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DFID

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Organisation:
DFID

The Department For International Development (DFID) is a United Kingdom government department with a Cabinet Minister in charge. It was separated from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1997. The goal of the department is "to promote sustainable development and eliminate world poverty". The current Secretary of State for International Development is Andrew Mitchell. A 2010 report [1] by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) identified DFID as 'an international development leader in times of global crisis'.

DFID's main programme areas of work are Education, Health, Social Services, Water Supply and Sanitation, Government and Civil Society, Economic Sector (including Infrastructure, Production Sectors and Developing Planning), Environment Protection, Research, and Humanitarian Assistance.

Most recent content from this organisation

News
28th January 2016
Call for applications - Kenya Climate Innovation Prize Enter a climate innovation competition sponsored by the UK's Department for International Development to make climate information more useful for Kenya's low income communities. The deadline for entries is 7 February 2016.
Feature
10th September 2014
Contextualising climate services in Maputo and Accra Joseph Daron of the University of Cape Town looks at ways in which local decision-makers might be able to deliver more effective climate services.
News
26th November 2013
Country pilot studies for Future Climate for Africa programme CDKN is commissioning a series of pilot case studies across sub-Saharan Africa.
News
7th December 2012
Learning network on uptake of climate and disaster risk assessments CDKN is looking for a supplier to explore the drivers for and barriers to the uptake of climate and disaster risk assessments, and how national and international participants can work to strengthen them. It will focus on the Latin American & Caribbean region, where the demand for this work is clearest, and on both - the producers and end users of risk assessments.
Feature
6th December 2012
Women to inject new energy into climate and development policies CoP18 in Doha may be remembered as the conference where women’s voices rang out for change. Mairi Dupar of CDKN reports.
Resource
27th November 2012
CDKN pocket guide A pocket-guide to CDKN. This publication provides a brief overview of CDKN and it's work.
Feature
19th December 2011
Finding new ways to swim – conventional versus green growth This guest blog is from Hannah Ryder, Senior Economist at DFID, who discusses two new papers, from UNEP and the World Bank, which contribute to the growing body of evidence on green growth and give us some initial models for green growth pathways.
Feature
2nd August 2010
Speed up! Move up! Speak up! July was a month of progress for the CDKN, with many strands of work underway.
Feature
11th March 2010
New climate and development network launched Today the UK Department for International Development (DFID) launched the Climate and Development