
About
A 4-year global collaboration project
The UKRI Collective Fund award 'Gender Responsive Resilience and Intersectionality in Policy and Practice (GRRIPP) - Networking Plus Partnering for Resilience' is funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund.
It is a 4-year global collaboration and knowledge-exchange project, implemented by a collective of universities. It aims to bring together theory, policy and practice to promote a gender-responsive approach to disaster management and development.


Commissioning
Almost £2 million will be dedicated to support projects in Africa, Latin America and Caribbean, and South Asia, responding to the needs and priorities identified in each region. With this, we aim to make knowledge produced in the Global ‘South’ more visible and support diverse initiatives that can have a positive impact on local communities.
The needs of each region and the scope of funded projects is defined through a collaborative process with the Regional Networks and orientated by a gender and intersectional lens. The regional projects aim to provide the opportunity to build capacity, connect different projects together, support early career researchers and practitioners, and give visibility to those who do not usually benefit from access to funding.
Implementation approach
GRRIPP is not only about innovative research and development initiatives, it also proposes to develop innovative methods and ways of working; we are committed to lead the project in a feminist way and are guided by a decolonial approach, by which we mean a critical reassessment of power relationships between and within countries, communities and social relations more generally. Our structure of management is flat and horizontal, and all the partners follow a code of conduct that ensures a diverse, fair and safe working environment.
In this regard, GRRIPP aims to foster an international collaboration that brings to the forefront initiatives from the Global ‘South’. With this change of focus and methods, we will contribute to renew theory and implement better policies and practices in the fields of gender-responsive disaster risk reduction, climate change action and development.
The GRRIPP Team
Regional Leads
Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
Thematic Leads

Cheryl Potgieter
Africa

Mahbuba Nasreen
South Asia

Pablo Vega Centeno
Latin America & Caribbean
Finance Team

Nadia Jackson
Finance Manager

Hui Hui Mitzy
UCL

Rafi Sarwar Ayon
South Asia region

Sthabile Ndlovu
Africa region

Luis Enrique Valeriano
LAC region

Débora Ambrosini
Finance assistant

Belen Desmaison
Latin America & Caribbean

Kylah Forbes-Biggs
Africa

Olivia Walmsley
Global

Raisa Imran Chowdhury
South Asia
UCL Management Team

Maureen Fordham
Principal Investigator

Olivia Walmsley
GRRIPP - GDN Coordinator

Punam Yadav
Research Director

Louisa Acciari
Global Coordinator

Livi Thynne
Events Assistant

Jessica Field
Knowledge Management

Jess Roberts
Assistant & Reference Guide Developer

Kevin Blanchard
Reference Guide Developer

Eshka Chuck
Reference Guide Developer

Zahra Khan
Research & Outreach Assistant

Hanna Ruszczyk
Infrastructures

Sarah Bradshaw
Intersectionality

Ksenia Chmutina
Resilience

Camillo Boano
Critical Theory

Peter Sammonds
Disaster Risk Reduction
Research & Communication

Masuma Moriom
South Asia
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Abdullah Al Zubayer
South Asia
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Evelyn Calderon
Vives
Latin America & Caribbean

Clara Soto Arias
Latin America & Caribbean

Mariapia Garaycochea
Latin America & Caribbean