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DFID Senior Research Fellow, Professor Ron Skeldon

Meet the Research Fellows

We talk to Ron Skeldon, one of DFID’s new Senior Research Fellows. He and the other fellows provide the scientific leadership for DFID’s research priorities, trying to enhance the relevance of research and maximise its impact on development policy and practice…

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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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9th February 2010

Inviting applications for Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) Directorate

The Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) Programme Executive Board (PEB) is seeking an organisation to host the ESPA Directorate.

Categories Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Growth, Information and Communication

Date Added: 08 February 2010

Identification of European academic actors interested in the Pacific region

The European Commission's Directorate General for Development (DG Dev) intends to set up a network to simulate European research in the Pacific

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

Date Added: 05 February 2010

Making education equal in South Africa

Research conducted by the DFID-funded CREATE Research Programme Consortium examines the realities of the 'no fee' school system in South Africa

Category Education

Date Added: 05 February 2010

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.

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