The Office of Ethics and Business Conduct is committed to providing a range of services to CGIAR staff and centers.
These include training and outreach to support the promotion of ethical culture in line with CGIAR’s Core Ethical Values, confidential and individualized advice, policy input and development, as well as helping to address issues of scientific research ethics. A number of useful resources are provided below.
Further CGIAR-wide ethics and business conduct policies are currently under development. For a CGIAR entity’s governing ethics policies (including codes of conduct, safeguarding policies, anti-harassment, whistleblowing, etc.) please contact the entity’s Human Resources/People and Culture office.
The CGIAR Counselling Service is a professional, confidential and free service available to all staff worldwide. It provides one-to-one counselling and group specialist assistance on a range of personal, family, social, psychological and mental health issues in a non-judgemental and open manner. It also provides a range of wellbeing, resilience and mental health advice and information.
The Counselling Service is outsourced to The Rome Institute, which is a highly experienced organization used by a number of UN agencies for counselling services.
Interested Staff contact The Rome Institute in confidence, using the following link:
CGIAR has launched an Ombuds Office to assist staff and consultants to navigate interpersonal and institutional issues. Dr. Anu Rao, Ph.D. Anu may be contacted by email at a.rao@cgiar.org for appointments. Anu adheres to the tenets, ethics and values, and the standards of practice, of the International Ombuds Association. This means that CGIAR’s Ombuds Office is a resource for fairness and an impartial, independent, informal, and confidential resource for CGIAR.
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