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Engineering research for sustainable development
The Katse Dam in South Africa, Image: Damien du Toit This report has now been published and you can download it here. Infrastructure is recognised as a key driver...
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Silicon Savanna
Will Kenya lay claim to the next microchip moniker? Image: RaSeLaSeD – Il Pinguino Unleashing the private sector for development is the fad du jour,* a trend that...
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EU funding opportunities
Image: Flickr, EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Kirsty Hogan is Head of the International Team in the Cabinet Office’s Civil Contingencies...
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Science’s role in disaster risk assessments
Monitoring hydrometeorological hazards at IDEAM, Colombia In the last week of February, members of the UKCDS Disasters team organised a workshop in Bogotá, Colombia on...
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NGOs and Research
How can we work better together? (Image: Wellcome Library, London) Ever gone to an international development conference and thought “Uh oh, I don’t know anyone here...
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A bold step forwards
Dr Megan French of UCL collects samples for water quality analysis in Bolivia Dr Kate Crowley is Disaster Risk Reduction Advisor at CAFOD and co-authored the guidelines...
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Horizon 2020
Image: Sebastien Bertrand This €79 billion programme, is the newest incarnation of what had previously been known as ‘Framework Programmes’, and with it has come some new...
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An “Educational” Town Hall Meeting
© World Bank Following our Education Systems Town Hall one of our live stream viewers, Nisma Elias, a Program Associate at the Results for Development Institute, wrote this...
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Sunny skies ahead for education research
Image: DFID For videos and reports of the event this is based on please visit the event coverage. On Thursday 23 January I had the pleasure of speaking at the UKCDS event on...