The Government of Bangladesh has supported a number of initiatives to decentralize fisheries and water resources management, mostly with external donor support.
IDRC's Think Tank Initiative is a multi-donor program dedicated to strengthening independent policy research institutions (think tanks) in developing countries, thereby enabling them to produce sound research that both informs and influences polic
The Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR), Kenya, is a 15-year-old research organization known as a reputable producer of high-quality, policy-relevant research that it disseminates in various forms.
In 2006 the Government of Kenya passed an Act of Parliament making the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) the government's lead socioeconomic research institute.
Post-conflict and post-authoritarian societies can experience high levels of violence as they transition to new and fragile democracies.
IDRC supported an institutional assessment of the Institute for Social Studies Trust (ISST) under project 103394.
IDRC's Think Tank Initiative is a multi-donor program dedicated to strengthening independent policy research institutions, or "think tanks," in developing countries, thereby enabling them to produce sound research that both informs and influences
In much of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and West Africa, there is a dearth of research, training and employment opportunities in the social sciences, particularly in the area of research and policy analysis on local conflicts.
Between December 2006 and May 2009, the Nairobi Peace initiative and the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding carried out a collaborative five-country project entitled, Transitional Justice and the Rise of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Centre for Research and Technology Development (RESTECH) is a two-year-old science and technology research centre at Maseno University in western Kenya.