SAGE: Science Advice for Government Effectiveness (May 1999)

• SAGE Report

    • SAGE (PDF version)

• SAGE Report (HTML version)

• Consultants' Studies

In SAGE, the CSTA offers a set of six key principles for the effective use of science advice in decision-making, recommending that the government employ measures to ensure the quality, integrity and objectivity of its science and technology (S&T). SAGE also presents a series of concrete guidelines to facilitate the adoption of the proposed principles by individual departments and monitor their effectiveness.

The key principles identified in SAGE are:

• early identification of those issues for which science advice will be required;
• inclusiveness;
• sound science and science advice;
• uncertainty and risk;
• openness; and
• review, which includes two principles: (1) subsequent review of science-based decisions; and (2) evaluation of the decision-making process.

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