The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is a Canadian crown corporation that supports researchers from the developing world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies. IDRC helps build local capacity in developing countries to undertake research and create innovations. IDRC believes that people from developing countries must take the lead in producing and applying knowledge for the benefit of their own communities. IDRC also supports networking and knowledge sharing between scientific, academic, and development communities in Canada and developing countries. In Commonwealth countries a Crown corporation is a state-controlled company or enterprise (a public corporation). ... Research is an active, diligent and systematic process of inquiry in order to discover, interpret or revise facts, events, behaviours, or theories, or to make practical applications with the help of such facts, laws or theories. ...

The Centre supports research under the broad themes of: Environment and Natural Resource Management(ENRM); Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D); Social and Economic Policy (SEP); and Innovation, Policy and Science (IPS). Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) deal with the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in development programmes in underdeveloped countries. ...

IDRC was created by an Act of the Canadian Parliament in 1970, with a unique governance structure that includes an arm’s length relationship to Government and an international Board of Governors. In accordance with the IDRC Act, the 21-member Board of Governors oversees the Centre’s strategic direction. The Board comprises 11 members from Canada and 10 from other countries, including developing countries. Dr Gordon Smith is the Chairman of the Board. As President and a member of the Board, the President, Maureen O’Neil, manages the Centre’s operations with the support of the Senior Management Committee. The Parliament of Canada (in French: le Parlement du Canada) is Canadas legislative branch, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario. ...

As a member of Canada’s international policy community, IDRC works collaboratively with a number of federal government departments. Guided by the Board of Governors, IDRC reports to Parliament through the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Many leading development agencies, including the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the UK Department for International Development, the Ford Foundation, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, as well as private sector partners — including Microsoft Corporation — have chosen to partner with IDRC because of its widely recognized experience and good corporate governance. The Canadian International Development Agency is a Canadian government agency which adminsters foreign aid programs in developing countries. ... DFID is the United Kingdom Department for International Development, it is headed by the Secretary of State for International Development. ... The Ford Foundation is a US charitable foundation created to fund programs that promote democracy, reduce poverty and promote international understanding (see mission statement). ...

To deliver its mandate, IDRC relies on 450 skilled researchers, scientists, managers, analysts, and administrative and professional staff who work at IDRC’s head office in Ottawa and its regional offices in Cairo, Dakar, Delhi, Montevideo, Nairobi, and Singapore. {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada location. ... Although technically in Giza, The Great Pyramids have become a symbol of Cairo internationally Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة; romanized: al-Qāhirah) is the capital city of Egypt (and previously the United Arab Republic) and has a metropolitan area population of approximately 15. ... (City of Dakar, divided into 19 communes darrondissement) City proper (commune) Région Dakar Département Dakar Mayor Pape Diop (PDS) (since 2002) Area 82. ... This article deals with the city of Delhi. ... Independence Plaza Montevideo from space, March 1997 Independence Plaza, c. ... Nairobi skyline Nairobi is the capital of Kenya. ...

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