El presente estudio se desarrolla bajo el marco del proyecto de investigación diseñado y ejecutado por el Centro de Estudios en Seguridad Ciudadana de la Universidad de Chile denominado como “Violencia en tres ciudades ...
Alvarez, Maria F.; Angarita, Myrian; Delgado, Maria C.; Garcia, Celsa; Jimenez-Gomez, José(Frontiers, 2017-06)
The genetic basis of quantitative disease resistance has been studied in crops for several decades as an alternative to R gene mediated resistance. The most important disease in the potato crop is late blight, caused by ...
African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change(2017)
Societies construct acceptable roles for men and women-which determines what they are expected to do, the knowledge they have, their control over power and resources, and their decision-making capacity. These gender ...
African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change(2017-05)
The latest legally-binding outcome under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the Paris Agreement, which entered into force on 4th November 2016 and will apply from 2020. Climate change is ...
African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change(2017-04)
The latest legally-binding outcome under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the Paris Agreement, signed at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC in December 2015, and due ...
The panelists were of the opinion that the ‘when’ is more important than the ‘who’, ‘what’, and ‘where’ of policy demand. CARIAA’s research findings must be published by January 2018 to gain visibility in IPCC/UNFCCC ...
La participation des femmes à la main-d’oeuvre est plus élevée en Afrique subsaharienne que dans plusieurs régions en développement, mais il y a moins de jeunes femmes y occupant des emplois salariés du secteur structuré. ...
Relocating and resettling communities displaced due to development projects and conflict had been a challenge the world over. While new housing maybe provided there are dangers of impoverishment and social and cultural ...
The Community Work Programme (CWP) has recruited ex-offenders as participants in some of their sites across the country. Because CWP provides income opportunities, engages participants in community upliftment, and builds ...
Este informe presenta únicamente los avances alcanzados en la última fase del proyecto N°: 107084‐001, comprendida entre el 30 de abril de 2016 al 30 de abril de 2017, según lo establecido en la Enmienda N° 2 al Memorando ...
In Budget 2008 the federal government announced the creation of the Development Innovation Fund in Health (DIF-H). A consortium was created to deliver on this commitment with Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) as the implementation ...
From 14-18 November 2016, 2,032 delegates from 101 countries assembled in Vancouver, Canada, for the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research on the theme of ‘Resilient and responsive health systems for a changing ...
Probiotic yogurt, comprised of a Fiti sachet containing Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 and Streptococcus thermophilus C106, has been used in the developing world, notably Africa, to alleviate malnutrition and disease. In ...
Vosti, Stephen A.; Weyrauch, Vanesa; Echt, Leandro(2015-10)
The Rimisp-CTD Program was funded, in part, by a grant from IDRC in 2012 (Territories of Wellbeing; territorial Dynamics in Latin America -- #107091) with follow-up funding in 2013 (Addendum to the same grant proposal). ...
During the 1990’s, most countries in Latin America adopted ambitious constitutional transformations which recognized the right to participation and other similar governance structures geared towards enhancing participation. ...
Harvey, Blane; Cochrane, Logan; Van Epp, Marissa; Cranston, Pete; Pirani, Pier Andrea(IDRC, Ottawa, ON, 2017)
Climate change poses significant global challenges. Solutions require new ways of working, thinking and acting. Knowledge co-production is often cited as one of the innovations needed for navigating the complexity of climate ...
IDRC; Land Development and Governance Institute(Land Development and Governance Institute, 2016-10)
Kenya is currently implementing a number of large scale infrastructure and development projects aimed at transforming the country into a newly industrializing, middle-income country. For this, the government has had to ...
Zenker, Juliane; Steinert, Janina I.(University of Goettingen, 2017-07)
In recent years, a number of randomized evaluations have been carried out to investigate the promotion of savings interventions. Yet, to date, there is no systematic evidence of how effective these programs truly are in ...