Summaries of completed Access to Information requests in 2024

The International Development Research Centre posts summaries of completed Access to Information requests by its Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) Coordinator.

January 2024

Nothing to report

February 2024

Nothing to report

March 2024

Request number: ATI 2024-01 (Consult)
Summary: Consultation received from Global Affairs Canada for the following: “Briefing note 03356-2023 [REDACTED]”
Disposition: Fully disclosed.
Number of pages disclosed: 3

April 2024

Nothing to report

May 2024

Nothing to report

June 2024

Request number: ATI 2024-03 (Consult)

Summary: Consultation received from the Public Health Agency of Canada for the following: “Amended Request Text: January 30, 2024:

  • Records related to Canada's participation in the World Health Organization's proposed international instrument  on  pandemic  prevention,  preparedness, and response and the amendment process to the International Health Regulations (IHR) Request details:
  • September 2022 to December 2023: Most recent version of the following: briefing documents, presentation files, agendas, submissions, and meeting summaries/minutes associated with stakeholder consultations/calls hosted by PHAC with Canadian stakeholders regarding a pandemic instrument
  • September 2022 to December 2023: Most recent version of the following: briefing documents, presentation files, agendas, submissions, and meeting summaries/minutes associated with stakeholder consultations/calls hosted by PHAC with Canadian stakeholders regarding amendments to the IHR (2005)
  • September 2022 to December 2023: Key emails (excluding transactional and transitory emails) and most recent version of the following: briefing notes and other documents related to Canada's participation in and Canada's input into a pandemic instrument.
  • Between September 1, 2022 to October 1, 2022 and between October 20, 2023 to December 31, 2023: Key emails (excluding transactional and transitory emails) and most recent version of the following: briefing notes, summaries, and other documents, related to input into the WHO's Working Group for Amendments to the International Health Regulations
  • May 2022 to December 2023: Key emails (excluding transactional and transitory emails) and most recent version of the following: briefing note, summaries, and other documents, related to Canada's participation in WHO's Executive Board meetings in relation to amendments to the IHR and the pandemic instrument.”

Disposition: Fully disclosed.
Number of pages disclosed: 4

Request number: ATI 2024-04
Summary: Request for the following: 

Files stored at LAC:

  • RG147, International Development Research Centre fonds, Series B, Accession 1991-92/093 GAD, Box 3, File 82-4154-00 VOl Teledetection: Afrique de Ou.
  • RG147, International Development Research Centre fonds, Series B, Accession 1991-92/092 GAD, Box 12, File 83-4157-00 V0l Association Africain de Carta.
  • RG147, International Development Research Centre fonds, Series B, Accession 1991-92/092 GAD, Box 13, File 83-42S6-00 V0l Systems Training Tan.
  • RG147, International Development Research Centre fonds, Series B, Accession 1993-94/126 GAD, Box 20, File 84-2024-00 V0l National Remote Sensing Centre.
  • RG147, International Development Research Centre fonds, Series B, Accession 1993-94/519 GAD, Box 24, File 83-4354-00 V0l Study of East African Regional.
  • RG147, International Development Research Centre fonds, Series B, Accession 1993-94/519 GAD, Box 27, File 84-2018-00 V0l Agro-geological research Tanz. 
  • RG147, International Development Research Centre fonds, Series B, Accession 1993-94/519 GAD, Box 59, File 81-4092-00 V0l East African Project Identification. 
  • RG147, International Development Research Centre fonds, Series B, Accession 1994-95/463 GAD, Box 15, File 84-4518-00 V0l Research Cooperation East Afr.
  • RG147, International Development Research Centre fonds, Series B, Accession 1994-95/463 GAD, Box 19, File 85-5229-00 V0l Workshop/seminar on Remote Sen.

Disposition: No records found.
Number of pages disclosed: 0

July 2024

Request number: ATI 2024-05

Summary: I would like all documents and correspondence relating to the Aymara Logic project, which was funded by the IDRC in the 1980s. This project produced a report, "Logical and linguistic problems of social communication with the Aymara people", written by the Bolivian computer scientist Iván Guzmán de Rojas.

Disposition: Fully disclosed

Number of pages: 218

August 2024

Nothing to report

September 2024

Request number: ATI 2024-06

Summary: All applications, whether successful or unsuccessful, for funding for the competition entitled "Call for letters of interest: Addressing neglected areas of sexual and reproductive health and rights in sub-Saharan Africa (ANSRHRA)" that was open approximately February - May 2024 as well as any memoranda evaluating the applications created or edited between February 1, 2024, and July 15, 2024. 

Disposition: As the competitive process for research funding to which the request relates is still ongoing, documents have been withheld under Section 18(1)(b) of the Act 

Number of pages: None 

October 2024

Nothing to report 

November 2024

Nothing to report

December 2024

Nothing to report