Organization: International Development Research Centre

GHRI secretariat at IDRC shuttered

The secretariat for the Global Health Research Initiative (GHRI) has been closed. Housed at the International Development Research Centre, GHRI is a multi-funder initiative between IDRC, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada. The partners will continue to work on the Innovating for Maternal and Child Health…

IDRC and DFATD provide $17M for food security research

The International Development Research Centre is partnering with the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada to provide $17 million in new funding for four research projects aimed at scaling up the most promising research supported under the $124-million Canadian International Food Security Research Fund. The scale-up funding will allow research teams to further…

GHRI secretariat at IDRC shuttered

The secretariat for the Global Health Research Initiative (GHRI) has been closed. Housed at the International Development Research Centre, GHRI is a multi-funder initiative between IDRC, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada. The partners will continue to work on the Innovating for Maternal and Child Health…

IDRC and DFATD provide $17M for food security research

The International Development Research Centre is partnering with the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada to provide $17 million in new funding for four research projects aimed at scaling up the most promising research supported under the $124-million Canadian International Food Security Research Fund. The scale-up funding will allow research teams to further…

IDRC co-funds five African R&D projects

A joint research program between Canada and Australia will see $15 million shared among five R&D projects in Africa. Cultivate Africa’s Future — a shared initiative between the International Development Research Centre and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research selected five projects slated to run for 30 months. The projects are: evaluation of fish…

IDRC and Australia co-fund African innovation projects

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Australian International Food Security Centre have issued a call for concept notes for their joint four-year, $15-million research partnership to use innovation to improve agriculture challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. The Cultivate Africa’s Future (CultiAF) program will tackle problems faced by the region’s smallholder farmers — the majority…

Second AIMS institute opens in Senegal

The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) has opened a facility in Mbour Senegal, the second in a planned network of 15 centres. The facility — part of the AIMS-Next Einstein Initiative (NEI) — will have an inaugural class of 36 from 14 countries who were chosen from 350 applicants to the Senegal and Cape…

IDRC and granting councils fund climate change research

The International Development Research Centre and Canada’s three federal granting councils have joined forces to fund five research teams under the International Research Initiative on Adaptation to Climate Change. Five projects will each receive $2.5 million over five years for a total of $12.5 million to conduct research in Canada and in developing countries across…

IDRC contributes to The Think Tank Initiative

The second phase of the multi-agency The Think Tank Initiative is providing US$35 million to 28 think tanks or independent policy research institutions in Latin America and South Asia. The funding is being provided by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The…

Climate change adaptation research initiative launched

Four Canadian research agencies have teamed up to launch a $12.5 million initiative to explore how humans and natural systems are adapting to actual and expected changes in climate both in Canada and the developing world. A call for proposals has been issued to seek research teams for The International Research Initiative on Adaptation to…