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Vous quittez la maison pour travailler dans un autre pays, une autre culture, peut-être une autre langue. Il y a de nombreuses récompenses – et des défis. Vous découvrirez une nouvelle culture et de nouvelles façons de travailler, ce qui peut entraîner du stress personnel et professionnel.​

Notes de CANADEM est un service qui aide à atténuer ce stress. Les quatre séries couvrent tout le parcours : de la préparation au départ en mission, aux stratégies pour optimiser l’efficacité et relever des défis professionnels et personnels particuliers, jusqu’à l’expérience du retour à la maison.

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Practicing Safe Stress: Introducing CANADEM Notes

mai 5, 2026
An introduction to CANADEM Notes and the role they play in helping deployees build resilience, manage stress, and prepare for…
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Avant le départ

The Home Front: Family and Friends While I Am Away

mai 5, 2026
A thoughtful look at how missions affect loved ones at home, with practical reminders on staying connected, preparing well before…
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Avant le départ

With Eyes Wide Open: Planning to Stay Safe

mai 5, 2026
Practical advice for staying safe while travelling and working abroad, from preparing documents and packing smart to developing the street…
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Avant le départ

Take Two Aspirins: Planning to Stay Healthy

mai 5, 2026
A practical guide to protecting your health on mission, covering travel preparation, illness prevention, useful medications, and simple habits that…
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Avant le départ

What Happens in Vagus: Planning to Stay Sane

mai 5, 2026
An accessible reflection on stress, the vagus nerve, and simple ways to calm the body and mind through breathing, movement,…
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Accomplir la mission

Our Reaction to Being There: The Ups and Downs of a New Job

mai 5, 2026
A practical reflection on culture shock, adjustment, and the emotional ups and downs that often come with settling into a…
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Accomplir la mission

Imagine an Iceberg: The Impact of Cultural Differences

juillet 15, 2026
An insightful look at how culture shapes behavior, values, and institutions, and why understanding what lies beneath the surface is…
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Accomplir la mission

Engaging with Others: Being the Newcomer in the Workplace

mai 5, 2026
A helpful guide to arriving well in a new workplace, building trust with colleagues, clarifying expectations, and adapting to unfamiliar…
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Accomplir la mission

Working with National Staff

mai 5, 2026
A reminder that local colleagues are essential to mission success, offering practical advice on building trust, showing respect, and creating…
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Accomplir la mission

Managing Disagreements

mai 5, 2026
A grounded exploration of how cultural differences, personality styles, and workplace pressure can create tension, with practical guidance for handling…
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Relever les défis

Resilience in Times of Change

mai 5, 2026
A thoughtful reflection on anxiety, uncertainty, and resilience, with practical ways to stay grounded, healthy, and effective during seasons of…
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Relever les défis

Sleep on It!

mai 5, 2026
An encouraging guide to why sleep matters so deeply for health, resilience, and professional effectiveness, along with simple habits that…
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Relever les défis

The Road to Burnout Is Paved with Good Intentions

juin 17, 2026
An honest look at burnout in humanitarian work, how it develops, what it feels like, and the everyday practices that…
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Relever les défis

When Trauma Happens to Someone We Know

mai 5, 2026
A practical and compassionate guide to recognizing stress injury in others after a critical incident and offering the kind of…
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Relever les défis

If Bad Things Happen to Me

mai 5, 2026
A reassuring overview of how people may respond after a traumatic event, with guidance on healing, seeking support, and understanding…
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Le retour

Coming Home and Moving On

mai 5, 2026
A reflective look at why returning home can feel more difficult than leaving, and how re-entry can become a meaningful…
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Le retour

Tools for Re-Entry: Process the Past … Plan the Future

mai 5, 2026
A practical guide to processing difficult memories, letting go of what no longer serves you, and taking the first steps…
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Le retour

Now What – Moving On

mai 5, 2026
A thoughtful closing reflection on moving forward after mission life, with encouragement to care for yourself, build community, mentor others,…
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CANADEM

CANADEM est un OBNL international voué à l'avancement de la paix et de la sécurité internationales par la constitution de listes d'experts, la mobilisation rapide et la mission.

