The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) felt it was timely to create an academic forum in which university researchers have the opportunity to engage with their peers and relevant stakeholders and document the impacts of their North-South research collaboration in a peer-reviewed publication. The Association achieved this by hosting a colloquium on June 6-7, 2005, under the theme "Highlighting the Impacts of North-South Research Collaboration among Canadian and Southern Higher Education Partners." Funded by Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and with the collaboration of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development and the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research, the colloquium generated much interest among university researchers. The call for abstracts issued several months ahead of the event attracted 75 proposals from which 12 were selected by peer review for presentation at the colloquium. The papers were profiled in four panels featuring the impacts of research collaboration between Canadian and Southern university researchers on: (1) policy influence; (2) development challenges; (3) research capacity building; and (4) mutual benefits for individual researchers and teams of researchers in Canada and in the South. Following the colloquium, presenters took the time to incorporate comments from colloquium participants into their papers, and AUCC submitted these papers to a rigorous peer-review process. These peer-reviewed proceedings, published in the language of submission, capture the richness of the 12 presentations and document the broad impacts and value of collaboration between university researchers in Canada and the South. For decision-makers and granting agencies, the proceedings will serve as a base of knowledge to inform policy development with respect to the broad impacts of North-South research collaboration. For university partners, they are meant to help strengthen and enhance Canadian university involvement in international development projects and North-South research cooperation. The following 12 papers are included in this document: (1) Social Policies and Marginalized Urban Youth: Centrist Prescriptions and Divergent Practices (Richard Maclure, Octavian Gakuru, and Melvin Sotelo); (2) Transboundary Management Plan for the Lake Chilwa Catchment Area (Daniel M. Jamu, Leanda M. Delaney, and Christine E. Campbell); (3) Traditional Leaders Promoting Development and Fighting HIV/AIDS: Research Collaboration and Its Impact in Ghana, South Africa, Botswana and Canada (Donald I. Ray and Tacita A.O. Clarke); (4) Conjunctive Use of Water Resources in the Deccan Trap, India (Frank Simpson); (5) Capacity-Building Reach and Impact of Research on Sustainable Development for Chilean and Canadian Universities and the Communities They Serve (Sonia Salas, David Gauthier, and Polo Diaz); (6) Research as an Instrument for Improving Community Health (Shirley M. Solberg and Dewi Irawaty); (7) Enhancing Capacity to Engender Research for Sustainable Development (Huguette Dagenais, Do Thi Binh, and Dawn Currie); (8) Laying the Foundation for Nursing Research in Ghana (Linda Ogilvie, Mary Opare, Marion Allen, and Faustina Oware-Gyekye); (9) Geographic Information Systems Applied to Watershed Management: A Collaborative Research Initiative between the University of Calgary and the Universidad Autonoma de Campeche (Jorge A. Benitez and Shelley Alexander); (10) The Regional Impact of the Dakar Caerenad Centre: A Positive Canada-Senegal Post-Collaborative Outcome (Otto M. Ikome and Mamadou Diallo); (11) Regards croises de chercheurs quebecois et gabonais sur la question de la citoyennete [written in French] (Suzanne Vincent and Rene Casimir Zoo Eyindanga); and (12) Links upon Links: A Canada-Cuba Partnership to Build Sustainable Capacity to Manage Environmental Health Risks through International Collaboration (Jerry Spiegel and Maricel Garcia). Individual papers contain references. [The preface of this document and abstracts of individual papers are provided in English and French.]