The Competitiveness and Innovation Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), together with IDRC and the Center for Economic Research (CINVE), has launched a call for proposals for research projects to better understand innovation and...
IDRC and the Inter-American Development Bank’s Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) invite proposals for an impact evaluation of the project Promoting Savings with “Solidaridad” Beneficiaries in Dominican Republic.
The aim of the evaluation is to...
Global drug flows, human rights, and security policy are some of the issues explored by the Drugs, Security and Democracy (DSD) program of the Social Science Research Council in its efforts to create a stronger, more evidence-rich knowledge base on...
Carolina Trivelli, co-leader of a component of IDRC's Multi-donor Research Platform on Social Protection, Financial Inclusion and ICTs project, was appointed Minister of Peru's new Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion on October 21...
The Information and Networks program of IDRC, in collaboration with the Internet Access Registry for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Internet Society, has announced the winners of the Regional Fund for Digital Innovation in Latin America...
The film "Forward Home” had its world premiere September 7 in Toronto at the CaribbeanTales 2011 Film Showcase. IDRC is one of the sponsors of the showcase, which celebrates the burgeoning film and television sector in the Caribbean. “Forward...
The Salvadoran Minister of Health and the Canadian Ambassador to El Salvador joined research teams on April 27, 2011 to launch a research project to prevent and control Chagas disease along the borders of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. The...
In an interview on Radio Canada International’s Canadá en las Américas, IDRC program officer Luc Mougeot shared some research findings on youth marginalization and violence in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Canada. The research emphasizes the...
Radio Canada International interviewed Martin Benavides, Executive Director of the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), a Think Tank Initiative (TTI) grantee, and TTI's María Urbina-Fauser about the Initiative. Listen to the interview...
IDRC’s Federico Burone testified before Canada’s Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade in early February about the essential role of research in Brazil’s economic and political development.
“Support for scientific and...