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Global Research and Technology Development delivers outcome-focused research and innovation that harnesses UK scientific strengths and equitable international science partnerships to reduce poverty and solve complex global challenges, achieving impact at scale.
GRTD programmes
GRTD delivers high quality research and development in UK’s international development and foreign policy priority areas. We partner with private sector, academic institutions and research organisations to commission demand-responsive research and support evidence-informed decision-making at Posts and across the FCDO. We also invest in the generation and synthesis of rigorous research on implementation science through specialist ‘What Works’ platforms looking at what works in adopting and implementing evidence-based interventions.
Our portfolio comprises a large set of discrete programmes. To illustrate, major programmes include:
- Africa Technology and Innovation Partnerships – ATIP
- AI for Development: Responsible AI, Empowering People (‘AI4D’)
- AT2030 Life-changing Access to Assistive Technologies
- Epidemics and Global Health Security Research Programme
- Climate Adaptation and Resilience Programme (CLARE)
- Climate Compatible Growth (CCG)
- Creating Hope in Conflict Humanitarian Grand Challenge
- Delivering the Agricultural Breakthrough
- Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform
- Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries (PEDL)
- Research and development to help end the preventable deaths of women, children and new-borns (EPD)
- Tackling global plant and animal health risks which threaten global food systems and health
- Transforming Energy Access Programme (TEA)
- What Works Hub for Global Education
- What Works to Prevent Violence: Impact at Scale
Information on the full range of our ODA projects in different sectors and geographies can be found on:
- The Development Tracker (available on GOV.UK) provides details on the international development programmes funded by FCDO, other government departments and partners.
- MODARI the Mapping ODA research and innovation data tool provides information on existing ODA funded research projects
GRTD Publications
You can find the latest research reports and outputs from our funding via the following links
Latest
Publications
Find the latest reports, papers, briefs and analysis for research supported by the RCC in this section. This section is under construction.
Understanding the impacts of El Nino and the Indian Ocean Dipole in the Indo-Pacific
Climate events have significant consequences on societies and economies, deeply affecting people’s livelihoods, income, food security, and health conditions. Climate patterns can influence weather in ways that can have cascading effects on both the local and global scales. With support from the FCDO’s Research Commissioning Centre, 3ie is examining the evidence of the effects of El Niño and the positive Indian Ocean Dipole on health, economics, conflict, migration, and food security across low- and middle-income countries in the Indo-Pacific region.
Banner image: LSTM students look through microscopes in the LSTM teaching lab; ©Will Crowne/ DFID
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