27 April, 2018
News & Announcements
- The UK hosted theCommonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, with key UK aid achievements on tackling malaria, supporting girls, eliminating blindness, trade, disaster reduction & tackling plastic waste – DFID news
- Commonwealth scientific advisers to establish a collaborative knowledge exchange network for sharing expertise on global challenges – gov.uk
- UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Amb Jonathan Allen, gave a statement at the UN Security Council Briefing on Peacebuilding – gov.uk
- The International Development Committee took evidence on UK ODA from the FCO, BEIS and HM Treasury – parliament.uk
- ESRC awarded six projects funding to help make agriculture sustainable in Colombia – esrc.ukri.org
Funding
- MRC and NRF Kenya UK-Kenya Joint Partnership on Non-Communicable Diseases. Deadline 9 May
- Global Development Network EIB-GDN Program in Applied Development Finance Deadline 30 April
- WHO-TDR Call for proposals: Embedding research for the SDGs Deadline 15 May
- NERC 2018 Impact Awards Deadline 21 May
- BBSRC, NERC & ESRC Resilience of the UK food system in a global context third call Deadline 23 May
Events & Reports
- NERC Building Resilience to the Impacts of El Niño event, 15 May in London
- ESRC Scoping Workshops: Towards a future that works for all, 31 May in Edinburgh and 4 June in London
- British Council Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshop on Sustainable Island Development,
- Research Investments in Global Health: ‘Sizing up pneumonia research’, on investments in pneumonia-related research by the G20 countries between 2000 and 2015
Other News & Interesting Links
- 5 things you might not know about malaria on World Malaria Day – AIDF
- Infographic on Outpacing Epidemics for World Immunization Week – Mosaic Science
- High-level meeting on sustaining peace: can the UN deliver? – ODI