Research News
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'The Neglected Crisis of Undernutrition: DFID's Strategy' is launched today
Category: Health
Date Added: 11 March 2010
An additional question on social protection has been added to the call, bringing the total to 50.
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 10 March 2010
Helping farmers to reduce crop losses by keeping out alien pests and improving plant health knowledge are important for future food security. This is the topic of a recent Opinion article from SciDev.Net.
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 09 March 2010
DFID funds research on various gender issues, including research on removing barriers to women’s participation in economic activities, improving maternal health, and giving women a stronger voice.
Date Added: 08 March 2010
The Global HIV/AIDS Initiatives Network has published a series of policy briefs combining the network’s research findings in Zambia, a country where almost one in seven adults is HIV positive
Category: Health
Date Added: 08 March 2010
2010 Call for Applications to the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) Fellowships
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 07 March 2010
A new DFID-funded initiative aims to engage the private sector to help develop technologies which are profitable for business and are affordable and accessible for the farmer.
Date Added: 03 March 2010
A study carried out for the DFID-funded Future Health Systems Research Programme Consortium considers the role geography plays in women's access to healthcare in the Sunderbans delta region of India.
Category: Health
Date Added: 02 March 2010
Electronic mosquito repellents have been withdrawn from sale by two major airlines following a successful partnership between the advocacy website MalariaWorld and DFID-funded Effective Health Care RPC.
Category: Health
Date Added: 01 March 2010
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) is piloting an exciting systematic review project that aims to strengthen evidence-informed decision making. DFID has developed a set of systematic review questions based on policy and practice priorities and is now calling for proposals from interested reviewers to conduct a systematic review.
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 22 February 2010
Award-winning journalist, Norman Swan, recently interviewed researchers and clinicians at a symposium on Evidence Based Health Care, hosted by the South Asian Cochrane Network and Centre, a partner of the DFID-funded Effective Health Care RPC.
Category: Health
Date Added: 22 February 2010
COMDIS, CREHS and TARGETS RPCs will be hosting a conference on equitable access to health services, in London, on 29 March 2010
Category: Health
Date Added: 18 February 2010
A £13 million UK-funded research programme has been launched to tackle damaging animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth and goat plague in developing countries.
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 17 February 2010
The DFID-funded Chronic Poverty Research Centre is interested in funding up to five research projects to explore the relationship between inheritance and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Deadline for submission of concept notes - 26 February 2010.
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 17 February 2010
Worries about food security and climate change have led to a number of major new agricultural research projects. But is more work needed to move from research to development if farmers are to see the benefit?
Date Added: 17 February 2010
The deadline for applications for this 11-month contract for research into state building, peace building and service delivery (including health, education and water and sanitation) in fragile and conflict affected states is 9 March 2010.
Date Added: 16 February 2010
The collaborative CGIAR-ESSP challenge program, Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), is seeking three regional facilitators - deadline for application is 20 February, 2010.
Date Added: 16 February 2010
IFPRI Policy Brief discusses regulatory reform to enable genetically engineered crops to be released to poor farmers.
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 11 February 2010
The Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) Programme Executive Board (PEB) is seeking an organisation to host the ESPA Directorate.
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Growth, Information and Communication
Date Added: 08 February 2010