Office of the Secretary and General Counsel
Description: Information on: meetings of the Board of Governors and its committees; meetings of the Senior Management Committee; corporate governance matters; employment and labour law; intellectual property; agreements governing the Centre's regional presence; research ethics; conflict of interest; and contractual and legislative requirements.
Document Types: Board and management committee meetings, corporate governance, acts, legislation, ethics, regional presence, country agreements.
Access: Corporate Secretary files are arranged by committee or by topic. General Counsel files are arranged by geographic area or by topic.
Record Number: IDR PO 005, IDR PO 015

Executive Office
Description: General correspondence between the president and partner institutions, international organisations, government agencies, and the general public; information on Centre operations and the president's travel arrangements; president's speeches; Access to Information and Privacy requests.
Document Types: Requests for meetings, funding, information; Centre management; institutional collaboration; speeches; travel arrangements.
Access: Files arranged primarily by organisation name or by topic.
Record Number: IDR PO 010

Risk Management and Audit Services
Description: Information on risk management, governance processes, audits, and audit processes.
Document Types: Risk management, audits, governance and audit processes.
Access: Files arranged by name of group or regional office, or by topic.
Record Number: IDR PO 020

Program and Partnership Branch

Social and Economic Policy Program Area
Description: Information on research into public policies that can help to reduce poverty and enhance social equity in developing countries.
Document Types: Democratic processes in governance and peace building; political economy of peace and conflict; poverty monitoring, measurement, and analysis in developing countries; emerging issues in international trade relations; policy responses to globalization; policies, research, and systems oriented to increasing equity in health; gender and development problems, issues, and debates; building capacity of developing-country policy research institutions.
Access: Files arranged by organisation name, project, or topic.
Record Number: IDR PB 025

Information and Communication Technologies for Development Program Area
Description: Information related to research on and development of the effective use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to address the gap between the information "haves" in the North and the "have nots" in the South.
Document Types: Applications of ICTs and knowledge access and transfer; use of networking technologies to improve communication; access to information and impact of research; empowering communities in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean to apply ICTs to their social and economic development.
Access: Files arranged by organisation name, project, or topic.
Record Number: IDR PB 015

Environment and Natural Resource Management Program Area
Description: Information on research and development on: improving the quality of life of communities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), through more equitable, sustainable, and productive use of land and water resources; and improving human health by better managing ecosystems.
Document Types: Secure sources of food and water for the poor in both rural and urban areas; the needs of the rural poor who live in fragile or degraded ecosystems; 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; relationship between components of an ecosystem to define and assess priority problems that affect the health of people and the sustainability of their ecosystem; climate change adaptation capacity-building; water governance issues; water demand management strategies and tools in countries of the Middle East and North Africa; capacity building for conducting research on the economics of environmental management.
Access: Files arranged by organisation name, project, or topic.
Record Number: IDR PB 020

Innovation, Policy and Science Program Area
Description: Information on policy, partnering, and programming work on science and technology for development; correspondence with grants councils in Canada and abroad on science and technology-related matters.
Document Types: Emerging technologies (e.g., biotechnology, genomics, nanotechnology) and the divides; Canadian and international partnering; national science and technology (S&T) and innovation agendas for development; science communication.
Access: Files arranged by organisation name, project, or topic.
Record Number: IDR PB 050

Special Initiatives Division
Description: Information on training and awards; information on research supported by Canadian Partnerships, the Middle East Unit, and other special initiatives that offer unique opportunities to contribute to the mission and goals of the Centre.
Document Types: Institutional alliances with constituency groups in Canada with a knowledge-based international outlook; research and internship awards; project-related awards; special initiatives.
Access: Files arranged by organisation name, project, or topic.
Record Number: IDR PB 030

Partnership and Business Development Division
Description: Information on initiating, building, and maintaining key long-term relationships with donors and other institutions committed to the long-term development of Southern research capacities.
Document Types: Collaborating with other institutions around the world; business development; resource expansion; knowledge-sharing.
Access: Files arranged by organisation name, project, or topic.
Record Number: IDR PB 085

Resources Branch

Human Resources Division
Description: Information on policy development, human resources planning, organizational design and job evaluation, resourcing, employment equity, official languages, training and development, performance management, compensation, rewards and recognition, employee relations, health and wellness.
Document Types: Employment; official languages; pensions; insurance; personnel management; salaries and wages; staff relations; training and development.
Access: Files arranged by topic.
Record Number: IDR RB 010

Information and Technology Management Division
Description: Information on maintaining, improving, and replacing information technologies used by the Centre.
Access: Files arranged by topic.
Record Number: IDR RB 015

Finance and Administration Division
Description: Information on accounting, financial management, facilities management, procurement, conference and hospitality services, and corporate travel.
Document Types: Accounts; administrative services; budgets; office equipment and supplies; office furniture; staff security; facilities management; travel policies.
Access: Files arranged by topic.
Record Number: IDR RB 020

Research Information Management Services (RIMS) Division

External Databases
Description: The following databases can be accessed on-line or via the World-Wide Web: IDRIS (IDRC-supported projects); IMAGES (slides related to IDRC projects); and the IDRC Digital Library (research results and documents generated by IDRC-funded projects, IDRC funding recipients, and IDRC staff on subjects related to international development).
Document Types: Research aspects of international development.
Access: By topic or country.
Record Number: IDR RB 025

Internal Databases
Description: IDRC maintains a number of databases related to the work of the Centre in supporting research activities to benefit developing countries.
Document Types: EPIK (IDRC's research activity management information system); IPHRMS (payroll); Livelink (records management); NavigatER (travel); PCR (project completion reports); and Pillar (project and finance management system).
Access: By topic, by project, by employee name, or by vendor.
Record Number: IDR RB 030