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DIFD’s Objective for research

DFID aims to centralize research efforts, increase funding, and focus on key themes such as agricultural productivity, killer diseases, states that work for the poor, and climate change. The objective is to bridge the gap between research and practice, disseminate existing research, and explore constraints to uptake and demand. International collaboration and coordination are also emphasized.

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DIFD’s Objective for research

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  1. DIFD’s Objective for research • “To promote the production and uptake of technologies and policies that will contribute to poverty reduction and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.”

  2. Moving from: • Sector approach (health, natural resources) • Disease specific (TB, Malaria, STI’s, HIV knowledge programmes) Towards: • Bringing all research together under a Central Research Department, (in order to eliminate duplication and to generalise across DFID research the best practice from the different current strands)

  3. Total research funding expected to increase from £80m to £100m per year (~30% on health) • 2/3 of research funding will focus on four big research themes: • Agricultural productivity in Africa • Killer Diseases (TB, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, diarrhoea) • States that work in the interest of the poor • Climate change

  4. Getting research into practice • There are some areas where we do have answers, but these have not yet reached the poor (2/3 of deaths from diseases that we know the cure) • Why are the answers not getting through? • Why are the health services not working? • Focus on Disseminating existing research ideas and results

  5. Uptake and Demand Establish an action research programme to explore • Constraints to uptake of research by different groups • Methods of generating effective demand for research • The role for innovative communications techniques

  6. International Collaboration • DFID is one funder in a broad field should be seen as part of a collaborative international effort • Little coordination, more coordination and harmonization would yield big gains • Where there is some coordination, there is dominance of research suppliers than users

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