Inaugural post by DFID’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Charlotte Watts

Climate Focus report shows climate finance, while efficient in sectors such as renewable energy, is not effective in protecting increasingly threatened forests or the rights of their inhabitants.

How do the global goals crowd in international financing and inform domestic priorities? A new AidData report assesses the historical baseline for funding to the SDGs.

A fast and cost-effective test developed by an international team of researchers could make it easier to diagnose the Zika and dengue viruses. The test uses a strip of chromatography paper similar to that used in rapid pregnancy tests. The strip is immersed in a solution containing a small amount of blood from the infected person, and results are ready in 15 minutes.