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Finalists of the Global Development Awards Competition 2021

The Global Development Awards Competition (GDAC) is an innovative award scheme administered by GDN through the World Bank, with the generous support of the Government of Japan. This year’s competition features two categories: the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development 2021 and the Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project 2021 (in three themes).

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Global Development Awards Competition Grievance Policy

https://www.gdn.int/awards/grievance This page has instructions on how to register a grievance against the Global Development Awards Competition. 

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Tentative Agenda | 2019 Global Development Conference

Tentative Agenda of the 2019 Global Development Conference 'Knowledge for Sustainable Development: the Research–Policy Nexus.'

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Global Development Awards Competition 2017

Winners of the Global Development Awards Competition 2017 were announced in New Delhi in March 2018.

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Fundacion Paraguaya | 2012-2014

GDN supported the Fundacion Paraguay through the JSDF award to scale up its Self-Sufficient School Model by providing training and technical support to five schools to establish financially self-sufficient schools in four countries, Nicaragua, Honduras, Bolivia and Paraguay.

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Why Biodiversity?

We are currently facing a biodiversity crisis, with a significant decline in the variety and abundance of species and ecosystems worldwide. According to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), one million species are threatened with extinction due to human activities such as habitat loss, overexploitation, pollution, and climate change. 

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Global Development Awards Competition 2019

The Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development is a competitive research grant program under the Global Development Awards Competition 2019. The Awards Competition is administered by GDN, funded under the Policy and Human Resources Development Fund (PHRD) trust fund managed by the World Bank and generously supported by the Government of Japan

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