OUR MAJOR PROGRAM AREAS IN ASIA

Environment and Natural Resource Management
• Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health Program Initiative
  This program initiative supports research on the relationship between all components of an ecosystem to define and assess priority problems that affect the health of people and the sustainability of their ecosystem.

• International Model Forest Network
  The International Model Forest Network Secretariat (IMFNS) was established at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in 1995, to support the development of a global network of model forests that would foster international exchange and cooperation in the concept of sustainable forest management.

• Rural Poverty and Environment Management Program Initiative
  This program initiative aims to integrate its support to natural resource management activities in rural areas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean into one global program.

• Urban Poverty and the Environment (UPE) Program Initiative
  This program funds research and activities in developing countries that apply integrated and participatory approaches to reducing environmental burdens on the urban poor and enhancing the use of natural resources for food, water and income security.
Information and Communication Technologies
• Pan Asia Networking
  The Pan Asia Networking Program seeks to understand the positive and negative impacts of ICTs on people, culture, the economy, and society, so as to strengthen ICT uses that promote sustainable development on the Asian continent.

• telecentre.org
  telecentre.org is a collaborative initiative connecting telecentres, networks, innovators, social investors and other interested groups who believe that information and communication technology used locally, strengthens individuals and the communities where they live.
Innovation, Policy & Science
• Innovation, Policy and Science
  The Innovation, Policy and Science (IPS) Program Area supports the development of science, technology and innovation policies to alleviate poverty in developing countries. IPS funds research on governance, public understanding, access and benefits associated with new technologies like biotechnology and nanotechnology. IPS is a platform within IDRC to link Canadian research and science policy communities to international cooperation and development. IPS is responsible for IDRC activities: Research on Knowledge Systems and New Technologies.
Social and Economic Equity
• Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA)
  The Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) Secretariat supports training and research in environmental and resource economics in the region.

• Globalization, Growth and Poverty (GGP)
  Aimed at enabling developing countries to design appropriate domestic policies and international integration strategies for promoting more inclusive and equitable growth.

• Governance, Equity and Health
  The GEH Program Initiative examines health systems through a governance lens and, conversely, uses health as an entry point to approach challenges of governance.

• Peace, Conflict and Development
  IDRC's Peace, Conflict and Development (PCD) Program Initiative supports research that is on peacebuilding and its specific issues, as well as research for specific peacebuilding contexts.

• Women's Rights and Citizenship (WRC)
  Aimed at supporting applied research in the field of women’s rights, citizenship and development.  The WRC program initiative will contribute to bringing Southern voices into current debates in the international gender and development field.

IDRC is also working in the following areas:
• Medicinal Plants