Research News
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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 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
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
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 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
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
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
The latest edition of insights examines the different approaches to cash transfers used in different parts of the world and asks how effective they are.
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 28 June 2010
DFID-funded study compares targeted-transfer programs in Bangladesh
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 28 June 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
A new DFID synthesis report, The Politics of Poverty: Elites, Citizens and States, shows how research from four major DFID-funded research programmes that are closing this year is changing academic and policy thinking on governance.
Date Added: 21 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
Two books on poverty will be launched at a joint event hosted by Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Chronic Poverty Research Centre on 15 June 2010
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 02 June 2010
The DFID-funded Religions and Development Research Programme is holding a conference in Birmingham on 21-23 July 2010 to present the findings of the programme and explore the implications.
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 02 June 2010
A new 'Youth Participation Guide' has recently been published by the DFID Civil Society Organisations Youth Working Group. The guide has been developed to assist donor agencies and policy advisors in a range of organisations working with and for youth.
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
A workshop held at the Institute of Development Studies on the 9 and 10 March 2010 explored the impacts of the global financial crisis on poverty.
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 29 March 2010