Welcome to R4D - A Portal to DFID Funded Research

R4D is a free access on-line database containing information about research programmes supported by DFID. R4D provides you with the latest information about research funded by DFID, including news, case studies and details of current and past research in over 20,000 project and document records.

Chronic Poverty is ‘a global emergency that we cannot afford to ignore’

The Chronic Poverty Report 2008–09: New solutions to escape poverty traps reminds us that ‘alleviating chronic poverty is not merely a question of economics. It is a moral imperative’ according to UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown

Category Social and Political Change

Date Added: 08 July 2008  

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Research Into Use: African Innovation Challenge Fund

The second Research Into Use (RIU) call for proposals is for the African Innovation Challenge Fund

Categories Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture

Date Added: 04 July 2008  

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International Conference on Natural Resource Management, Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) 20th Anniversary Conference on Natural Resource Management, Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa. A call for papers

Category Climate Change and Environment

Date Added: 30 June 2008  

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Why R4D?
In the past it was difficult to find out what research topics, projects, and programmes DFID was funding or had funded. Researchers all over the world (and even DFID staff) had to rely on a network of personal contacts or inspired detective work to discover who was already working in a particular area, what was already known, and what lessons had been learned. R4D responds to a demand expressed by many DFID stakeholders for better and open access to all this information. It is and will always be only one piece of the jigsaw, but it is a high-quality piece, as in order to have received DFID funding the research posted on R4D will have met strict criteria and quality standards in both formulation and execution.