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IDRC photo: Stephanie Colvey

IDRC has supported Burkina Faso’s scientific and research community since the early 1970s. One of the world’s poorest countries — it ranks 175 out of 177 in the United Nations Development Programme’s 2006 Human Development Index — Burkina Faso has been an important hub of IDRC-supported research.

 

It is one of the very few West and Central African countries to have a functional national research coordinating body: the Centre national de la recherches scientifique et technique (CNRST). IDRC has supported the CNRST’s research and its biennial National Forum on Scientific Research and Technological Innovations, a unique platform for dialogue between researchers and decision-makers.

 

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