CARE check

Use this sheet in lesson 06. Pick one real project that involves Indigenous Peoples, their lands, languages or knowledge. For each principle, write the evidence you can actually find, such as a signed agreement, a payment record, the date of a meeting or a report that went back to the community. If there is no evidence, write "none found".

Project:

Collective benefit

Who benefits from this project, in the community's own terms?

Evidence:

Authority to control

Can the community decide what is collected, who sees it and how it is used? Has anyone ever used that power to say no?

Evidence:

Responsibility

What has been reported back to the community, in which language? Which skills stayed in the community when the project ended?

Evidence:

Ethics

Whose definition of harm does the project use? Does it describe the community by what it lacks, or by what it knows?

Evidence:

The weakest column

Circle the principle with the least evidence. Write one change that would fix it before any more data is shared.

The CARE principles were drafted in 2018 and published by the Global Indigenous Data Alliance in 2019. Read them in full at gida-global.org.