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The 2023 recipients of the Bentley and Hopper-Bhatia research awards are advancing research on gastronomy in peacebuilding and vaccine hesitancy in pastoralist communities.

Ghana has passed a tax bill on sugar-sweetened beverages to reduce the country’s high sugar consumption and associated health problems. The move follows a successful advocacy campaign from a coalition of Ghanaian public health actors.

IDRC and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) are pleased to announce the first portfolio of research projects to be implemented as part of their Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CLARE) initiative.

Among the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the necessity to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.” A new project from the Open African Innovation Research Network aims to engage with this and other SDGs by improving global regulatory systems to ensure that the benefits of innovations in health care, but also in data governance, food security and green technologies, are more equitably distributed around the world.

IDRC initiatives and partnerships are making a significant impact at RightsCon 2023, one of the world’s leading conferences on digital rights. This annual event convenes stakeholders from around the world to discuss human rights online, including Internet governance, free expression and privacy, mis/disinformation and cyber security.

Latin American Indigenous communities contribute to resilient food systems in the context of climate change.

LGBTQI+ communities globally continue to face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence offline and online.

Dr. Faysal El Kak, of the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, has been appointed a member of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts for Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition — one of the World Health Organization’s most prestigious panels.

Meet the Research Chairs who will broaden the forced displacement knowledge base from Global South perspectives.

In collaboration with Global Affairs Canada, IDRC is supporting the generation of actionable evidence for innovative national and international responses to the effects of the war in Ukraine on food security in Africa.