[Editor’s Note: This post was originally published at Research to Action. During a session on the role of ethics at the Think Tank Initiative Exchange, Margarita Beneke De Sanfeliu, from FUSADES, discussed how the think tank retains reputational integrity in the face of opposition and accusation.] FUSADES is an independent Think Tank in El Salvador, founded in 1983 during the civil war, a violent time of negative economic growth and increasing poverty levels, and within an un

FUSADES is a private, non-profit development organization dedicated to the ongoing pursuit of the common good, centered on the human individual. Its strategy is based on promoting economic, social, political, legal and institutional public policy proposals to Salvadoran society. The organization has two centers of operation: the Research Center and the Development Center.The Research Center is a think tank, focused on thought and analysis. It develops research and oversight i