What We Do

Advocacy, awareness-raising, and outreach

C4V makes ethics more pragmatic and understandable by showing how these concepts can translate into operations and affect practice. Some specific examples of our advocacy, awareness-raising, and outreach work include:

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Transformational leadership training sessions

conducting either 6-day or 10-day in-person training modules on the moral dimensions of transformational leadership visioning and messaging.

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Creating public resources

such as videos and podcasts on a wide variety of ethical issues in relief & development.

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Convening experts and stakeholders

bringing together experts and stakeholders to highlight ethical issues in a particular context to achieve a specific set of desirable, measurable outcomes.

Consulting Services

Our team of ethicists and development practitioners helps organizations identify, study, mitigate, and resolve moral conflicts that arise within their work. We apply research and analysis to provide our clients with guidance that is accessible, pragmatic, and results-focused.

Our services range from specific project support to organization-wide engagements and generally fit into the following categories:

  • Development Ethics
  • Values Mapping (organizations, projecs, humanitarian response) - linked to CLA practices
  • Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Machine Ethics
  • Transformational Leadership Training
  • Ethics of Localization (and locally-led development)
  • DEI and Inclusive Development (focused on LGBTQI+ people and SOGIESC issues)
  • GESI (male engagement, GBV, child marriage, technology-driven GBV, gender analyses)
  • Epistemology and Data Quality (in data and evidence)
  • Inclusive Development Training (IDT)

The Center for Values in International Development
1919 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 425
Washington, DC 20006
USA

Registered as a nonprofit organization in the District of Columbia, USA, and tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.