The IDRC-funded Municipal Services Project launched two books in March 2012 exploring alternatives to the privatization of basic public services. Both books are available for free online. Remunicipalisation: Putting Water Back into Public Hands...
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...
IDRC-supported research led by Women in Cities International with local partner Jagori has helped women in New Delhi’s slum resettlements realize their rights and demand better and safer services. In New Delhi and many other parts of the world...
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...
This report from the University of Cape Town’s Energy Research Centre examines how renewable energy and energy mini-grids can power water services in drought-prone rural areas in five Southern African countries: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa...
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...
Since 2001, the IDRC-funded Soils, Food and Healthy Communities project has helped combat malnutrition and improve the health of poor families in rural northern Malawi. Growing a wide variety of nutritious food crops has led to stronger children...
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...
Reshaping Agriculture for Nutrition and Health is a new resource for those who think that linking agriculture, nutrition, and health can maximize agricultural benefits for the poor and hungry. Published by the International Food Policy Research...
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...