Research News
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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
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
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
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
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
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is calling for nominations to its key advisory board, the Science and Innovation Strategy Board (SISB), to commence 1 September 2010 for a three-year period.
Category: Climate Change and Environment
Date Added: 30 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
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
Despite having a policy of testing for syphilis in pregnancy in Ghana, recent research shows that it is rarely carried out in practice.
Category: Health
Date Added: 26 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
New evidence from COMDIS, CREHS and TARGETS Research Programme Consortia will be presented at a one-day DFID RPC conference in London on Monday 29 March 2010.
Category: Health
Date Added: 24 March 2010
The Cochrane Library is featuring a special collection of Cochrane Systematic Reviews on tuberculosis to mark World TB Day on 24th March 2010.
Category: Health
Date Added: 23 March 2010
Hunt Emerson, British comic book legend and renowned Beano contributor has been working with the team behind an innovative youth communication initiative in Kenya. Shujaaz is a new monthly comic designed to entertain young Kenyans whilst providing them with positive messages and ideas to improve their lives
Date Added: 22 March 2010
A Cochrane Systematic Review helped to define policies in the new edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria.
Category: Health
Date Added: 18 March 2010
A policy briefing by the DFID-funded Centre of Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity looks critically at how sub-national institutions can both provoke and mitigate conflict
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 16 March 2010
DFID announces a new climate and development initiative linking over 60 of the world's poorest countries
Category: Climate Change and Environment
Date Added: 15 March 2010