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- UK-VIETNAM: Communicating in a disaster
- UK-THAILAND: International Network for Shrimp Health (INSH)
- UK-THAILAND: Improving diagnosis of rare genetic diseases in children
- UK-MALAYSIA: Sustainable energy from effluent waste processing
- UK-INDIA: Creating more efficient solar energy
- UK-INDIA: Better monitoring of maternal health will help save lives
- Dr Fabiola Leon-Velarde Servetto
- Kathy Peach
- Dr. Celina Maria Turchi Martelli
- Dr Jonathan Hague
- Professor Carlos Frenk
- Professor Jane Francis
- Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi
- Paula Caballero
- Baroness Brown of Cambridge
- CHAIR’S PRIZE: Documenting the past for a more peaceful future
- UK- MEXICO: New drought resistant beans for sustainable food supply in Mexico
- UK-COLOMBIA: Turning environmentally damaging coffee waste into electricity
- UK-CHILE: Strengthening energy infrastructure to withstand extreme weather and natural disasters
- UK-BRAZIL: Improving the lives of the Guarani people by saving the Atlantic Forest
- Professor Sultan Abu-Orabi
- Professor Salah Obayya
- Professor Elaine Unterhalter
- Dr Burcu Ozsoy
- Dr Peter Van Loo
- 2020 Newton Prize
- 2019 Newton Prize
- 2018 Newton Prize
- 2017 Newton Prize
- Professor Li Zheng
- Professor Lisa Roberts
- Professor ‘Funmi Olonisakin
- Dr Kenneth Hartigan-Go
- Dr Yanuar Nugroho
- Professor Xiaolan Fu
- Professor Chris Elliott
- Professor Sir Tim Besley
- UK-EGYPT: New tools to diagnose and treat liver cancer
- UK-JORDAN: Faynan’s cultural heritage offers route to sustainable development
- CHAIR’S PRIZE: A new way to monitor crops for global food security
- UK-KENYA: Improving diagnosis of maternal infections in Kenya
- UK-TURKEY: Reducing CO2 emissions with new green concrete
- UK-SOUTH AFRICA: Tackling food insecurity in the Western Indian Ocean
- CHAIR’S PRIZE: New clean energy solutions for South Africa’s informal settlements
- UK-PHILIPPINES: Boosting prosperity and health by turning sewage into fertiliser
- UK-INDONESIA: Building resilient coastal communities
- UK-CHINA: Designing sustainable services for the new urban population
- GCRF
- Funding opportunities
- Symposium: ‘Digital Tools for Reversing Environmental Degradation’
- Academy of Medical Sciences GCRF Networking Grants
- AHRC Research in Film Awards (RIFA)
- Royal Academy of Engineering: LIF Community Grant Programme
- Frontiers of Engineering for Development Symposium 1-12 February 2020
- Royal Academy of Engineering: Transforming Systems through Partnership programme
- Event: Commonwealth Science Conference 22-26 Feb 2021
- Global Young Innovators Programme – UK
- African agriculture knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP)
- GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in south east Asia
- Transforming Systems through Partnership
- Leaders in Innovation Fellowships programme
- Newton Advanced Fellowships
- AHRC GCRF Urgency Grants Pilot
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Where we work
- Tajikistan
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Stories of change
- Preserving traditions through empowerment
- One ocean: the power of storytelling at COP27
- Using nanomaterials to improve the cosmetic industry
- Tackling severe weather together: Met Office visit partners in India
- From Zarqa to Leeds: a new challenge in a familiar city
- Using genome information to make crop breeding more efficient
- Strengthening forest monitoring capacity in Sierra Leone
- Preparing the Gambia for the future
- Alleviating the environmental and economic challenges of rice farming in Thailand
- Travel after covid-19: productive and full of joy
- Unhomely new places make the familiar strange and the strange familiar
- Using artificial intelligence technology to improve wellbeing
- Science partnerships to fast-track drug discovery and development in Africa
- Searching the natural world for a solution to deadly drug-resistant bacteria
- Unlocking the potential of new tech to tackle tuberculosis in South Africa
- New data to assess the impact of HIV therapies in South Africa
- Climate-smart crops for global food security
- A cleaner and leaner food industry in Jordan
- New genetic discoveries to fight heart disease and premature deaths in sub-Saharan Africa
- Connecting Jordan’s youth with heritage
- Rising up from drought together, tackling drought with drones
- Seasonal forecasts tackle wildfires
- Powering the Internet of Things
- Improving the response to urban flooding with early warnings
- Strengthening the national TB program in the Philippines
- Protecting tropical forests with satellite data