Respect for the environment
An ever-increasing awareness that caring for the environment is the responsibility of us all, regardless of our area of expertise or profession, has propelled CANADEM to place more focus on our own global footprint as well as that of our sector. During this Period, we have embarked on a challenge to enhance our learning regarding the environment and how we interact with it – including efforts to create a baseline and targets for improving how we deal with our natural environment. We are therefore making a conscious and transparent effort to measure and manage the way we affect the natural world around us, hopefully becoming better caretakers along the way.
Impact Driven
CANADEM has always valued the positive impact we make in the world as a foundation of our work. It is this guiding principle that has led us to form lasting partnerships, in support of other entities, if we feel they can add greater value than we can at CANADEM. Searching for our comparative advantage, while avoiding falling into a simple race to find funding opportunities, is therefore essential to CANADEM. As we see an increasing number of individuals suffering from the consequences of conflict in the world, and prepare for even greater numbers of environmental disasters, the need to prioritise the areas where we can make a real difference and combine our efforts with like-minded entities, is vital to achieving success.
Efficiency
The objective of CANADEM’s leadership has always been to find the most innovative and cost-effective ways to contribute to communities in need, and not to place the growth of numbers and our budgets at the centre of our efforts. As a result, we have adopted a light footprint in terms of our human resources complement and infrastructure, making use of the latest technology, and empowering our small team to be as innovative and flexible in solving problems as our procedures allow. Our structures allow us to scale up and down as required, and for staff to work in different teams, according to the needs of the moment. Our 30 years of experience has taught us what our core capacities are and how to allocate precious resources.
Accountability & Transparency Values
From CANADEM’s earliest beginnings as a Government of Canada project, and during its rapid evolution into an independent NGO with its roots in international service, the principles of accountability and transparency have been a component of CANADEM’s DNA. Accountability for the use of public funds has been incorporated into procedures that needed to respond to the high standards of government. Transparency has been the vehicle to ensure the vital accountability that CANADEM maintains. CANADEM’s headquarters team is a well-trained group of committed individuals who believe in the important work they do – including the conviction that providing the best value possible to the communities and donors we serve is a primary component of our job. CANADEM’s rules and procedures are therefore established to ensure that every step of the way we are confident of our work, and can demonstrate its efficiency and effectiveness.
People-Centered Values
Our work is about deploying people to help people. It is therefore of paramount importance to us that we are all relating to individuals in our chain of service delivery in a way that is respectful, understanding, considerate, and that brings out the best in us. Our internal working context is designed to foster humanity, fairness and support among our staff, which in turn aims to foster those same qualities among the experts we deploy. We have invested in a team of individuals (our Duty of Care Team), who provide a safety net for those experts we deploy. By taking care of our staff members and our deployed experts, we ensure that we have an effective flow of communication between all aspects of our operation. Our experienced and motivated staff feel supported, and are in turn able to support our experts in times of stress and prevent any potential problems from occurring.
Diversity & Inclusion Values
Ensuring an inclusive workplace that integrates diversity in terms of gender, language, culture, ethnicity and religion, is of prime importance for CANADEM both internally and with regards to our work with partners. We have made significant progress in attracting experts from 178 countries around the world – including from countries that are recipients of international assistance – so that a diversity of perspectives, understanding and expertise may be integrated into all operations that CANADEM supports. From our fair and transparent selection process, to our supportive Duty of Care Team (which ensures that individuals deployed have the resources they need to feel comfortable and confident in their work), we have invested significant energy in fostering diversity and inclusion within our roster system, in our election monitoring deployments, and in our own direct implementation of programming, at headquarters and in the field.
Partnership Values
The majority of our experts work within the assistance operations of our partners. Partnership is therefore of primary importance and value to us, and is key to the way we operate. Our many long-term relationships with other actors have been forged by promoting trust and understanding. The ability to work together with other actors, and not in competition, has allowed CANADEM to enhance the work of governments or organizations by injecting vital expertise, and targeting it where it is needed most. We believe that we can create a greater impact, when we work in partnership.