
Our Kitchen Table gatherings bring women in leadership, activism, and the arts together for open, meaningful conversation. While much of the focus in the social justice sector has been on securing a seat at the proverbial “decision-making” table, The Kitchen Table exists to ensure that once we are there, we are nourished, supported, and reconnected to ourselves, each other, and the world we are trying to heal.
Our wellbeing fund is available to allow our partners to rapidly respond to the demands of a rapidly changing world.
Learn more about the Care and Healing Justice Fellowship.
All our work happens through equitable, cross-movement partnerships. Our partners work in gender-based violence, anti-exploitation, peace-building, children and youth, LGBTQ+, and worker rights movements.
Throughout 2026, our cross-movement focus is youth leadership. Across the globe teenagers and young women continue to be left out of conversations that shape their futures. Even in progressive spaces and global commitments their voices are often symbolic—present, but not heard; visible, but not shaping decisions or documentation processes. CTI’s partners are bringing together teenagers and young women from across Kenya to imagine what youth leadership could be, and to develop practical guidance. These activists are working with Photographers Without Borders to create new narratives about Kenyan girls and young women — their own narratives.
