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The FutureWORKS initiative, which works through five regional hubs, will support context-relevant, high-quality research that addresses key future-of-work challenges and opportunities with a focus on innovative and gender-responsive approaches to promote adaptable skills and decent employment.

The East Africa region, with its heavy dependence on climate-impacted sectors such as forestry and agriculture for economic growth, has emerged as one of the more vulnerable regions to climate change across the continent.

The Southern Africa region has been affected by the increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as prolonged droughts, heat waves, floods, tropical cyclones and rising sea levels, which are not only resulting in loss of lives and property damage but are also contributing to the displacement of populations.

IDRC is supporting two African sub-regional hubs for knowledge translation and evidence-informed policymaking.

CIRAD, a French agricultural research and international cooperation organization, holds a candidate seed for the production of an improved contagious caprine (goat) pleuropneumonia (CCPP) vaccine.

This project will support research, capacity development and policy engagement with a focus on how macro-structural forces will affect the trajectory of jobs and skills in East and Southern Africa.

This project seeks to generate evidence to inform piloting and scaling of clean energy best practices (enterprises and business models) that have empowerment and transformational potential for women and youth.

This project aims to increase the participation of women and youth in renewable energy value chains (REVCs) to foster the transition to clean energy in Senegal.

This project is part of an initiative to strengthen the knowledge ecosystem and evidence uptake with regards to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through support to two sub-regional hubs in Africa.

Early-stage companies in low- and middle-income countries underinvest in research and development (R&D), lack internal R&D capabilities and have limited interactions with public research organizations (PROs), which constrains their growth and innovation potential.

This project is supporting a regional hub in East Africa to strengthen the knowledge ecosystem and evidence uptake on the Sustainable Development Goals with an initial priority in reproductive health and the transition to low-carbon economies.

A clean energy transition that improves the lives of marginalized groups and communities has emerged as a key driver for achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate goals.

Gender-based violence (GBV) in higher education institutions (HEIs) is globally endemic and constitutes a major barrier to the career progression of women in this sector.

Women’s low rates of participation in Southern science systems are well-documented.

This project aims to reduce the gender gap in the energy sector in West Africa consistent with the policy for gender mainstreaming in energy access of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

If the smallholder farming communities in Africa are to continually adapt to the impacts of climate change as well as sustain their lives and livelihoods, more systematic and easily accessible knowledge and information sharing from credible sources is required.

Over the last decade, data has risen to the top of national and global policy agendas as nations seek to develop their economies or use data to address social and development challenges.

Since 2015, the Science Granting Councils Initiative in sub-Saharan Africa (SGCI) has involved collaboration between several funders, namely the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, IDRC, South Africa’s National Research Foundation, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the German Research Foundation and Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.

Capacity to synthesize existing climate evidence is critical to efforts to respond to the climate crisis in an evidenced-based way.

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

Currently, climate finance does not flow at the local level, where it is needed most and where the impacts of climate change are most acutely felt and dealt with.

As African governments turn to digital systems to provide services to their citizens, new data challenges and opportunities arise.

In recent years, locally led adaptation has been widely recognized as an effective, efficient and equitable means of delivering climate adaptation action in Africa.

Drought in the Greater Horn of Africa has caused 3.

Small island developing states (SIDS) are on the frontlines of climate change.