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IDRC-supported research explores the overlapping crises of debt, climate change, and inequalities to identify ways to address them.

A comprehensive new paper lays out an agenda for post-pandemic climate mobilities research

Ten IDRC-funded projects are providing new insights into the impact of COVID-containment measures on food systems in sub-Saharan Africa.

Collaboration between researchers and decision-makers can shorten the distance from evidence to policy uptake, leading to better-targeted programs and timely improvements in maternal and child health.

IMCHA-funded research has shown that mobile technology can be a game changer in the way maternal and child healthcare is delivered in remote areas.

In 2020, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the global pandemic “could reverse the limited progress that has been made on gender equality and women’s rights” over the past 25 years.

New briefs review opportunities for women’s economic empowerment in five East African countries.

As the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to reverberate around the world, poverty and hunger levels in the world’s poorest nations are rising. 

Five recently funded projects will examine the impact of COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to challenge global health systems and cause financial hardship, there is mounting evidence of how it is deepening gender disparities across cultures and economic sectors.

Maternal death rates in sub-Saharan Africa have dropped almost 40% since 2000, yet the region still has the highest number of maternal deaths, at 533 deaths per 100,000 live births.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing problem that threatens our ability to effectively treat bacterial infections in humans and animals.

Timely and relevant research can help support countries transitioning toward democracy, especially during election periods.

IDRC-supported research has been underway in South Sudan and northern Uganda since 2015 to improve maternal and child health.

With face to face interactions restricted or no longer possible as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cultivate Africa’s Future (CultiAF) research teams in Kenya and Mozambique are finding new ways to use digital technologies to continue working with their beneficiaries.

Since 2016, a research team of senior and emerging African and Canadian researchers from the University of Malawi and the University of British Columbia (UBC), working in collaboration with Malawi’s Ministry of Health, has been exploring how to improve the use of proven ways to help save these babies’ lives.

Women involved in key agricultural value chains across sub-Saharan Africa are being disproportionately affected by the economic disruptions resulting from COVID-19.

As lockdown restrictions limit the movement of people in Uganda, women and children who are already vulnerable to malnutrition now face even greater difficulties accessing nutritious food.

The COVID-19 pandemic affects workers of all ages, but youth are disproportionately at economic risk.

The COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economic impacts are compounding an already delicate democratization process in Myanmar.