- Exploring Faynan’s path to economic growth through cultural heritage
- Developing expertise in bioinformatics
- Climate change impact on wheat and maize
- Urban Farming: Bringing Nature into our Living Space
- How space technology can predict dengue outbreaks
- Creating an HPV vaccination strategy in Vietnam
- Developing affordable solutions to Kenya’s saltwater problem
- Capacity strengthening and the arts support displaced people in Colombia
- Rice plantation helps mitigate greenhouse gas emissions
- New tech to help farmers manage water in South Africa
- Creating useable water from textile waste in Egypt
- CADDE project discovers Covid-19 P.1/Gamma variant
- Protecting the ‘Amazon of the sea’ with new video technology
- Making contaminated mine water safe for local communities
- Greener steel processing upgrading the industry
- Smarter, faster technology to improve disaster resilience
- Protecting Brazil’s indigenous communities during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Alleviating complications associated with diabetes through early detection
- Using technology to empower fishing communities in Indonesia
- Transforming Kenya’s approach to sanitation
- New green technology to boost rural economies
- Clean and affordable energy solutions for Kenyan households
- Improving diagnosis of maternal infections in Kenya
- Overcoming poverty and hunger in South Africa
- Early language intervention for South Africa’s children
- New knowledge to combat non-communicable disease in South Africa
- Tackling food insecurity in the Western Indian Ocean
- Improving infant health in low resource settings
- Faynan’s cultural heritage offers route to sustainable development
- Building capacity for prehistoric archaeology in Jordan
- Sustaining Jordan’s heritage and cultural identity
- Reducing HIV infection rates in South Africa
- Improving weather resilience for Mongolian and Kenyan herding communities
- Connecting people and places for sustainable development
- A new gel to protect against HIV and improve reproductive health
- Improving surgical outcomes for breast cancer patients
- New clean energy solutions for South Africa’s informal settlements
- Speedy access to emergency services to save lives
- Recycling drainage water for sustainable wheat farming
- A sustainable digital heritage economy
- Making water safe to drink in Egypt’s rural communities
- Protecting Egypt’s earliest history
- Improving the diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases
- Sensing pharmaceutical contaminants in fresh water
- Uncovering plastic’s harmful impact on human health
- Reducing CO2 emissions with new green concrete
- New tools to diagnose and treat liver cancer
- Empowering women to improve poultry production
- New portable COVID-19 test in development
- The sky’s the limit: delivering STEM through space
- Slowing the spread of antibiotic resistance
- Protecting biodiversity through Colombian communities
- A new approach to eliminating malaria in the Philippines
- Informing a rapid response to Brazil’s Zika outbreak
- New mobile app to diagnose TB
- Developing the capability of senior innovation policymakers in Brazil
- Assessing the climate related risk to agriculture in China for global food security
- Securing a community’s right to access safe water and food
- Climate ready rice for global food security
- Preventing the spread of infectious diseases
- A new farm-side diagnostic platform to detect poultry diseases
- Leading the way for improved tuberculosis diagnostics
- Mobile phone-connected diagnostics for HIV
- New technology to fight neglected tropical diseases
- Soya Flour can reduce the risk of Dementia
- Maintaining bridges for connected and prosperous communities
- The race to find new drugs for a neglected tropical disease
- Boosting prosperity and health by converting sewage into fertiliser
- Pioneering science towards treatment for Asthma
- Initiating a Salmonella surveillance programme for better public health
- Bridging the gap between academia and entrepreneurship in Turkey and the UK
- New dual degree programmes between Egypt and the UK
- Improving the lives of women through better urban planning
- Building resilient coastal communities
- Safe water for local communities in Colombia
- City innovation and social equity in Colombia
- The mission to eradicate avian disease
- Protecting cities against the challenges of climate change and extreme weather
- Smart farming to feed the world
- New drugs to beat cancers endemic in developing countries
- A new way to monitor crops for global food security
- Designing sustainable services for the new urban population
- A nature-based solution to the problem of climate change
