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| Human Subjects Approval is done to protect the rights and welfare of the human subjects in a research project.
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| == Read First ==
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| All impact evaluations must be fully compliant with both local and international Institutional Review Boards (IRB). Local IRB approvals vary by country; research local regulations when the impact evaluation is designed. IRB approval is required for:
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| * Studies interacting with human subjects for the purposes of research
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| * Studies collecting data on individuals including personally identifying information
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| * Studies using data collected from individuals that includes personally identifying information
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| All researchers should be certified in conducting ethical research on human subjects.
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| All surveys require informed consent from every respondent.
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| == Guidelines ==
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| === Where to seek IRB approval ===
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| International IRB approvals: The World Bank does not have an IRB. Typically, IRB approval is sought from partner academic / research organizations (e.g. universities, Innovation for Poverty Action [http://www.poverty-action.org/researchers/working-with-ipa/irb]).
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| === Where to seek Human Subjects Research certification ===
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| The National Institute for Health (NIH) offers a free course on [https://phrp.nihtraining.com/users/login.php Protecting Human Research Participants]
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| The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) offers a course on [https://about.citiprogram.org/en/series/human-subjects-research-hsr/ Human Subjects Research]
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| === Who needs to be included in ethics certification? ===
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| All members of the research team who will manage surveys and work with personally identified data must complete training on conducting research with human subjects.
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| All surveys require informed consent from every respondent.
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| == Additional Resources ==
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| Please feel free to add here articles related to this topic, with a brief description and link
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| MIT's Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects (COUHES) offers examples of IRB applications, informed consent, and authorization forms: http://couhes.mit.edu/forms-templates
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| [[Category: Human Subjects Approval]]
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