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Global Research Competition 2016 -- Aid Effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Global Development Network (GDN) recently closed, on Sept 11, 2016, a competitive call for interest as part of the Global Research Competition (GRC) on aid effectiveness in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on health and agriculture.  

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Global Research Competition 2013

Building on the successes and lessons learnt from the pilot round in 2012, GDN launched a second round of the GRC in mid-2013.

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Global Research Competition

The Global Research Competition -- a competitive grant program designed to provide early-career social science researchers from developing and transition with a platform to investigate international development challenges through collaborative cross-country or inter-regional research projects -- ran from 2013 to 2016, targeting a range of topical development issues.   

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Next Horizons Essay Contest

In 2014, GDN ran an international essay competition on the future of development assistance in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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KOICA Development Research Award

The KOICA Development Research Award (KOICA Award) was a competitive prize administered by GDN and funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

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Regional Research Competition

The Global Development Network's Regional Research Competitions (RRCs) were carried in partnership with GDN's Regional Network Partners (RNPs) from 1999 to 2016.

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Urbanization and Development: Delving Deeper into the Nexus

Urbanization and Development: Delving Deeper into the Nexus, provided research grants to support comparative and systematic research focused across continents, and brought together experts from Francophone Africa, Asia and Latin America to address fundamental issues on urbanization and development.

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Varieties of Governance: Improving Public Service Delivery

GDN's three-year Global Research Project, Varieties of Governance: Effective Public Service Delivery, explored the role of formal and informal institutions, at both country and sector level, in the effectiveness (or lack) of public service delivery in the areas of basic education, water supply and transport infrastructure (roads).

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About

Doing Research is a unique GDN program that contributes to a better objective assessment of social science research systems in developing countries, to identify gaps that can be addressed through research policy.

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Doing Research

Doing Research is a unique GDN program that contributes to a better objective assessment of social science research systems in developing countries, to identify gaps that can be addressed through research policy.

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About the Industrial Competitiveness Program

This program mobilizes developing country researchers to produce contextualized knowledge on the issue of industrial policies.

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About

The Building Research Capacity in Least Developed Countries program supports research institutions in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to strengthen their research and outreach skills in a sustainable manner.

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Teams

Find out about the research teams from the program.

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Teams

Under this program, GDN is partnering with four academic and research institutions based in three Least Developed Countries -- Bhutan, Cambodia and Ethiopia.

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Doing Research Assessment Methodology

The Doing Research Assessment is the methodology developed by GDN to study research systems, following its pilot in 11 countries. It includes three steps to analyze the factors that impact the social science research system in a given country or region, and will lead to several knowledge outputs and awareness raising efforts.

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Events

See past and upcoming events from the program.

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Resources

See research and resources from the program.

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Evidence & Resources

See resources from the program, including blogs, interviews with researchers, webinars and infographics.

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Expected Results

See expected results and outcomes from the program.  

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Results

See results and outcomes from the program.

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Country Content

See research studies from the program.

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Events

See events from the program.

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Results of the Doing Research Proof of Concept and Scale Up

Catch up on the dissemination of results and outcomes from the Doing Research program.

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