Research News
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A recent report from Panos London looks at the media's capacity to generate public debate using research to influence policy outcomes
Category: Information and Communication
Date Added: 27 August 2010
Evidence provided by the Effective Health Care RPC contributes to this special collection of Cochrane Systematic Reviews on water safety and water-related diseases.
Date Added: 25 August 2010
The project information section of DFID's website was re-launched today with a new look and an improved search interface.
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 17 August 2010
The Effective Health Care RPC contributes 17 reviews to a new special collection on The Cochrane Library
Category: Health
Date Added: 17 August 2010
The first comprehensive overview of the social sciences in over a decade shows that they are gaining ground in Asia and Latin America.
Date Added: 10 August 2010
New information and tools to help researchers build international partnerships in support of the Programme are now available on the web.
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 09 August 2010
The IDRC's Climate Change and Water programme is calling for proposals for Graduate Research Awards which will help to build research capacity in developing countries
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Growth, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change
Date Added: 09 August 2010
The 4 CGIAR Centers involved in developing Mega Program 3.7, on improving the productivity of livestock and farmed fish by and for the poor, are seeking feedback to help them to shape their plans
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 03 August 2010
An invitation to attend the launch of the EACC study at the notable Gustav-Stresemann Institute, in Bonn, Germany, 3 August, 2010
Date Added: 30 July 2010
DFID launches open consultation on reproductive, maternal and newborn health
Category: Health
Date Added: 27 July 2010
DFID is seeking to appoint a service provider to plan, manage and implement an urgent 3-year programme of research to help address the emergence of artemisinin-resistant malaria.
Category: Health
Date Added: 26 July 2010
At the One World Media Awards Event held in June, the DFID-funded Makutano Junction received the award for the outstanding new media output covering issues affecting the developing world in a compelling and imaginative way.
Date Added: 23 July 2010
A systematic review conducted by the DFID-funded Effective Health Care Research Programme Consortium (EHCRPC) identifies the urgent need for a randomised controlled trial to improve the evidence-base for use of ribavirin in the treatment of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, an often fatal, tick-borne viral disease.
Category: Health
Date Added: 22 July 2010
The winning bids for DFID's systematic review pilot have been announced.
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 21 July 2010
The deadline for submission of proposals for the IPPC Scholarship Programme is 31 July 2010
Date Added: 15 July 2010
Ten years of DFID-funded governance research has been brought into focus through a new report 'The Politics of Poverty: Elites, Citizens and States'.
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 15 July 2010
A new supplement from the DFID-funded Consortium for Research on Equitable Health Systems (CREHS) is published in BMC Health Services Research: vol 10 suppl 1
Category: Health
Date Added: 13 July 2010
The 1st International ICST Conference on e-Services for Agriculture, Food, Environment and Life Sciences in Africa (e-Africa 2010) is to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa on 8-10 September.
Date Added: 08 July 2010
DFID and the Economic and Social Research Council have announced the second call of the DFID-ESRC joint scheme for research on international development. (Phase 2).
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 07 July 2010