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Current Research Topics

Research Topics are the broad categories within which DFID currently funds research.

The Research Strategy 2008-2013 has identified six key research priorities for DFID:

• Growth
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Climate Change
• Health
• Governance in Challenging Environments
• Future Challenges and Opportunities

Over the coming months CRD will be looking at its future research programme in order to meet these priorities. In due course CRD will publish Business Planning Information on the timetable for calls for proposals and what procedures should be followed. This will be highlighted on R4D and full details will be available on the DFID website.

DFID is not able to accept unsolicited requests for funding nor to accept Expressions of Interest in advance of the calls being made.

Current DFID research programmes are unaffected. They were guided by the Research Funding Framework 2005-2007 which identified four priorities which took two-thirds of the funding. They are

• Sustainable Agriculture   
• Killer Diseases (malaria, TB and HIV)   
• Climate Change   
• Where States Do Not Work For The Poor

The remaining third of the spend is allocated under the following headings:

• Capacity Building   
• Education   
• Growth   
• Information and Communication   
• Infrastructure   
• Social and Political Change   

DFID also conducts research into trade. This is mainly financed by International Trade Department. Central Research Department funds some trade research through the World Bank's Knowledge for Change Programme.