This second issue of the Global Alliance Against the Traffic in Women’s Reframing Narratives member …

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.

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.

Downloadable ebook of The Meaningful Engagement Handbook on Google Play, which outlines CTI’s overall approach to meaningful engagement.

This brief from the UN Development Program Finance Against Slavery project provides financial institutions with …

This history of CTI’s Meaningful Engagement Toolbox provides insight into its development by survivor / movement leaders and global adaptation in different spaces.

This handbook outlines CTI’s overall approach to meaningful engagement.

Screen reader-accessible version of The Meaningful Engagement Handbook, which outlines CTI’s overall approach to meaningful engagement.

Helpful guide by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control on the fundamentals of program evaluation.

A tool to help you determine needed supports to foster meaningful engagement across the levels of the spectrum in a project, team, or department.

A living glossary of words used in our toolbox that lives on our website.

A tool housed on our website where those who do not have time or capacity for a full evaluation or otherwise deep dive into meaningful engagement can access randomized, bite-sized suggestions for simple changes to improve engagement of people with lived experience.

Antislavery Knowledge Network’s guide to ethical survivor storytelling highlighting ethics and arts-based narrative approaches.

Document developed by the Australian Attorney-General’s Department on meaningful engagement. Adapted from CTI’s Meaningful Engagement Framework.

One of the instruments for use with CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation in the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox.

One of the instruments for use with CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation in the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox.

One of the instruments for use with CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation in the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox.

Concrete first steps organisations can take towards better meaningful enagement of survivors and lived experience expertise.

A meaningful engagement workbook to guide reflections on power dynamics present in a project, program, or activity so that mitigation strategies can be developed.

One of the instruments for use with CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation in the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox.

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.

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.”

One of the instruments for use with CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation in the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox.

One of the instruments for use with CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation in the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox.

One of the instruments for use with CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation in the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox.

This Meaningful Engagement Toolbox assessment helps identify strengths and weaknesses; develop targeted strategies for growth; anticipate potential obstacles; and plan for effective resource allocation.

Recommendations for preventing and addressing common barriers to meaningful engagement of lived experience expertise and survivor leadership.

Tools and instructions for analysing the results of CTI’s comprehensive lived experience engagement assessment and evaluation from the Meaningful Engagement Toolbox.

How does CTI understand evaluation? This high-level overview outlines our approach.

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!

Document prepared by the Council of Europe to provide guidance on meaningful engagement, adapted from CTI’s Meaningful Engagement framework.

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.”

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.

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.