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With support from IDRC, researchers from across the Global South have released a list of eight actions to improve how funders, development agencies, researchers and innovators can work together to scale impact.

The Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CLARE) initiative is pleased to announce that its first public call for concept notes will be launched in April 2022. CLARE supports research to enable socially inclusive and sustainable action to build resilience to climate change and natural hazards across Africa and Asia-Pacific.

Two leading Colombian universities have been added to the effort to build the epidemiological data-analysis tools of the future through IDRC’s grant of CAD1.9 million to Epiverse — a global collaborative of interdisciplinary experts, led by data.org, building an open-source software ecosystem.

The Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) is celebrating International Women’s Day by recognizing the important contributions of KIX partners in addressing gender equality and inclusion in education through their work in 70 countries worldwide.

Around the world, women and girls have disproportionately suffered the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19. Before the pandemic, women were doing three times as much unpaid care and domestic work as men. Data from UN Women shows that women make up 70% of the health workforce worldwide and are therefore at the forefront of the COVID-19 response; in 11 countries where sex-disaggregated data is available, women account for 71% of confirmed cases among healthcare workers. On many fronts, the limited gains made on gender equity over recent decades are at risk of being rolled back.

Crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change exacerbate gender inequalities, putting women and girls at disproportionate risk. They also highlight the need to put women at the centre of solutions to address global challenges.

A project, implemented at five health centres and 15 satellite dispensaries in rural Morogoro, Tanzania, has improved the quality of emergency maternal and newborn services. This recently closed project, Accessing Safe Deliveries in Tanzania (ASDIT), was part of the Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa initiative, supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Global Affairs Canada and IDRC.

IDRC is pleased to announce the release of a new request for proposals (RFP) in partnership with the International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions (ICARS) for a research project on gender and antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

IDRC seeks chairperson for its Board of Governors to assist in the stewardship and strategic oversight of the Centre.

IDRC President Jean Lebel announced the recipients of the first annual Women, Peace and Security Research Award in a ceremony hosted on 10 February by the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs.

IDRC and the Soros Economic Development Fund have launched a new action-oriented research initiative to help transform the care economy through impact investing.

IDRC and the International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions (ICARS) are one step closer to launching a request for proposals for a research project on gender and antimicrobial resistance.

Women RISE (Women’s health and economic empowerment for a COVID-19 Recovery that is Inclusive, Sustainable and Equitable) is a new initiative to support action-oriented research on how women’s health and their work (paid or unpaid) intersect and interact in the context of preparing for, responding to and recovering from COVID-19.

IDRC is pleased to announce the projects and research teams selected for the Gender in STEM Research Initiative (GIST), which aims to increase the contribution of science to gender equality to advance women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and to increase gender analysis in STEM research.

Two new projects are joining an existing research initiative to advance gender equality in the world of work. Implemented in Ethiopia and Tanzania, the projects will study childcare models that work for resource-poor working mothers and the use of government procurement programs to boost women’s economic prospects.

An IDRC-supported study uncovers how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting informal workers and what measures are needed to ensure that no one is left behind.

IDRC, the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), the Azrieli Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are pleased to launch the first call for proposals under the second phase of the Joint Canada-Israel Health Research Program (JCIHRP).

Over the next three years, 12 new research projects supported by IDRC will address the gender barriers that hinder women’s access to economic opportunities, while supporting sustainable climate-resilient recovery.

ACIAR and IDRC are investing in One Health research to spur transformative change in human, animal and environmental health.

The Partnership for Evidence and Equity in Responsive Social Systems (PEERSS) recently released its third newsletter to highlight the exciting work that partners are doing to advance evidence-informed policymaking (EIP) in their countries.

Antimicrobial resistance is a serious public health and international development issue. IDRC is supporting the development of solutions for low- and middle-income countries.