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DFID Research Strategy: One Year On

One year ago, DFID launched its first Research Strategy. The Strategy pledged to increase spending to £1bn over five years across six thematic areas: Growth, Governance in Fragile States, Health, Agriculture, Climate Change and Forward-looking research.

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DFID Research Strategy

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.

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4th July 2009

First call of the second phase of the joint DFID-ESRC scheme for development research

DFID and the Economic and Social Research Council announce the first call of the second phase of the joint DFID-ESRC scheme for development research, which builds on the success of the previous scheme launched in August 2005

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

Date Added: 03 July 2009

Seasonal hunger devastating and under-recognized

Most hunger not due to one-off events, but to annual food shortages.

Category Sustainable Agriculture

Date Added: 02 July 2009

6th World Conference brings developing country science journalists into the mainstream

Over 700 journalists attending conference this week in Westminster, London

Category Information and Communication

Date Added: 01 July 2009

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.