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| News | First Five Focus Cities Selected to Lead Research Projects on Urban Poverty and the Environment
City Teams in Kampala, Uganda; Dakar, Senegal; Jakarta, Indonesia; Colombo, Sri Lanka; and Moreno, Argentina have been awarded funding of up to CA $1.2 million by IDRC's Urban Poverty and Environment program for innovative projects linking urban poverty alleviation, environmental management, and natural resource use for food, water, and income security. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-92786-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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IDRC to Write Its Intellectual History
IDRC announces that Professors Ron Harpelle and Bruce Muirhead of the Department of History at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada, have been commissioned to write IDRC's history. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-94183-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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IDRC Invests in the Development of Science Journalism
IDRC welcomes the announcement by the World Federation of Science Journalists of its three-year Peer-to-Peer Development and Support of Science Journalism in the Developing World project. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-93971-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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| Features | Sound the Alarm
Thirty-one thousand people in Sri Lanka were killed in the December 2004 tsunami, despite being an hour and a half away from the disaster's epicenter — ample time to have warned people to seek higher ground. To prevent such a large loss of life in the future, 32 coastal villages will test a satellite-based disaster warning system, prior to coast-wide implementation. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-93573-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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Water: A Slideshow
The importance of water and the current problems surrounding this precious resource are highlighted in this slideshow. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-93803-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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| IDRC Books |
FISHERY CO-MANAGEMENT
A Practical Handbook
This handbook provides ideas, methods, techniques, activities, checklists, examples, questions, and indicators for the planning and implementing of a process of community-based co-management. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-92339-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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| Research and resources | Women's Empowerment: Research and Programming
The BAIF Development Research Foundation, in partnership with IDRC and nine Indian nongovernmental organizations, and with the financial support of the Canadian International Development Agency, explored women's empowerment processes through a five-year, multi-institution, multi-state initiative, the Swayamsiddha project. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-94061-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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