Perspectives

IDRC’s experts reflect on the current issues and approaches challenging the international development sector, and the role of research in finding solutions.

Our collaborations with researchers, policymakers, and international development practitioners help to foster leading thinkers with well-informed views. Their diverse insights and opinions represent our commitment to advancing knowledge and using rigorous research to find sustainable solutions to international development challenges.

Take a look to enjoy fresh perspectives, creative ideas, and astute observations that will encourage you to contemplate the sector’s big issues.

This picture was taken at one of the sites on Telaga Kecil Island in Southeast Sulawesi in April 2024. It shows an ecological survey activity where a fish surveyor is collecting data along a transect. The reef here exhibits a diverse range of species and healthy coral cover.

How Indonesian researchers are reversing the decline of coral reefs

A group of women in Haiti hold a rally.

A feminist and inclusive vision to help solve the crisis in Haiti

Women pan samples of sand for gold at a mining site in central Uganda.

Undoing the effects of COVID-19 by advancing gender equity in Africa’s informal sector

Gloved hands in a lab setting using syringe in test tubes

Biomedical discovery science as a catalyst for global health and sustainable development

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Harsha Dayal, director of Research and Knowledge Management, Government of South Africa, look at an evidence map

Evidence-informed policymaking from the Global South is key to advancing the SDGs

Abdul Aziz Mounkeila learns to read Braille at School

Putting Southern-led research into action for disability-inclusive education

In a childcare centre in Kenya, a childcare worker sits on a colourful mat, beside a young girl who is drawing.

To galvanize progress on gender equality, take action on unpaid care work

A person on the horizon is walking between two trees

Is a better future on the horizon? The art and science of foresight

A classroom with many Syrian refugee girls sitting at desks and discussing while writing on paper.

Real-world solutions for adolescent girls: sexual and reproductive health and rights