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IDRC at the 2026 Canadian Conference on Global Health

IDRC at the 2026 Canadian Conference on Global Health

IDRC’s first MOOC explores scaling impact for sustainable development

IDRC’s first MOOC explores scaling impact for sustainable development

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Ensuring AI speaks everyone's language: A joint commitment

A woman collects a sample to be tested for gold content in central Uganda.

IDRC at 2X Global Summit: Research for the next frontier of gender lens investing

A group of male and female farmers in Kenya harvest a small bean crop from a group plot and put them into canvas bags.

IDRC at the 2026 Africa Food Systems Forum

Two men hold up shovels they use to plant trees in a natural setting

Connecting Indigenous research leadership in Canada and the Global South

Students use education technology supported by GPE KIX at a school in Djabel Refugee Camp, Eastern Chad.

The Global Partnership for Education and IDRC extend their KIX partnership to advance the use of evidence in education

Farmers tend crops in a lush green oasis with palm trees, surrounded by dry desert terrain in Barkadroussou, Chad.

IDRC at Women Deliver 2026

IDRC at the Ottawa Civic Space Summit 2026 poster

IDRC supports the inaugural Ottawa Civic Space Summit