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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
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 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
A recent spotlight from SciDev.net examines how solar technology could be used to improve access to electricity for the rural poor.
Date Added: 24 May 2010
WHO has just published a report from a study jointly funded with DFID on the resilience of water and sanitation services to climate changes expected by 2020 and 2030
Date Added: 31 March 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
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
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
Research from the RiPPLE programme shows how although water access increases with wealth in Ethiopia, it may be better off households that are more vulnerable to climate change because they are dependent on water for livestock. Water shortages can cause conflict, highlighting a pressing need for policy solutions for water management
Date Added: 11 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
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
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
DFID has established an online poll, available until the end of December, to obtain feedback on the DFID website, which was redesigned earlier this year.
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 11 December 2009