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
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
IIED

Georgina Diaz Ibarz
IIED

Francesca Booker
IIED

Dilys Roe
IIED

David Sankar
IIED

Chris Brody
IIED

Beth Downe
IIED

Bénédicte Piton
IIED

Alasdair Brown
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