IDRC welcomes Annette Nicholson as its new Vice-President, Corporate Strategy and Regional Management on May 14, 2012. Nicholson joined IDRC in 2006 as Secretary and General Counsel. Before joining IDRC, she was General Counsel at the Ottawa...
This year’s issue of Asia Research News features five IDRC projects: increasing millet production in Asia (pg 4) milkfish breeding in the Philippines (pg 5) saving lives, money, and ecosystems with environmental economics (pg 14) boosting...
The Global Health Research Initiative (GHRI) partner agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian International Development Agency, and IDRC – have formally agreed to continue funding for GHRI for an additional four years...
In July 2011, IDRC’s Non-Communicable Disease Prevention (NCDP) program announced the call for concept notes “Promoting healthy diets: A key strategy for non-communicable disease prevention in low- and middle-income countries”. The key objective of...
In 2011, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Canadian Global Tobacco Control Forum established a new initiative to address the need for local evidence for the adoption of tobacco control fiscal policies in low- and...
As announced in Budget 2012, the Government has met its target of finding at least $4 billion in ongoing savings. Our organization participated in the review and will be implementing cost saving measures to modernize government, make it easier for...
The Competitiveness and Innovation Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), together with IDRC and the Center for Economic Research (CINVE), has launched a call for proposals for research projects to better understand innovation and...
IDRC’s 2012 DVD is now available to order. Among the contents featured on the DVD is the latest title in IDRC’s in_focus collection, Women and Land: Securing Rights for Better Lives. The in_focus mini-website includes a short book, case studies, and...
Two University of Carleton students, Alexandra Boyd and Brielle Morgan, have been chosen to receive the 2011-2012 IDRC Award for International Development Journalism. In the coming year, Boyd will examine sensationalism in news reporting on the...
IDRC congratulates Pablo de Greiff of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), on his nomination by the UN Human Rights Council to serve as the first Special Rapporteur on transitional justice. De Greiff is the director of research...