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photo: Patrick Gruban

IDRC had been present in Algeria in earlier decades — supporting small, episodic programming from the 1970s through the 1990s, mostly in agriculture, natural resource management, and information sciences. But even these modest projects were abandoned by the late 1990s as conditions of political violence and repression rendered development research impossible.

 

The security of IDRC staff and Algerian partners became intolerably compromised in Algeria’s civil conflict, while limits on free expression and other civil and legal rights curtailed the conduct of useful research.

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