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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
Researchers from the DFID-funded Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability have helped to reform Brazil's indigenous health system
Date Added: 12 October 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
Research from the DFID-funded ABBA project (Addressing the Balance of Burden in AIDS) shows how programmes that give young people the skills to improve their education and manage family finances can address some of the costs associated with the AIDS pandemic in South Africa
Date Added: 08 September 2009
A local AIDS advocacy group has teamed up with international aid agency Médecins Sans Frontiéres to both mobilize people living with HIV and AIDS and to provide the medicine and care that patients need. DFID research is helping to document and understand this blending of activism and aid in South Africa.
Date Added: 28 July 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
A major pillar of the work of the DFID-funded Crisis States Research Centre on state-building is that undertaken by Antonio Giustozzi on the conflict in Afghanistan
Category: Social and Political Change
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
In Mexico, the flow of water from mountainous areas to the cities connects a variety of people and businesses. Researchers from the DFID-funded Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability have promoted new relationships based on the common interests of major users of water resources: indigenous ranchers, rural and urban municipalities and the petrochemical industry
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
DFID-funded research by Practical Action has improved understanding of the impact of different approaches to urban poverty reduction through research and sharing the experiences of Southern-based NGOs
Date Added: 14 January 2009
Are there connections between how states obtain money and the quality of their governance? If governments are not dependent on taxes for their finance, new research suggests they are less accountable and responsive to their citizens and taxpayers
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 09 January 2009
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
Young Lives children hosted a photo exhibition in Addis Ababa for the Day of the African Child
Date Added: 02 September 2008
Research from the DFID Trade and Poverty in Latin America programme (COPLA), shows that the agricultural sector of the southern Peruvian Andes, where the poorest people in the country live, is vulnerable to the effects that the imports of goods from the US
Date Added: 31 July 2008
Swaziland is experiencing an HIV/AIDS emergency on the scale of traditional emergencies such as tsunamis and earthquakes
Date Added: 07 July 2008
Searching for a new approach to livestock policy and institutional change to improve the livelihoods of poor livestock keepers has been the focus of a DFID-funded initiative
Date Added: 14 May 2008
Key report confirms the critical role of champions inside government to ensure participation works.
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 18 March 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