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Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo are two countries that are highly affected by epidemic-prone diseases.

For the last three decades, the retention and success of girls in schools in Africa have been top priorities on the agenda of both governments and global development agencies.

African countries are confronted with a myriad of educational challenges, including, among others an insufficient number of qualified subject-teachers.

In Africa, and more particularly in French-speaking Africa, most children learn in multilingual educational environments.

Accessing, completing, and succeeding in school have been a major challenges for girls in Africa.

An effective response to COVID-19 requires a complex array of relevant evidence packaged in user-friendly forms to support decision-making about current and future responses.

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.

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.

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

Recent outbreaks of the highly infectious and dangerous Ebola virus in West and Central Africa underscore the importance of rapid diagnostics and surveillance infrastructure, evidence-driven health communications and community engagement activities, and an effective and well-coordinated emergency response to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable populations in the face of emerging pandemic threats.

The pressing issue of widespread unemployment among youth across Africa and the economic marginalization that results from many years of "jobless growth" is linked to civil unrest and a host of social ills.

More than half of residents in sub-Saharan Africa’s largest cities, and a growing proportion of Africans overall, live in congested informal settlements (also called slums).

Neonatal and maternal mortality remain major challenges in sub-Saharan Africa.

As confirmed by the WHO’s guidelines on risk communication and community engagement issued for the 2018 Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), research is a critical component to both outbreak control measures and future preparedness activities.

This project aims to reduce the risk of Ebola virus infection and the impact of the disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other countries and regions affected by the virus.

The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone claimed thousands of lives and cost these countries at least $2 billion in lost GDP.

The 2013-2015 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone) was unprecedented, resulting in more than 11,000 human deaths with an estimated total cost of US$4.

The Congo Basin holds approximately 40% of African water discharge and is critical to continental and local water security.

There has been a dramatic and alarming rise in the prevalence of so-called “fake news” around the world in the past two years.

Despite the growing interest in public affairs in Africa, young people (who represent more than 60% of the population) are often excluded from the management of public affairs and especially from economic opportunities.

This project will help promote measures to enhance African women’s access to formal financial institutions; 70% of African women do not have access to financial services such as savings and checking accounts, loans, credit, and other institutional services.

New and emerging development organizations are providing assistance to countries experiencing tensions and challenges after periods of conflict.