Doing research ethically
Our new guide and toolkit aims to help NGO staff, partners and consultants to conduct research and evaluation in an ethical way.
We work to strengthen and use evidence and learning that is informed and led by people living in poverty around the world.
International development research and evidence often lacks the participation of southern practitioners who work directly with communities living in poverty, and the views of those communities themselves. We aim to change that.
What we do
We work in partnership to create spaces for southern knowledge and for communities and those living in poverty to be involved in the generation of research and evidence relevant to them.
We produce and support high-quality ethical research and evidence on poverty to contribute new approaches to tackling and eradicating it.
We guide evidence use and learning and strengthen technical knowledge related to research, evidence, impact and engagement.through online materials, tools and training courses.
We influence wider debates in the development sector in order to improve how programmes and policy work is designed and delivered.
An interview taking place in the village of Nyamdehun Bessima, Sierra Leone. - Photo: Tom Pilston/Christian Aid
Two activists embrace in KwaMashu, an informal settlement north of Durban, South Africa. - Photo Credit: Simon Hutchinson, Irish Methodist World Development & Relief
Learning from working in partnership
These Christian Aid reports share learning from decades of close collaboration with local and national organisations in Angola, Brazil, Ghana, Guatemala, South Africa and the Philippines.
Research projects
We are supporting research projects in a number of countries related to a range of themes. Building alternatives is a project gathering evidence to build a feminist agroecological model in Brazil. The Evidence and Collaboration for Inclusive Development project aims to reduce poverty, realise rights and improve the well-being of the most marginalised in Myanmar, Nigeria and Zimbabwe.
Image credit: Miriam Nobre
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