The International Center for Transfer of Agricultural and Livestock Technology (CIITTA) is a non-profit organization that works to strengthen agriculture in developing countries, through technology transfer initiatives and training and capacity building activities focusing on small and medium scale farmers and extension workers.
This Code of Ethics encompasses a set of values that reflect high ethical and moral standards that must govern all of the CIITTA’s domestic/foreign, business and governmental relations, aligned with its internal regulation, the mission, values, and vision that define the CIITTA’s identity, guide its businesses in search of constant innovation and excellence in all of its activities, without creating any legal relations between the parties, other than the existing ones.
This code of ethics aims to strengthen the CIITTA’s ethical values, its organization identity, and guiding principles.
It also seeks to strengthen the CIITTA’s commitment to forming ethical people, who can have a positive influence on society through the conduct of its collaborators, manager, and clients.
The CIITTA’s primary scope is to build up a culture of integrity, sustainability, honesty, trust, transparence, and good conduct policy.
This commitment is expressed herein based on the standards that reflect our mission, vision, as well as our principles.
3.1 – MISSION
To strengthen the technical and organizational capacity of the agricultural technicians and extension workers within the scope of the south-south cooperation, guided by the existing demands throughout the value chains, represented by the agricultural, livestock production, and processing steps.
3.2 – VISION
To become an institution that serves as a global benchmark for the transfer of agricultural technology, significantly helping to increase food safety in the south-south cooperation countries.
3.3 – KEY PRINCIPLES (exemplary roll):
Each and every decision to be made, either internally or externally, must be made according to the following chief guidelines:
The conflict of interest arises whenever someone derives benefits for themselves in detriment to the CIITTA’s ethics and interests.
To avoid such situations, you should avoid, for instance, the following:
In case of doubt about any situation that may give rise to a conflict of interest, talk with your direct supervisor or the CIITTA’s management.
The following types of conduct are unacceptable and subject to disciplinary penalties, hence not permitted in any event:
Any internal and external information is protected by industrial secrecy, and cannot be disclosed, shared or reported, at any rate, without its owner’s express consent. This confidentiality is equally applicable to any information from the CIITTA’s collaborators, managers, clients, and suppliers.
Every collaborator carries the company’s image with them, so any conduct that violates the ethics, moral and effective laws will not be tolerated, either inside or outside the workplace.
All the collaborators and/or directors who are involved in unethical conduct will be subject to the following measures:
Whenever you have doubts about compliance or noncompliance with this code of ethics, talk with your immediate superior or the CIITTA’s management.
All the recipients must diffuse this document. The awareness of any conduct that violates this Code must be promptly communicated; violations of the provisions under this Code will subject the breaching parties to disciplinary sanctions, without prejudice to any applicable legal measures.
This Code does not include all the possible ethical issues concerning the CIITTA’s activities, so it does not restrict any disciplinary measures against conduct that goes against common sense, the ethics, and moral values of the place where the CIITTA undertakes its activities.
This code is valid for an unlimited time, as of its disclosure and signing, and applicable to all the places where the CIITTA operates.
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