CDC focuses very strongly on supporting local initiatives (mainly higher education and capacity building projects with a long term focus) in developing countries.
Supported initiatives include the Africa Mathematics Millennium Science Initiative (AMMSI) which annually receives CDC support for its graduate student scholarship program and the Mentoring African Research in Mathematics (MARM) program which received support for selected activities and projects.
Kev Da, a Cambodian student who finished his master at RUPP in 2014, received a grant from CDC to travel to Pune, India in February 2015.
During his stay in Pune, he worked with Professor Anup Biswas and they discussed possible soultions to mathematical problems relating to "Measure theory relating to probability".
In 2013, the Philippine Congress passed a law prescribing two additional years to basic education (Grades 11 and 12). Grade 11 will be introduced in school year 2016-2017, and Grade 12 in 2017-2018. By 2018, all high school graduates would have completed Kindergarten, 6 years of elementary, 4 years of junior high school, and 2 years of senior high school. The new senior high school curriculum will include an 80-hour course in basic calculus.
CANP 5 ANDEAN REGION AND PARAGUAY
CDC supports the CANP 5 (Peru) workshop which will be held in February 2016 with a project grant.
CDC has supported 12 mathematical leaders from Nepal to participate from August 31 to September 8, 2015, in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) in the SEAMS School "Number Theory and Applications in Cryptography and Coding Theory" which was organized at the Department of Computer Science at HCMC Ho Chi Minh City University of Science.