Research
Since NSI was founded in 1976 as an independent, non-governmental and non-partisan research institute, its work has been recognized in Canada and abroad as leading edge, sound, policy-relevant and focused on the more pressing issues of foreign policy and international development.
NSI's current projects are listed under our four areas of work:Governance for equitable growth
- Canadian International Development Platform (CIDP)
- The feasibility and incidence of a financial transactions tax
- Domestic resource mobilization in sub-Saharan Africa
- Policy responses to unfettered finance
- Thinking equal on trade: supporting women and the economy
- Assessing the poverty impact of changing trade preferences: the case of the EU GSP
- Governance, growth and equity: what facilitates good socio-economic outcomes?
- Elections in Dangerous Places
- Assessing parliamentary performance
- South Sudan
- mySecurity
- Security sector reform and the responsibility to protect in Burundi, Haiti and South Sudan: A research, policy dialogue and capacity-building project
- From war termination to sustainable peace: What wind of peace is possible? (WKOP)
- Freedom through association: Female staff associations and gender-sensitive police reform in West Africa
- Youth dialogue and peacebuilding
- Privileging southern voices on gender and police reform
- Access and action: Monitoring gender (un)equal access to justice and public security in fragile states
Governance of natural resources
- Communities, conflict and consent
- Free, prior and informed consent: from principles to practice
- Private sector
- Emerging economies
- Multilateral development cooperation in a changing world
- From aid effectiveness to development effectiveness
- International aid architecture and policy coherence
- South-South FDI and decent work
- Economic impact of Canadian mining in Latin-America
- International trade and poverty: What to do about high food and energy prices?
- Booming commodity prices: What can developing countries do for decent work?
- Policy coherence and aid