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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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Community Engagement
On 7 March 2014 the Cabinet Office and UKCDS jointly held an Information Day on EU Civil Protection Funding Opportunities . The aim was to provide the UK civil...
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EU Civil Protection
On 7 March 2014 the Cabinet Office and UKCDS jointly held an Information Day on EU Civil Protection Funding Opportunities . The aim was to provide the UK civil protection...
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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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Development, Science and Complexity Workshop
These are the videos and powerpoint slide packs of the presentations shown at the Development, Science and Complexity event on 10 February 2014. Speakers included: Sir John...
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Humanitarian and development planning
A set of Guidelines on ‘Integrating science into humanitarian and development planning and practice to enhance community resilience’ has been developed by Melanie Duncan at...
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Using data for international development
An overview of the event on using data for international development, hosted by SciDev.Net, IDRC and UKCDS at Dexter House on 24 February.
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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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EU Horizon 2020
The ‘Societal Challenges’ subset of the Horizon 2020 programme has a number of calls where international collaboration is actively sought, and to make it easier to navigate...