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Climate change, armed conflict, environmental fragility, and weak governance – and the impact these have on natural resource-based livelihoods – are among the key drivers of both crisis and poverty for communities in some of the world’s most vulnerable and conflict-affected countries.

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

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

This project will support the Climate and Resilience partnership by covering the operational costs, including salaries and benefits, office costs, and travel of IDRC staff.

IDRC’s response to the COVID-19 crisis includes a rapid response to the food and nutritional security crisis associated with COVID-19.

IDRC’s response to the COVID-19 crisis includes a rapid response to the pandemic’s food and nutritional security crisis.

Countries in the South generally use control measures and predictive models of COVID-19’s evolution that are imported from the North.

Despite the positive potential and relative progress of open data for development, there are still gaps in creating and sharing high quality, timely, relevant, and accessible data in developing countries.

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.

The overall objective of this research project is to sustainably increase the resilience of cocoa cooperatives and member families dealing with the impact of climate change in Côte d’Ivoire.

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

Increasing resilience to climate change in West Africa is integral to enhancing food security.

This project aims to document the impact of trade between member countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union on their economic development, the economic situation of women, and the dynamics of relationships between men and women within the household.

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

The goal of this project is to increase the climate change resilience of farmers in the Sahel through the sustainable and optimized management of catch basins for runoff water.

Over the past few years, large-scale acquisitions (purchases, leases, or other arrangements) of farmland in developing countries by individuals, corporations, and foreign governments have presented both economic opportunities and threats to traditional livelihoods.

The West African region is facing a rapid rise in violent extremism in which young people are the main actors.