Welcome to R4D - A Portal to DFID Funded Research

R4D is a free access on-line database containing information about research programmes supported by DFID. R4D provides you with the latest information about research funded by DFID, including news, case studies and details of current and past research in over 20,000 project and document records.

Health Systems Research: People's Needs First

ICDDR,B will hold its 12th Annual Scientific Conference (ASCON XII) on the theme “Health Systems Research: People's Needs First” in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 10-12 February 2009

Category Health

Date Added: 19 November 2008  

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Global aspects and implications of horizontal inequalities: inequalities experienced by Muslims worldwide

A new CRISE paper focuses on inequalities between Muslim and non-Muslim groups at a global level.

Category Social and Political Change

Date Added: 12 November 2008  

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Evaluating social change communication - reflections on a Nicaraguan experience

Panos London and Healthlink Worldwide are to host a lunchtime discussion on 'Evaluating social change communication - reflections on a Nicaraguan experience' on 21st November, 2008

Categories Information and Communication, Social and Political Change

Date Added: 11 November 2008  

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Why R4D?
In the past it was difficult to find out what research topics, projects, and programmes DFID was funding or had funded. Researchers all over the world (and even DFID staff) had to rely on a network of personal contacts or inspired detective work to discover who was already working in a particular area, what was already known, and what lessons had been learned. R4D responds to a demand expressed by many DFID stakeholders for better and open access to all this information. It is and will always be only one piece of the jigsaw, but it is a high-quality piece, as in order to have received DFID funding the research posted on R4D will have met strict criteria and quality standards in both formulation and execution.