Established in 1983 as a voice of the poor to express their developmental needs and aspirations, CUTS International (www.cuts-international.org) is a leading Southern voice and face of consumer empowerment through its rights-based approach and activities for influencing the process and content of inclusive growth and development.

From consumer protection work in India it has expanded its scope and interventions to subjects, such as good governance and social accountability, trade and development, economic and business regulations including competition, investment and corporate governance and human development, particularly women's empowerment.

The organisation’s Vision is Consumer Sovereignty'. It conducts action (policy) research and evidence-based advocacy for policy and practice changes to bridge the gaps between the core and the periphery, that between the state and non-state actors. It believes that consumer empowerment not only serves national interest but also addresses many challenges faced by the global public goods. It aims to take forward the consumer movement to the political space at sub-national, national and international level with a holistic and balanced objective.

With its headquarters and three programme centres in Jaipur, India; one each in Chittorgarh and Calcutta; an
advocacy centre in New Delhi, India and five overseas centres in Lusaka, Zambia; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana;
Hanoi, Vietnam and in Geneva, Switzerland, the organisation has established its relevance and impact in the policy-
making circles and among the larger development community in the developing world and at the international
level.

CUTS Institute for Regulation & Competition (CIRC) was established in New Delhi in 2008 with the aim of
offering research, educational and training programmes on competition policy and law and sector regulatory laws.