Who we are

REDAA is funded by UK International Development from the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and managed by IIED via the Scientific and Management Unit.

Scientific and Management Unit (SMU)

James Mayers

Principal researcher and REDAA programme lead

IIED

Tarisirai Zengeni

MEL advisor (gender and sustainable development)

IIED

Steve Bass

Senior associate

IIED

Stefano D’Errico

Head of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL)

IIED

Rosalind Goodrich

Head of strategic research communications

IIED

Mélanie Vaufrey

Senior project manager and REDAA grants manager

IIED

Janine Duffy

Researcher

IIED

Georgina Diaz Ibarz

Senior communications officer

IIED

Francesca Booker

Researcher

IIED

Dilys Roe

Principal researcher

IIED

David Sankar

Web services manager

IIED

Chris Brody

Web services manager

IIED

Beth Downe

Programme manager

IIED

Bénédicte Piton

Grants manager

IIED

Alasdair Brown

Project manager

IIED

Aarifa Muhammed

Monitoring, evaluation and learning office (qualitative data analysis)

IIED

Independent Technical Advisory Panel (ITAP)

John Owino

ITAP co-chair

IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Programme, Kenya

Zeenat Niazi

Development Alternatives, India

Kate Schreckenberg

King’s College London, United Kingdom

Jean-Marc Mwenge Kahinda

University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Femy Pinto

ITAP co-chair

Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme (NTFP-EP) Asia, Philippines

Eliane Reid

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Steering committee

Jonathan Hassall

Steering Committee Chair & REDAA Senior Responsible Owner (SRO)

Environment Research Lead, Research and Evidence Directorate

UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

James Mayers

Principal researcher and REDAA programme lead

IIED

John Owino

ITAP co-chair

IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Programme, Kenya

Tim Sumner

UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

Simon Kerley

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

Sarah Ratcliffe

UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

Sarah Blackburn

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

Kim Fuggle

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Ian Stanton

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Femy Pinto

ITAP co-chair

Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme (NTFP-EP) Asia, Philippines

Who we are

Scientific and Management Unit (SMU)

Independent Technical Advisory Panel (ITAP)

Steering committee

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