Scientific advances are necessary to advance sustainable and human development: this conviction, the IRD - French Research Institute for Development - carries it wherever it is present, wherever it acts with its partners. The IRD is a major French player in the international development agenda. Its model is original: equitable scientific partnership with developing countries, mainly those in intertropical regions and the Mediterranean area.

For IRD, only this model makes it possible to design solutions adapted to the challenges that people and the planet face: pandemics, climate change, humanitarian and political crises.