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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
A new supplement from the DFID-funded Consortium for Research on Equitable Health Systems (CREHS) is published in BMC Health Services Research: vol 10 suppl 1
Category: Health
Date Added: 13 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
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
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 DFID-funded RPC will support training workshops during June to build capacity for evidence-informed decision making.
Date Added: 08 June 2010
The DFID-funded EHCRPC receives official recognition of the extensive collaboration it has with the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group and the World Health Organization and joins over 800 other institutions in becoming a WHO Collaborating Centre
Category: Health
Date Added: 03 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
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