About IDRC
A Crown corporation, we support leading thinkers who advance knowledge and solve practical development problems. We provide the resources, advice, and training they need to implement and share their solutions with those who need them most. In short, IDRC increases opportunities—and makes a real difference in people’s lives.
Working with our development partners, we multiply the impact of our investment and bring innovations to more people in more countries around the world. We offer fellowships and awards to nurture a new generation of development leaders.
What we do
IDRC funds research in developing countries to create lasting change on a large scale.
To make knowledge a tool for addressing pressing challenges, we
- provide developing-country researchers financial resources, advice, and training to help them find solutions to local problems.
- encourage knowledge sharing with policymakers, researchers, and communities around the world.
- foster new talent by offering fellowships and awards.
- strive to get new knowledge into the hands of those who can use it.
In doing so, we contribute to Canada’s foreign policy, complementing the work of Global Affairs Canada, and other government departments and agencies.
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Displaying 121 - 125 of 324Final technical report / The Process of Land Seizures in one Sub-Region of Colombia and its Effect on the Peasant Movement During Armed Violence
For nearly one year and a half the project research team, coordinated by a member of
the Area of Historical Memory of the CNRR and with technical assistance from IOM,
addressed the relationship between internal violence and the agrarian problem in the
Caribbean coast of Colombia, where for several decades armed conflict, internal forced
displacement of rural populations and violent land seizures have been an extremely
strong phenomenon. It also collected multiple memories on the rise and fall of one of
Women's gains from the implementation of succession law in Uganda : voices from Wakiso and Mpigi districts; final report
The marginalization of women with regard to property ownership has hampered efforts for poverty alleviation and the improvement of livelihoods. In Uganda, current institutionalization of land reform necessitates inquiry, to determine whether women’s status has changed under new provisions. The Succession Act makes some helpful provisions but also presents loopholes, which can be exploited by illegitimate claimants.
Advocacy toolbox : capacity building paper
Advocacy planning is a step-by-step process of analysis and debate that leads to the creation of an advocacy strategy plan and its implementation. The advocacy toolbox guides researchers and activists to walk through steps in identifying and analyzing needs, structural constraints and strategies specific to locale and context. The process includes assistance in evaluating objectives and assessing the impact of interventions. It furthers effective policy proposals, possible solutions and systemic change.
Cutting the coat according to the cloth : decentralisation and women's agency on land rights in Uganda; final report
This paper highlights how women are interfacing with institutions of power at a local level in Uganda in terms of land claims. According to the Land Act 1998, all land is vested in the citizens who own it. Enormous resistance occurred behind the scenes against women’s efforts to include a provision on spousal co-ownership of land. The provision was passed in parliament but it did not appear in the published Land Act (2003:162).
Action-oriented research and policy influence for women's access to land in Africa : the experience of Uganda and Kenya; learning route report 1/2
The aim was to analyze the obstacles to, and opportunities for women’s access to land, with emphasis on the identification of more effective strategies in improving the security of women’s land rights. This report is a programme evaluation including lessons learned. Case studies drawn from the advocacy project are attached as Annexes.