British Council Management Report Summary
The DelPHE annual report for 2011-12 is now available for download (pdf)

Health

Project Title: Improving access to treatment for children with malaria and pneumonia in Uganda
Partners: Makerere University, Uganda; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK; University of London; Ministry of Health, Uganda
A research paper and abstract published by one of the project team members at Makerere University is now available online

Project Title: Lab procedures for diagnosis of parasite infections
Partners: University of Indonesia; Scottish Parasite Diagnostic Laboratory, UK
Three research papers on infectious and parasitic diseases are publicly available through links on the websites of the
Medical Journal of Indonesia, The Journal of the Indonesian Medical Association and Sience Direct.

Project Title: Reproductive Health inequalities in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Partners: University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; University of Warwick, UK
The UK project partner recently had a paper published in the British Medical Journal

Project Title: Strengthening and explanding the Curriculum at the Psychology Department, Royal University of Phnom Penh
Partners: Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), Cambodia - University of Brighton, UK - Roehampton University, UK
The project partners are joint authors of a chapter (" "Developing a Cambodian Psychology") in the book "Community Psychology and the Socio-economics of Mental Distress - International Perspectives". The chapter is not available in the public domain, but the book is available to buy through its publisher.

Poverty Reduction: Environment

Project Title: Developing Sustainable Livelihoods for Communities
Partners: University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pakistan; University of Glasgow, UK;  James Cook University, Australia; WWF, Pakistan
The Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences contains a number of Dr Ali's research papers (pdf, downloadable)

Project Title: Capacity Building to address Climate Change in Bangladesh and Ghana with special reference to Conservation of saline- and drought-tolerant species
Partners: Rajshahi University, Bangladesh; Khulna University, Bangladesh; University of Ghana, Ghana; University of Sheffield, UK; University of Bangor, UK
The lead partners at Rajshahi University have created a website containing information about their activities and the research conducted over the lifetime of the project. The website provides details of project research particularly with reference to the effects of salination of fresh water.  Pages covering year 1, year 2 and year 3 of the project include links to external media coverage, project activities and events.

Project Title: Developing knowledge regarding sustainable construction in the National University of Civil Engineering of Vietnam
Partners: National University of Civil Engineering of Vietnam - Loughborough University - University of Liverpool, UK
Loughborough University's institutional repository contains links to jointly produced abstracts on Developing knowledge regarding sustainable construction in the National University of Civil Engineering of Vietnam; A comparative view of UK and Vietnamese civil engineering students on sustainable construction and Ultra high performance concrete using waste materials for high-rise buildings


Project Titles: Infectious Disease risk reduction in Mozambique and Bangladesh (Round2) and Disaster education and community resilience in Zimbabwe and Bangladesh (round 5)
Numerous research outputs were produced by the various partners including these two projects (Universidade Católica de Moçambique; International Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh; Northumbria University, UK; Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe; BRAC University, Bangladesh) Two of these can be viewed online:
Indigenous indicators of health security in relation to climatic disasters in Bangladesh , Why disaster warning and development go hand in hand and Exploring the meaning of health security for disaster resilience through people's perspectives in Bangladesh

Poverty Reduction: Agricultural Research and Biological Sciences

Project Title: Developing a framework for agricultural adaptation to climate change in Southern Nigeria
Partners: University of Nigeria, Nigeria - University of Reading, UK - African Institute for Applied Economics, Nigeria
Project team members have published the following documents:
Policy brief on Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern Nigeria
A Framework for Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Souther Nigeria
Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation among Farming Households of Southern Nigeria


Project Title: Development of fungal bio-control agents for use in sustainable, environmentally friendly, integrated pest-management programmes in Nigeria
Partners: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Nigeria - University of Wales, Swansea, UK
Find out how this project's outcomes are being sustained


Project Title: Strengthening Farmer-Researcher linkage in evaluating integrated livestock feeding systems involving Protein Banks
Partners: Njala University, Sierra Leone - University of Agriculture, Nigeria
The partner at Njala University has produced research papers on Infectious Bursal Disease in Chickens and Measuring antibody transfer pattern in calves from dams immunised with Salmonella antigen

Project Title: Urban and peri-urban agriculture in Freetown: Food security and income generation in post-conflict Sierra Leone
Partners: University of Sierra Leone; University of Otago, New Zealand; University of Manchester, UK; University of Gloucestershire, UK
Project partners have carried out a large amount of research and some of the published papers can be found online:
Promoting Urban Agriculture in Post-Conflict Greater Freetown Area
Meeting the urban challenge? Urban agriculture and food security in post-conflict Freetown
Coping with the impacts of weather changes in Sierra Leone