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This project aims to promote the empowerment of women in the horticultural value chain in Senegal and Guinea, two countries with great potential in solar energy and in small-scale irrigation development.

Human pressure on the environment and climate change have increased the possibility for multi-species contact, zoonosis (the transmission of disease between animals and humans), and the emergence of infectious pathogens and outbreaks.

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

Many children in West Africa are not in school because of multiple types of crises:

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This project, which is being implemented with the African Centre for Economic Transformation, is a comparative study of selected African countries’ experiences with the financial inclusion of women and youth.

Despite the transition to democracy and institutional reconstruction underway in most West African countries, many still experience high incidences of violence and crime.