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The prospect of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, including those on hunger and poverty, is heavily jeopardized by recent global crises.

Two-thirds of Africa and more than a third of Asia are covered in drylands that are home to some of the poorest and most marginalized communities.

Despite the sustained efforts of the State of Niger and its development partners, maternal health remains precarious in Niger.

A growing body of research shows that gender-transformative approaches can contribute to sustained improvements to sexual, reproductive and maternal health outcomes.

Adolescence is a period defined by rapid physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and sexual development.

Despite the fact that almost half of the world’s population is female, women are poorly represented in the science fields.

Many children in West Africa are not in school because of multiple types of crises:

IDRC’s response to the COVID-19 crisis includes a rapid response to the food and nutritional security crisis associated with COVID-19.

The full impact of COVID-19 on West Africa’s vulnerable populations is not well understood.

Asset stranding (when assets are devalued) in Africa’s fossil fuel and mineral sectors poses significant risk to development pathways for countries that face sustainable development challenges.

The overall objective of this project is to promote the uptake of research findings from the cohort of projects “Combatting sexual and gender-based violence and improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights in West Africa”.

The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and IDRC launched the Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) to improve policies and practices that will strengthen national education systems within GPE partner countries.

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This project responds to the need to address a global learning crisis in which many children do not reach expected standards, even when attending school.

Focusing on reducing the gender gap, the project aims to strengthen analytical capacities in economics in Francophone Africa.

This project aims to empower adolescents to reduce the extent of child marriage in Niger.

This project aims to strengthen transformative leadership capacities in West Africa to encourage improved institutional and government use of health research and evidence in decision-making.

This project aims to analyze the gender dividend in West Africa.

The goal of this project is to increase the climate change resilience of farmers in the Sahel through the sustainable and optimized management of catch basins for runoff water.