The International Development Research Centre is part of Canada's official development assistance. We are part of the foreign policy family, although it is a crown corporation. It was established in 1970 with the mandate of effectively funding research for development in the developing world. Primarily, the research is done in the developing world as part of the other part of our mandate, which is capacity building for researchers and scientists in the developing world.
On May 17th, 2012. See this statement in context.