Expert

Region: Global, Asia, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean

Joining Date: December 2024

Edward Turvill is a climate resilience expert with extensive experience addressing climate change impacts in vulnerable regions. His work supports the Santiago network’s mission by providing technical assistance to developing countries, focusing on capacity building, climate finance, and integrating climate risk into planning. With experience in the Asia-Pacific and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), he has led and advised disaster risk reduction and recovery projects. His collaborative, multi-stakeholder approach strengthens global efforts on climate resilience and loss and damage.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: December 2024

Equal Right is a global campaign working on economic justice without borders. Rooted in the principle that everyone has an 'equal right' to the world's wealth and resources, they focus on researching ambitious solutions to tackle inequality, redistribute global wealth and secure fundamental human rights for people everywhere. This includes international advocacy on the role of unconditional, individual, regular cash payments to support climate justice, including as a policy response for loss and damage.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: October 2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) leads global efforts to achieve food security and end hunger by ensuring people have regular access to sufficient, high-quality food for active, healthy lives. With 195 members and operations in over 130 countries, FAO promotes sustainable agriculture, climate resilience and inclusive rural development. FAO’s mission aligns with the Santiago network by providing technical assistance and capacity development on loss and damage to support climate-vulnerable communities, ensuring food systems remain resilient amidst climate change impacts.

Network

Region: Global

Joining Date: December 2024

The Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies (EiE Hub) is a network of diverse members, including UN agencies, civil society organisations, academia and others, that come together to step up visibility, political and operational commitment, and funding for the education of crisis-affected and displaced children and youth.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: March 2025

GiveDirectly (GD) aims to reshape international giving – and millions of lives – by providing cash grants directly to the world’s poorest. GD has raised over $1B since launching in 2011, and delivered cash to more than 1.6 million people in 15 different countries. We’ve also supported large-scale, experimental research that indicates strong recipient impact of our programs. We know that climate change is affecting people in poverty the most, although they’ve contributed the least. We know that cash transfers can play a critical role in helping people living in poverty cope and adapt.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: December 2024

The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) provides comprehensive research, policy, and technical support for climate resilience and loss and damage mitigation. GCRI's expertise spans risk assessment, data-driven early warning systems, and resilience-building. Utilizing AI, blockchain, and IoT, GCRI provides technical assistance for disaster risk reduction, capacity building, and the development of innovative financing mechanisms, ensuring alignment with the Santiago network’s objectives to mitigate climate impacts in vulnerable regions.

Network

Region: Global

Joining Date: March 2025

The Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) is the largest international network of CSOs working to strengthen resilience and reduce risk in communities worldwide. They support the interface between civil society organizations at the frontline and local, national and international policymaking institutions and governance structures. GNDR works with local actors for a better understanding of their environment and the identification of key actions to mitigate their exposure.

Organization

Region: Global, Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean

Joining Date: October 2024

IMPACT is one of the largest independent international research and analysis NGOs operational in more than 30 countries. IMPACT aims to support stakeholders in making better, more informed decisions in humanitarian, stabilization and development settings. IMPACT considers direct engagement with local communities and their leaders to be a key pathway to better planning and decision-making. Through our team of specialists, we promote the design of people-centred research and set standards for collecting and analyzing rigorous, high-quality data.

Organization

Region: Asia, Oceania

Joining Date: December 2024

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is dedicated to advancing sustainable and resilient communities, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. IGES supports policymakers and communities in planning and responding to climate-related disruptions through policy recommendations and capacity-building activities, bridging the gap between local actions and broader climate commitments.

Organization

Region: Oceania, Asia

Joining Date: February 2025

The Institute for Study and Development Worldwide (IFSD) is a research and consultancy firm committed to catalysing inclusive and climate-resilient development in the Global South, focusing on Asia and the Pacific. Through action research, knowledge co-production, and capacity building, IFSD supports local communities and governments in enhancing long-term resilience, grounded in climate justice, gender equality, and social inclusion. IFSD’s work aligns with the Santiago Network, in providing technical expertise, facilitating knowledge exchange, and advancing context-specific capacity-building to address climate-induced loss and damage. 

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: October 2024

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) is the authoritative source of data and analysis on internal displacement due to disasters and conflict globally. Since its establishment in 1998 as part of the Norwegian Refugee Council, it has offered a rigorous, independent and trusted service to the international community. Its work informs policy and operational decisions that improve the lives of the millions of people living in internal displacement or at risk of becoming displaced in the future.

Network

Region: Global

Joining Date: April 2025

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) is a Network of 191 Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies. These societies act as auxiliary to their public authorities, mandated through international and domestic laws, to support their government in reducing and managing disaster risk, including climate-related risks. IFRC takes action to avert, minimize and address loss and damage. Their support includes advice to public authorities in the development and implementation of effective legal and policy frameworks on disaster and climate risk governance to locally led climate action from early warning, early/anticipatory action to longer term resilience.