A two-year grant will support research, analysis, and dialogue by Canadian civil society organizations to enhance their effectiveness.
The Chantier de l'économie social, in consortium with its major partners, is organizing an international forum on social economy and solidarity (Forum international de l'économie sociale et solidaire) in Montreal, 17-20 October 2011.
The North-South Institute (NSI) is Canada's only independent non-governmental research institute focused on international development.
The Asociación Balsamo is working to develop an alternative agroindustrial model for indigo production in El Salvador that will enable smallholders to produce indigo as their main source of income.
Previous IDRC-funded research, as well as the relevant literature, indicates that effective participation of Aboriginal communities in co-management of natural resources is in part hindered by radical (ontological) differences in perception of the
In the year 2000, the Balsam Association, a nongovernmental organization, approached members of the Health Dyes Project, Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta, for assistance with small-scale indigo projects in El Salvador.