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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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ProjectNo relevant topicsDriving inclusion through empowerment and decent work: the case of Filipino women in online workOnline work promises autonomy and flexibility, and it has the potential to address women’s unpaid care responsibilities and to broaden their market opportunities.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsWomen in Trade knowledge platform to boost inclusive and sustainable growthThis project seeks to establish a “Women in Trade” (WIT) knowledge platform that will help women-led businesses improve their access to Canadian and international markets, thereby boosting inclusive and sustainable growth.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsCentering the agency of women in Thailand’s platform-based care economyThis project explores the issues of women’s precarious work and other gender-related issues in the digital platform-based care economy in Thailand.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsOpportunities, costs and outcomes of platformized home-based work for women: Case studies of Cambodia, Myanmar and ThailandThis 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.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsGender Lens Investing: Contribution to Women’s Economic Empowerment and Way ForwardThe project seeks to document the gaps and the challenges faced by women-led businesses, as well as the social and financing impact, if any, that various actors are able to create through Gender Lens Investing, i.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsMaking trade work for small producers in Southeast Asia’s least developed countriesLow-income economies depend greatly on agriculture, and growth in this sector delivers more poverty reduction than any other sectors.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsSupporting graduation programs through empirical evidence and leadership promotionThis project will support the scaling up of locally-tested interventions aimed at improving the livelihoods of women and youth in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsLabouring women and violence: Building workplaces free of violenceA number of studies in recent years have reported disturbingly high levels of violence against women in the workplace.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsTurning value chains into social gains in Southeast AsiaGlobal value chains, which now form the largest share of the world’s trade, involve producers and enterprises that produce goods as inputs for other producers.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsEmpowering women through humane workplaces: Garment factories in Southeast AsiaIn Asia, garment factories play a dominant role in the employment opportunities for women, yet these factories have some of the harshest working conditions in the region.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsFamily Law Reform to Challenge Gender-Based Violence: A Research and Knowledge-Based Advocacy ProjectAlthough gender-based violence (GBV) is endemic globally, some of the highest rates in the world are found in Muslim-majority countries where conservative interpretations of Islamic Family Law persist.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsJobs at the Borders: What policies can promote gender equality and growth in ASEAN's economic zones?The development of border economic zones represents an important industrialization strategy for Thailand, and provides opportunities for two of its poor neighbouring countries, Cambodia and Myanmar.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsJob Prospects in the MekongThis project will address the effects of fast-paced economic growth in the Greater Mekong region on jobs for youth.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsReforming Labour Markets in Burma (Myanmar)As Burma (Myanmar) continues its transition toward multi-party democracy and a market economy, developing an efficient and equitable labour market will be essential.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsInclusive Development and Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in the Greater Mekong SubregionOver the past two decades, the Greater Mekong Subregion has become increasingly integrated.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsThe Care Economy, Women's Economic Empowerment, and China's Inclusive Growth AgendaOver the past three decades, China's economy has grown rapidly, creating new economic opportunities for men and women.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsPromoting Entrepreneurship Research in Southeast Asia: Applying the Global Entrepreneurship MonitorEntrepreneurship has been a major driver of growth and job creation in Southeast Asia.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsStrengthening the Economic Committee of the National Assembly in Vietnam: Phase 2Since the liberalization of the Vietnamese economy in 1986, the country has made significant gains in economic growth and poverty reduction.
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NewsNo relevant topicsNew projects address socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on vulnerable populationsWhich programs are most effective for protecting informal workers in Latin America from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic? Which stimulus packages will help African countries build back more inclusive and greener economies? Which interventions will ensure the safety of Rohingya refugees and nearby communities in Bangladesh during and after the pandemic?Date
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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 ActionEconomics Gender DevelopmentBetter tools for the private sector to measure what matters
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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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