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Highlight: Latin American think tanks focus on long-term survival

Latin American grantees of the Think Tank Initiative gathered March 26-28 in Asunción, Paraguay, for a workshop on resource mobilization. The goal of the workshop was to strengthen the think tanks’ ability to sustain their operations over the long...

Highlight: Consultation focuses on Mexico's employment, labour challenges

The World Bank, IDRC, and the Inter-American Conference on Social Security organized a high-level technical consultation on January 19, 2012 in Mexico City. The goal: contribute to the World Development Report (WDR) 2013 on labour markets and...

Evaluating corporate responsibility in Latin America’s mining sector

Book launch/panel discussion: Governance Ecosystems: CSR in the Latin American Mining Sector   December 7, 2011, 10 a.m., University of Ottawa The cross-cutting and complex relationships between key actors in Latin America’s mining sector are the...

Highlight: Third meeting on dengue and Chagas disease prevention

Researchers from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Uruguay met in Mérida, Mexico at the end of August 2011 to continue their exchange on the eco-bio-social approach to disease prevention. This broad approach focuses on...

International Conference on Decentralization, Local Power and Women's Rights

The following presentations reflect the views of the individual presenters and do not necessarily represent the views of IDRC. IDRC assumes no responsibility for presentations containing inaccurate or incomplete information. Contents of the...

Think Tank Initiative grantees meet at Peru workshop

In August 2011, the Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES) and Think Tank Initiative (TTI) grantee Grupo FARO co-hosted a workshop, "Using knowledge for more effective policy influence” in Lima, Peru. TTI supported the...

Fighting vector-borne diseases in Latin America

On October 17-18, 2010, 45 researchers and policymakers from 10 Latin American countries met in Guadalajara, Mexico to present results of research on the transmission of dengue, malaria, and Chagas disease and discus ecohealth research methods.   ...

First meeting of Latin American cohort

The Think Tank Initiative held the first meeting of its Latin American cohort in Buenos Aires on September 15-16. Twelve funded institutions came together to discuss issues, challenges and innovations on policy research in the region. The program...

International EcoHealth Forum 2008, Opening Ceremony

Ivonne Ortega Pacheco, State Governor of Yucatán, officially opened the International EcoHealth Forum in Merida, in December 2008. Healthy and resilient ecosystems are the foundations of a society’s strength, she observed, since environmental...

Plenary Session 2 - Emerging Diseases as a Global Threat: Understanding the Resurgence

Panel Chair:Dr Peter Daszak,Wildlife TrustPanellists:Dr James N. MillsMedical Ecology Unit, Special Pathogens Branch, US Centers for Disease ControlDr Carlota MonroyLaboratorio de Entomología Aplicada y Parasitología, Universidad de San Carlos...

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