Guiding Principles & Ethics

CEI stands for community engagement and involvement - the active involvement of communities throughout the global health research process. 

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has outlined seven guiding principles for global health research. The principles provide guidance for the research community in developing, delivering, and evaluating CEI. They can help ensure that planned activities are robust, appropriate, and effective for the local context, research topic, and design. The principles can also be helpful as criteria to assess research proposals. These principles are not a set of rules, but a values-based tool. They are non-hierarchical and non-linear guiding principles, designed to be flexible and motivational and can be operationalized in many ways.