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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 4 CGIAR Centers involved in developing Mega Program 3.7, on improving the productivity of livestock and farmed fish by and for the poor, are seeking feedback to help them to shape their plans
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 03 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
The deadline for submission of proposals for the IPPC Scholarship Programme is 31 July 2010
Date Added: 15 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
Livestock farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are to benefit from the commercialization of a vaccine against East Coast Fever, first developed over 30 years ago. GALVmed, funded by DFID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is working to ensure its sustainable production.
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 02 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 Future Agricultures Consortium is calling for applications for its new Early Career Fellowship Programme. Initial deadline 30 June 2010.
Date Added: 20 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
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
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