Gender inequality is rife in agriculture, despite women being heavily engaged in the sector.
For many people around the world, digital technologies have enabled the continuation of work, education, and communication during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A solid foundation in logical thinking is important for lifelong learning. However, learning inequalities start in early childhood, and a significant proportion of children enrolled in school do not learn even the most basic skills.
Agenda 2030 encompasses an aspiration to achieve sustainable progress for all and to “leave no one behind”, but systematic exclusion and structural inequalities persist around the world.
Numerous strategic evaluations have found that learning and communications are key to research for development interventions.
This project aims to address growing concerns about the potential for technological change to exacerbate inequality in the Global South. Much of the current thinking underlying this view is speculative and supported by little empirical evidence.
This project will fill critical knowledge gaps regarding women’s opportunities for home-based work on digital platforms and it will enable comparisons across different forms of platform-based work.
Estimates say that more than 80% of the world’s poorest people will live in fragile contexts by 2030.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a bacteria that causes severe infections in hospitalized patients. The worldwide emergence of carbapenem-resistant P. aeruginosa (CR-PA) makes infections by these pathogens almost untreatable.
This project will support the Climate and Resilience partnership by covering the operational costs, including salaries and benefits, office costs, and travel of IDRC staff.