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Research results for the region

IDRC grantees in Latin America and the Caribbean conduct field research and participate in initiatives that help the region find solutions to pressing development problems. They examine challenges and seek answers. They implement solutions, make policy recommendations, and support decision-making on issues such as:

improving access to health services
investigating how national reforms aimed at decentralization affect the rights of women and girls
developing regional policies related to competition, trade, and financial management

The results of their efforts can be found in the articles, books, conference proceedings, research reports, and videos they produce.

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Climate change impacts a reality in Lima

Peru is estimated to be the third most vulnerable country to climate change impacts after Honduras and Bangladesh. Effects are already evident in the Peruvian capital, Lima, as shown in this report, written by one of IDRC's Focus City research...

Making the most of Mexico’s water and energy resources

Relatively simple renewable energy technologies can improve water and energy efficiency in Mexico’s water-stressed areas, says a report from the Clean Energy Incubator, University of Texas at Austin. Case studies from Mexico City, Southern Mexico...

Harnessing clean energy for irrigation in water-scarce northern Patagonia

This report from Argentina’s Fundación Bariloche shows how solar and wind power are being used to pump well water and power irrigation systems in water-scarce northern Patagonia.These technological advances can improve agricultural water supply, but...

Meet two rural innovators

Rural technological innovations can improve lives. This 5-minute video shows two cases of innovations that have spread far and wide. The interviews were filmed during an international meeting of innovators on November 8-10, 2011 in Lima, Peru...

Primary health care reforms in Rosario, Argentina: A success story

In several Latin American countries, a selective approach to the delivery of primary health care in the past few decades has skewed access to a limited number of services to specific vulnerable populations. The result: fragmented health systems with...

Protecting potato growers from pesticides in Ecuador

Potatoes have played an integral role in Andean agriculture for thousands of years. Since 1998, IDRC has supported research in Ecuador on the health impacts of pesticide use on potato farmers and their families. Researchers worked with farmers...

Decentralization, Local Power, and Women's Rights

Decentralization has become a widespread development strategy in the global South, and is transforming the structure of governance. Decentralization policies have often been presented as strengthening democracy and citizen participation...

The Social Protection and Economic Empowerment project leads to a new research agenda in Latin America

The “Social Protection and Economic Empowerment” project worked to develop a policy-relevant research agenda in Latin America on inclusive and empowering social protection programs, facilitated by using information and communication technologies...

Preparing for floods on Argentina's Pampas

Over the past 50 years, floods and drought have severely affected lives and livelihoods across the Western Argentinean Pampas, a vast plain of cropland and pasture. Climate change is expected to bring more frequent extreme weather events to the...

Participation reduces health inequities in rural Guatemala

A long history of discrimination and 36 years of armed conflict in Guatemala have created unequal power relations and a lack of trust between indigenous citizens and public organizations. Rebuilding trust between the state and its citizens presents...

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