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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
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
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
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
The DFID Research Strategy 2008 to 2013 recognised a key role for research was to help anticipate and respond to future trends and technology that will impact on the lives of poor people. To take this agenda forward DFID is now establishing two new research programmes, the Future of Aid and Beyond and New and Emerging Technologies.
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 05 July 2010
The call for a second round of systematic reviews commissioned by DFID will be made in July 2010
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 01 July 2010
Send in your nominations for the Guardian International Development Achievement Award, which celebrates outstanding contributions to global poverty alleviation, by 25 July, 2010.
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 23 June 2010
Twenty new projects are to be funded from the second phase of the joint funding scheme.
Categories: Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change
Date Added: 17 June 2010
Forty years after The Sussex Manifesto helped shape modern thinking on science and technology for development, the STEPS Centre and its partners will be launching a new Manifesto in London on 15 June 2010.
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 11 June 2010
DFID publishes its first research report today on R4D, highlighting research achievements over the past twelve months.
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 30 March 2010
New webpages on the UKCDS website highlight the capacity-building initiatives of UK learned and professional societies
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 25 March 2010
The deadline for submission of proposals for DFID's systematic review project is 6 April 2010.
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 25 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
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
Research conducted by the DFID-funded CREATE Research Programme Consortium examines the realities of the 'no fee' school system in South Africa
Category: Education
Date Added: 05 February 2010
The European Commission's Directorate General for Development (DG Dev) intends to set up a network to simulate European research in the Pacific
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 05 February 2010
The DFID-funded Research Programme Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP) now has a blog on the work of the programme and issues of education and poverty in developing countries
Category: Education
Date Added: 21 January 2010
This new book by two of the UK's leading international development thinkers will be launched tomorrow (19 January, 2010) at the Wellcome Collection in London
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 18 January 2010