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Case Studies
This section describes how DFID research activities are making a difference. For more information click here.
The INASP Journals Online (JOLs) project, part of the second phase of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERii), supports peer-reviewed journals from developing and emerging countries to publish online, giving researchers access to local knowledge and the opportunity to contribute their own articles.
Category: Information and Communication
Date Added: 03 March 2010
Panos Relay helps young journalists tell the story of child trafficking in Haiti. As children that have been separated from parents and carers as a result of the recent earthquake are more at risk from been trafficked, it is more important than ever that their stories are heard
Date Added: 12 February 2010
A workshop from the Panos Relay programme brought together academics, civil society organisations, media, government officials and people from affected areas to help restore peace to communities in Assam after violence erupted between the indigenous and immigrant communities
Date Added: 09 November 2009
'Ishan', a quarterly publication in North East India communicates research findings in the local language of Assamese to produce a more nuanced and inclusive dialogue on social science research on conflict and identify
Date Added: 22 September 2009
With over 200,000 readers around the world, New Agriculturist covers a wide range of stories and issues in agriculture and rural development
Date Added: 17 July 2009
Recorded by Africans for Africans, the DFID-funded AGFAX monthly radio service, now in its 15th year, provides the latest information on agricultural and rural development to agricultural broadcasters and, through them, to millions of listeners across Africa
Date Added: 21 May 2009
A tale of how one young woman, Humaira Bachal, transformed the lives of girls and her entire community in a squatter settlement in Karachi, and how DFID-funded researchers helped local film makers tell her story
Date Added: 19 May 2009
Panos London's Relay Programme has helped journalists see research as a rich resource, and Relay's publications, workshops and fellowships have improved the skills of journalists from Kampala to Kathmandu
Category: Information and Communication
Date Added: 06 May 2009
The BBC World Service Trust has launched a new unit for policy advisors to help understand the role that the press can have during elections as the role of media in elections - sometimes negative, sometimes positive - is becoming an increasingly key governance issue
Date Added: 09 April 2009
Using an integrated pest management strategy to control the aubergine pest - the eggplant fruit and shoot borer - has dramatically reduced pesticide use on the crop in Bangladesh and India. Control involved good sanitation practices in crops, resistant varieties, biological control methods, and a wide-scale publicity and promotion programme
Date Added: 02 April 2009
Stories are a common tool used by farmers to communicate and get their message across. So could storytelling be a useful way for farmers to share experiences and information with scientists? An ICARDA-led Pilot Project is examining the value of storytelling, as a way of helping farmers to share their findings during plant breeding trials, and discuss their experience of farming more generally
Date Added: 31 March 2009
In order to sustain positive relationships between researchers and the media, the DFID-funded Relay programme in Southern Africa has formalized their relationship with research institutes
Date Added: 09 March 2009
Collaboration between researchers, journalists and activists developed through Panos London’s Relay Programme in the Northeast Indian state of Assam can create positive relationships and ultimately contribute to real policy change
Date Added: 17 February 2009
A dozen new teams of science journalists from different countries across Africa and the Middle East trained through the DFID-funded SjCOOP Programme are collaborating on science related stories
Date Added: 03 December 2008
How can India transform itself into the vibrant knowledge-based society it aspires to be? Part of the answer has to lie in the ideas, experience, skills and motivations of this vast nation's information professionals
Date Added: 02 December 2008
A report produced by the BBC World Service Trust, and sponsored by DFID has received widespread praise and is being taken seriously by policy makers in Kenya and elsewhere
Date Added: 26 November 2008
Makutano Junction, the Kenyan TV drama series responds to text messages from its regular TV viewers requesting follow up information on development issues and shows that the message is getting into farming areas
Date Added: 02 October 2008
Young Lives children hosted a photo exhibition in Addis Ababa for the Day of the African Child
Date Added: 02 September 2008
A pilot initiative to provide training to radio and print journalists from East Africa, alongside a major international conference, has helped to strengthen links between scientific researchers and the media
Date Added: 22 May 2008
Encouraging early results from the Citizenship DRC Participatory Video Project suggest videos are providing new ways for research participants to articulate their views, and promote debate with stakeholders
Date Added: 03 March 2008