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Open Data for Public Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean
Understanding an increasingly complex knowledge economy demands economic, social and environmental data from a wide range of sources.
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Open Business Models: New Compensation Mechanisms for Creativity and Inclusion
The tension between digital changes in creative industries and the need to support new business and economic inclusion in developing countries poses particular challenges for intellectual property rights and incentive systems.
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Making Democracy Count: A Southern Perspective
For almost a decade, Latin American citizens have been showing increasing levels of disaffection for their institutions, politics, and political elites.
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Promoting Human Rights and Justice from the Perspective of the Global South
As the economic and political clout of new and emerging powers such as China, India, and Brazil grow, locally grounded institutions in the Global South are joining efforts to ensure human rights, promote justice, and combat impunity.
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Supporting Research Activities through the Think Tank Initiative-End of Phase 1 Opportunity Fund
This project funding will support two Think Tank Initiative (TTI) grantee institutions in their efforts to achieve their long-term organizational goals in Latin America: the Instituto Desarrollo, Participación y Ciudadanía (Instituto Desarrollo) a
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Youth Violence and Organized Crime in Jamaica : Causes and Counter-Measures
This grant will allow the Institute for Criminal Justice and Security (ICJS) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) to characterize the nature of the relationship between youth gangs and organized crime in Jamaica.
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Democratizing Information in Agricultural Produce Markets
Most countries in Latin America increased their agricultural production by 20%-50% between 1995 and 2005 (Food and Agriculture Organization - FAO 2009).
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Enhancing Nurses Access for Care Quality and Knowledge through Technology (ENACQKT)
Although information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly available in the Caribbean, the health care culture tends toward traditional, paper-based, labour-intensive mechanisms.
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Partnership in Opportunities for Employment through Technologies in the Americas (POETA) : Eastern Caribbean Initiative
The small island states of the Eastern Caribbean suffer from high youth unemployment.
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Exploring Women's Understanding of Politics, Political Contestation and Gender Transformation in the Caribbean
IDRC's Democratic Governance, Women's Rights and Gender Equality initiative is supporting a body of comparative research on whether and how democratic processes and institutions are responding to women's rights and gender equality.