IDRC's programs are managed by four Program Areas: 

• Environment and Natural Resource Management
  

  Ecohealth
  Forestry
  Rural Poverty and Environment
  Urban Poverty and Environment 
  Water Demand Management

• Information and Communication Technologies for Development
  

  Africa
  Asia
  Connectivity for Development
  Connectivity Africa
  Connectivity in the Americas
  Latin America and the Caribbean

• Innovation, Policy and Science
  

  Biotechnology & Emerging Technologies
  Research on Knowledge Systems

• Social and Economic Policy
  

  Peace, Conflict, and Development
  Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies
  Trade, Employment, and Competitiveness
  Secretariat for Institutional Support for Economic Research in Africa
  Governance, Equity, and Health
  Research for International Tobacco Control
  Gender Unit
  Environment and Economy Program for Southeast Asia

• Other Corporate Projects and Sites
  

  IDRC is also working in the following areas:

  Medicinal Plants Middle East Mining Policy Research Initiative (MPRI)