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Research in ActionDevelopment Environment Food and Agriculture Health GenderIDRC’s strategic investments are helping local researchers find innovative solutions to regional challenges while also supporting the Plan of Action to implement the Joint Declaration on ASEAN-Canada Enhanced Partnership (2021–2025).Date
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BooksEconomicsFormal and Informal Enterprises in Francophone Africa: Moving Toward a Vibrant Private SectorPublication Date
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Research in ActionEconomicsBoosting youth employment in Africa during and after the COVID-19 pandemicThe COVID-19 pandemic affects workers of all ages, but youth are disproportionately at economic risk.
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Research in ActionGender Health EconomicsAnti-poverty programs can also champion gender equalityNew research is identifying how anti-poverty programs can also address gender barriers to elicit transformative and lasting effects on the lives of the poor.
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PerspectivesSocial Policy Gender Health GovernanceNobel winners shine light on experiment-based policymakingThe 2019 Nobel Prize winners in Economic Sciences showed how evidence-based experiments can help improve the impact of international assistance.
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Research in ActionGenderThink tanks and gender equalityGender emerged as an important area of focus among many of the think tanks receiving core support from the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) from 2009 to 2019.
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Research in ActionEconomics Gender DevelopmentBetter tools for the private sector to measure what matters
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Research in ActionEconomics DevelopmentSoft skills and work-based learning to help youth find jobs
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Research in ActionGender Governance Social PolicyUnspoken barriers constrain women’s economic opportunities
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Research in ActionGender Governance EconomicsImproving job prospects for women: evidence for positive changeWhy labour markets are failing women — and what might improve their work opportunities.
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PerspectivesGender EconomicsOrganizational Learning on Gender: Lessons and ReflectionsGender equality is of as much concern today as it was in 1995, when the United Nations adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, a blueprint for advancing women’s rights.
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Research in ActionGender Governance Social Policy HealthThe power of collective action to achieve gender equality
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Research in ActionGender EconomicsHarnessing the transformative potential of women’s financial inclusion
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BooksGender HealthFeminist Advocacy, Family Law and Violence Against Women: International Perspectives
Find out how women around the world are contributing to legal reform and shaping policies to counter discriminatory legislation.
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Research in ActionEconomics Social Policy EvaluationRevitalizing skills training and education for youth
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IDRC awardeesNo relevant topics
Southern leaders look to downstream benefits
Southern leaders look to downstream benefits
What makes a good leader? Are the desired qualities the same the world over and in every field? Those questions were at the heart of Emma Fieldhouse’s research as a 2017 IDRC Research Award Recipient. “There is a lack of clarity on how conceptions of leaders might differ across regions,” says Fieldhouse. “The perspective of Southern leaders is noticeably absent.”
Fieldhouse focused on four leadership development programs for young researchers in the Global South to learn about how they conceptualize leadership, how they integrate gender and equity considerations, and how they define and evaluate the successes of their programs. Program participants described what good leadership in their contexts meant to them, and the challenges they faced in getting there.
For programs and participants, becoming a leader wasn’t seen as an end in itself, but as a means of achieving downstream positive effects on institutions and communities. For example, Emma found that women taking part in one program faced great challenges in being accepted as leaders in their communities, “yet they were so determined to persevere and succeed so they could make life better for others.”
Fieldhouse learned that emerging leaders in the South overwhelmingly believe that interpersonal skills are the most essential leadership elements, even in the realm of research. That includes collaboration, building trust, empathy, and nurturing other leaders. “Knowing this is important in order to assess success, because if we get this wrong, we could be evaluating things that don’t really matter, or we could be further marginalizing perspectives and experiences that should matter,” she says.
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Entrepreneurship draws Southeast Asia’s youth
Entrepreneurship draws Southeast Asia’s youth
Jonathan De LucaResearch Awards2017“The top priority for youth in Myanmar and Vietnam isn’t a high salary,” says Jonathan de Luca, 2017 IDRC Research Award Recipient. “It’s adequate health, being able to spend time with family, and to develop and use skills.”
This finding suggests that policymakers and business leaders don’t understand the needs of young
women and men, he says. “Interviews with policymakers and business leaders show that they believe that providing better paying work is sufficient.”
De Luca’s research focused on youth livelihoods in medium-sized cities of the Greater Mekong sub-region. “Dawei in Myanmar and Quy Nhon in Vietnam are experiencing rapid economic development as a result of export-oriented industrialization and manufacturing,” he says. Despite the steady jobs this industrialization creates, he found that young people are much more interested in self-employment because of the freedom and autonomy it affords them.
De Luca confesses that “I really had no idea how everything would come together until a month into the analysis phase where I took a step back and thought “Ah-hah! This actually is telling a really interesting story!”
“I can’t forget that my research exists only because there were young people in Vietnam and Myanmar who wanted to talk to me about the issues that affect them and tell me about their aspirations and hopes for life and work in the future,” he says. “I not only owe it to them for helping me to complete my research, but I also owe it to them to have my work contribute to some change in this world.”
“So even though my year at IDRC is over, I’m going to take this research with me and try and help it to influence something in some way.”
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Research in ActionEconomics Environment GenderClimate change, mobility, and women’s economic empowerment in Pakistan
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