IDRC President Jean Lebel is part of the Canadian delegation accompanying His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, during State visits to Ghana, Botswana, and South Africa, from May 13 to 22, 2013. Mr...
IDRC is pleased to announce the winners of its 2012-2013 Award for International Development Journalism. Five graduate students were awarded for their exceptional reporting skills and innovative research on international development.The following...
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert is the 2013 recipient of the Partners in Research (PIR) Technology Ambassador Award. This award recognizes Deibert’s contributions to enhancing public understanding of the benefits of communications research and...
Photojournalist and IDRC awardee Marc Ellison has won a Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) award celebrating outstanding journalism. A professional organization with more than 500 members across Canada, the CAJ exists to promote excellence in...
The launch of a second phase of project funding under the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund, a joint IDRC–Canadian International Development Agency initiative, was featured in a number of media outlets: The Toronto Star and...
Emerging political developments in the Middle East and North Africa may result in either the advancement of women’s rights and roles in a more democratic society or to back-sliding and regression as new social players and ideologies come to the...
Research supported by IDRC will evaluate the impacts of social protection programs available to people that do not have access to social security. Traditionally, social security funds have covered legally registered employees who contribute through...
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Cooperation and MP for Newmarket-Aurora, Lois Brown, announced today that Canada will invest an additional $62.5 million to make food more secure and nutritious in developing countries through...
In Africa, large-scale land deals can bring benefits such as jobs, market access, and infrastructure, but they can also dispossess people of land and other resources and spark conflict over economic benefits. Part of the problem is that land deals...
The connections between environmental and human health are the subject of the African Environment Outlook-3 (AEO-3), released recently by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). With environmental factors contributing almost 30% of the...