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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) - mobilising knowledge for development - integrated support to ID21, ELDIS, BLDS and BRIDGE (MK4D)
Start Date: 01/04/2005
End Date: 31/12/2009
DFID Programme: Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Funding Department: Research and Evidence Division
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Lead Institute: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (IDS)
Joint Financiers: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA); Directorate-General for International Development, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS); Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD); Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); Irish Aid
Contact Names: Alistair Scott (ID21), Peter Ferguson (ELDIS), Julie Brittain (BLDS), Hazel Reeves (BRIDGE), Helen Schneider (Livelihoods Connect), Emilie Wilson (IDS)
Project URLs:
http://www.ids.ac.uk/go/knowledge-services/mk4d,
http://www.id21.org,
http://www.eldis.org,
http://blds.ids.ac.uk/,
http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/,
http://www.livelihoods.org/,
http://www.ids.ac.uk/go/sli
Regions: Global
Objectives:
To mobilise knowledge for development.
Background:
The project funds a co-ordinated package of work from IDS's most prominent knowledge sharing activities: ID21 - a fast track reporting service summarising the findings and policy implications of the latest UK-based development research. BLDS - the British Library for Development Studies, a specialist development library based at IDS. Eldis - a broad-based gateway to development information, providing easy access by web and email to a wide range of high quality online resources. BRIDGE - a specialist service supporting gender mainstreaming efforts by bridging the gaps between theory, policy and practice with accessible gender information. Livelihoods Connect - a service facilitating knowledge sharing and networking to enable the practical implementation of sustainable livelihoods approaches as a tool for poverty reduction.Intended Outputs:
The aim of these services is to reduce global poverty and injustice by supporting more informed decision making by those in a position to influence change. The project also funds some cross-cutting activities that will strengthen and co-ordinate efforts in marketing, monitoring and evaluation, research, capacity building and system development. Several of these are brought together in the Strategic Learning Initiative whose purpose is to build understanding about the role information, especially research-based information, plays in stimulating positive social change and to help to apply that understanding in practical ways to strengthen knowledge, information and communication programmes, at IDS and across the sector.Progress and Impact:
Knowledge gaps bridged between research, policy and practice.IDS Knowledge Services effectively managed to maximise their combined impact and effectiveness.
A widespread awareness of the collection of IDS Knowledge Services amongst development actors, especially in the South, through marketing and relationship-building.
IDS Knowledge Services are able to demonstrate how they have contributed towards bridging knowledge gaps between research, policy and practice and are able to apply this learning to their collective future practice.
Enhanced capacity of Southern organisations to improve their stakeholders' access to, and use of, development knowledge through information and communication interventions.
General Notes:
From the 1st of November 2009, the id21 online collection of research highlights will be available on the Eldis database (www.eldis.org). The monthly thematic emails about the online collection of research highlights will no longer be sent out. To subscribe to other regular Eldis email newsletters on various subjects, please see www.eldis.org/go/subscribe. The insights publication will continue and will also be available electronically on Eldis.See the record for Phase 2 of this project and the record for earlier support to ID21.
Total Cost to DFID:
£12,381,304
Aries Code: 112130
MIS Number: 733638011
Paper File Reference:
CRD 0406 0893/0932/002