A new approach for evaluating research intended for the “real world."
Private investors and philanthropic agencies are increasingly investing in firms and social enterprises that provide socially valued goods and services.
High rates of maternal death and teen pregnancy persist in West and Central Africa. Research and programming efforts are not sustainably reducing these rates.
This project will support the building of leaders of today and tomorrow in West Africa, a region where capacity for economic research and management remains very limited.
This project will train up to 36 emerging climate change leaders in the field of adaptation finance, which funds efforts to adapt to climate change impacts.
This project aims to conserve East Africa's rich biodiversity by strengthening local livelihoods through community-based conservation programs.
Understanding an increasingly complex knowledge economy demands economic, social and environmental data from a wide range of sources.
The Mercosur Economic Research Network (Merconet) was created in 1999 to generate knowledge to inform the Mercosur regional integration process.
This project is one of seven being financed by IDRC's Africa Adaptation Research Centres (AARC) initiative. It builds on the results obtained from the project, Strengthening the Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change in Rural Bénin (104142).
Recent policy initiatives suggest that efforts are underway to improve the traditionally limited support granted to science, technology and innovation (STI) activities in Peru.