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Research in ActionDevelopment Environment Food and Agriculture Health GenderIDRC’s strategic investments are helping local researchers find innovative solutions to regional challenges while also supporting the Plan of Action to implement the Joint Declaration on ASEAN-Canada Enhanced Partnership (2021–2025).Date
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ProjectNo relevant topicsWomen in Trade knowledge platform to boost inclusive and sustainable growthThis project seeks to establish a “Women in Trade” (WIT) knowledge platform that will help women-led businesses improve their access to Canadian and international markets, thereby boosting inclusive and sustainable growth.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsOne hundred new women PhDs in economics for Francophone Africa by 2025Focusing on reducing the gender gap, the project aims to strengthen analytical capacities in economics in Francophone Africa.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsTaking advantage of the gender dividend to accelerate economic growth in ECOWASThis project aims to analyze the gender dividend in West Africa.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsMaking trade work for small producers in Southeast Asia’s least developed countriesLow-income economies depend greatly on agriculture, and growth in this sector delivers more poverty reduction than any other sectors.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsPromoting women and youth financial inclusion for entrepreneurship and job creation: A comparative study of selected sub-Saharan African countriesThis project, which is being implemented with the African Centre for Economic Transformation, is a comparative study of selected African countries’ experiences with the financial inclusion of women and youth.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsTurning value chains into social gains in Southeast AsiaGlobal value chains, which now form the largest share of the world’s trade, involve producers and enterprises that produce goods as inputs for other producers.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsEmpowering women through humane workplaces: Garment factories in Southeast AsiaIn Asia, garment factories play a dominant role in the employment opportunities for women, yet these factories have some of the harshest working conditions in the region.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsJob Prospects in the MekongThis project will address the effects of fast-paced economic growth in the Greater Mekong region on jobs for youth.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsPromoting Entrepreneurship Research in Southeast Asia: Applying the Global Entrepreneurship MonitorEntrepreneurship has been a major driver of growth and job creation in Southeast Asia.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsStrengthening the Economic Committee of the National Assembly in Vietnam: Phase 2Since the liberalization of the Vietnamese economy in 1986, the country has made significant gains in economic growth and poverty reduction.
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Entrepreneurship draws Southeast Asia’s youth
Entrepreneurship draws Southeast Asia’s youth
Jonathan De LucaResearch Awards2017“The top priority for youth in Myanmar and Vietnam isn’t a high salary,” says Jonathan de Luca, 2017 IDRC Research Award Recipient. “It’s adequate health, being able to spend time with family, and to develop and use skills.”
This finding suggests that policymakers and business leaders don’t understand the needs of young
women and men, he says. “Interviews with policymakers and business leaders show that they believe that providing better paying work is sufficient.”
De Luca’s research focused on youth livelihoods in medium-sized cities of the Greater Mekong sub-region. “Dawei in Myanmar and Quy Nhon in Vietnam are experiencing rapid economic development as a result of export-oriented industrialization and manufacturing,” he says. Despite the steady jobs this industrialization creates, he found that young people are much more interested in self-employment because of the freedom and autonomy it affords them.
De Luca confesses that “I really had no idea how everything would come together until a month into the analysis phase where I took a step back and thought “Ah-hah! This actually is telling a really interesting story!”
“I can’t forget that my research exists only because there were young people in Vietnam and Myanmar who wanted to talk to me about the issues that affect them and tell me about their aspirations and hopes for life and work in the future,” he says. “I not only owe it to them for helping me to complete my research, but I also owe it to them to have my work contribute to some change in this world.”
“So even though my year at IDRC is over, I’m going to take this research with me and try and help it to influence something in some way.”
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Research in ActionHealth Gender Science and TechnologyInnovations are bringing better health within reach
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