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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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17th March 2010

Iraqi voters (Image: U.S. Marine Corps, Lance Cpl. Michael J. O'Brien) : Click to enlarge

Federal Institutions: Provoking or Mitigating Conflict?

A policy briefing by the DFID-funded Centre of Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity looks critically at how sub-national institutions can both provoke and mitigate conflict

Category Social and Political Change

Date Added: 16 March 2010

Climate and Development Knowledge Network

DFID announces a new climate and development initiative linking over 60 of the world's poorest countries

Category Climate Change and Environment

Date Added: 15 March 2010

In conversation with Carlos Pérez del Castillo, CGIAR Consortium Board Chair

The newly appointed chair introduces himself at the recent first meeting of the CGIAR Consortium Board

Category Sustainable Agriculture

Date Added: 12 March 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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