Phase 2 of the New Inter-University Graduate Program (NPTCI) was launched in Cotonou, Benin, in April 2012. The Ministry of Development, Economic Analysis and Forecasting hosted a ceremony to celebrate IDRC support of this phase and the signing of...
A new series of development debates in Senegal and West and Central Africa
Canada’s ambassador to Senegal, Perry Calderwood, has opened his residence to a series of debates on development issues. Organized in collaboration with IDRC, these...
Labour Markets in West and Central Africa – WACALAMWorkshop for an action-oriented research agenda with private sector involvement
Dakar, Senegal
September 22-23, 2011
On Friday September 23, Senegal’s Minister of Labour, the Honourable...
Yaoundé's Higher Polytechnic School of Engineering (ENSP) won the 2010 Grand Prize in the SUEZ Environment Foundation’s Water for All competition. The school was rewarded for its decade-long efforts to improve access to piped water and reduce...
Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) welcomes the opening of a new pan-African centre of excellence for Africa’s brightest math and science graduates in Senegal. AIMS-Senegal is the second centre of the African Institute for...
Although the constitutions of 139 countries and territories now guarantee gender equality, true fairness is not assured: more than numbers and quotas are needed, insists a panel of developing-country researchers. Invited by IDRC to the Women’s...
The Nouveau programme de troisième cycle interuniversitaire (NPTCI), in partnership with IDRC, announces a third call for applications for the NPTCI-IDRC Doctoral Research Awards in Economics. These awards will be granted to doctoral students...
The second Science and Democracy World Forum (SDWF) will be held in Dakar on February 4-5, 2011. Held just before the 2011 World Social Forum, SDWF aims to help scientific and social actors share interests, issues, and concerns. Because...
The Institut supérieur des sciences de la population (ISSP) de l’Université de Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, in partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is pleased to announce the second call for applications for awards...
Please click on the links below to access all print and web articles (only available in French and Portuguese) published by West African Media on the Conference.
You can also watch on ouest-tv.com online portal a Tv reportage produced by Sébastien...