institutional-mission-statements/gida-care-directs-us-home

Quote / Position

“CARE Directs Us Home” — warns against treating the CARE Principles as a static compliance checklist. Reasserts CARE as high-level guidance designed to direct researchers toward the distinct, community-specific protocols of the Indigenous Peoples involved.

Context

GIDA’s August 2025 “CARE Directs Us Home” communiqué is the most recent substantive statement on CARE implementation. The framing matters because it explicitly cautions against the most common implementation failure: treating CARE as a checklist rather than as high-level guidance. Worth knowing for any talk that engages seriously with IDSov operationalisation — implementation quality matters more than certification counts.

Source

GIDA (August 2025). “CARE Directs Us Home” communiqué.

Cited in: IWGIA. The Indigenous World 2026: Indigenous Data Sovereignty. https://www.iwgia.org/en/articles/iw-2026-indigenous-data-sovereignty