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Universities and Councils Network on Innovation for Inclusive Development in Southeast Asia

The recently completed IDRC-supported project, 104904 Science and Technology Innovation for the Base of the Pyramid (Southeast Asia), supported research on pro-poor innovations in Southeast Asia. Buil

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Colombia’s controversial disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration process

Colombia has been implementing its disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration process since 2005. The goal: allow some 30,000 ex-combatants to regain a place in society by significantly reducing their prison sentences. Although the "Justice...


News

Pratap Bhanu Mehta wins 2011 Infosys Prize

21/02/2012

Former IDRC governor Pratap Bhanu Mehta has received the prestigious 2011 Infosys Prize for Social Sciences – Political Science in recognition of his contributions to Indian public policy and international relations. Dr Mehta served on IDRC’s Board...

IDRC in the News — February 2012

21/02/2012

IDRC President David Malone gave a talk, titled “Outsider’s Perspectives on Soft Power in Indian Foreign Policy,” at the International Centre Goa in Dona Paula, India. In a working paper on the topic published by the National University of...

Events

One Year After: Where is the Arab World Heading?

07/02/2012

Mr. Malley will reflect on the situation in the Arab world a year after the popular uprisings that began in Tunisia. Mr. Malley, who has just returned from Egypt, will discuss the new political landscape that is taking shape, including the new role...

Highlight: African think tanks focus on mobilizing resources, development strategies

08/12/2011

The Think Tank Initiative held three workshops on resource mobilization strategy development for its African grantees  in Dakar, Accra, and Nairobi in the fall of 2011. The goal of the workshops was to strengthen the capacity of grantee...

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The recently completed IDRC-supported project, 104904 Science and Technology Innovation for the Base of the Pyramid (Southeast Asia), supported research on pro-poor innovations in Southeast Asia. Buil

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Recent policy initiatives suggest that efforts are underway to improve the traditionally limited support granted to science, technology and innovation (STI) activities in Peru. FORO Nacional/Internaci

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In India, researchers and policymakers have only partially succeeded in incorporating gender concerns in health research, policy and programs. There is need for a more indepth and nuanced gender analy

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Having little or no savings can be devastating for poor families. In a crisis, it can force households to cut consumption, take out usurious loans or deplete business income. Access to financial servi

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In 2007, out-of-pocket expenditures accounted for 90% of total private expenditure on healthcare in India. The cost of coping with serious disease can be ruinous for families living below the poverty

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Colombia has been implementing its disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration process since 2005. The goal: allow some 30,000 ex-combatants to regain a place in society by significantly reducing their prison sentences. Although the "Justice...

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Poverty and social disadvantage provide fertile ground for the proliferation of informal occupations that yield barely subsistence-level incomes. In Cochabamba, Bolivia, garbage separation is a relatively old informal occupation, dating back 30 or...

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The global financial crisis has affected different sectors and countries in the developing world in varied ways. Case-studies in Bolivia and South Africa, for example, show the complex impacts of the crisis on poverty. Reduced global demand led to...

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Benin has moved toward the decentralization of state power and the active involvement of local communities. The community is now the institutional locus for the exercise of local democracy and governance, through the participation of its citizens...

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It is widely acknowledged that INRM is a means of achieving the CGIAR’s multiple goals of food security, poverty alleviation, and protection of the natural environment. The CGIAR has defined INRM as "a way of doing development-oriented research...
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