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See ethics in practice, on five continents.

Packaged study missions take legislators, senior executives and members abroad to learn first-hand from peer institutions, then bring the lessons home.

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EII delegation at an IPAC-IAPC conference abroad
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The Institute has interacted with over 5,000 delegates from 35 different countries.

Study Missions

Empowerment programs, packaged for travel.

EII's Institute Empowerment Programs are packaged as study missions and mounted in partnership with foreign government departments, intergovernmental bodies such as the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) and UN agencies, and public professional associations including the Australian Institute of Management (AIM), the Institute for Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) and the Caux Round Table.

From 2019 to 2022, the Institute's study missions focused on empowering legislators and senior executives to contribute to Kenya's Big Four Agenda; Affordable Health Care, Food Security, Affordable Housing and Manufacturing.

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Past Study Missions

Seven missions, seven lessons brought home.

Each mission paired a specific governance question with a partner institution equipped to answer it.

Study mission delegation in Canada Canada
Institute for Public Administration of Canada (IPAC)

Public Sector Ethics Study Mission — visited the integrity commission to learn how legislators are guided into ethical decision-making.

Study mission delegation in Germany Wittenberg, Germany
Transparency International, Berlin

Educated public servants on the relevance of Martin Luther King's teachings to public service.

Study mission delegation in South Africa South Africa
The Public Protector, Pretoria

Understanding the tools of whistle-blowing and the protection of whistle-blowers.

Study mission delegation in Japan Tokyo, Japan
Caux Round Table (CRT)

Wealth creation by visiting Japan's oldest companies.

Study mission delegation in Australia Australia
Australian Institute of Management (AIM)

Sessions between Kenyan legislators and Australian elected leaders on effective citizen participation.

Study mission delegation in Rwanda Rwanda
The Senate & Women Legislators' Empowerment Program

A peace mission — understanding how women legislators mobilised the electorate toward the development agenda.

Study mission delegation in Minneapolis, USA Minneapolis, USA
Municipal Council, Mayor & Sheriff of Minneapolis

Understanding housing development and the "Guardian vs Warrior" approach to law and order.

Also Visited

More countries in the EII study-mission network.

BotswanaTanzaniaZambiaEthiopiaThailandNigeriaMalaysiaSingapore

Centre for Cross Cultural Studies (CCCS)

Four programs, one aim: integrating culture and ethics.

The CCCS blends intellectual challenge with real cultural encounters, giving participants a genuinely rich and varied experience abroad.

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Intellectual Challenge

Structured sessions that test and sharpen participants' thinking on ethics and governance questions.

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Professional Involvement

Direct engagement with host institutions and their practitioners, not just observation from the sidelines.

03

Career Exploration

Exposure to career paths and institutional models participants can carry back into their own work.

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Cultural Encounters

Genuine cultural exchange that grounds the governance lessons in the place they were learned.

Featured Tour

Tailored Agricultural & Value Addition Tour

Delegates on an agricultural value addition study tour
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A field-based study tour on wealth creation through agribusiness — part of the same empowerment-program family as EII's international study missions, brought closer to home.

How It Works

How a study mission comes together.

From first expressing interest to reporting back on what you learned.

Step 1 of 4

Express Interest

Tell us which theme or country interests you — legislators, senior executives and corporate members can all put themselves forward.

Step 2 of 4

Selection & Briefing

Delegates are confirmed for the cohort and briefed on the host institution, itinerary and the governance question the mission is built around.

Step 3 of 4

The Mission

Delegates travel with the partner organisation, meeting host institutions directly rather than sitting through a purely academic program.

Step 4 of 4

Debrief & Report Back

Delegates return to brief their institutions on what was learned, turning the trip into something the wider organisation can act on.

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