Purpose and Objectives

To provide independent research capacity producing reliable information on public opinion and social, economic, humanitarian, and market conditions, thereby supporting public understanding and better policy, program, service, and institutional decisions.

1. Conduct polls and studies responding to questions with clear public or institutional value.
2. Develop methods and instruments appropriate to Palestinian realities and changing contexts.
3. Improve the quality of data collection, analysis, documentation, and disclosure.
4. Make public findings and data understandable and responsibly accessible where rights and protection allow.
5. Provide evaluation and research that help programs and institutions learn and improve.
6. Provide market and consumer research supporting market- or business-related decisions without compromising professional independence.
7. Build researcher and institutional capacity in design, fieldwork, analysis, and use of findings.
8. Protect participants and data through ethical and security practices proportionate to risk.
9. Contribute to public discussion grounded more in testable evidence and less in unsupported assertion.

These objectives do not require the Center to work on every topic, in every location, or for every organization. Assignments are reviewed for fit, methodology, ethics, safety, resources, and legal and contractual rights.

• Project completion against scope and standards.
• Clarity of methodological disclosure and corrections.
• Data quality and error patterns.
• Understandability and practical use of findings.
• Participant protection and avoidance of preventable harm.
• Development of sustainable tools, knowledge, and capacity.