Brief description of organisations
     
    Name

International Development Research Centre
       

         
    Mission   The International Development Research Centre is a public corporation created by the Canadian government to help communities in the developing world find solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems through research.
         
    Description   IDRC experience has shown that the components of complex issues like global poverty cannot be usefully separated; social, environmental, and economic factors remain inextricably linked. By themselves, traditional disciplines, like economics, are inadequate in confronting many of the challenges developing countries face. To deal with the tangled nature of development issues, IDRC has pioneered new approaches for delivering its program of research support. Rather than starting with one discipline and seeking to solve a problem, IDRC will start with the problem and consider what knowledge and which disciplines can contribute to its solution. This multidisciplinary focus continues IDRC's search for effective and more holistic solutions to development challenges.

The mechanisms which IDRC has developed to deliver a clearly focused program of research support include:  Program Initiatives; Explorations; International Secretariats; Other Centre Programs.

As of November 1999, IRDC conduct about 30 Programmes initiatives.
Program initiatives are the Centre's primary programming unit for funding research in developing countries. Managed by a multidisciplinary team from within the Centre, they are working networks that link Southern and Northern researchers to address specific research problems and set a research agenda. By linking all the parties involved in the research process, IDRC hopes to add to the likelihood of success.

A few themes:
Assessment of Social Policy Reforms
Community-based Natural Resource Management
People, Land, and Water

See also:
Water Demand Management Research Network (WDMRN) Middle East and North Africa
Gender and sustainable Development Unit

   


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Fax:		 info@idrc.ca
www.idrc.ca
PO Box 8500, Ottawa, ON
Canada K1G 3H9
Street address:
250 Albert Street, 5th floor,
Ottawa, ON, Canada K1P 6M1
(+1-613) 236-6163
(+1-613) 238-7230