This project aims to develop new improved and accessible treatments for some of the most neglected diseases and ensure that they are suitable for, and accessible to, the millions of people suffering from neglected diseases, who are often living in poverty and in remote areas.

This project aims to develop, test, characterize, license, manufacture and distribute at least one new TB vaccine regimen for infants and another for adolescents and ensure their availability to all who need them, including those who are HIV positive.

Since the turn of the century, an evident increase in the interest in innovation as a significant driver of development in low-income countries has been observed. This systematic review aims to synthesize the empirical evidence on the innovation-employment relationship with a view to support evidence-based policy making and identify the strengths and shortcomings of the existing work on LICs.

This programme aims to carry out a trial on anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for children under the framework of a larger trial for Developing Antiretroviral Therapy in Africa (DART) which is aimed at adults.

C. Devamani, 2011, Video, 3 min 7 sec

Carol Devamani describes the findings from her research project, conducted as part of her studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, which show that rural India is a highly contaminated environment.

J. Walker, PERii, INASP, 2011, 1 page

Accessibility is absolutely essential for a website, particularly one working on a global scale. A website needs to look good, be easy to navigate, load quickly in both high and low bandwidth environments and meet the needs of a diverse and varied audience.

H.R. Ojha, A. Hall and V. Rasheed Sulaiman (Editors),  RIU Report, 2011, 117 pages

Practitioners and scholars with long experience in the field of natural resources management have written chapters in this publication. It covers a broad range of experiences in applying adaptive collaborative approaches in natural resource management.

IPS Africa, 2011, 39 pages

This document reports all the activities for Phase 2 of the "Changing Lives: Making Research Real" project. These outputs formed the basis for IPS Africa to review and evaluate the best practices with learning outputs.

M.L. Tapio-Bistrom, Y. Lambrou, and P. Kristjanson, CGIAR, 2011, 4 pages

Field-tested training materials on ‘Gender and Climate Change Issues in Agriculture and Food Security for Rural Development’ are intended for researchers and agricultural development professionals who are working at the field level to better understand how men and women respond to impacts of climate change.

R. Calow, H. Bonsor, L. Jones, S. O. O'Meally, A. MacDonald and N. Kaur, ODI, 2011, 58 pages

Water is predicted to be the primary medium through which early climate change impacts will be felt by people, ecosystems and economies. Both observational records and climate projections provide strong evidence that freshwater resources are vulnerable, and have the potential to be strongly impacted.

R. McGee, J.Gaventa, IDS, 2011, 39 pages

This paper arises from a review of the impact and effectiveness of transparency and accountability initiatives which gathered and analysed existing evidence, discussed how it could be improved, and evaluated how impact and effectiveness could be enhanced.

Briefing, CGIAR, 2011, 8 pages

This briefing - produced in a partnership between CCAFS and other organisations and programmes - points out that food security, poverty and climate change are closely linked, and need to be addressed together.

The Transparency and Accountability Initiative (T/AI) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) from research or evaluation institutions or consortia to develop a rigorous multi-year research proposal on the impact of Transparency/Accountability interventions.

A wide range of new research projects aimed at improving the lives of the world’s poorest has been given the go-ahead, at a total cost of £7 million. The 17 new research awards are part of a joint 'poverty alleviation' research programme from the ESRC and DFID.

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