- A new generation of solar panels to reduce fossil fuel consumption
- Improving the lives of the Guarani people by saving the Atlantic Forest
- Uncovering the hidden spread of Zika in Brazil
- Promoting STEM skills and economic development through radio astronomy
- Powering the green revolution
- Turning coffee waste into electricity in Colombia
- Drought resistant beans for sustainable food supply in Mexico
- Recycling citrus waste to develop sustainable products
- Preserving the Amazon with traditional knowledge
- Converting palm oil waste into sustainable energy
- A smart solution to sustainable water supply in Colombia
- Using state-of-the-art technology to treat neglected tropical diseases
- Increasing productivity and removing toxic mercury from Colombia’s gold mines
- Mexico’s bright future as a producer of clean hydrogen
- Producing natural and nutritionally beneficial food additives from microalgae
- Improving surgical outcomes with virtual reality
- Childhood obesity: a Mexican solution to a global problem
- Investigating the treatment of a killer disease spread by sandflies
- Increasing livestock fertility for sustainable agriculture
- Strengthening energy infrastructure to withstand extreme weather and natural disasters
- Global collaboration to promote vaccine research and development
- UK-China innovation reveals current risk of record-breaking weather and climate extremes to inform resilience
- Better monitoring of maternal health will save lives
- Making water safe for all
- Reducing exposure to second-hand smoke for mothers and babies
- Developing Smart Manufacturing
- Smart materials treating eye infections
- Two Centuries of Indian Print
- Improving rotavirus vaccinations to reduce infant deaths
- Using graphene-based hybrid materials to tackle water pollution
- Urban observatories for better city planning
- Development of more secure wireless medical devices
- Cross-sectoral systems approaches for healthier cities
- Improving infectious disease surveillance and vaccination policies
- Tackling infectious diseases with genome technology
- International network for shrimp health
- Innovation in maritime logistics
- Developing new resilient rice strains for farmers
- Locally driven flood management systems
- 3D printing of metamaterials
- Creating more efficient solar energy
- Understanding the early stages of scrub typhus
- New sensors to predict occurrence of landslides
- Sustainable energy from effluent waste processing
- Cutting fertiliser use in rice production
- Communicating in a disaster
- Improving diagnosis of rare genetic diseases in children
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Data insights blog
- ‘On the shoulders of the women’ – gendered perspectives on research in Jordan and Egypt
- This is how we built a community of innovators in Peru
- How we are realising national priorities for net zero through workshops
- Susie Kitchens’ Lessons Earned
- Why wastewater must be treated
- Namibia’s digital future starts with compulsory coding
- Why we must involve young people in our research to fight climate change
- How to work with your university press office
- Climate Crisis: African innovations, talent, and knowledge give us hope
- How young people in Uganda are living the climate crisis
- 12 templates for sustainable international research management
- Science and survival with the blue communities of Palawan
- Uncovering new knowledge about cancer in Asia
- Six ways heritage research contributes to sustainable development
- To control cancer we must spark surgery activism
- Promoting gender equality in research goes beyond empowering women
- Five reasons the pandemic won’t stop us talking about women in STEM
- Newton Prize 2020: What we learnt about approaches to gender equality
- Where’s your Southern Voice? Why UK researchers should be engaging with networks like ours
- Newton Fund’s theory of change: making it useful
- How ODA funding benefits the UK’s higher education sector
- Value for money: 5 things to know about our approach
- Why we must protect Indonesia’s mangrove forests
- Innovation for development: three considerations to expand mindsets
- Preventing a future pandemic by imitating natural selection
- Addressing research bias in agroecology
- Scaling Out For Impact
- Meet the researchers taking on COVID-19 in Indonesia
- Telling the story of glacier change in peru
- CityZen: Connecting cities to citizens for health and wellbeing
- Helping the filipino healthcare system respond to dengue epidemics
- Supporting excellent research in innovation through the Newton-Paulet Fund
- Building collaborative innovation policy capability through the UK’s Newton Fund
- How do you do capacity development well?
