Ian MaudlinRIU Director
Director's update
DFID backs extra year of RIU activity...
June 2011
We are delighted to say that a 12-month extension (to June 2012) to the RIU has been agreed with DFID in order to allow certain key activities more time to generate additional knowledge outputs and provide greater and more in depth evidence of impact.
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DFID backs extra year of RIU activity...
June 2011
We are delighted to say that a 12-month extension (to June 2012) to the RIU has been agreed with DFID in order to allow certain key activities more time to generate additional knowledge outputs and provide greater and more in depth evidence of impact.
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this month's news listing The original phase of the Research into Use Programme (July 2006 to June 2011) has now been completed. An extension to June 2012 is now active enabling a limited number of promising initiatives to generate additional knowledge outputs and provide greater and more in depth evidence of impact. We are now closing the news stories section of the website. Subsequent information on RIU activities will appear on the DFID R4D portal. » All news and archive
Impact evaluation is intended to support accountability and learning; encourage strategic engagement by all stakeholders; and help justify continued investment in development by the UK government.
Private sector partnerships and entrepreneurship models
East Africa
- Stamp Out Sleeping Sickness (SOS-Uganda)
- NERICA rice and other farmer produced quality seed
- StopStriga and Gro-Plus
- Armyworm forecasting and control
- FIPS Resources for smallholder farmers
- ShujaazFM Comics, agriculture and entrepreneurs
The RIU programme aims to accumulate and evaluate evidence to shape and share lessons on how best to enable innovation in the agricultural sector so as to achieve social and economic gains in diverse developing country settings.
RIU shares emerging lessons and discussion papers which will form the basis of a series of journal articles.
Resources
