The PRO-RES Project has produced a guidance FRAMEWORK that encourages policymakers and their advisors to seek evidence for their decisions from research that has been conducted ethically, responsibly and with integrity.

Together these three ‘pillars’ comprise a normative framework.

A normative framework is a collection of principles, values and standards for right action that is seen as morally binding upon the members of a group and serves to guide, control, and/or regulate proper and acceptable behaviour. That is, such a framework contains advice and guidance on how one ‘ought’ to behave in producing ethical evidence. The framework constructed by the PRO-RES Project is based upon principles of normative ethics which refers to the grounds of meaning or acceptance of decisions about why certain behaviour is right or wrong.