- How Colombia and the UK are joining forces to protect biodiversity
- Navigating challenges and opportunities in academia
- Preparing for the modern world together
- Creative spaces can give a voice to young people in Africa
- News
- International Women’s Day 2023
- UK-South Africa Newton Fund joins SKA in celebrating the construction of the world’s largest telescopes
- UK-China Soil and Sustainable Development Research Lecture Series
- UKCDR publishes new report for research capacity strengthening
- International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022
- COP26 Event: Climate Science Partnerships for Global Action
- Drug resistant causes of Tuberculosis identified
- Newton for Climate Webinar Series Open for Registration
- Noël N’guessan wins Africa Prize
- Leaders in Innovation Fellowships: Royal Academy of Engineering celebrates five years of success
- UK Space Agency webinar series open for registration
- Newton Agham Fund celebrates International Day for Biological Diversity
- Report finds half a billion pounds invested in climate change research since 2015
- Scaling Out for Impact Showcase 2021
- New website for COVID-19 researchers
- GCRF Strategic Advisory Group: call for new members
- SUNRISE Scoops THE International Collaboration Award
- Online talks about research for development
- Newton Prize 2020: winners announced
- 20 projects funded to address COVID-19 challenges
- Newton Prize 2020 shortlist announced
- Newton Fund evaluation and online survey launched
- Newton Prize 2020 Chair’s Prize category announced
- COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund launched
- Newton Fund & GCRF join up to address COVID-19
- International development research funders publish guidance to anticipate, mitigate and address harm in research
- Newton Prize 2020 call opens: celebrating the best research and innovation partnerships
- Newton Prize: Clean water project is fertile ground for UK-Philippines team
- Newton Prize: Crop monitoring for global food security wins Chair’s Prize
- Protecting coastal communities from the impacts of climate change project wins Newton Prize 2019 for Indonesia
- Project to improve the lives of urban citizens and elderly people wins Newton Prize 2019 for China
- Travel advice for academics visiting Indonesia
- Leaders in Innovation Fellowships programme celebrates five years supporting world-changing innovations from emerging economies
- Newton Prize 2019 shortlist announced
- Newton Fund and Global Challenges Research Fund annual report 2017 to 2018
- More support to help researchers in Newton Fund partner countries find UK collaborators
- Newton-Bhabha alumnus becomes Fellow of the Royal Society
- Newton Prize 2019 call opens: celebrating the best research and innovation in China, Indonesia and the Philippines
- New Chair announced to lead expert Newton Prize Committee
- Magic beans and buzzing coffee win 2018 Newton Prize
- Drought resistant beans project wins 2018 Newton Prize for Mexico
- Coffee waste into electricity project wins 2018 Newton Prize for Colombia
- Restoring the Atlantic Forest and resilience planning for extreme weather win 2018 Newton Prize for Brazil and Chile
- 2018 Newton Prize shortlist announced
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Video gallery
- UK-South Africa H3D project
- UK-South Africa ADD Hub study
- UK-South Africa TB Diagnostics study
- UK-South Africa CONNECT study
- Good Development, Lessons Earned – Susie Kitchens and Paul Monks
- UK Space Agency – International Partnership Programme
- Good Development, Lessons Earned – Mauricio Diazgranados
- UK-South Africa IMHOTEP study
- Good Development, Lessons Earned – Ola Gomaa
- Good Development, Lessons Earned – Raúl Loayza-Muro
- Good Development, Lessons Earned – Gina Tsarouchi
- Newton-Paulet Leaders in Innovation Fellowships Programme
- Innovating for Clean Air
- Good Development – Climate Science for Service Partnerships (CSSP) China
- Good Development – Emergency Water Information Network (EWIN)
- Good Development – Protecting biodiversity and livelihoods in the wetlands of Peruvian Amazonia
- Good Development – Nöel N’guessan, winner of the 2021 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation
- Good Development – Innovating for Clean Air (IfCA)
- Good Development – Blue Communities
- Good Development – International Partnerships Programme (IPP) CommonSensing
- Good Development – Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) Brazil
- Good Development – Peak Youth, Climate Change and the Role of Young People in Seizing their Future
- Meet SEVILI, the caretaker robot helping to save lives
- Conserving native seeds in Mexico
- Dr Marta Roca, Principal Engineer at HR Wallingford
- Professor Lucie Cluver, UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub
- Charlette N’Guessan, Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation Winner
- Dame Judith Macgregor, Chair of GCRF Strategic Advisory Group
- Helen Fletcher, Professor of Immunology, LSHTM
- Utari Octavianty, Aruna Indonesia Co-founder
- Dr Hue Le, Vietnam National University
- Glacier retreat in the Peruvian Andes
- Peace with Nature in Colombia
- Research and Innovation through the Newton-Caldas Fund
- Newton Kenya Bees project
- Tackling global challenges through Newton Fund Vietnam
- A nature-based solution to the problem of climate change
- New drugs to beat cancers endemic in developing countries
- Smart farming to feed the world
- Protecting cities against the challenges of climate change and extreme weather
- A new way to monitor crops for global food security
- The mission to eradicate avian disease
- Designing sustainable services for the new urban population
- A new generation of solar panels to reduce fossil fuel consumption
- Newton Prize 2019 winners
- Solving global challenges in Southeast Asia
- Newton Prize 2018 winners
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