Values

We define ourselves by our values: integrity, quality, transparency, diversity and non-partisanship and, above all, by a commitment to the pursuit of excellence in all areas of our activities.

We seek to be an institution defined both by institutional integrity, and by the integrity of our experts and staff. 

We seek to be a group of scholars and experts defined by the quality of our research outputs and our advisory and technical assistance activities.

We seek to maintain full transparency with regard to our sources of funding, our participation in projects and other institutional activities. 

We seek to be characterized by diversity in the projects we tackle, the experts we contract, the partners with whom we work, and the donors who support us.

Finally, we seek to maintain a strict sense of non-partisanship in all of our research, advisory and educational activities. 

Integrity Policy

CASE and its daughter-organizations draw on the knowledge and experience of a range of experts in order to carry out high quality research and advisory activities. Many of these experts have been and continue to be involved at the highest levels of academic, business, government and the non-profit sector.

In the areas of policy advocacy, participation in political activity and publications, CASE has drafted careful policies to distinguish its institutional identity from the identities and activities of its staff and experts:

 CASE and its daughter-organizations do not institutionally participate in policy advocacy. In their research, writing and speaking activities, individual CASE experts, or small teams of experts, often advocate particular policies as the result of specific projects. When doing so, experts are solely representing themselves as individuals.

 The above does not apply to policy issues affecting the institutional interests of CASE and its daughter-organizations in the countries in which they operate, nor does it apply to policy issues affecting the non-governmental organization sector as a whole in these same countries.

 CASE and its daughter-organizations do not institutionally endorse political candidates and political parties, nor do they participate in political campaigns. CASE experts who wish to participate in politics and/or endorse political candidates may do so only during their personal time and supported by their personal resources. CASE experts who wish to devote considerable personal time and effort to participating in political activities and campaigns should refrain from simultaneously participating in CASE projects.

 CASE's publications series provide several forums in which scholars and experts can post their research and advance their point of view. Materials published within CASE publications reflect the views of the author(s) and not the views of CASE as an institution.

 Neither CASE, nor its daughter-organizations, nor its affiliated scholars and experts engage in lobbying or other political activities on behalf of our project sponsors and institutional supporters.