Research News
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The latest issue of id21 insights, Issue #74 (August 2008), examines the role of elections in the pursuit of democracy
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 26 August 2008
The Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) is organising a two-day workshop on the theme of mobilisation for political violence to be held in Oxford on 17 and 18 March 2009.
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 22 August 2008
Notification of forthcoming appointment opportunities at the Department for International Development (DFID) for senior research fellows
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 20 August 2008
The Research into Use programme has produced a series of short syntheses which bring together key lessons for up-scaling and out-scaling research based on 19 key reviews, summaries and reports detailing DFID natural resources research.
Date Added: 18 August 2008
Nominations for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) science awards, for those who have excelled in science, are invited by 1 September 2008
Category: Information and Communication
Date Added: 15 August 2008
A new project, funded as part of the Research into Use programme, will build on previous research to develop the use of ecologically-based rodent management techniques in Bangladesh
Date Added: 13 August 2008
Researchers, scientists, academics and others working in fields related to climate change and climate change adaptation are invited to submit applications for the African Climate Change Fellowship Program
Category: Climate Change and Environment
Date Added: 12 August 2008
A successful workshop was held by the DFID-funded Research Programme Consortium on Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth (IPPG Research Consortium) in Nairobi on 10-11 July 2008 to initiate the research work on State-Business Relations (SBRs) in Africa.
Category: Growth
Date Added: 08 August 2008
The Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) is organising a two-day workshop on the theme of the law and group inequalities to be held on 14 and 15 May 2009 in Guatemala.
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 05 August 2008
A new director has been appointed to manage the Living With Environmental Change programme (LWEC), the partnership of research, business and policy-making organisations which is examining ways for society and individual people to adapt to the environmental changes that we face
Category: Climate Change and Environment
Date Added: 29 July 2008
Changing Lives, a collaborative project between DFID Research and InterPress Service (IPS), a press agency that covers the global South, uncovers a hotbed of the kind of exciting stories that the media are itching to tell
Category: Information and Communication
Date Added: 28 July 2008
Scientists in Africa who intend to conduct research on global environmental change can apply for small grants from the US START grants programme
Category: Climate Change and Environment
Date Added: 27 July 2008
SciDev.Net has published a set of articles about the need to prioritise the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases affecting millions in developing countries
Category: Health
Date Added: 27 July 2008
Research suggests most children who migrate from Northern Ghana looking for work will return home of their own volition
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 22 July 2008
Research into the carbon footprint of South African fruit and wine exports could challenge the idea that exported products from the developing world have a bigger environmental cost
Date Added: 17 July 2008
The DFID-funded Siyanda website highlights resources on gender mainstreaming in research
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 11 July 2008
African science has received a boost with the announcement of a £3.3 million partnership between the Leverhulme Trust and the Royal Society to fund collaborations between scientists in Ghana, Tanzania and the UK
Date Added: 10 July 2008
DFID has now determined its allocations for the CGIAR Centres and Challenge Programmes for this financial year
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 10 July 2008
The Department for International Development (DFID) wishes to invite proposals from organisations to manage and implement the research programme during its fourth and final phase of the Young Lives Programme
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 09 July 2008
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