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In Southeast Asia, women do up to 3.

With roughly 55 million smallholder farms in the Southeast Asian region, the agriculture sector has immense potential to reduce poverty, tackle gender inequalities and meet the climate challenge.

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Despite progress made by Vietnam on improving access to sexual, reproductive, and maternal health services, vast inequalities exist between ethnic minority populations and the majority Kinh population.

Worldwide, inequalities in education are linked to many students’ poor participation and academic achievement at secondary school.

In Africa and Asia, open data is increasingly regarded as an important tool to address complex development challenges.

This project aims to assess the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on national economies and determine the effectiveness of current and potential policy responses in 11 developing countries around the world.

The COVID-19 pandemic, like climate change and other major threats, is pervasive worldwide.

This project aims to support inclusive, coordinated, and gender-sensitive responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.

Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).

This 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.

The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and IDRC launched the Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) to improve policies and practices that will strengthen national education systems within GPE partner countries.

Small and medium-size aquaculture farms in Asia struggle to reduce infectious diseases on their farms.

Streptococcus suis causes high morbidity and mortality in the pig industry, which affects economics, animal welfare, and food security within both commercial and small-scale farming.

A 2016 survey by the Vietnamese Department of Animal Health found that 80% of the country’s pangasius (freshwater catfish) farmers dispensed a cocktail of antibiotics to the fish throughout the production cycle.

Avian influenza (AI) and Newcastle disease (ND) are the most prevalent poultry diseases in many Asian countries, with significant economic impact on smallholder livestock farmers.

In an era of rapid change and increasing mistrust in institutions, open data and the surrounding communities that use it, are working to shift norms and culture to create dialogue and collaboration between governments, civil society and the private sector.

Tobacco is a significant contributor to the rising global burden of non-communicable diseases.

Aquaculture is an important economic sector, source of livelihood, and contributor to the resilience of food systems across the Mekong region.

Low-income economies depend greatly on agriculture, and growth in this sector delivers more poverty reduction than any other sectors.

Global 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.