Ontario International Development Agency Information

Ontario International Development Agency (OIDA) is a non governmental organization (NGO) registered in Ontario, Canada. OIDA does not represent any political or religious groups. OIDA is actively involved in the creation of a conducive and sustainable environment through programs and projects, fostering socio economic development by promoting ethnic harmony, ensuring the provision of equal opportunities to all. OIDA funds applied research by researchers from South Asian and West African countries on the problems they identify as crucial to their communities. It also helps to obtain technical support to those researchers from Canadian universities and colleges, institutions and Non governmental organizations associated with it. OIDA builds local capacity in developing countries to undertake projects and create innovations, believing that people from developing, especially South Asian and West African countries, must take the lead in producing and applying knowledge for the benefit of their own communities. OIDA also fosters alliances and knowledge sharing between scientific, academic, and development communities in Canada and developing countries. The Agency's one of the objective is to provide rapid, worldwide distribution of research to authors and their readers and to facilitate communication among them at the lowest possible cost. OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development presenting (OIDA IJSD) high-quality research in both social and applied science to a broad audience of communities working in international development. The articles will appeal to social and applied scientists, both inside and outside academia, as well as non specialists. The OIDA IJSD publishes specially-commissioned feature articles and the proceedings of papers presented at its International Conference on Sustainable Development which focuses on the synthesis and integration of applied research and its application to future research agendas.