IDRC focuses on creating knowledge — knowledge that will benefit humanity. For nearly 40 years, we have helped researchers and innovators in poor countries find new ways to improve health, reduce poverty, and promote democracy. This scientific and technical know-how has enriched the lives of people in developing countries — often in dramatic ways.
- Through the IDRC-supported Tanzania Essential Health Interventions Project (TEHIP), Tanzania is getting closer to reducing under-five deaths by two-thirds before 2015. The idea? Save lives by ensuring that all parts of the health system work well together through small but strategic investments. The effects have been dramatic: Tanzania reduced child mortality by an astonishing 40% over five years in two test districts. The TEHIP model is being adapted for use in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Nigeria.
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- Mongolia, despite its isolation, has become a pioneer in using the Internet as a tool for development, through a lasting partnership with IDRC that continues today. In a country where travel overland can be difficult, at times impossible, the Internet is playing a crucial role in bringing much-needed services such as education and health care to remote areas.
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- When IDRC first supported pioneering research on bamboo and rattan in 1979, the world knew little of their positive environmental potential. But that’s changed, thanks to work undertaken by the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, created by IDRC in the early 1990s. Bamboo and rattan are at the centre of major initiatives in Asia, Africa, and Latin America that are combatting global warming, fighting soil erosion, protecting forests, and enhancing communities’ access to water.
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- For migrant workers all over the world, sending part of their earnings home to support their families and communities is common practice. Until recently, Uzbek workers living abroad paid fees as high as 10% to transfer these funds. Thanks to evidence-based recommendations drawn from IDRC-supported research, those fees are coming down and innovations are leading to greater competition and more choices for consumers in Uzbekistan.
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