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In sub-Saharan Africa, IDRC has funded more than 3 500 research activities.To deepen its involvement in the region, IDRC opened a regional office in Nairobi in 1975. Today this office coordinates the organization’s work in 23 countries. In 2008-2009, IDRC pursued more than 280 research activities in sub-Saharan Africa, worth more than CA$23 million. Many of these activities involve research networks that span several countries.

IDRC’s work in Eastern and Southern Africa concentrates both on identifying new technical, institutional, and policy solutions to the region’s challenges, and on creating platforms where multiple players can collaborate on confronting these problems.

Its programming reflects the diverse needs of the countries in the region.

IDRC seeks:

• to understand the causes and consequences of violent conflict, and to strengthen transitions from conflict to lasting peace; 
• to reduce vulnerability to disease and natural disasters, and improve the management of natural resources and the environment; and 
• to increase opportunities for sustainable eco-nomic growth and equitable access to basic social services.

In pursuit of these aims, IDRC funds applied research on pressing problems. It focuses on studies that will influence policy and practice. And it develops research capacity among individual Africans as well as institutional capacity to support them.

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