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LGBTQI+ people face some of the harshest forms of exclusion and discrimination in Africa, ranging from an inability to access basic services like housing and healthcare, to violence based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and/or sex characteristics (SOGIESC).

Based on experience in farmer participatory crop breeding and seed-delivery systems in Africa, this project will support national public crop-breeding teams to conduct crop-variety trials of a range of food crops on-station and on-farm, allowing for the best-suited crop varieties to be officially released for seed production and supply to farmers.

This project, known as the "Multisectoral and Transformative Approaches to Rites and Initiations for Maternal, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights of Adolescent Girls", is an innovative response to promote gender equality and protect young girls from early pregnancy in Togo.

The full impact of COVID-19 on West Africa’s vulnerable populations is not well understood.

This project will enhance the use of data from existing household surveys by government officials to analyze the education sector and encourage policymakers to leverage the resulting knowledge on gender, equity, and inclusion to inform their policy decisions.

Education policy and planning should be underpinned by good quality and up-to-date data.

The overall objective of this project is to promote the uptake of research findings from the cohort of projects “Combatting sexual and gender-based violence and improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights in West Africa”.

The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and IDRC launched the Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) to improve policies and practices that will strengthen national education systems within GPE partner countries.

This project responds to the need to address a global learning crisis in which many children do not reach expected standards, even when attending school.

Over the last decade, IDRC has supported several capacity building efforts in the field of climate change in Africa.

Focusing on reducing the gender gap, the project aims to strengthen analytical capacities in economics in Francophone Africa.

Like most West African countries, despite many legal and institutional measures to protect adolescents, Togo has a very high teen pregnancy rate.

The management of agro-industrial waste is a major problem for the Global South.

This project aims to analyze the gender dividend in West Africa.

The goal of this program is to generate knowledge about the early pregnancy phenomenon through operational research, and to develop multisectoral strategies focusing on teens, in conjunction with stakeholders in the education, health and legal systems, and in the community.