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New DFID Research Strategy Launched

DFID will spend around £1bn over the next five years on development research. The Secretary of State for International Development Rt. Hon Douglas Alexander MP revealed details of the new priorities at the London launch on April 22nd.

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Welcome to R4D - A Portal to DFID Funded Research

R4D is a free access on-line database containing information about research programmes supported by DFID. R4D provides you with the latest information about research funded by DFID, including news, case studies and details of current and past research in over 20,000 project and document records.

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28th August 2008

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Elections and the democracy challenge

The latest issue of id21 insights, Issue #74 (August 2008), examines the role of elections in the pursuit of democracy

Category Social and Political Change

Date Added: 26 August 2008

Mobilisation for Political Violence: What do we know?

The Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) is organising a two-day workshop on the theme of mobilisation for political violence to be held in Oxford on 17 and 18 March 2009.

Category Social and Political Change

Date Added: 22 August 2008

DFID seeks research fellows to design and execute research programmes

Notification of forthcoming appointment opportunities at the Department for International Development (DFID) for senior research fellows

Categories Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture

Date Added: 20 August 2008

Why R4D?
In the past it was difficult to find out what research topics, projects, and programmes DFID was funding or had funded. Researchers all over the world (and even DFID staff) had to rely on a network of personal contacts or inspired detective work to discover who was already working in a particular area, what was already known, and what lessons had been learned. R4D responds to a demand expressed by many DFID stakeholders for better and open access to all this information. It is and will always be only one piece of the jigsaw, but it is a high-quality piece, as in order to have received DFID funding the research posted on R4D will have met strict criteria and quality standards in both formulation and execution.