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Joint Global Health Trials Scheme: Launch of the third call for proposals

Thu, 24 May 2012 09:30 GMT

The Department for International Development (DFID), Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Wellcome Trust have recently announced nine new projects funded under the Joint Global Health Trials scheme.

Call for Proposals: Review of the evidence on indicators, metrics and monitoring systems for agriculture, poverty and environment

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:30 GMT

DFID is seeking to initiate a process to collate and review evidence on indicators, metrics and monitoring systems for agriculture, poverty and the environment.

Call for Rigorous Literature Reviews in Education

Wed, 16 May 2012 06:30 GMT

DFID seeks experienced multi-disciplinary research teams to undertake Rigorous Literature Reviews of existing evidence in areas of priority for DFID.

GDN Conference to take place on Urbanisation and Development

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:00 GMT

The Global Development Network’s 13th Annual Global Development Conference will take place between 16-18th June 2012 in Budapest, Hungary.

Barriers to interaction can limit research uptake by the media

Wed, 02 May 2012 04:30 GMT

Two case studies from Panos London’s Relay Programme show that limited interaction between researchers and journalists are a barrier to increasing the amount and quality of reporting using research findings.

Groundwater in Africa: Harnessing the hidden sea for climate adaptation

Wed, 02 May 2012 04:00 GMT

A DFID-funded study provides new information on the extent and potential of groundwater as a way to support development and help buffer the impact of climate change.

Safeguarding the Future of Rural Livelihoods: World’s first environmental health index

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:00 GMT

A project supported by the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation Programme (ESPA) has produced the world’s first environmental health index to be based on long term historical data.

COMDIS-HSD Publish Field Communications Toolkit

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:00 GMT

COMDIS-HSD has just released a Field Communications Toolkit for members of their partners’ research team in order to develop more effective communications about COMDIS-HSD research for wider research uptake.

K* 2012: The first global conference on knowledge intermediaries

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:30 GMT

The global conference on K* begins today in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and will run until Thursday 27th April. Registration slots are still open for Webex participation.

Wellcome Move Makes Research more Accessible

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:30 GMT

The Wellcome Trust has announced that it is launching an initiative to support free, online publication of scientific research to compete with established academic journals.

Choice for women: Family planning, health and rights in a world of 7 billion

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:00 GMT

Last month the United Nations Population Fund announced that global population has passed 7 billion. This landmark brings the issue of population growth and its impact into sharp focus

R4D Gateway

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:12 GMT

OAI PMH Implementation for R4D

Getting children into school and breaking the cycle of disadvantage

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:00 GMT

Getting children into school and breaking the cycle of disadvantage

The impact of research on policy and practice in Indonesia’s pulp and paper sector

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:42 GMT

CIFOR-led research has contributed to policy reform, the acceleration of plantation development, and the saving of more than 100,000 hectares of tropical rainforest, with hundreds of millions of dollars in attendant benefits

Scaling Up Nutrition: Unlocking puzzles to transform thinking and action

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:00 GMT

DFID's new position paper 'Scaling Up Nutrition' declares a crucial role for research. The paper declares: "We will be achieving our results in nutrition through scaling up programmes where there is evidence of fast and sustainable impact."

Missed Opportunities

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:00 GMT

Linking women who test HIV positive in antenatal and maternity services to long-term HIV care and treatment services in Kenya

Growth across Africa: Contributions from DFID-funded Research

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:30 GMT

Farmers in Tanzania paint chickens pink and purple to thwart hawks

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:30 GMT

Farmers in Tanzania, sick of losing their chickens to hungry hawks, have taken drastic, if creative action, thanks to an innovative programme funded by DFID and a little bit of pink dye.

Educating a nation: Unpacking the constraints to education in Swaziland.

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:30 GMT

Some 11% of primary, and 30% of secondary school children report missing a month or more of schooling each year in Swaziland, according to research conducted by the Addressing the Balance of Burden in HIV/AIDS (ABBA) RPC.

Linking farmers and science

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:05 GMT

By linking scientists, non-government organisations and government extension officials and farmers, the PETRRA project in Bangladesh has achieved substantial improvements in rice production, income and empowerment of women.