Center for Values in International Development

The Center for Values in International Development received a start-up small grant from Hewlett last year. The aim of the Center is to bring the discipline of values and ethics to the fields of international relief and development. Since we made our grant, the Center has started operations, produced and shared 5 podcasts with various speakers about the the importance of DEI, ethics and values in international development, and engaged with USAID senior leadership and staff to provoke discussions about USAID's role in nurturing a more ethical and values-driven approach to international relief and aid. This OE grant to the center will help them to identify potential sources of funding and hopefully diversify their funding base.

The Center for Values in International Development is a newly founded nonprofit organization comprised of international development ethicists and practitioners with the aim to help international development and relief institutions to embrace moral values and ethical guidance in their policies and practices. The application of development ethics aims to foster greater awareness about the ethical foundations and dimensions of relief and development, grounded in frameworks such as social justice, gender equality, addressing systemic racism, human dignity and human rights, basic needs, and feminist concepts of human interdependencies. The Center will work with USAID senior leadership on diversity, equity, and inclusion and the application of ethics to USAID policies and practices.