Over the last two decades, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has become one of the major international bodies searching for scientific and political agreements between developing and developed countries.
“Women supporting Women” is an applied research project led by Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo.
People living in informal urban settings in Latin America and the Caribbean are highly vulnerable to water-related risks associated with climate change. They are also effective incubators of bottom-up, grassroots-driven mechanisms of adaptation.
Latin American and Caribbean countries fare poorly in international comparisons of learning assessments. Weak performance on these tests has been clearly linked to poor economic performance as students become workers.
Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world when ranked in terms of homicides per capita. With an average of 15.5 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants, the region's homicide rate is more than double the global average.
To date, projections of future climate change have been based on averaged temperatures over decades. But at local and regional levels, climate variability and the occurrence of extreme events affect communities the most.
Understanding an increasingly complex knowledge economy demands economic, social and environmental data from a wide range of sources.
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.
Raising taxes in Latin America presents a unique opportunity to improve public health and create net gains for national economies.
Improving access to primary health care and the quality of services in Latin American countries is urgently needed to address high health inequities in the region.