Research News
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A new tool which enables age-based dosing regimens to be devised for malaria drugs has been developed by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and its collaborators.
Category: Health
Date Added: 23 November 2009
The International Council on Human Rights Policy (ICHRP) is inviting applications for the post of Executive Director, based in Geneva. Applications close on 18 December 2009
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 20 November 2009
A 'science safari' to the South Rift valley has enabled African journalists to get first-hand experience of the recent drought in Kenya and the impacts on pastoralists and their livestock
Date Added: 20 November 2009
DFID will invest £3 million over the next five years in research to improve humanitarian practice
Date Added: 20 November 2009
The latest spotlight from SciDev.Net looks at the use of satellite data to monitor and manage natural disasters, and examines how developing countries can access and use these data
Date Added: 17 November 2009
A film based on studies conducted by Research Programme Consortium on Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth (IPPG) on the implementation of the Indian Forest Rights Act was screened at the recent environmental film festival, CMS VATAVARAN, held in New Delhi
Date Added: 13 November 2009
A new book from IFPRI has brought together the major successes in agricultural development that have lifted millions of people out of hunger over the past 50 years
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 13 November 2009
The DFID-funded Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity (CREATE) seeks applications from suitable PhD candidates for the 2010 Commonwealth Scholarships
Category: Education
Date Added: 11 November 2009
The Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty (Migration DRC) blogs from the Global Forum on Migration and Development, 2-4 November, 2009
Category: Social and Political Change
Date Added: 06 November 2009
The IDRC has put out a call for an international research initiative to support research and networking on the adaptation to climate change in Canada and in low- and middle-income countries.
Category: Climate Change and Environment
Date Added: 06 November 2009
A new DFID-funded research programme seeks to provide evidence on how disability interacts with other factors influencing poverty.
Date Added: 02 November 2009
According to the Directors of the DFID-funded Research Programme Consortium for Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth (IPPG), the recent joint award of this year's Nobel Prize in Economics to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson highlights the significance of institutions
Category: Growth
Date Added: 02 November 2009
MMV will be co-hosting symposia and making oral and poster presentations at the 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Malaria Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, 2-6 November 2009
Category: Health
Date Added: 30 October 2009
Ten years of 'war against poverty': what have we learned since 2000 and what should we do 2010-2020?
The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) is calling for papers on poverty research for presentation at an international conference in Manchester, 8-10 September 2010
Date Added: 29 October 2009
Expression of Interests are sought for service providers of four new DFID Research Programme Consortia on the themes of 'Effective' and 'Fragile' states, and on taxation
Date Added: 26 October 2009
The work of the WorldFish Center will be highlighted in part 2 of 'Food for Thought' being aired on BBC World News this weekend (24-26 October 2009)
Category: Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 23 October 2009
The Environment Research Funders Forum (ERFF) aims to ensure the best possible use of public funding by improving the way environmental research is prioritised, is funded, and informs policy. The Forum brings together the UK’s major public-sector sponsors of environmental science to work in partnership to assess research needs and priorities
Date Added: 21 October 2009
The United Nations has been leading a process of reforming the way that humanitarian aid is delivered, aimed at improving the efficiency and reach of humanitarian response for beneficiary populations. With a growing awareness of the need to better involve NGOs – particularly national and local NGOs – in the various aspects of reform, DFID-funded research is helping to engage NGOs in the reform process.
Date Added: 21 October 2009
DFID's Chief Scientist Chris Whitty and Mr Gao Hongbin, Vice Minister, Ministry of Agriculture, People's Republic of China provided the keynote addresses to the CABI Global Summit: 'food security in a climate of change' currently taking place in London (19-21 October).
Date Added: 20 October 2009
This week, 19-23 October 2009, is the first International Open Access Week, which aims to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access.
Categories: Capacity Building, Climate Change and Environment, Education, Growth, Health, Information and Communication, Infrastructure, Social and Political Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Date Added: 19 October 2009