Research News
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A new image gallery offering free development-related pictures for non-profit use has been launched.
Category: Information and Communication
Date Added: 06 September 2010
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
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
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
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
Trainees of the DFID-funded Better Science Reporting workshop receive awards for their journalism.
Date Added: 14 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
The Research Into Use website, www.researchintouse.com, has recently been redeveloped. The new site combines a multi-media experience with regularly updated content.
Date Added: 01 June 2010
CIARD (Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development) has recently launched a new website to promote access to agriculture research information.
Date Added: 21 May 2010
The Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) programme is supporting an international colloquiuum on sharing and exchange of information, in Dakar, Senegal, 6-8 July, 2010
Date Added: 20 May 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
At a recent workshop on Effective Last Mile Delivery, hosted by the International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA) in New Delhi, India, WRENmedia shared some insight into the role the media can play in delivering information to farmers
Date Added: 26 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