In pursuit of its mandate to provide research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries, staff at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) generate a wide range of publications, datasets, and other research-based information resources. IFPRI views the products of its research as international public goods and is committed to enabling their widespread distribution and use by providing unrestricted public access.
Increasing access to the data produced by IFPRI enhances IFPRI’s ability to carry out its mandate. But increased access also requires that IFPRI safeguard the privacy of participants in, and subjects of, its research. This means ensuring the protection of confidential and sensitive personal data collected and used in research, while providing users with access to research and data in appropriate formats and in a timely manner.
This Research Data Management and Open Access Policy (hereafter referred to as the “Policy”) supports these goals by codifying the Institute’s priorities regarding the management of research data. This Policy serves as the umbrella under which IFPRI governs and manages research data, including the creation, storage, usage, description, transmission, publication, archiving, disposal, and dissemination of research data produced by IFPRI. This Policy endeavors to ensure consistent application of the CGIAR Open Access and Data Management Policy dated October 2, 2013 and the CGIAR Open Access and Data Management Implementation Guidelines dated July 23, 2014, and is aligned with commonly accepted “Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable” (FAIR) principles that guide scientific data management and stewardship.
The Policy supersedes the IFPRI Policy on Dataset Management approved in 2000 and subsequently updated in 2010; and supersedes the IFPRI Open Access Statement issued in 2012, specifically as it refers to research data. The Policy is also consistent with the IFPRI Policy on Intellectual Property as approved by IFPRI’s Board of Trustees on October 22, 2005. This policy should be read in conjunction with relevant policies (see in section 11) that address the classification of research data that is created, stored, used, described, transmitted, published, archived, or disposed of by IFPRI.
Procedures, systems, processes, and guidelines that accompany this Policy may be occasionally revised or updated to reflect changes in recommended practices, changes in the Institute, or for ther reasons, as deemed necessary by the Institute.
For the complete policy, click here.
May 2019