Current Research Topics - Social and Political Change

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Social and Political Change - Introduction

The prime purpose of DFID is to contribute to the eradication of world poverty. In support of this aim, DFID’s research objective is to promote the production and uptake of technologies and policies that will contribute to poverty eradication and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

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Development Research Centres

There are currently six Development Research Centres and three Research Programme Consortia managed by the Social, Political and Environment Change Team. These are five year research programmes, each led by a single institution working on a specific topic in partnership with institutions in the north and south. The aim is for the programme to generate policy-relevant research that will help the wider development community and DFID to achieve their objectives.

• Crisis States Programme Centre
• Centre for the Future State
• Chronic Poverty Research Centre
• Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability
• Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty
• Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity
• Research Programme Consortium on Pathways to Women's Empowerment
• Research Programme Consortium on Women's Empowerment in Muslim Contexts
• Research Programme Consortium on Religion and Development

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Young Lives

http://www.younglives.org.uk

Young Lives Phase 1 programme record

Young Lives Phase 2 programme record

Young Lives Phase 3 programme record

Young Lives is a longitudinal research project investigating the nature of childhood poverty in four developing countries (Ethiopia, India -Andhra Pradesh, Vietnam and Peru). Reflecting the timescale for achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, it aims to follow, up till 2015 the lives of 8,000 children born in the year 2000 and a parallel group of children who were eight years old in that year in each country.

Young Lives is managed by Professor Jo Boyden at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, who was appointed Director of the project in July 2005. Save the Children UK and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are partner institutions.

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DFID-ESRC Scheme

DFID-ESRC scheme for research on poverty reduction in developing countries Programme record

DFID-ESRC Joint Scheme (Second Call):

The Department for International Development (DFID) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) are launching the second call for the joint DFID-ESRC scheme.

This scheme aims to fund scientific research on issues relating to economic development and quality of life in less developed countries with the potential for impact on policy and practice for poverty reduction. Applications (to ESRC) are invited from researchers based in recognised higher education institutions, research organisations or organisations with a credible research capacity in both the UK and worldwide.

• An overview of the scheme is available (PDF - 91 Kb).
• The full call specification document can be found on the ESRC website.
• ESRC will be holding a number of workshops to outline details of the scheme - details on the ESRC website

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Responsive Programme

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There remain a number of small social science projects funded under the Responsive Programme. DFID no longer runs a responsive programme. This has been superseded by collaborative programmes with the UK research councils.

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Multifunded Research

Please see United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and International Council on Human Rights Policy (ICHRP) on the Social and Political Change multifunded research page.

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