Partnership for Canada-Caribbean Climate Change Adaptation
The Caribbean is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the impacts of climate change.
The Caribbean is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the impacts of climate change.
For almost a decade, Latin American citizens have been showing increasing levels of disaffection for their institutions, politics, and political elites.
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.
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.
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.
Across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), democracies suffer from a variety of interrelated deficits, including bureaucratic inefficiency, poor service provision and limited citizen engagement.
Young women are believed to be the most vulnerable group in the spread and transmission of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean.