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.

Learn CTI’s approach to care and frameworks for collective care, and access reflections on how to tap into your own collectives’ care systems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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 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.

CTI’s Co-Founders Chris Ash and Sophie Otiende wrote this article for Beyond Trafficking and Slavery’s …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.